EMPLOYEE SAID HE HAD BACK PAIN AFTER LOADER WAS PUTTING ROCK ON 777A HAULER. HE WAS DRIVING, HAS HAD PREVIOUS BACK INJURY.
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Showing all 36EE SAID HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN OFF THE HAULER WHEN THE CORD ON HIS CAP LIGHT HUNG ON THE HAND RAIL CAUSING HIM TO FALL AND HIT HIS HEAD ON THE BUMPER.
TWO EMPLOYEES WERE ASKED TO CARRY A PIECE OF METAL TO THE WELDER. INJURED TRIED TO CARRY IT BY HIMSELF AND HE DROPPED IT ABOUT HALF WAY TO THE WELDER AND SAID HE HAD HURT HIS BACK.
EE SAID HIS BACK STARTED HURTING HIM AROUND 10;00 AM HE SAID HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT CAUSED IT UNLESS HE HURT HIS BACK CLIMBING ON THE HAULER.
EE WAS WALKING ACROSS THE DRILL BENCH STEPPED IN A HOLE AND FELL HITTING HIS HAND ON A SHARP STICK CAUSING A PUNCTURE ON LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE THUMB AND FOREFINGER.
EE WAS CLEANING THE BATTERY TERMINALS ON THE D-10 DOZER. HE WAS USING A WIRE BRUSH TO CLEAN THE TERMINALS CAUSING A PIECE OF CORRISION TO FLY AND HIT HIM IN THE LEFT EYE.
EE WAS HELPING LOAD SHOT WHEN A SMALL ROCK FELL FROM WALL AND HIT HIM IN THE LEFT KNEE AREA.
EE WAS PUTTING FUEL IN THE SERVICE TRUCK, STARTED TO CLIMB DOWN THE LADDER. HE FELL AND THE VCORD ON HIS CAP LIGHT CAUGHT ON THE HAND RAIL. CORD WAS CAUGHT AROUND LEFT WRIST AND STRETCHED LEFT SHOULDER.
EE WAS OPERATING A 777 HAULER WHEN THE LOADER PUT A ROCK IN THE HAULER BED IT JARRED EE
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING ON DRILTECH DRILL WHEN HIS HAND SLIPPED OFF HAND RAIL, CAUSING HIM TO FALL BACKWARDS. HE DID NOT WANT TO GO TO DOCTOR. THE FALL WAS RECORDED ON SHIFT REPORT.
EE WAS DRIVING A HAULER. WHILE BEING LOADED. A BIG ROCK FELL OUT OF LOADER BUCKET AND HIT THE OFF SIDE OF THE BED CAUSING A SUDDEN JAR.
WHILE EE WAS BACKING DOZER UP STEEP INCLINE, HE BACKED OVER A ROCK LEDGE, CAUSING THE BACK OF THE DOZER TO COME DOWN HARD AND SHAKING THE OPERATOR CAUSING NECK AND BACK STRAINED MUSCLES.
EE WAS HELPING A MECHANIC, PULL THE ENGINE ON A D-9 DOZER. HE STARTED TO GET DOWN OF THE TRACK OH THE DOZER AND SLIPED AND FELL ON HIS LEFT SHOULDER. THERE WAS SNOW ON THE TRACK.
WHEN EE WAS LIFTING TRACK PAD TO PLACE IT BACK ON DOZER RAILS STRAINED LOWER BACK.
WHEN EE ARRIVED AT THE JOB HE GOT OUT OF THE SERVICE TRUCK, STEPPED ON ICE, SLIPPED AND FELL HITTING HEAD ON FUEL TANK OF TRUCK.
EE WAS WORKING ON A DRILL TECH DRILL WHEN HE SLIPPED ON A SNOW COVERED DECK AND FELL AND HIT LEFT FOREARM ON HAND RAIL. AT THAT TIME HE SAID HE WAS O.K. AND DID NOT WANT TO GO TO A DR. ON 3-2- 00 HE WAS HAVING PAIN IN LEFT FOREARM & WENT TO DOCTOR.
WHILE STANDING ON TOP OF BERM THAT PROTECTS FUEL AND OIL STORAGE, EE SLIPPED OFF AND FELL BESIDE OF HAULER WHILE TRYING TO REACH OIL HOSE TO HAULER DRIVER.
