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Over extension RT Shoulder while performing maintenance
While walking in the plant area, miner stepped on a rock, about 4" round, and felt a strain and pop from left knee. Ground was wet and muddy at the time.
Miner was using a cutting torch to cut a catwalk support. While making the cut, a piece of cutting debris went into miners Right eye. Miner treated at clinic, prescribed eye drops. Returned to work with no time loss.
While flipping gates on the screener, bent over to reach for equipment resulting in a low back strain.
While being loaded by the shovel, the shovel made contact with the tip of the haul truck bed causing haul truck operator to be jolted forward in the seat resulting in head, neck and back pain.
Employee crawled into a triple deck incline screen to change the poly deck screens. Employee was using a 2lb hammer to adjust the screen when the hammer bounced back hitting EE above EE's right eye.
Strain due to jarring motion from impact of material being loaded in dump bed of 50 ton haul truck. Injury initially reported as first-aid but worsened over time and advanced to seek medical treatment.
Employee using their hands to attempt to manually adjust a wear plate being installed in a hopper when the employee felt a tear in their middle finger on the right hand.
Employee was using ratchet wrench to tighten chute lock chamber when socket slipped from nut causing the ratchet handle to hit employee in the mouth cracking a front tooth.
Employee was walking and transitioned from a paved surface to an unpaved surface and stepped into a hole injuring lower leg.
Clear weather, good lighting. Employee had finished changing a tire and was putting dismounted tire onto lift gate. Mis-stepped and fell from lift gate, landing on EE's back on the ground. Received a skin laceration, which received stitches at Tripler Arony Medical Center.
While removing a seat from a 773 hauler with limited space, ee was pulling the seat out and "twisted wrong" causing pain in the low left back that shoots down the left leg. The seat weights less than 50lbs.
During welding activities on a catwalk, the employee strained knee when repositioning self while kneeling.
Was walking on work platform stepped around a ladder and hit back on the stair railing causing employee to jump forward out of reflex and hit knee on the side of ladder. Foot hit bottom of stairs resulting in employee twisting knee.
Driver was climbing down parked haul truck at end of shift when EE was stung on the left pinky finger by unknown insect that became symptomatic the following shift and resulted in an infection.
Mine was not operating when the quarry manager was notified that there was a brush fire headed toward an inactive area of the mine. Fire was extinguished prior to getting to active mining area. A decommission water truck was damaged during the fire. There were no miner fatalities or injuries.
EE was washing debris from walkway. EE was pulled on a hose that had aggregate on it and EE injured lower back.
Shop ee was checking roller and slipped on piece of rubber. EE informed supervisor that he was not injured and refused first aid or medical treatment. Safety or management were not notified that it was a recordable and required treatment until the evening of 1-20-2014. Ee is being referred to a physical therapist for physical therapy-treatment of an injured ACL.
Employee received minor break in the skin to his left small finger, while not wearing gloves. 6/23/13 the employee was taken to the emergency room due to an infection in his left small finger. The infection worsened and eventually the doctor decided to perform a partial amputation to the second joint on his small finger.
Employee was manually handling a spray bar when his thumb was pinched between the spray bar and a screen. This action caused his thumb to be lacerated as well as fractured.
Employee was driving a haul truck when he hit a dip in the road which caused his seat spring to compress and hit the floor in the cab causing a shock to his back.
Employee was walking on wet concrete, when he slipped, causing him to fall to the ground and landing on his buttocks, hip and back.
Employee was operating a 988H loader to load a haul truck with aggregate materials. The ground the loader was operating on was unprepared and uneven. While driving loader on this terrain the employee reported his lower left back started to ache from the bouncing and jerking around inside his loader.
The weather on the day of the incident was hot with temperatures in the mid to high 80s with little breeze and brief periods of rain. Believe the hot humid weather contributed to the employee fainting. Injured contractor's injuries included dislocated right shoulder, hairline fracture in right shoulder and minor cuts and abrasions to contractor's head and face.
Tied a rope round a rock to lift it. The rope slipped and the rock fell on his toe.
A bee came in through the window and stung employee on right calf. A couple of days later sting became infected.
Employee was installing a new leaf spring with an adjustable wrench. The wrench slipped and his hand hit the truck
Working on a truck in the shop, the truck started to leak hydraulic oil. Employee walked and slipped on the oil.
Employee was trying to clear a rock that was stuck in the jaw. He was using a wedge attached to a chain, standing on the platform above the jaw. The wedge bounced up and as it fell he was holding onto the chain and the weight pulled his shoulder.
Loading holes for a blast, he was lifting a box from the truck and twisted his back.
Packing holes for a blast, employee was walking between rows of holes and ground gave way. Employee left leg fell into hole twisting right leg.
WHILE POUNDING MIXER CHUTE INJURED HIT HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER. HE BRUISED & CUT HIS FINGER.
INSECT BITES WHILE OPERATING LOADER IN STOCKPILE AREA.
WHILE WALKING IN THE SERVICE LUBE AREA OF MAINTENANCE SHOP, SLIPPED IN A WATER PUDDLE CAUSED BY A LEAKING UNDERGROUND PIPE.
WAS WALKING TO GET A BOLT OUT OF BOLT BIN & WHEN PHONE RANG HE TURNED AROUND & SLIPPED & FELL INJURY TO RIGHT SHOULDER. **LOST TIME DID NOT START UNTIL 9/12/03 DUE TO SURGERY TO SHOULDER.**
EE CLIMBED ON FORKLIFT AND ONTO THE TOTE BIN TRYING TO ADJUST THE LOADING BULK CHUTE. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL APPROXIMATELY TEN FEET TO THE CONCRETE ROADWAY.
CHANGING LOADER BUCKET TEETH.
WHILE LIFTING COUPLING-INSTALLING PART TO DRIVE SHAFT, PULLED MUSCLE IN LEFT SHOULDER
CLIMBING IN MIXER TRUCK, HE SLIPPED GRABBING THEHAND RAIL AND BROKE FALL WITH RIGHT ELBOW.
WHILE INSPECTING AIR LINES DUST DEBRIS FELL INTO LEFT EYE.
WHILE EE WAS POUNDING IN LOCKING PINS, LOCK PIN CHIPPED. EE WAS FIXING A 992 TIRE.
SUDDEN JOLT BY HITTING CONCRETE SLAB ON ROAD WITH GRADER BLADE. ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON 5/5/00 AND REPORTED TO SUPERVISOR ON 5/12/00.
SPRAIN BACK WHILE LIFTING AN OXYGEN BOTTLE.
WHILE PULLING WRENCH TO FIX A GATE EMPLOYEE SPRAINED LOWER RIGHT BACK. THIS IS A RECURRENCE OF HIS BACK CONDITION 5-10-96. THIS HAD NOT BEEN FILED ON 4-1-00 BECAUSE AT THE TIME IT WAS NOT REPO RTABLE.
A SILVERFISH INSECT CRAWLED INTO EMPLOYEE'S EAR AT THE TIME HIS EAR PLUGS WERE OUT.
WHILE LOADING ANFO ONTO POWERTRUCK, EMPLOYEE TRIED TO STOP A LOADED SLED FROM SLIDING ALONG ROLLERS AFTER TAKING OUT STOP.