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MOUNTED BOARDING LADDER ON TRACKHOE, GRABBED A HAND HOLD ON UPRIGHT OF WALKWAY RAILING & UPRIGHT BROKE LOOSE CAUSING VICTIM TO FALL BACKWARDS TO THE GROUND, (5 TO 6 FEET) CAUSING MUSCLE STRAIN & BRUISED MUSCLES, RESULTING IN RESTRICTED DUTY
LOOSEING A BOLT ON MAIN ALTERNATOR OF 120 TN UNIT RIG HAUL TRUCK W/ 3/8" DRIVE FLEX HEAD RATCHET. WRENCH AND TEETH IN RATCHET HEAD BRAKE, CAUSING WRENCH TO SLIP AND IN TURN CAUSING EMPLOYEE T O SLIP AND STRIKE HIS FACE ON VALVE COVER OF ENGINE CAUSING A LACERATION TO RIGHT SIDE OF FACE, ABOVE UPPER LIP.
BASICALLY UNKNOWN, STARTED OPRATING DOZER AT 7 AM TO 7:30 AM DISMOUNTED DOZER TO MVOE ELECT POWER SHOVEL CABLE FOR APPROX 1 MIN AND MOUNTED DOZER AND BEGAN FACING ORE WHEN STARTED TOG ET SORE AND PAIN. TAKEN TO DR AND PUT ON RESTRICTED LIGHT DUTY WORK.
STEPPED TO GROUND AFTER SETTING BRAKE SON RAILROAD HOPPER CAR AND TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE. RESULTING IN RESTRICTED DUTY.
MAN HANDLEING ELECTRICAL POWER SHOVEL CABLE ON UNEVEN GROUND W POOR FOOTING CONDITIONS AND TWISTED LT KNEE WHICH RESULTED IN RESTRICTED DUTY AND SURGERY AND POSSIBLE LOST TIME.
DISMOUNTING RAILROAD ORE CAR,(100TH), AFTER SETTING BRAKE, STEPPED TO GROUND WITH LEFT FOOT ON TO LOOSE MATERIAL(BALLAST) & BEING LOOSE MATERIAL CAUSED VICTIM TO TURN LEFT ANKLE & FOOT, CAUSIN G A FRACTURE TO 5TH METACARSAL OF LEFT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE DROVE VEHICLE OFF HIGHWALL FORWARD. FROM START HE DROVE APPROX. 150 FT & OVER & 36 IN BERM FOR NO APPARENT REASON. VERTICAL DROP OF 134 FT. AFTER MSHA INVESTIGALTION, NO CAUSE OR EQUI PMENT FAILURE HAS BEEN DETERMINED. VEHICLE COMPLETELY TOTALED. EMPLOYEE RECEIVED MASSIVE TRAUMA INJURIES TO HEAD & BODY.
CUTTING ATHICK CARD BOARD BOX W/RAZOR BOX KNIFE WAS CUTTING TOWARDS HIMSELF INSTEAD OF AWAY WITH RT HAND & KNIFE SLIPPED FROM CARD BOARD & STRUCK LT WRIST CAUSING LACERATION & SUTURES
AT START OF SHIFT [INJURED] RAISED L. ARM TO GET A HAND HOLD ON STEP OF HAND RAIL TO MOUNT BLAST HOLE DRILL & BEFORE HE GOT A HOLD OF RAIL THE BACK MUSCLES ON UPPER L. SIDE TIGHTENED UP, CAUSI NG PAIN & SORENESS. RESULTING IN RESTRICTED DUTY.
INSTALLING TRACK ROLLERS ON UNREFCARRIAGE OF CRAWLER TRACTOR D9N CATIPLLIER TWISTED LOWER BACK WHEN ATTEMPTING TO ROCK THE ROLLER UPON THE TRACK WHICH WAS LAID OUT ON FLOOR ROLLER WEIGHT APPRO X. 220 LBS INJURY RESULTED IN RESTRICTED DUTY.
