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EE WAS WORKING ON A TRANSMISSION FOR AN END DUMP. HE HAD APPLIED AIR PRESSURE TO SEE IF THE VENT BREATHER WAS OPEN. HE SAID NO MORE AIR WAS COMING OUT BUT WHEN HE UNCOVERED THE FILL PIPE IT BL EW HOT OIL ON HIM.
INJURED SLID HIS HAND DOWN THE GUARD OF THE TAILPULLEY WHEN HE STUMBLED, CAUSING A CUT TO HIS LEFT HAND, REQUIRING STITCHES.
EMPLOYEE WAS BITTEN BY A SPIDER & DEVELOPED AN INFECTION
EE CALLED IN AT NOON TO REPORT THE ACCIDENT HAD HAPPENED THAT MORNING. HE STATED HE WAS CHANGING A HYDRALIC HOSE ON A LOADER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL. HE DID NOT GO TO THE DR. UNTIL ONE WEEK A FTER THE ACCIDENT WAS REPORTED.
EMPLOYEE WAS DISTRACTED BY A TRANSMISSION PROBLEM AND WAS NOT WATCHING THE ROAD. HE RAN HIS TRUCK UPON A BANK ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING TRACK ROLLERS ON A DBL DOZER & STRAINED HIS BACK. WE DID NOT REPORT TO FOREMAN UNTIL SEVERAL DAYS AFTERWARD.
EE HAD REACHED DOWN INTO THE JAW CRUSHER TO FREE A ROCK THAT WAS JAMMED, WHILE SWINGING A SLEDGE HAMMER HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
EE SAYS HE SLIPPED OFF THE BACK OF HIS FUEL TRUCK FALLING TO THE GROUND, HURTING HIS BACK. NO LOSS TIME REPORTED AT THIS TIME BUT HAS BEEN PLACED ON RESTRICTED DUTY.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A 2" WATER HOSE TO WASH MATERIAL OUT FROM UNDER A CONVEYOR WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL BACKWARD AGAINST ANOTHER CONVEYOR. HE DID NOT REPORT THE ACCIDENT UNTIL THE NEX T WEEK WHEN HE WENT TO THE DR ON THE 24TH OF AUGUST. THE REPORT WAS A SPRAIN TO HIS LEFT HIP. THIS ACCIDENT IS UNDER INVESIGATION BY PROPER AUTHROITIES.
EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OFF A LOADER, WHE HE FELL LANDING ON HIS LEFT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS SWINGING A SLEDGE HAMMER WHILE CHANGING THE THEETH ON A LOADER & STRAINED HIS BACK
EMPLOYEES FOOT SLIPPED OFF TRUCK STEP CAUSING HIM TO FALL BUT HELD ONTO THE HAND HOLDS PULLING HIS BACK & SHOULDER
EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING A ROCK BIN DOOR WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THE GROUND WHERE A SMALL DITCH HAD WASHED OUT
EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING GROUND AFTER A SHOT IN THE QUQRRY HE WALKED ONTO GROUND THAT APPEA RED TO BE SOLID BUT CAVED IN UNDER HIM ALLOWING HIM TO FALL INTO A CREVICE WRENCHING HIS BACK & SCRAPIN G HIS LEG (NO LOSS TIME AT THIS TIME)
EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING HYDRAULIC OIL INTO COMPANY EQUIPMENT WHEN HOSE REEL ON GREASE TRUCK CAME UNLATCHED REEL IS SPRING LOADED & YANKED THE SLACK FROM THE HOSE VERY SUDDENLY CAUSING WHAT DR DIA GNOSED AS A STRAINED SHOULDER EMPLOYEE RETURNED TO WORK BUT AFTER NO RECOVERY BY THE 18TH OF SEPT SAW DR WHO DIAGNOSED IT TO BE A TORN ROTATOR CUFF
I.NAME WORKING ON A LOADER ENGINE STANDING ON A LOADER TO LOOSEN THE HEAD BOLT.WRENCH SLIPPED CAUSING LOSS OF BALANCE AND FALL 6' TO GROUND.LANDED ON AND BROKE LEFT HIP.
