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At approximately 3:30pm employee assisted another employee in changing cutting edges on a dozer. After changing the cutting edges the employee returned to operating the dozer for the rest of the shift. The employee stated that on the drive home, EE began to feel bad. EE's wife took EE to the hospital where EE was treated for heat exhaustion and other personal medical issues.

Employee was disconnecting a caustic line from a gasoline powered pump. After releasing the cam locks on the intake hose caustic sprayed onto the employee's ppe apron from being under pressure. The employee then removed the apron by pulling it off over EE's head causing the caustic to get on EE's chin and a small amount came into contact with the employee's arm.

The employee had exited backhoe to help make a pipe connection and was in the process of remounting the machine. After placing right foot on the step, the employee used the grab handles and right leg to step left leg onto the track. When this happened, the employee felt something pull in right leg.

Per the Dolet Hills incident report, an employee of the Dolet Hills Safety Dept was notified of the fire at approximately 03:00a.m. MSHA was called at 03:13 a.m. Per their incident report, the fire was extinguished at 03:36 a.m. The truck which caught fire was operated by a trucking co.

On 2/2, employee flipped a metal plate (45#) from track. 45 minutes later, EE reported to Supervisor that EE may have messed back up. EE refused treatment & said was okay twice during the shift. Employee had back surgery last year. The mine received doctor's notes on 2/25 that EE's back doctor blamed pain on employee flipping plate. Employee has a stretched nerve in back.

Employee was diagnosed with a fractured wrist from an incident that occurred on 11/11. EE refused medical treatment at the time of incident. The employee was removing a lower roller when a bolt snapped, during loosening, causing the roller to push the hydraulic wrench and employees hand backwards. Employee continued to work until asking to seek medical attention due to swelling.

The employee was using a 10" X 1.5" brass bar to bump a bearing race into a final drive hub. The employee unexpectedly missed the race, causing little finger to get pinched between the bar and race. The employee was wearing gloves at the time of incident. The employee fractured the tip of little finger.

Employee was on break in the personal parking lot. EE was leaning on the rear of another employee's personal pickup. EE turned to the right to walk and tripped over the receiver hitch on the pickup. Employee landed on the sidewalk.

Employee slipped on wet surface in well field, landing on tail bone. Employee reported to Supervisor & continued to work. On 9/12, the employee requested a medical evaluation. Employee was released to work without any restrictions. On 9/19 employee experienced swelling in knee. Employee returned to the doctor and was given 3 days of restricted duty beginning on 09/20/2019.

Additional backup support was needed to break loose a drill stem connection that was very tight. The pipe wrench used as backup support slipped and pushed EE's hand into an expanded metal guard that had an exposed edge. The exposed metal cut through the glove and cut the bottom side of employee's right ring finger.

During the process of loading up a 2-inch discharge hose some residual fluid in the hose splashed on ee face from the end of the hose and ran down behind safety glasses into ee eye. The fluid was wiped away and then rinsed with fresh water. There was no pain, discomfort or indication of injury so ee returned to work. Later that evening some irritation was noticed.

Employee was working with three others scraping dirt off the front of a dump bed to prepare for liner replacement. EE turned slightly on the metal surface, when EE slipped, fell backwards and automatically reaching out with EE's left hand to catch self. EE felt pain in EE's wrist. EE suffered a fracture in the left wrist.

Mechanic was called to jump start a dozer. After handing the cables to the dozer operator, the employee turned to the other dozer. After taking two steps, the employees left leg slipped under the employee, causing the employees left knee to hit the ground. The area had been skimmed off. Misting rain had begun 3 hours prior with heavy rain forecasted for later.

A red glow was spotted by the stockpile dozer operator. The Supervisor stopped the belt. The incident was away from any other structures or miners. The fire department was called to put out the fire. The Fire Marshall determined the cause of the fire was a hot spot in the tail end turnover of the belt. A design problem with the turnover take up pulley is the root cause.

