GETTING OUT OF PICK UP SLIPPED IN SHOW AND STRAINED LOWER BACK.
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Showing all 33CHANGING TOOTH ON 992C BUCKET, METAL FLAKED OFF STRIKING RIGHT INNER THIGH. 1/4"X1" PIECE OF METAL EMBEDDED IN THIGH RECEIVED 5 STITCHES.
ROCK BOUNCED FROM HIGH WALL ENTERING RT GLASS OF 992C LOADER CAB STRIKING OPERATOR ON UPPER & LOWER RT ARM
LIFTED BATTERY OVER TAILGATE OF PICKUP TRUCK STRAINED NECK ADN BETWEEN SHOULDERS.
DRIVING TO DUMP ROCK SHIFTED FRONT OF HAULER RAISED OFF GROUND FRONT END DROPPED JOLTING OPER
FT SLIPPED ON STEP FELL AND HIT L SHOULDER AND ELBOW SPRAINED ROTOR CUFF IN SHOULDER
CHECKING OIL ON LOADER, STRUCK L HAND AGAINST HANDRAILLLL BRUISED MUSCLE AND BONE OF UPPER PART L HAND
WORKING ON DRILL BOOM, CAUGHT L HAND BETWEEN BOOM AND CHAIN HAIRLINE FRACT 1 FINGER CUT FINGER REQ STITCHES
DEVEL NUMBNESS IN R LEG, LOWER BACK PAIN
PULLED ON DUMPSITE TO UNLOAD. BACKED TOWARD BERM TO DUMP 6'FROM BERM RIGHT SIDE GAVE WAY HAULER SLID OFF SPOIL AREA. DRIVER SUFFERED CUT FACE RIGHT LEG CUT BRUISED LEFT ARM & LEG.
WHILE ASSISTING 2 OTHER WELDERS WORK ON DOZER BLADE BURNED EYES- WAS WEARING PROTECTIVE GOGGLES AND HOOD.
WHILE ASSISTING MECHANIC AND OTHER HELPERS TO TURN CUTTING EDGES ON DOZER, EMPLOYEE AND MECHANIC LIFTED OLD CUTTING EDGE OUT OF THE WAY-EMPLOYEE FELT SHARP PAIN IN RIGHT HIP.
WHILE MECHANICS WERE CHANGING BUCKET ON LOADER HE LIFTED BUCKET PIN INTO BACK OF PICK UP.
WHEN RETURNING CAPS TO POWDER MAGAZINE CAUGHT RIGHT HAND BETWEEN TOP OF DOOR AND THE DRIP LIP. THE FIRST JOINT OF RIGHT INDEX FINGER IS BROKEN.
AS DISMOUNTED DOZER ON LUNCH BREAK TRIPPED ON ROCK & FELL ABRASIONS TO LEFT LEG & BROKE FIRST JOINT OF LEFT THUMB.
BELLY PAN FROM D9L DOZER FELL ON EMPLOYEE'S ARM AND BROKE IT (COMPOUND). SAFETY CHAIN SLIPPED ALLOWING 400 LB. PAN TO CATCH ARM. EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON HINGED SIDE OF PAN IN WHTA IS NORMALL Y A SAFE POSITION.
TWO MECHANICS WERE WORKING ON DOZER REMOVING PINS WHEN THE PRY BAR SLIPPED AND ALLOWED EE HAND TO BE CUAGHT BETWEEN PRY BAR AND FRAME OF DOZER. EE WAS TAKEN TO EMERGENCY WHERE X RAYS WERE TAKE N. THESE AND THE EXAMINATION SHOULD NO BROKEN BONES.
OPERATOR BACK DOZER INTO ROCK. JOLT OF THIS HURT OPERATOR'S BACK. NO TREATMENT- JUST REST FOR A FEW DAYS.
PUSHING IN SPOIL BANK OPER REMAINED IN DOZER AS DOZER BEGAN TO SLIDE .OPER UNDER ROPS ROLLOVER DI VISE OPER WEARING SAFEY BELT KEP IN SEAAT RESUE SQUAD TRANSP TO ER.
PICKED UP DRILL BIT AND PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS BACK. NOT REPORTED TO COMPANY UNTIL 8-21.
PERSON FELL INTO EMPTY POWDER AWFO BIN NO APPARENT REASON OR CAUSE FOR FALL PERSON SLID DOOR OPEN AS ALWAYS THEN FELL IN HEAD HAS SLIGHT CUT 9 STITCHES TAKEN
EMPLOYEE HIT ELBOW ON LOADER DOOR. X-RAY SHOWED NO BREAK OR STRESS. NO PRESCRIPTION OR MEDICATION GIVEN.
THIS PERSON SAYS HE JUMPED FROM 85 TON HAUL TRUCK BECAUSE THE FOOT BRAKE DID NOT HOLD. THREE METHODS AVAILABLE TO STOP TRUCK WERE NOT TRIED OR UTILIZED BY PERSON. THE PERSON DID OPERATE THIS T RUCK FOR THE REMAINDER OF SHIFT WITH NO PROBLEMS OCCURRING. TRUCK WAS CHECKED BY SUPERVISOR AND FOUND TO BE IN GOOD WORKING ORDER AND DEEMED SAFE TO OPERATE.
WHILE LIFTING LARGE PIECE OF METAL EMPLOYEE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.
PORTA POWER RAM MOVED FROM CRIBBING & CAUGHT FINGER OF SUBJECT BREAKING SUBJECTS FINGER THE TIIP.
PREVIOUS HISTOR OF BACK PAIN L5 REMOVED PREVIOUSLY, POST DISCEC TOMY SYNDROME.
25 TON RAM SLIPPED WHILE CHANGING INSIDE RIM TIRE OF CAT 777 HAULER #637 AND CAUGHT RIGHT THUMB BETWEEN FLANGE ON TIRE AND RIGHT REAR SHOCK ON HAULER. TIP OF THUMB, ABOVE KNUCKLE, WAS BROKEN.
ROCK FELL FROM HIGHWALL & STRUCK OPERATOR ON RT WRIST
SLAG FROM WELDED AREA COOLED THUS ALLOWING A PIECE TO POP OFF AND HIT EMPLOYEE IN LEFT EYE. EMPLOYEE HAD JUST LIFTED WELDING HOOD FROM EYES. HE WASHED EYE OUT AND GAVE EMPLOYEE EYE DROPS AND CRAM TO USE.
PLACING PIN IN 4ACK ALONG DESIGNATED GROOVE USING THUMB TO ALIGN PIN AND WHEN PIN SLIPPED HIS THUMB WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE JACK AND THE GROOVE.THUMB WAS CUT PARTIALLY SEVERED AND REQ 5-6 STITC ES TO REPAIR.AL3GNMENT BAR WAS PRESENT BUT NOT BEING USED.
WHILE OPENING GREASE BARREL, CUT LEFT ARM ON LID OF BARREL.
SLIPPED ON ROCK AND TWISTED LOWER BACK.
WHILE TAKING TH9 SCOOP UNDERGROUND THE SCOOP WHEEL HIT A ROOF BOLT LAYING ON THE FLOOR THIS SENT THE ROOF BOLT ONTO THE DECK OF THE SCOOP THUS HITTING DRIVER IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE CHEST