CLEANING MUD W/WHOVEL FROM CRAWLER TRACTOR TRUCK AND STRUCK HAND OBJECT W/ SHOVEL CAUSIGN HYPEREXTENSION OF ELFT WRIST. HAD TO WEAR A WRIST BRACE AND MORE THAN ONE VISIT TO A DR. NOTE: THIS INJURY WAS REPORTED TO AN HOURLY FOREMAN ON 4-7-93 ADN WAS NOT REPORTED TO MGNT UNTIL 10-25-93 BY THE EMPLOYEE.
AT END OF SHIFT, WALKING FROM EQUIPMENT PARKING LOT TO PERSONNEL VEHICLE PARKING AREA AND STEPPED IN A HOLE, OR UNEVEN GROUND & TURNED LEFT ANKLE, CAUSING A SPRAIN & RESTRICTED DUTY.
PERFORMING MECHANICAL REPAIRS UNDER FLOOR BOARD OF D9N CRAWLER TRACTOR AND WORKING IN A CRAMPED AREA AND POSITION. WHEN EMPLOYEE STRAIGHTENED LEFT LEG, HE FELT A POP IN LEFT KNEE. KNEE BEGAN T O SWELL AND PAINFUL FOR THE REST OF DAY AND NEXT 2 DAYS. WENT TO DR. ON 3-18-93 (LOST DAY), LAST DAY OF SCHEDULED WORK WEEK.
WAS ON DECK OF SERVICE TRUCK AND WHILE MOVING AROUND, TWISTED RIGHT KNEE WHICH RESULTED IN HAVING SURGERY ON 11-18-92.
OPERATING 120 TON UNIT RIG HAUL TRUCK. STOOD UP IN CAB TO ADJUST DRIVER SEAT AND RIGHT KNEE POPPED.
49959NG LOADED 120 TON HAUL TRUCK & DROVE THRU SOFT SPOT IN NEW IN PIT HAUL ROAD CAUSING DRIVERS SEAT TO BOTTOM OUT CAUSING A SUDDEN JAR TO UPPER BODY DRIVER DID NOT HAVE SENT ADJUSTED PROPERL 80669 HIS SEAT WAS CHECKED & WAS WORKING PROPERLY
ELECTRICIANS WERE CHECKING ELECT. CONTACTS IN GRIND BOX ON LOADED 120 TON UNTI RIG HAUL TRUCK AND DUMP BED WAS RAISED 6 IN TO 1 FT DRIVER LET BED DOWN AND ELECTRICIAN WAS STNADING ON DECK FO T RUCK WHEN BED CAME DOWN AND WAS STRUCK ON HARD HAT BY EXHAUST TUB BED RIB, SETTING VICTIM DOWN TO A SITTING POSITION OF RADIATOR COVER, CAUSING A SPRAINED NECK.
REMOVING PINION GEAR L HAND STRUCK WITH OBJECT AVULSION ON L HAND
TAPPING OUT RIPPER TOOL FOR PIN RETAINER HOLES ON CRAWLER TRACTOR. TAPPING OUT INSIDE HOLE, AFTER TAPPING OUTSIDE HOLE AND DID NOT GRIND OFF OUTSIDE HOLE PULLED TREADS BEFORE TAPPING ISIDE HO LE AND RAN RIGHT HAND ACROSS EXPOSED METAL. PULLED TREADS CAUSING LACERATION TO TOP OF RIGHT HAND BETWEEN RING FIGNER AND OVER KNUCKLE OF LITTLE FINGER.
BUILDING WOODEN STEPS FOR OFFICE TRAILER FROM WOOD. WORKING OUTSIDE IN WINDY CONDITIONS AND FOREIGN ENTERED RIGHT EYE WHICH JUST RECENTLY HAD A CORNIA IMPLANT.
