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EMPL WALKING DOWN STEEP INCLINE CARRYING BACKPACK,TRI-POD AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENT,LOST FOOTING AND FELL.TWISTED HIS BACK .
EMPLOYEE WAS POSITIONED ON TOP OF A LOWERED CONVEYOR TO HOOK AND UNHOOK A CHAIN. HE REMAINED ON TOP WHILE HEAD PULLEY SECTION WAS BEING SLID INSIDE OF MAIN FRAME. CONVEYOR STAND FAILED AND HE WAS THROWN TO THE GROUND.
EE WAS REPAING WHILE STANDING ON A STEP LADDER SLIPPED AND FELL TO THE GROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING A HYDRAULIC LINE HE SPILLED OIL ON HIS SHOE AS HE WAS CLIMBING THE LADDER ON THE DOZER HE SLIPPED BETWEEN THE LADDER & TRACK BRUISING HIS LEFT HIP
WAS LOADING DRILL RODS THAT SLIPPED OUT OF PICKUP BED WHILE MOVEING TO NEXT DRILL SITE. HE LOADED ONE OF RODS & IT SLIPPED OUT OF BED & HIT HIM IN BACK..PICKUP WAS SITTING ON INCLINE.
EQUIPMENT OPERATOR WAS CLEANING UP AROUND PLANT BACK INTO A PARKED CAR BELONGING TO AN EMPLOYEE
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING AROUND CONVEYORS. HE LOST HIS BALANCE - STUCK HIS HAND OUT TO CATCH HIMSELF AND GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN BELT AND SCRAPER BAR PULLING HIS HAND IN UP TO THE ELBOW.
INJ WAS CUTTING PC OF META6 SIDING ALREADY IN PALCE FORM MIDDLE TO TOP AT DOORWAY IN FRONT OF GENERATOR MOTOR. WIND BLEW METAL FRAGMENT INTO HIS EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING UNDER CONVEYOR BELT AT THE POINT WHERE THE CONVEYOR GOES UNDER THE JAW FRAME. HE SLAMMED HIS HAND INTO THE CRUSHER FRAME.
EMPL WAS REMOVING CUTTING EDGE AND TEETH OF 988 LOADER FROM LOAD INA 769 TRUCK BECAUSE THEY HAD BROKEN OFF LOADER THEY WERE IN 2 PIECES WHEN HE LIFTED LARGER PIECE HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION IN HIS STOMACH AND BACK FOLLOWED BY NAUSEA
EMP WAS GETTING OFF OF SERVICE TRUCK AND STEPED AND LANDED WRONG DISLOCATING HIS BACK.
EMPL WAS WALKING ALONG SIDE OF OVED AND CONVEYOR A PLASTIC LINER USED TO CATCH CONTAMEHENTS ON THE GRORINE WAS WET DUE TO THE MOISTURE IN THE CEN HE SLIPPED TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF IN THE CONV EYOR FRAME TO BREAK HIS FALL AND STAINED HIS SHOULDER
SHOVELING MATERIAL OF OFF A STOPPED CONCERYOR BELT. STRAINED HIS BACK.
EMPL WAS CLIMBING UP ON TRUCK TO START SHIFT HE MISSED TIP RAIL WHEN REACHING FOR IT AND FELL BACKWARDS TO THE GROUND
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN A CONFIRMED AREA WHEN THE HANDLE ON A LARGE HAMMER STRUCK HIM IN THE STOMACH AND RIB AREA.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN LEACH PAD DIKE WHEN HE SLIPPED ON THE PLATIC LINER AND FELL ON HIS HIP. SNOW AND WATER WAS PRESENT ON INER.
EMP WAS HELPING PUT A FUEL PUMP ON A 988 LOADER. CAT SERVICE MAN WAS HANDING PUMP TO EMP W HEN IT SLIPED. EMP GRABBED PUP BU T AS HE CAUGHT IT HE TWISTED AN ANKLE CAUSING HIM TO TWIST AN D TEAR SOME MUSCLES IN HIS BACK AND STOMACH. PAUMP (PUMP) WEIGHS APPROX. 100 LBS.
EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING SOME FLASHING. HE NEEDED TO CLEAR THE AREA OF SOME DEBRIS AND WHILE USING A SLEDGE HAMMER TO DO THIS, HE HIT HIS HAND.
EMPLOYEE WA PRYING ON THE END OF A STEP STAIRCASE TO LINE UP A BOLT FOR INSTALLATION AND WHEN HE WENT TO STAND UP HE FLET A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND WAS NOT ABLE TO MOVE VERY WELL.
EMPLOYEE WAS FILLING AN OIL STORAGE TANK ON THE SERVICE TRUCK WHEN HIS FEET SLIPPED ON AN OIL AND FUEL SLICK SURFACE,CAUSING HIM TO FALL OFF.HE TORE THE LIGAMENTS IN HIS RIGHT KNEE.
WHILE REMOVING A 4" VALVE FROM A PALLET THE VALVE JAMMED INTO THE PALLAT WHILE THE MINER TRIED TO REMOVE THE VALVE IT CAME LOOSE AND THE MINERS FINGER WAS SMASHED AGAINST ANOTHER VALVE ON THE PALLAT THE LEFT LITTLE FINGER WAS CUT AND FOUND TO BE FRACTURED