While attempting to start a D10 Cat Dozer, a section of the dash board burst causing glass to be blown out and causing a cut on the employee's arm that required the wound to be sutured.
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Showing 50 of 109The lab employee was lifting a coal sample bag and pulled or strained their right bicep
EE was attempting to pump water from the pond and as he was approaching the water pump, he fell in the spillway bruising his left elbow and left thigh
Employee stepped up onto the push arm of the D65PX-17 Dozer and his muddy boot slipped off of the step and since he was holding onto the grab iron, (handhold), it spun him around straining his back
At approximately 2:30 a.m. on 06/04/2015, employee drove the vehicle to the upper plant gate and as he was locking the gate, he noticed that the vehicle was rolling and as he ran to catch it, he fell injuring his neck and lacerating his forehead.
The packing slip had been removed from a palletized box and in order to ascertain the contents of the box, EE slid the box around and strained his lower back
The serviceman had finished servicing the D10N Dozer, stepped off of the push arm, and while holding onto the handhold, he stepped onto the ground while turning around and twisted his back resulting in a muscle sprain.
Mr. Hatfield had assisted in moving the port-a-potty, and upon entering his service truck, he experienced pain & a burning sensation in his hips and legs.
The equipment serviceman slipped and fell on ice while servicing a light plant
The injured laborer was stabilizing a top perlin across the basket of the man lift which was being operated by another contractor and his arm became trapped between the new building structure and the man lift basket resulting in broken Radius and Ulna bones of the lower left forearm.
The injured worker, was sharpening a chisel when a sliver of metal from the chisel became dislodged, sailed over the top of his safety glasses and embedded in his right eye
The mechanic was hammering a hard bar pin into a D10 Dozer and a piece of the pin broke off and became embedded in his left thigh
The employee was watching another employee hydroseeding with the hose when the other employee lost his footing & stumbled & employee ran to assist the other employee, fell and rolled down the slope, pulling the muscles in his neck.
The Dozer operator was tramming backward in a shot when the track slipped off of a boulder and injured his left side soft tissue in the rib area
Employee leaned over to start the fuel pump and when he pulled the engine start rope, he felt a stinging, burning sensation in his left upper chest.
Two welders were welding on the auger, the injured employee was helping the two welders hold the metal that they were welding. The flash from the welding burned the injured employee's eyes, resulting in his eye sight being limited.
Employee turned the A/C unit on and an unidentified object flew into the employees eye.
Employee was standing on the bumper of the truck checking his oil, as he started to descend down off the bumper of the truck he lost his balance and as he was reaching out to hold his self the employees index finger was lacerated on an unidentified object.
Employee was exiting the excavator, as he stepped down on the track he lost his balance due to the track being wet and twisted his left knee.
Employee was prying a bolt out of an A/C Compressor on a D10N employee back went out causing him to fall to the ground.
Employee placed his right hand in a pinch point area of the roller and boggie pins while trying to install a chain before performing work on the roller.
Employee was prying on a block of coal in the hopper, employees hand slipped off of the pry bar hitting the corner of the hopper resulting in lacerating his right finger, where he received four stitches.
Employee was changing the chip deflector and replacing a new bit. Employee was using a pipe to unstop the drill bit and the bit blew out rock fragments into the employee arms and chest.
Service Tech. was atempting to climb up on a dozer, as he grabbed the hand rail his hand slipped off the rail, resulting in the employee slipping backward and falling on the ground landing on his back.
Stepped out of truck and took a few steps and employees feet flew out from under him, resulting in hitting his head and knocking him out for a brief period.
Employee was walking up the haul road and slipped on the icy road resulting in a right arm fracture.
Employee was cutting on the bed of a 777C Rock Truck and the springy part of the metal broke and threw the employee approx. 2 feet in the air and as employee came down the metal landed on his left fore arm causing a small laceration on employee's forearm needing 8 stitches.
Employee was getting loaded and a rock fell from the highwall hitting the truck on the rear corner of the bed, causing the operator to have pain to his shoulder
Employee was decending down the ladder of his loader. When he approached the bottom step of the ladder his feet slipped off the step, resulting in him losing his balance and landing on his back.
Employee was decending down the side of the D11R Dozer, as he stepped down on the pusharm his right leg slipped causing him to fall to the ground, resulting in pain to his right knee.
Employee was ascending up the ladder of his loader, when he slipped due to wet conditions from the coal pit, causing employee to hurt his right arm.
Employee was grinding on a piece of metal. While doing so a small piece of metal shaving flew through the side of employee's safety glasses, resulting in the metal shaving embedding in his right eye.
Employee was lifting metal out of the bed of his pick - up truck, as he was shifting his weight to throw the metal from the truck he felt a sharp pain run up his left side.
Employee was mounting up the ladder of a 992C loader to service the transmission fluid. As he approched the top step the oil hose reel unlocked, causing the hose to jerk the employee, resulting in him loosing his balance and falling off the loader.
Employee was prying on bar it slipped hitting the employee in the left eye lid resulting in him getting four (4) sticthes in his left eye lid.
Employee was climbing down ladder of 988F loader and as he approached the ground he twisted his foot and slipped on a block of coal causing him to fall to the ground landing on a block of coal resulting in a laceration of 1-1/2 " to his left thumb.
Employee was unloading a water pump from the bed of the F350 truck. The truck bed was slick due to rainy weather, therefore as he was descending the truck bed with one foot out and one foot in, he slipped on the wet surface falling to the ground. Twisted his right ankle, resulting in it swelling.
Employee was welding on a 777C Rock Truck Bed, and a piece of Slag flew up and struck the employee below the left eye, causing a mild burn below his eye.
Employee was backing up the dump with a 777C Rock Truck and stated that he either blacked out or fell asleep and over traveled the dump resulting in the truck over turning.
Employee was climbing down the ladder of the 777C rock truck and as he approached the last step, it swung under the bottom of the truck resulting in the employee falling to the ground landing on his right side.
Employee was tighting roller bolt on D11R dozer, Employee was lying on his back while tighting bolt and socket spun off head of bolt causing metal shavings to fly in employee eye, Employee did have safety glasses on
D9R dozer operator was traveling in reverse and struck a 777C rock truck in the rear, the rock truck was also traveling in reverse. The D9R operator states he didn't see the rock truck as he began to go in reverse, the rock truck driver also states he did not see the D9R dozer through his mirrors as he was traveling in reverse.
Fly rock from blast holes.
Employee was taking out top pin of 992C Loader boom, (Boom Pin) while pushing up on the pin employee felt sharp pain in his lower left side below his rib cage, causing him to pull a muscle.
Employee was walking from auger and while doing so he twisted his right ankle on unlevel pit floor.
While climbing up ladder employees left foot slipped off first step of ladder
Employee was lifting 45lbs wet hole bag from truck and was placing it into the drill hole (blast hole) Doing so Employees back began to hurt.
Slipped while mounting truck. Employee grabbed railing and pulled.
Employee was climbing off of the bed of the hydro seeder truck; he slipped causing him to fall to the ground landing on his right elbow.
Employee was climbing down the ladder of the truck he had been driving and slipped catching his foot/ankle in the step causing him to fall to the ground.