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WHILE CLIMBING LADDER TO GET INTO ROCK TRUCK HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS TORQUING ROD BEARING CAPS ON A D348 ENGINE THE SOCKET AND TORQUE WRENCH SLIPPED OFF THE BOLT AND PINNED HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER AGAINST THE ENGINE FRAME, MASHING FINGER AND ALMOST C UTTING OFF TIP OF FINGER.
UELECTRIC CABLEMOVE WAS IN PROGRESS THE CABLEWAS HANGING FROM STAND ON 31/2DRUM INTO #2 PIT ACROSS THE ROAD TO ANOTHER STAND CRANE WAS LIFTING CABLE BETWEEN THE 2 STAND TO GET IT OUT OF ROAD C ABLE WAS XXBEHIND A ROCK EE WAS GOING TO UNFOLD CABLE IT WAS DARK & HE DIDNT REALIZE HOW MUCH TENSION WAS ON CABLE UNTIL HE SAW ROCK START TO MOVE HE BEGAN TO RETRIEVE FROM ABLE BUT IT CAME L
WHILE HE WAS INSTALLING A DOZER TRACK PAD ON D8N DOZER, HE DROPPED THE PAD ON HIS FOOT. PAD WEIGHS APPROX. 40 LBS AND PAD FELL AN APPROX. DISTANCE OF 3 FT.
REACHED DOWN TO PICK UP GRINDER PAIN MOVED THROUGH WRIST .LOWER UPPER ARM BAKC OF HEAD SETTING IN L NECK MUSCLE
WHILE DOING CONSTRUCTION WORK ON TIPPLE HE WAS WALKING ON CATWALK AND FELL 12' TO GROUND.
CLAIMBING UP LADDER ON 777 ROCK TRUCK FELT SOMETHING POP IN BACK. DID NOT KNOW HE WAS HURT. DUE TO ARTHRITIS & STILL IS UNSURE OF INJ AT THIS DATE.
REPLACING PIN IN D9 DOZER WITH HAMMER WHEN PIECE OF METAL ENTERED INTO LEG. EMPL DID NOT MISS & WORK & DID NOT SEE DR TILL TALER PART OF MAY & WE RECEIVED DRS REPORT OF REMOVING SMALL PIECE OF METAL FROM LEG. NO LOST TIME.
120 TON CAT ROCK TRUCK CAUGHT ON FIRE AND OPERATOR PROCEEDED TO DISMOUNT TRUCK WHEN HE STEPPED TO THE GROUND. THE TRUCK WAS MOVING AND THE FRONT WHEELS RAN OVER HIS RIGHT FOOT.
UPON LADDER REPLACING PIN IN 120 WABCO ROCK TRUCK WHEN LADDER SLIPPED FROM UNDER HIM LETTING INDIVIDUAL FALL ON GROUND THEN THE PIN HE WAS PUTTING IN FELL ON ARM
EE WAS WALKING TOWARD END LOADER WHEN HE SLIPPED ON ICE AND FELL.
DISMOUNTING FROM D-8 DOZER WHEN HE PULLED OR STRAINED A MUSCLE IN HIS LEG.
CHECKING ALTERNATOR ON 120 TON ROCK TRUCK GOT LITTLE FINGER IN ALT.FINS CUT AND BRUISED FINGER.
WORKING ON 922 LOADER REPLACING DRIVE SHAFT LIFTED DRIVESHAFT AND HURT HIS BACK.
WAS WORKING ON D10 DOZER INSTAALING PIN IN EQUALIZER BAR WITH SLEDGE HAMMER.HAMMER MISSED PIN AND HIT EMPLOYEE IN THIGH.
WELDING ON DOZER CHIPPING SLAG OFF WELD SLAG FLEW OFF WELD HIT HIM IN EYE;.
CHECKING OIL LEVEL IN HYD OIL TANK AN SLIPPED AN FELL OFF DOZER. AT TIME OF ACCIDENT IT WAS RAINING. THE DECK OF DOZER WAS WET CAUSING I,NAME TO FALL FROM TO THE GROUND. THE DECK IS APP. 8 FT HIGH.
HE WAS WORKING ON A SUSPENSION CYLINDER OFF OF A 777 ROCK TRUCK. AS HE WAS TAKING BOLTS OFF AN BREAKING SYSTEM WITH A QUARTER IMPACT AIR WRENCH, WHEN THE UNIVERSAL AND SOCKET CAME OFF THE AIR WRENCH STRIKING HIM IN THE FOREHEAD.
HE WAS LIFTING AN OXYGEN TANK ON A SERVICE TRUCK AND STRAINED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK - LEFT SIDE.
UNLOADING A OIL COOLER FROM THE BED OF A PICK-UP TRUCK. ONE OF THE MEN HELPING TO UNLOAD THE COOLER LET GO OF IT TOO QUICKLY, CAUSING IT TO FALL ON HIS FINGERS.
I.NAME WAS DRIVING BULK ANFO TRUCK FROM STRIP SHOT AREA TO LOAD TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING ONTO A STATE ROAD FROM STRIP PIT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO TURN LEFT ONTO A ROAD LEADING TO ANFO BIN BUT WENT STR AIGHT AHEAD & RAN OVER A 250FT EMBANKMENT HE EITHER JUMPED OR WAS THROWN FROM TRUCK HE WAS CRUSHED BY THE T RUCK & DIED FROM INTERNAL INJURIES (THIS IS MY SPULATION ON MY PART GIVEN
CONTRACTOR FOR 5Y POWER CO WORKING ON POWER LINE UPSTREAM FROM TIPPLE.ON TOP OF LOADER RR CAR FELL OFF WHEN CARS MOVED CRUSHING HIS FOOT.NOT AN EMPL.
WHILE LIFTING A330" DRAIN PIPE WITH A CHAIN HOOK IN BOTH ENDS, ONE HOOK BROKE AND STRUCK I,NAME IN THE LOWER STOMACH AREA, CAUSING A SLIGHT BRUISE, AND LATER A HERNIA.