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Employee bent over to pick up a 50 lb bag of siderite and hurt his lower back.

EE STACKS 50 LB BAGS EVERY DAY ALONG WITH FILLING 2,000 LB SACKS WITH PRODUCT. HE SAID HE FELT HIS WRIST POP AND SAID IT WAS SORE. SUPERVISOR SENT HIM TO THE DOCTOR THAT DAY. DOCTOR SAID IT WA S TENDINITIS.

THERE WERE NO WITNESSES TO THE INJURY. THE EE SAYS HE WAS CLEANING ROCK AND DEBRIS FROM UNDER THE CONVEYOR AND CRUSHER. HE SAID THAT SEVERAL DAYS LATER HIS BACK HURT (SAT OCT 10TH). HE REPORTE D THE PROBLEM TO THE PLANT MANAGER ON OCT 13TH, SAY DOCTOR ON OCT 14TH.

THEY WERE INSTALLING A BUTANE PIPE NEAR THE ROCK BIN. HE WAS LOOKING UPWARD DURING INSTALLATION AND A PIECE OF METAL FELL IN HIS EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS SORTING ROCK. HE SLUNG HIS HAND BACK ONTO AN ANGLE IRON. HE WAS HIT AGAINST HIS KNUCKLES.

EE WAS LIFTING A HEAVY ROCK. WHILE HE WAS LIFTING HE TWISTED AROUND REAL FAST AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS PERFORMING HIS REGULAR WORK TASKS WHEN HE ACCIDENTALLY RAN HIS HAND OVER AGAINST A RUST NAIL. HE WAS SENT TO THE DR AS A PRECAUTION.

EMPLOYEE BEGAN BEING ABSENT FROM WORK ON 11/2/93STATING THAT HE WAS SEEING A DOCTOR FOR SOME NONWORK RELATED BACK PROBLEMS THAT HE WAS EXPERIENCING. THE DOCTOR SEEMS TO THINK THAT HIS PROBLEM IS WORK RELATED AND THAT THIS SITUATION SHOULD BE HANDLED BY THE TEXAS WORKERS COMPENSATION.

EE REPORTS THAT HE TURNED WRONG AND BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. ALTHOUGH THE EMPLOYEE DID NOT THINK HIS PROBLEM WZS WORK RELATED, THE DR. HE SAW APPARENTLY DID THINK IT WAS WOR K RELATED.