APPARENT FAULT OR WEAK AREA IN HIGHWALL, ALLOWING HOLE TO BLOW OUT. INJURED EMPLOYEE HAS FRACTURED LEFT TIBIA, FIBULA, PATELLA AND FEMUR. THE RIGHT KNEE HAD FOREIGN BODY IN IT. INJURIES WERE C AUSED BY FLYING ROCK FROM THE SHOT.
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Showing all 26EMPLOYEE LYING ON GROUND ON HIS BACK DOING REPAIR WORK ON A ROCK TRUCK WHEN THE AIR BRAKE CHAMGER SPRUNG APART STRIKING THE VICTIM IN THE FOREHEAD JUST ABOVE THE LEFT EYE CAUSING LACERATION
WHILE ENTERING A ROCK TRUCK A GUST OF WIND SLAMMED THE DOOR PINCHED RT AHDN
WHILE DRIVING R2CK TRUCK, DOZER HIT SIDE OF TRUCK CAUSING DRIVER TO BE SHAKEN UP.
EMPLOYEE WAS SH2VELING MATERIAL BACK INTO EXPLOSIVE HOLES.
WHILE LOOKING O5ER EDGE OF DRILL BENCH, EDGE BROKE LOOSE CAUSING FALL INTO CRACK.
HIT A HOLE WHIL9 DRIVING COAL TRUCK
OPERATOR WAS ST5RTING TO CLIMB OFF 992 C LOADER WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL TO THE GROUND.
WHILE FUELING E3LOADER, FUEL HOSE GOT TANGLED CAUSING FUELER TO HIT RIGHT ARM ON LADDER OF LOADER.
WHILE DRIVING COAL TRUCK DOWN ELKLICK HAULROAD DRIVER HIT A CHUCK-HOLE AND BUMPED HEAD ON TOP OF CAB.
WHILE DRIVING TEREX TRUCK AND WHEN DUMPING LOAD THE BED OF THE TRUCK JERKED POSSIBLITY OF THIS BEING A REOCCURANCE OF AN OLD INJURY.
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OFF MACHINE AND TWISTED ANKLE WHEN HE STEPPED ON GROUND.
ROCK SLID OFF HIGHWALL & CAUGHT THE BACK OF ROCK TRUCK CAUSING TRUCK TO BE SHOOK AROUND INJURING DRIVER. TRUCK WAS PARKED TOO CLOSE TO HIGHWALL.
WHILE DRIVING ROCK TRUCK ON ROUGH ROAD WAS SHAKEN AROUND, HURTING BACK.
A ROCK DROPPED FROM LOADER BUCKET ONTO BED OF TRUCK CAUSING IT TO SHAKE &DRIVER WAS JOLTED AROUND IN CAB LOADER OPERATOR DID NOT SEE LARGE ROCK IN MATERIAL THAT HE WAS LOADING
EMPLOYE WAS CLOSING DOOR OF ROCK TRUCK AND SPRAINED NECK
WHILE DUMPING LOAD OUT FO ROCK TRUCK LARGE ROCK STUCK IN BED WHEN IT FINALLY COME LOOSE IT JARRED THE TRUCK SHAKING THE DRIVER.
WHILE MOVING FIRE EXTINGUISHER IN CAB OF ROCK TRUCK DROPPED EXTINGUISHER ON FOOT.
WHILE OPERATING A DOZER A ROCK GOT WEDGED BETWEEN THE TRACTOR & THE BLADE THE EE WAS TRYING TO GET THE ROCK OUT WHEN IT SLIPPED & FELL ON HIS FOOT.
INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A BULLDOZER, DOZER PUSHING LIFTING A ROCK WITH THE BLADE WHEN ROCK SLIPPED CAUSING THE DOZER TO ROCK.
WHILE MOVING AIR TRACK DRILL EMPLOYEE PICKED UP DRILL STEEL AND HURT BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS STARING EQUIPMENT, WHILE CLIMBING UP LADDER ON 992C AND FELL OFF.
WHILE IN ROCK TRUCK BEING LOADED, LOADER OPERATOR DROPPED LARGE ROCK INTO THE REAR OF TRUCK CAUSING DRIVER TO BE SHAKEN UP INJURING HIS BACK.
SLIPPED OFF A STEP ON THE DRILL & TWISTED RIGHT KNEE.
VICTIM WAS OPERATING D8K BULLDOZER WHILE DOING SLOPE & BENCH WORK IN A VALLEY FILL AREA, THE AREA WAS APPAROXIMATELY A 2:1 RATIO. BEGINNINGT ON EITHER THE FACE OF THE SLOPE OR THE BENCH AR EA ITSELF, THE DOZER BEGAN TO TRAVEL IN A REVERSE MOTION CONTINUING OVER THE EDGE OF THE BENCH AND DOWN THE SLOPE FOR A DISTANCE OF APPROXIMATELY 400 FT. TO THE VALLEY FLOOR. AS THE DOZER WE
TIRE BLOW-OUT ON FRONT LEFT TIRE CAUSING DRIVER TO SWERVE TO LEFT INTO DITCH WHEN TRUCK HIT DITCH THE RIGHT FUEL TANK RUPTURED CAUSING FUEL TO ESCAPE ONTO THE MUFFLER WHICH CAUSED IT TO IGNITE