HAD PREVIOUS WORKERS COMP CLAIM PREVIOUS EE FOR BACK INJURY. WORKED IN BENT OVER POSITION ON HYDRAULIC VALVE ON 992C FROM 800 AM TO 300 PM.
WHILE OPERATING A 992C LOADER EE WAS LOADING THE BUCKET ON THE LOADER WHEN THE PILE HE WAS LOADING IN FELL FROM THE TOP LANDING IN THE BUCKET. EE BACKED THE LOADER UP AND WENT INTO A HOLE THAT HAD WALLOWED OUT WHERE HE HAD BEEN WORKING AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.
WHILE DRIVING A HAULER IT SLID OVER INTO A POT HOLE AND HURT HIS BACK.
WALKING AROUND THE HAULER AND STEPPED ON ROCK AND TURNED AKNLE.
EE WAS HELPING INSTALL A DRAIN PIPE IN THE SPILLWAY OF A POND. HE LIFTED AT ONE END OF THE PIPE STRAINING A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK
ROCK WAS BRING LOADED INTO THE 777, HAULER, THE IMPACT OF THE ROCK HITTING IN THE HAULER BED HOOK EE CAUSING NECK PAIN.
EE WAS IN A 777 HAULER BEING LOADED WHEN OVER BURDEN FELL STRIKING THE HAULER BED AND SHAKING THE HAULER. HE COMPLAINED WITH BACK AND NECK PAIN.
LEAVING LOADER, CLIMBING DOWN LADDER, MISSED LAST STEP PULLED MUSCLE IN RIGHT SIDE.
EE WAS STARTING THE COMPRESSOR ON THE SERVICE TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED. CATHCING HIS GLOVE IN THE FLY WHEEL SCREEN.
LOADING COAL WHEN BACK WHEEL OF LOADER FELL INTO HOLE.
MOVING ROCK TO MAKE DRILL BENCH AND BACKED OVER A ROCK WITH DOZER, THE TRACK ON THE DOZER FELL ONTO ANOTHER ROCK.
WALKWAY AND STEPS ON 992C LOADER WERE SLICK FROM RAIN WHEN INJURED STARTED TO DISMOUNT THE LOADER AND HE FELL FROM THE STEPS TO THE BATTERY BOX.
DRIVING PIN IN PUSHARM OF DOZER, THE HAMMER GLANCED OFF PIN AND HIT EE IN THE WRIST
ANOTHER EE WAS USING LOADER & CHAIN TO MOVE EQUIPMENT PARTS. INJURED WAS HOOKING CHAIN. THE CHAIN HUNG & HE PULLED THE CHAIN. WHEN THE SLACK CAME OUT, IT STRUCK HIM IN LEFT SIDE OF HIS FACE NE AR HIS EYE. HE WENT TO ER, THEY CLEANED & DRESSED CUT.
REAR OF SERVICE TRUCK HAD OIL ON FLOOR AND HAND RAILS WERE SLICK. ALL OF THIS CAUSED MULTIPLE STRAINS AND BRUISES.
EE WAS REPAIRING A 6" DISCHARGE LINE WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM THE HIGH WALL STRIKING HIM ON THE RIGHT HIP. HE WENT TO DR. ESTABON, HE SAID HE HAD A BRUISED HIP, BUT NO BROKEN BONES.
WAS PUSHING IN SHOT WITH DOZER. HAD SOME BACK PAIN. FINISHED SHIFT AT 5:30 AM WENT TO ER ROOM THAT AFTERNOON, DR TOLD HIM HE HAD A SLIPPED DISC. THE CO DID NOT KNOW THAT THIS WAS A JOB RELATED PROBLEM UNTIL 6/1/98
EE WAS FUELING A 6" PUMP WHEN A ROCK FROM A SPOIL AREA ROLLED DOWN THE SLOPE & HIT HIM IN THE HIP AREA [RIGHT].
OPERATOR OF THE COAL HAULER WHEN THE LOADER OPERATOR DUMPED SOME ROCK INTO THE HAULER BED. JOLTED HIM CAUSING LOWER BACK PAIN.