EE WAS REPAIRING A 900X20 TIRE. INSTALLED A USED RIM JUST PURCHASED ON THE TIRE WHICH WAS ON A BORROWED FUEL TRUCK. HE HAD CLEANED THE RIM AND MADE A VISUAL INSPECTION. HAD JUST STARTED PUTTIN G AIR IN TIURE AND WAS REACHING FOR IT TO INSPECT OTHER SIDE AND PUT IN CAGE WHEN THE TIRE BLEW.RIM FLEW APART AND TIRE FLEW UP IN AIR. RIM HIT RIGHT HAND AND TIRE HIT HIM.
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Showing all 26COMPANY FUEL TRUCK UNIT #942 WAS DISCOVERED WITH A FIRE IN THE CAB. FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS IMMEDIATELY CALLED TO PUT OUT FIRE. SECURITY HAD BEEN POSTED NEARBY TRUCK ALL EVENING UNTIL TEN MINUTES BEFORE FIRE WAS 1983 INTERNATIONAL 1900 SERIES TRUCK WITH 2500 GAL TANK ATTACHED.
EMPL ASSEMBLING A COUPLING ON PRIMARY PUMP SUCTION PIPE.HAD LOOSENED A NUT,BOLT SLIPPED AND 3 SECTIONS BEGAN TO SLIDE.EMPL GRABBED AT IT FELT SOMETHING GIVE IN BACK.REPORTED TO SUPV,WENT TO DR 8-24 AND HAD FOLLOWUP VISIT W/SURGEON WHO HAD DONE BACK SURGERY 12-89.
EMPL LOOKING UNDER LOADER AT DIFFERENTIAL TROUBLESHOOTING MECHANICAL PROBLEM.DIRTY,HOT OIL DROPPED INTO LEFT EYE.DIDNT EXPERIENCE DISCOMFORT UNTIL THAT PM AT HOME.EYE BEGAN TO BLISTER & SWELL. WENT TO EMERGENCY ROOM,RECD 1ST AID TREATMENTONL
ICE STORM 2-15,EMPL COMING IN TO WORK GETTING OUT OF CAR IN SHOP PARKING LOT,SLIPPED & FELL ON ICE -DISLOCATION OF NECK AND ROTATION OF PELVIS.
EMPL WELDING ON COAL DUMP AT PREP PLANT,PULLING PIECE OF METAL TO WORK AREA.SLIPPED & FELL BACKWARDS AND PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK.
REPAIRING BLADE TAPPING ON NEW BALDE BRACKET WITH HAMMER TO LINE IT UP ON BALDE CAUSING PAINT CHIP IN RT EYE.
1 INCH LACERATION TO PALM OF HAND RT HAND WAS USING WRONG SIZE TAP TO FIX MACHINE CUT HAND
FALL - 5 THORACIC FRACTURED VERTEBRAE
LIFTING - STRAINED BACK LOADING BAGS OF SLURRY
HIT RIBS WITH STEERING WHEEL DRIVING WATER TRUCK
TWISTED BACK WHILE SHOVELING
I.NAME WAS STRUCK IN THE LEFT ELBOW BY A CHUNCK OF COAL WHILE INSTALLING A GUARD TO PREVENT THIS TYPE OF ACCIDENT FROM HAPPENING.
LIFTING SMALL PIPE STRAINED BACK.
STEPPEN OFF GRADER & TWISTED HIS BACK
MAN JUMP FORM SCAPER AND INJURED BACK.
I.NAME SAID HE WAS BUMPED FROM BEHIND ON THE PUSH BLOCK OF HIS SCRAPER BY THE PUSH TRACTOR & HURT HIS NECK.
HAD BEEN RAINING WORKING ON SCRAPER FRONT ENGINGE.
WHILE TRYING TO OPEN A DOOR I NAME PULLED LEG MUSCLES AND HAD A BROKEN VESSEL
WHILE DISMOUNTING MACHINE EMP JUMPED OFF BREAKING LEG
WHILE WALKING ACROSS SHOT ROCK EMP TRIPPED AND FELL RECEIVING A BROKEN ANKLE AND A FEW SMALL CUTS
WHILE DISMOUNTING DOZER I NAME SLIPPED AND FELL ON RT SIDE CAUSING BRUISES AND HAIRLINE CHEEKBONE FRACTURE
WHILE CLEANING SCREEN FORREST SLIPPED & FELL INTO COAL BREAKER, NEITHER THE SCREEN NOR THE BREAKER WAS ON AT THE TIME OF ACCIDENT.
EMP WAS CLIMBING BETWEEN TRACTOR AND BLADE WHILE INSTALLING THE RADIATOR ON D9 AND SLIPPED ON MUDDY SURFACE AND FELL TEARING LIGAMENTS IN RT ANKLE
OPERATING SCRAPER IN SOFT MATERIAL AND TURNED OVER ON SIDE.EMPL SHUT OFF MACHINE AND CRAWLED OUT AND JUMPED OFF MACHINE.
STANDING TOO CLOSE TO SALEMANDER HEATER,WIND CAUSED FLAME TO FLARE,BURNT EMPL EYES.