The employee was crimping hose fitting. As employee adjusted the feral, employee's foot inadvertently stepped on the deadman switch pinching two fingers. The employee was wearing gloves.

EE was dressing up an old road area by pushing dirt into a 3ft. washout when the blade aired out tipping toward the right front corner of blade causing the dozer to stop. Upon the verification that EE was wearing seatbelt correctly and because of EE's tall height and thin build allowed upper body to lunge forward causing head to hit the window latch.

An Administrative Assistant was walking back up the driveway, returning from the mailbox, carrying the mail in their left arm. After crossing the highway, they stepped on a small rock. It caused them to lose their balance and fall towards the right side. They tried to catch themselves with the right hand. Both the right hand and elbow landed on the concrete.

EE was winching a generator into place (about 1 ft.) up to the Landoll Dropdeck Trailer to be loaded onto the trailer by an excavator when the chain connected to the generator in which the winch cable was hooked to broke.

Employee was operating pipe fusing machine. EE placed EE's hand on the hydraulic clamp to readjust. At the same time, using EE's other hand, EE operated the controls to close the clamp. The inside of EE's thumb was pinched between the pipe clamp and clamp support.

Employee was operating a 40 ton articulating truck moving overburden before the dragline begins. As employee entered the dump area, the front wheel went into soft ground or a rut, causing the employee's upper body to sway in the seat. The employee felt a pop in employee's neck.

A low wall in the first box pit fractured letting overburden material sluff into the pit

While grinding a weld off the bed of the dump truck utilizing leather gloves, repositioned ee to a squatting position while grinding in left hand requiring constant hand pressure, lost balance and caught himself with right hand on the deck of the dump truck. The grinder struck the floor and moved striking the top of right hand

End of the shift, EE was climbing down a the equipment ladder of a Cat 777 end dump truck. EE didnt use lunch box rope. When EE climbed down to the bumper, EE moved EE's lunch box from the radiator down to the bumper with EE's left hand. When EE started to climb down, EE lost grip with EE's right hand before EE could gain grip with EE's left hand. EE fell approximately five feet.

Cutting fabric to install in stilling basin. Fabric slipped, forearm contacted blade causing puncture laceration requiring two stitches. Treated at hospital, refused "post-accident" drug test. Was reminded of co. drug policy and consequences of refusal. EE still refused. Possibility drug use may have contributed to accident, unable to confirm due to refusal to testing.

The employee was operating #310 water truck. After lunch break, EE noticed that the remote for the water fill had fallen on the floorboard on the right side of the seat. When EE reached for the FOB, EE felt something touch the tip of EE's right little finger, when EE looked down, EE noticed blood. During the investigation with the employee, no sharp objects were found.

Employee had changed oil in D10N bull dozer as employee was putting up the left side engine guard with left hand, at which time the employee felt like left arm got a cramp in it. Employee reported to supervisor that arm was still hurting after about an hour had passed. The employee was taken to the doctor and was diagnosed with a sprain to the bicep muscle in the left arm.

The employee opened the driver's door of a Cat 777 and sat on the edge of the seat. EE's left foot to hold the door opened. To get back into the seat, placed right hand on the top of the door frame to push body around into the driver's position. After moving left foot, a gust of wind blew, causing the door to shut onto EE's thumb

The injured employee was aiding another mechanic with truck repairs. After completing task, the mechanic went to see if parts were available to change out the fender. The injured mechanic decided to go ahead and remove fender. As EE stepped across the fender, the fender brackets broke. The employee slid down the fender, landing onto the shop floor.

Water bottle placed inside a rolled up Hydraulic hose. Employee chose to step in the middle of the rolled up hoses and stepped on the bottle causing EE to fall to EE's knees rolling EE's left ankle.

Employees were transferring brake calipers from one wooden pallet to another wooden pallet. During the process of moving brake calipers one of the employee's finger was pinched between two calipers.

