EMPLOYEE WAS IN PROCESS OF FUELING 988B ENDLOADER AND AS HE STARTED TO CLIMB MOUTNING LADDER ON LOADER, HIS HAND SLIPPED FROM HOLD ON LADDER AND HE FELL BACKWARDS AND STRUCK THE D10N DOZER TRA CK WITH HIS BACK. EMPLOYEE STATED THA THE HAD NOT EXPERIENCED ANY PAIN FROM INJURY EXCEPT FOR SOME RECENT DISCOMFORT AND DECIDED TO HAVE HIS BACK X-RAYED ON 12-14-92.
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Showing all 12EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM D10N CATERPILLAR DOZER, SLIPPED AND HIT ELBOW ON DOZER TRACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING METAL SURFACE ON PUMP HOUSING USING 4IN HAND GRINDER & HIS RT HAND EVIDENTLY SLIPPED AT SWITCH LOCATION ON GRINDER WHEN GRINDER KICKED BACK FROM GRINDING SURFACE WITH RT INDEX FINGER COMING INTO CONTACT WITH GRINDING DCAUSING LAERATION OF THIS FINGER AT KNUCKLE
DOOR OF PIT HAUL TRUCK WAS APPARENTLY STUCK AND WOULD NOT OPEN. DRIVER TRIED TO FORCE DOOR OPEN USING HAND AND INJURIES WRIST.
44995G REPAIRS ON IT STRUCK ON L HAND WITH CLUTCH ARM WHILE TRYING TO ENGAGE CLUTCH
EE WAS PERFORMING SERVICE MAINTENANCE ON AIR CONDITIONER ON CATERPILLAR D10 DOZER. WHILE MOVING IN CAB OF DOZER HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELL APPROX. ONE AND AHLAF FEET HITTING THE DASH CONTROL LEVERS WITH HIS RIGHT LOWER CHEST. ACCIDENT WASUNREPORTED AT THIS TIME AND EE SUBSEQUENTLY WENT FOR MEDICAL EXAMINATION ON 5-29-92.
ONE HAUL TRUCK(TRUCK #1-EMPTY) WHILE MEETING AN ONCOMING HAUL TRUCK(TRUCK #2 LOADED WITH COAL) ON THE HAUL ROAD TO THE PIT ARES STRUCK SOME RROCKS THA HAD BECOME DISLODGED IN ADJACENT SPOIL AN D ROLLED ONTO THE HAUL ROAD AND VEERED INTO AND STRUCK THE ONCOMING TRUCK.
EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING OILER IN REMOVAL & REPLACEMENT OF THE HOIST BRAKE LININGS ON THE 184M MARION DRAGLINE & BY SOME UNKNOWN MEANS GOT A VERY SMALL PIECE OF THE BRAKE LINING IN HIS LEFT EYE EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING PRESCRIPTION SAFETY GLASSESAT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT
LIFTING AND UNLOADING CYLINDER PULLED MUSCLE IN L CHEST AREA
A PIECE OF STEEL WIRE HANGING FROM A TARPAULIN FELL AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN RIGHT EYE. EMPLOYEE FINISHED SHIFT AND THEN REPORTED TO EMERGENCY ROOM.
EE WAS WALKING TO FUEL TRUCK TO BEGIN THE FUELING OF EQUIPMENT WHEN HE SLIPPED ON THE PARTIALLY MUDDY AND FROZEN GROUND AND FELL. HE TRIED TO STOP HIS FALL BY CATCHING HIMSELF WITH HIS RIGHT H AND AND SPRAINED HIS RIGHT HAND IN THE LOCATION OF HIS THUMB.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING BEARING OFF SHAFT AND PIECE OF METAL LODGED IN HAND.