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EE WAS HAND TIGHTENING A PLASTIC PIPE FITTING WHEN HE FELT A POP IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND AND A BURNING SENSATION. SWELLING BECAME EVIDENT SHORTLY AFTERWARDS.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING ON A SECTION OF PIPE SO IT COULD BE BOLTED TOGETHER WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS RIGHT FOREARM SORENESS CONTINUED AFTERWARDS. ON 11-9-01 HE HAD A CIROPRACTOR RE-SET WHAT TURNED OUT TO BE A DISLOCATED ELBOW.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE POLY HOSES FROM A CULVERT BY BENDING DOWN & PULLING THEM THROUGH THE CULVERT. HE FELT A LOWER BACK DISCOMFORT WHEN HE PULLED ON ONE OF THEM.

EMPLOYEE IS IN CHARGE OF CEMENTING CREW AND IS INVOLVED IN CEMENTING ACTIVITY. HE HAD COMPLAINEDOF MINOR BACK PAIN FOR SEVERAL DAYS UNTIL 10/15/99 WHEN THE PAIN GOT WORSE. HE IS INVOLVED IN LI FTING OF CEMENT SACKS AND CONSTANT CLIMBING ON AND OFF OF THE CEMENTING UNITS. HE VISITED A DOCTOR ON 10/25/99. HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH PULLED LIGAMENT IN HIS BACK. GIVEN PRESCRIPTION FOR PAIN.

EE IS ASSIGNED TO CEMENTING CREW TO PLUG & ABANDON WELLS IN THE FIELD. THIS TASK INVOLVES LIFTING OF 100LB CEMENT SACKS TO A HOPPER OVER THE COURSE OF 8 HRS. HE HAD BEEN COMPLAINING OF MINOR PAIN BUT ON 10/12/99 PAIN GOT WORSE. HE HAS PAININ RIGHT ARM & SHOULDER. HE SUFFERED THIS KIND OF ACCIDENT BACK IN 1/99. HE HAS POSSIBLE CERVICAL DAMAGE

EMPLOYEE PICKED UP A HOT PIECE OF IRON WHILE WELDING.

EE WA WORKING ON THE PVC CHIPPER/SHREDDER & HAD TO PULL OUT POLY HOSES & PVC PIPE FROM UNDERNEATH SOME MATERIAL & EQUIPMENT. EE SPENT MOST OF THE DAY BENT OVER & EXPERIENCED SOME BACK DISCOMFO RT. HE VISITED A DR & DIAGNOSED AS A LOWER BACK STRAIN. HE WAS PRESCRIBED RX MEDICATION & PLACEDON RESTRICTED DUTY

WAS SPRAY PAINTING PIPING IN THE PLANT. LEANED FORWARD WHILE HOLDING PAINT CONTAINER AND IMMEDIATELY EXPERIENCED SEVERE LOWER BACK PAIN. RECEIVED SEVERAL CHIROPRACTOR ADJUSTMENTS TO PUT A VERTABRAE BACK INTO POSITION.

EE WAS WORKING ON A GASOLINE POWERED CENTIRFUGAL PUMP AND WHEN HE PULLED ON THE STARTED ROPE, TO START IT, HE FELT A SLIGHT DISCOMFORT IN THE RT SHOULDER AREA. EE REPORTED THE PAIN BUT IT WAS NOT CONSIDERED SERIOUS ENOUGH FOR A DR VISIT. THE PAIN GRADUALLY WORSENED AND HE SAW A SPECIALIST ON 8-27. DIAGNOSED AS SHOULDER BURSITIS AND PLACED ON 6 WKS LIMITED DUTY.

EE WAS HELPING REPAIR A 12" PVC LINE THAT HAD FAILED. PARTS TO REPAIR THE LINE WERE HEAVY AND WAS STR5AINING A GREAT DEAL TO GLUE ALL THE PARTS TOGETHER. WHILE WORKING ON THIS PROJECT, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN TO HIS LOWER STOMACH/GROIN AREA. HE VISITED A DR. 5-4-98 AND WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A RIGHT INGUINAL STRIAN. HE WAS PRESCRIBED MEDICATION FOR THE PAIN.

EE WAS DRAGGING A 4" X 20' HOSE WHEN IT CAUGHT ON SOMETHING AND JERKED HIM TO A STOP. EE THEN FELT A SHARP PAIN TO HIS BACK. A DR. DIAGNOSED THE INJURY AS A HERNIATED DISC.