Employee were removing tire ring from haul truck wheel. When the wheel was placed in the upright position the ring shifted. The employee reached to stop the ring from shifting, the tip of his finger was pinched between ring and wheel.

Employee was using a hyd. jack with a 100lbs. metal spacer on top. When jack pressure was released the spacer fell hitting employees hand.

Employee was pressure washing a tractor. The tip of the pressure washer became clogged, and the employee swiped his hand over the tip of the wand and the pressure that was built up in the hose released and discharged water cutting his finger.

Employee was removing a pin from the dragline bucket with a hammer. The injured employee was standing approximately 15 feet behind the area when a small piece of the pin detached and struck the employee standing behind the work site in the forearm.

EE was grinding overhead and the grinding wheel came/broke off and cut through face shield, knocked eye safety glasses out of alignment and hit left eye

Two pumpers were connecting 6" pipe. The track hoe was connected to the opposite end of the connection. After communicating his intentions, the other pumper began to align the gasket. As he aligned the gasket, the track hoe operator was startled by material movement behind him. This made him hit the machine's swing, causing the two pipes to touch, pinching the employee's wrist.

He was using 6" boring equipment on the right outboard propel when the event happened. With the equipment on EE misplaced his hand causing it to become wedged between the smooth tube mount and the smooth drive drum. The distance between the tube and the drum is approx. 5/8". The employee was transported to the ER where he received 7 sutures to his right hand.

Employee was removing the discharge line from an unused 6' water pump. After applying pressure, the hose came loose. The employee lost his balance, falling backwards onto the ground. It was found that sandy materials from the water caused the pipe hard to be removed.

An excavator operator was performing his pre-shift inspection. As he was mounting the 349E Cat excavator, he lost his footing and fell back approximately 1.5 feet landing awkwardly on his left foot spraining his left ankle.

Employee was readjusting a lowboy outrigger board on an empty lowboy trailer. He picked up the board with his gloved right hand and then pushed with his gloved left hand and the pad of his ring finger became pinched/caught between the board and the outrigger stand.

Employee was installing a new OEM pin in the equalizer bar on a Caterpillar D10R dozer roller frame. The employee was using a slide hammer to perform the task. While installing, a small piece of the pin became detached and struck the employee above his knee.

A dozer operator was getting off of a D6T Cat dozer and stepped onto a one foot high wind row and his foot slid down the back side of the wind row causing his right foot to hyperextend.

The dragline crew was re-socketing drag ropes. While inserting the wedge, the employee placed his hands on the upper side to guide it into place. As the wedge slid into place, the pad of the employees right ring finger was pinched between the top of the wedge and bottom of the rope.

The injured employee and a coworker were walking along a dried creek bed holding a pipe that had a roll of barbed wire on it. The injured employee slipped and went down to one knee. When this happened the wire slid down the pipe hitting him in the arm causing three small lacerations.

Employee was replacing cutting edges on a D6H Dozer blade. He was using a 3/4 inch impact with his right hand and his left hand was on top of the blade stabilizing himself. One of the plow bolts spun out and cut his left thumb - through his mechanic impact glove.

Employee stepped on lose rock while checking in vehicle at guard house. Employee's ankle rolled causing a sprain.

Employee was removing c-frame bolts on the lower segment. While swinging a 20lb. sledge hammer, employee made contact with the bolt with the hammer. Upon contacting the bolt with the hammer a pain shot in his upper right arm.

Connecting lift cylinder to blade on D7G Dozer, EE's hand was in path of pinch point while he was lifting up the hydraulic cylinder.

Employee went to a field toilet, when using the restroom he felt a bite like a fire ant in the groin area.

Employee was on the ground on the right side of the dragline preparing to install a cover plate on the propel. Another crew were working on the "A" leg platform when a chipping hammer fell from the platform and struck the employee on the arm.