LIFTING AND MOVING ELECTRIC SHOVEL CABLE BY HAND, WALKING BACKWARD'S WHILE CARRYING CABLE AND TWISTED HIS UPPER BODY TO SEE WHERE HE WAS WALKING AND TWISTED HIS BACK CAUSING A BACK SPRAIN.
MOUNTING A 16C CAT MOTOR GRADER OPENED DOOR & DOOR DID NOT CATCH & WHILE HE HAD HAND HOLD ON DOOR FRAME DOOR CAME SHUT STRIKING RT HAND CAUSING LACERATION ON RT LITTLE FINGER
A LARGE LENGTH OF LARGE "I" BEAM WAS LAYING ON THE GROUND WITH ONE END ELEVATED SOMEWHAT OFF THE GROUND AGAINST AN UPRIGHT 55 GALLON DRUM.WHEN 2 EMPLOYEES ATTEMPTED TO MOVE THE DRUM THE ELEVAT ED END OF THE I BEAM FELL TO THE GROUND STRIKINGVICTIM ON THE LEFT SIDE OF LEFT FOOT CAUSING A LACERATION DISLOCATION AND FRACTURE OF LEFT LITTLE TOE.
WORKING ON GROUND MOVING CABLE AND CABLE TOWERS DOZER MOVING TOWERS AND CABLE HUNG ON AIR COND AND LIGHT ON TOP OF CAB AND DOZER OPER TRYING TO GET FREE CABLE CAME FREE IT STRUCK EMP ON NOSE
CUTTING CONVEYOR BELDING WITH UTILITY KNIFE, FOR FLASHING ALONG A CONVEYOR. WAS CUTTING OR PULLING KNIFE TOWARDS HIM WHEN KNIFE SLIPPED OUT OF CUT AND STRUCK INNER THIGH OF LEFT LEG CAUSING LA CERATION THAT REQUIRED STITCHES.
MOVING ELECTRIC POWER SHOVEL CABLE,REACHED DOWN AND GOT HOLD OF CABLE(ELECT) AND PULLED ON CABLE AND INJURED LOWER BACK.
CHECKING ELECT. PROBLEMS ON UNIT RIG HAUL TRUCK, CRAWLING BETWEEN GRID BOX AND DUMP BOX & STRICK KNEE CAP ON FRAME OF TRUCK, CAUSING BRUISE TO KNEE CAP. HAD A PREVIOUS LACERATION IN KNEE ARE A & THE BUMP TO THE KNEE CAP AGGRAVED TH INFECTION IN THE LACERATION CAUSING LOST TIME.
DRIVING ROD IN GROUND WITH HAND MANUAL STRUUCK L THUMB ON ROD LACER
OPERATING DOZER PUSHING MATERIAL TO ELECTRIC-SHOVEL. A LARGE FROST CHUNK ROLLED OFF SLOPE BEHIND DOZER, D9N CATIPLLIER, AND DID NOT SEE CHUNK & BACKED OVER IT, CAUSING OPERATOR TO JARR OR INJU RE HIS BACK.
HAULED SELF-DUMPING LIFT TRUCK HOPPER TO GARBAGE DUMP TO DUMP HOPPER WITH FORKLIFT.AFTER ARRIVING AT DUMP DISMOUNTED FORKLIFT AND REACHED BETWEEN BACKSTOP OF FORKLIFT AND HOPPER TO TRIP LEVER OF HOPPER TO DUMP IT.HOPPER SLIPPED BACKWARDS PINCHING,CRUSHING RIGHT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN BACKSTOP AND HOPPER CAUSING HAILINE FRACTURE,CONTUSIONS & ABRASIONS TO RIGHT INDEX FINGER.
OPERATING A TOW TYPE FERTILIZER SALT SPREADER AND ATTEMPTING TO ENGAGE AUGER CHAIN VIA OF LEVER HANDLE MOUNTED ON RT FRONT SIDE OF SPREADER WHEN HANDLE SLIPPED FROM HAND AND STRUCK LEFT SIDE O F FACE LOWER CHECK CAUSING AND LACERATION. 9 STITICHES WERE REQUIRED.