EE WAS WORKING AS A DRILLING ASSISTANT ON THE DRILL RIP PERFORING WORK OVER DUTIES IN A WELLFIELD. HE WAS LAYING DOWN DRILL PIPE WHEN HIS THUMB WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE DRILL PIPE & SIDE OF WATE R TRUCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING CEMENTING DUTIES IN WELLFIEDL E-2 WHEN HE FELT SOME PAIN AND DISCOMFORT TO HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND ARM. HIS JOB DESCRIPTION CALLS FOR HEAVY LIFTING. LOCAL DR DIAGNOSED INJURY AS SEVERE MUSCLE SPASMS AND ADVISED TO STAY HOME FOR SEVERLA DAYS. AN APPOINTMENT HAS BEEN MADE WITH A SPECIALIST ON 6-27.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOOKING FOR SOME PVC PARTS TO REPAIR A MINOR LEAK IN THE LAB IN AN ADJACENT STORAGE BUILDING. THE DOOR TO THIS BUILDING WAS OFF ITS HINGES AND PLACED AGAINST THE ENTRANCE. WHEN TEH EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO LIFT AND SLIDE THE DOOR, HE FELT SOME BACK PAIN.

EMPLLOYEE ADDED HYDROCHLORIC ACID TO A ONE INCH PLASTIC PIPE CONTAINING WATER, CARBON DIOXIDE AND DISSOLVED SODA ASH. THE PIPE BURST WHEN THE VALVE WAS OPENED WHICH ADDS THE ACID TO THE OTHER SOLUTION.

LIFTING AND INSTALLING LARGE VALUES AND PIPING.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO START A SMALL AIR PUMP USED TO PUMP SODIUM HYDROXIDE (CAUSTIC SODA). HE REMOVED HIS FACE SHIELD TO CHECK THE AIR COMPRESSOR. HE THEN PICKED UP ONE END OF THE BAS E PLATE WHICH WAS ATTACHED TO THE PUMP (MODIFICATION BY EMPLOYEES). HE WIGGLED THE PUMP AND BASE PLATE THEN DROPPED THE END ONTO THE FLOOR. SOME CAUSTIC SODA WAS APPARENTLY UNDER THE BASE PLA

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING REMOVE A 55 GAL DRUM FULL OF SAND FROM A WELLFIELD WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AS HE TILTED DRUM. THE TILT WAS NECESSARY TO ALLOW THE BACKHOE TO SLIDE UNDE RNEATH THE DRUM AND LIFT IT UP.

EMPLOYEE WAS DUMPING THE FILTER PRESS(REMOVING YELLOWCAKE FROM PLATES) AND PUSHING THE YELLOWCAKE INTO A TROUGH WITH A PUSH BLADE. WHILE HE WAS EXERTING FORCE TO PUSH THE YELLOWCAKE, HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE ATTEMPTED TO PULL A SUBMERSIBLE PUMP OUT OF A WELL CASING AND FELT A SUDDEN BACK PAIN. EE FINISHED THE SHIFT BUT MISSED THE FOLLOWING 2 DAYS. EE SUFFERED A SPRAINED STRAINED BACK AND RECEIV ED CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENTS.

EE WAS INSIDE AN 1X COLUMN ATTEMPTING TO CLEAN OUT OR WASH OUT SOME RESIN AND DIRT ON THE DISTRIBUTOR PLATE. PLATE IS APPROX. 18 FT FROM THE TOP OF THE COLUMN. EE ASKED FOR HAMMER AND CHISEL B E THROWN DOWN TO HIM TO PUNCH OUT SOME CALCITED HOLES ON THE PLATE. THE STILLMAN THREW THE CHISEL DOWN FIRST AND AS EE REACHED TO PICK UP THE CHISEL THE HAMMER HIT HIS HEAD.

INDIVIDUAL WAS CARRYING A 4X4 TIMBER ON RIGHT SHOULDER, STARTED UP A SMALL EMBANKMENT & HIS RIGHT KNEE POPPED & BUCKLED.

EE WAS LIFTING A PIECE OF IRON AND EXPERIENCED INCREASING BACK PAIN THERE AFTER. EE DID NOT COME TO WORK ON 8-15-94, DUE TO DR APPT. EE WAS RELEASED TO WORK BUT CHOSE NOT TO, BECASUE OF THE T IME OF THE DAY AND THE LONG DISTANCE TO THE MINE SITE.

THE CREW WAS CEMENTING A WELL. HE WAS WORKING WITH THE CEMENT HOPPER, TRYING TO UNCLOG IT. HE STUCK HIS ARM DEEP INTO THE HOPPER TO BREAKDOWN SOME CEMENT CLODS. HE DID NOT WASH THE CEMENT OFF OF HIS ARM AND THE SKIN BECAME IRRITATED.

EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN UNPACKING MICROCOMPUTER EQUIPMENT FOR TWO DAYS WHEN ON THE THIRD DAY HE FELT SAME DISCOMFORT IN HIS BACK BOXES WERE PLACED ON THE FLOOR & EMPLOYEE HAD TO LEAN OVER & LIFT THE EQUIPMENT OUT OF THE BOX

EMPLOYEE SUFFERED AN ABRASION TO THE CORNEA WHEN DEBRIS WAS BLOWN INTO LEFT EYE, WHILE BLEEDING AN AIRTANK ON WATER TRUCK.