EE WAS CHANGING A SCREEN ON THE 6 X 16 SHAKER OF THE CRUSHER. HE WAS CLIMBING OUT OF THE DECK AND TWISTED WRONG CAUSING PAIN IN HIS BACK.
DESCENDING STEPS FROM BELT STEPPED ON STONE CAUSING HIM TO FALL IN STEPS BRUISE R LEG
HE AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE HAD REPAIRED A WHEEL LOADER TIRE AND WAS REPLACING THE MOUNTED TIRE ON THE LOADER. HE INCURRED A BACK STRAIN AT THIS TIME. EMPLOYEE NOTIFIED THE COMPANY ON 11-2-90.
GOING TO SERVICE DRILL L FRONT TIRE OF TRUCK STRUCK ROCK, TRUCK TURNED TO HIGH WALL HE JUMPED OUT OF TRUCK
EMPLOYEE WAS ENTERING THE CAB OF THE TAMROCK DRILL, AND ACCIDENTALLY SLAMMED THE DOOR ON HIS THUMB.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING BESIDE E.NAME, WHO WAS DRIVING A BRARING OFF OF THE SHAFT ON THE EXHAUST FAN, WHEN A PIECE OF STEEL FLAKED OFF THE HAMMER, STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON THE RIGHT FOREARM.
I,NAME WAS INSIDE THE BIN UNDER THE SCREEN, HOLDING THE NUTS FOR THE CENTER STRAP TENSION BOLTS. THERE IS APPROX. 8 FT CLEARANCE, SO EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING ON A ROD ABOUT 5 FT. FROM THE FLOOR, F OR EASE OF REACHING THE NUTS. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL, BREAKING HIS FALL WITH HIS LEFT ARM.
I.NAME WORKING ON CRANE STEPPED DOWN OFF MACHINE ON 3" DIA SHAFT THEY HAD JUST REMOVED.
EMPLOYEE FELL DOWN ON STEP OF ASPHALT PLANT.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A DISK GRINDER, GRINDING ON AN ALTERNATOR BRACKET THAT HE HAD CLAMPED IN THE VISE, IN THE SHOP, AT ABOUT CHEST LEVEL. THE GRINDER KICKED BACK STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON THE LEFT W RIST.
THE INJURED AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE IN THE PROCESS OF SPLITTING WOOD WITH A HAMMER AND WEDGE.THE OTHER EMPLOYEE STARTED THE WEDGE IN A BLOCK OF WOOD WITH THE HAMMER,IT CAME OFF STRIKING THE INJURED ON THE FOREHEAD.LACERATION ON HIS FOREHEAD,ABOVE HIS LEFT EYE.
EMPL WAS REPAIRING THE RAILROAD TRACK AND WHEN HE STRUCK A SPIKE TO DRIVE IT INTO THE TIE IT RICODHETED OFF THE RAIL STRIKING HIM IN THE MOUTH
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CLEAN UP AROUND THE CRUSHER AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK WHILE LIFTING AN OLD SCREEN.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING INSTALL A 6 IN.WATER LINE WHENHE STEPPED OVER A MOUND OF DIRT & STUMBLED TWISTING HIS KNEE
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING UNDER A JAW CRUSHER WHEN A ROCK DISLODGED STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ON THE FOREHEAD.
EMPL OPERATING 7AMROCK DRILL MOVING IT FROM ONE HOLE TO ANOTHER.DRILL MOVED OVER MOUND OF ROCK IT PITCHED FORWARD,HE JUMPED OFF PLATFORM AND WRENCHED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE BECAME3OVERBALANCED IN A SQUATTING POSITION, FALLING AND REINJURYING RIGHT HIP JOINT.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING AN END DUMP TRUCK, TWISTED HIS KNEE WHEN HE CAME DOWN THE LADDER
TRUCK DOOR HANDLE BROKE EMPLOYEE FELL FROM TRUCK, SPRAINING HIS BACK