JUMP STARTING D8N TRAITOR FROM D9N TRACTOR W JUMPER CABLES. REAR HAD OVER BATTERY TO DISCONNECT CABLES FROM D8N BATTERYS 24V SYS. WHEN CAP BLEW OFF BATTERY. BATTERY ACID BLEW INTO BOTH EYES AN D ON FACE, CAUSING ACID BURN TO EYES AND INNER ERE LIDS.
MOVING ELECTRIC SHOVEL POWER CABLE FOR ELEC SHOVEL .LIFTING & PULLING,STRAIN AND PULLED MUSCLES UPPER BACK.
OPERATING CRAWLER TRACTOR (DOZER) AT TIME OF ALLEGED INJURY OR START OF PAIN. ALLEGED LOWER BACK INJURY POSSIBLY STEMMING BACK TO PREVIOUS INJURY ON 12-1-89 WHILE RIDING IN CAB OF 651B SCRAPER OR OPERATING HEAVY EQUIPMENT SINCE THAT TIME. NO ACCIDENT REPORT HAD BEEN FILED SINCE 12-1-89 BY EMPLOYEE.
EXITED CAB OF 120 TOM UNIT RIG HAUL TRUCK AND WAS TURNING HER BODY TO SHUT CAB DOOR AND GET INTO POSITION TO GO DOWN TRUCK LADDER AND HER RIGHT FOOT OR PANT CUFF CAUGHT ON A FIRE EXT. BRACKET, CAUSING THE RIGHT KNEE TO BE TWISTED.
UHAULING ORE TO STOCKPILE IN 120TN UNIT RIP TRUCK RAMP HAD BEEN CUT INTO PLACE TO CLOSE OFF RAMP TRUCK BEING BACKED UP SPLIT THE BERM CAUSING THE LOADED TRUCK TO TIP OVER ON ITS RT SIDE CAUSIN G STRAINS& SPRAINS OF NECK & MID BACK TO DRIVER SEAT GBELT WAS BEING WORN
CABLE CAME OFF PULLEY FOR RETRACTABLE MAN LADDER FOR POWER ELECT. SHOVEL. WAS PULLING CABLE BACK ON PULLEY AND COUNTER WEIGHT, ATTACHED TO OTHER END OF CABLE, DROPPED, PULLING RT. HAND INTO PU LLEY. CAUSED A LACERATION TO RT. LITTLE FINGER AND BROKEN RT. LITTLE FINGER BONE.
TRAINING OTHER EMPL TO OPERATE SCRAPER.EMPL RIDING IN CAB W/TRAINEE WHEN LOADED SCRAPER WAS COMING OUT OF PIT & TIRE STRUCK LARGE ROCK CAUSING TRAINER TO BE THROWN AROUND INSIDE OF CAB.RIGHT H IP & RT SIDE OF BACK STRUCK R.O.P.S.BRACES CAUSING BRUISES TO HIP & BACK.RX ISSUED BY DR FOR PAIN & MUSCLE RELAXER.
PUMPING AIR INTO GOOD USED OIL TANK TO HELP GRAVITY PUMP OUT USED OIL TANK RUPUTRED AND VICTIM WAS APPROX 30 FEET AWAY AND WAS STRUCK ON BACK BY UNKNOWN OBJECT CAUSING A BRUISE BACK AND LEFT S HOULDER.
WASHING HAUL TRUCK WITH HIG PRSSURE WATER HOSE. STANDING ON DECK OF TRUCK AND WHILE REPOSTIONING HIMSELF TO WASH ANOTHER SECTION OF TRUCK HE LOST HSI FOOTING AND HI PRESSURE WATER HOSRE CAUSE D HIM TO TWIST HIS BACK.
