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LOADING PIT TRUCK 30 FT APPROX FORM HIGH WALL SECTION OF WALL CAME DOWN HIT FRONT END LOADER.
GATE HANDLE BOUNCED BACK FROM ITS PROPER POSTION AND CAUGHT THE EMPLOYEE IN THE MOUTH.
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE REINJURED HIS BACK USING A PRY BAR TO TURN THE PRIMARY CRUSHER WHILE REPAIRING IT.EMPLOYEE STATES THE PRY BAR SLIPPED CAUSING HIS BACK TO JERK SUDDENLY CAUSING HIM TO REINJ URE HIS LOWER BACK FROM A 1986 INJURY.
WORKING IN HOPPER UNDER 41/2CONE CRUSHER CLEANING OUT BUILT UP MATERIAL FROM AROUND CRUSHER HOUSING THAT WAS WHEN I NAME FIRST NOTICED HIS BACK HURTING THIS WAS BEFORE NOON ON 5TH OF DEC 1989 SOMETIME IN THE AFTERNOON I NAME CLIMBED FROM A CONCRETE LEDGE AROUND THE CONE CRUSHER TO A KNEE BRACE TO GET DOWN FROM THE KNEE BRACE
CRUSHER OPERATOR TURNED IN HIS CHAIR AND HURT HIS BACK WHILE RUNNING BACKHOE CONTROLLS. HE WAS TURNING IN SWIVEL CHAIR TO MOVE TO OTHER CONTROLS WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN LOWER BACK.
EMPL WAS UNHOOKING SCREEN CLOTH FROM CALBE HOIST AT STAGE 3 WHEN SCREEN CAME UNHOOKED. EMPL HELD ONTO SCREEN TO KEEP IT FROM FALLING WHEN HE INJURED LEFT WRIST HAND.
OPERATING FRONT END LOADER LEFT FRONT BRAKE LOCKED UP ABRUPTLY SEVERAL TIMES CAUSING FORWARD & BACKWARD MOTION TO HEAD & SHOULDERS RESULTING INCERVICAL SPRAIN TO NECK & SHOULDERS.
TRIED TO SCARE FELLOW EMP JUMPED AND STRUCK HED ON DOOR JAM RESULT IN 7 STITCHES IN TOP OF HEAD.
WHILE ASSITING AN EMPLOYEE, HE WAS HOLDING A PRY BAR UNTIL THE EMPLOYEE COULD CHAINGE INTO A BETTER POSTION, WHEN HE BEGAN TO PULL THE BAR SLIPPED AND STRUCK HIS FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A MOTOR OFF A SPPED REDUCER & TRIED TO SHAKE IT WHILE LIFTING. THE MOTOR FLIPPED & PINCHED EMPLOYEE'S FINGER AGAINST THE MOTOR & THE WALKWAY EDGE.
EMPL WAS RAISING CRUSHER BOWL WITH OVERHEAD HOIST HE HAD JUST SWITCHED FROM ONE HOIST TO ANOTHER HOIST WHEN CABLE BROKE DROPPING CRUSHER BOWL 2' TO FLOOR HE WAS RIDING ON THE BOWL
CHECKED OIL LEVEL FOR 3' CRUSHER ON RESEVOIR PLATFORM.WHEN CLIMBING DOWN,RING CAUGHT SIDE OF PLATFORM.I THEN LOST BALANCE AND RING HELD ME THERE.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF CHECKING THE CRUSHER. HE WENT TO PULL THE DOOR OF THE CRUSHER OPEN. THE HANDLE ON THE DOOR BROKE LOOSE FROM THE DOOR. THE EMPLOYEE FELL BACKWARDS STRUCK HIS HAND AND ARM ON THE GUARD RAIL.
EE WAS REPALCING THE ROTARY HEAD ON A DRILL TECH D40K RIG. EE S ANKLE CAUGHT AND EE SLIPPED CAUSING ANKLE TO BREAK AND BRUISED SHOULDER LEFT.
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING MUD OFF DUMP HOPPER AND HAD PULLED A MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK WHEN THE HOOK SLIPPED SENDING HIM BACKWARDS INTO THE HAND SAFETY RAIL.
A FEED CHUTE WAS PLUGGED WITH BIG ROCK EMPL HAD TO CUT OUT A PIECE OF CHANNEL WHEN THE MATERIAL CAME LOOSE A SMALL PIECE OF METAL STUCK THE EMPL IN THE L FOREARM AND PENETRATED THE SKIN
THE EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING OUTSIDE THE WALKWAY HAND RAILS ON THE BACK END OF THE LEFT FRONT PONTOONS WITH THE DREDGE RUNNING. HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE END OF THE PONTOON BETWEEN THE TRUSS AND TH E PONTOON, CAUSING HIM TO FALL SIDEWAYS DOWN BETWEEN THE TRUSS AND THE PONTOON AND STRIKING HIS RIGHT SIDE ON THE TRUSS ANGLE SUPPORT.
I WAS HOLDING A FLASH LIGHT FO THE PLANT OPERATOR. WHEN WE FINISHED THE JOB WE WERE DOING, I WALKED AROUND TO THE FRONT OF THE SCRUBBER, I SLIPPED ON SOME MUD THAT WAS THROWN OUT OF THE SCRUB BER AND BOTH OF MY FEET WENT OUT FROM UNDER ME AT THE SAME TIME AND I LANDED ON MY BACK.
SHOVLEING ON GROUND FLOOR ROCK FELL OFF FEED CONVEY HIT FLOOR BOUNCED FELL 8F STRIKING EMP IN LOWER BACK