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Bobcat Operation
USG training presentation on the safe operation of the Bobcat Loader. While the presentation's image quality is low grade, the information provided is very good. |
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Fighting Time and Steel
Provides an excellent graphic description of an accident where a worker was killed while in the process of removing a machine's loader bucket. |
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 27 slides |
Front-End Loader Training
It is your responsibility to ensure proper servicing of your loader before you put it to work. |
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2014 Fatal Accident
A miner was killed on July 23, 2014, when he was struck and pinned between his haul truck and a front-end loader. He drove the haul truck to the fly ash dumping point at the materials storage building. The victim exited the haul truck, preparing to untarp the truck’s trailer, when the front-end loader backed down a ramp from a nearby hopper and struck and pinned him against the truck.
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 5 slides |
2010 Fatal Accident
The victim died when a front-end loader rolled over him. He was underneath the loader, with the engine running, checking for leaking fluid.
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 5 slides |
2009 Fatal Accident
The victim parked a front-end loader on an elevated ramp with the bucket in the raised position. An unauthorized passenger was in the cab of the front-end loader. When the victim exited the machine, his feet became entangled with the passenger causing him to trip onto the left rear tire. At that time, the park brake disengaged allowing the front-end loader to drift backwards. The victim fell to the ground and the machine backed over him.
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2007 Fatal Accident
The victim was fatally injured when the front-end loader he was operating fell into a dredge pond. He had been using the loader to set an 80-foot section of dredge pipe into the water when the shoreline sloughed into the dredge pond.
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 6 slides |
2006 Fatal Accident
The victim was fatality injured while working on a front-end loader. The front and rear sections of the loader had been separated and each section was independently supported with jack stands. He removed one of the jack stands and was positioned between the left rear tire and fender well/frame to remove a hydraulic hose when the frame of the loader tipped forward on the tires, swiveled to the left on the rear axle oscillation trunnion and crushed him.
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2006 Fatal Accident
The victim was fatally injured while walking from the mine's main shop toward the plant when he was struck by a front-end loader. The front-end loader bucket, loaded with rock and positioned several feet off the ground, blocked the operator's view of the victim. The six-person crew he supervised was preparing to pave an area south of the mine’s main shop.
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 5 slides |
2005 Fatal Accident
The victim was fatally injured when rocks rolled and struck the front-end loader he was operating. He was removing rock material that a second front-end loader had dumped from an upper bench.
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 51 slides |
Skid Steer Comparisons
Skid Steer's are four-wheel drive vehicles, with the left drive wheels independent of the right drive wheels, so that wheel speed and rotation determine direction of the loader and allow the loader to turn within its own tracks.
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