INSTALLING CUTTING EDGES ON DOZER BLADE. DRIVING PLOW BOLT IN HOLES W/ HAMMER. HAMMER SLIPPED OFF BOLT HEAD AND HAND STRUCK CUTTING EDGE, CAUSING LACERATION. FIRST AID WAS GIVEN AT JOB SITE. O N 11/7/89, THE LACERATION BECAME INFECTED AND WENT TO DOCTOR. DOCTOR CHECKED "ONLY" THEN PRESCRIBED MEDICATION FOR THE INFECTION (THAT'S MAKE THIS REPORTABLE).
PLACING 1/4 INCH METAL PLATE ON 651 SCRAPER TO BE WELDED INTO PLACE USING A WEDGE METAL TO SECURED PLATE UNTIL PLATE COULD BE WELDED. PRESSURE FROM THE BEND OF TH EPLATE ON THE WEDGE CAUSED TH E WEDGE TO FLY LOOSE AND STRUCK THE VICTIM IN THE MOUTH.
CLIMBING UPON A FLATBED TRAILER VIA OF TOUNGE. HOLDING ONTO A BOLT STICKING UP ON BED. TOUNGE WAS NOT BLOCKED & DROPPED TO GROUND. LOST FOOTING & STILL HELD ONTO BOLT, CAUSING THE RT. THUMB TO BE PULLED CAUSING LEGIMET IN THUMB TO BE PULLED UPART. REQUIRED SURGERY ON THUMB ON MARCH 20, 1989.
CHIPPING HOT SLAG FROM WELD NOT WEARING WELDING HOOD W/FLIP UP LENS BUT WAS WEARING REGULAR SAFETY GLASSES.SLAG FLEW UP & BOUNCED OFF NOSE AN UP UNDER SAFETY GLASSES AND INTO RIGHT EYE CAUSING BURN.MAY RESULT IN WEARING OF CORRECTIVE LENS-GLASSES.
LOWERING LARGE BEARING CAP FROM ELECT. POWER SHOVEL TO GROUND AND CAP SLIPPED GROM SLING WHEN NEAR GROUND AND EMPLOYEE ON GROUND WA GUIDING CAP TO SET DOWN ON WOOD BLOCKS. WHEN CAP SLIPPED FR OM SLING, IT PINCHED RT. MIDDLE FINGER FRT. INDEX FINGER CAUSING LACERATION 3 STITCHES TO INDEX FINGER. (BETWEEN CAP AND WOOD BLOCK).
VICTIM WAS REMOVING AIR SUCTION TUBE NEAR HIGH VOLTAGE SLIP RINGS IN 2100 P&H ELECTRIC SHOVEL AND BACK OF T HAND CAME IN CONTACT WITH SLIP RINGS THEREFORE RECEIVING AN ELECTRICAL SHOCK ELECTRI CITY ENTERED BACK OF R HAND AND EXITED IN R UPPER QUADRANT OF BACK CAUSING 3RD DEGREE BURNS ON BACK
EMPLOYEE SLIPPE8 ON ICE & SNOW WHILE WALKING DOWN SLOPE FROM FUEL STORAGE TANK TO FUEL TRUCK STRUCK SIDE OF FUEL TRUCK WITH LEFT SIDE OF ABDOMEN CAUSING A BROKEN RIB ON LT.SIDE
EMPLOYEE THREW 5N AIR FILTER (INNER), WEIGHING APPROX. 8 LBS, FROM GROUND LEVEL. UP TO AN OTHER EMPLOYEE, STANDING ON THE DECK OF A HAUL TRUCK, APPROX. HEIGHT OF 8 FT. OTHER EMPLOYEE MISSED FI LTER & FILTER C5ME DOWN & STRUCK VICTIM ON NOSE.
LIFTING OWN TOO5 BOXES FROM STORAGE AREA BOX CAR TO MECHAINICS TRUCK AND SLIPPED IN MUD DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER CONDITIONS. TWISTED OR STRAINED BACK