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Torching "I" beams. Piece of beam fell onto can of spray paint lying on plant pad. Sharp corner of beam punctured can causing worker to be sprayed with paint. Paint ignited with torch flame, clothing caught fire causing burns.

SLIPPED WHILE CLIMBING. STAIRS AND FELL FORWARD JARRING THE UPPER BODY, RESULTING IN SORENESS AND STIFFNESS INT HE UPPER BACK AND NECK. EE ALSO SUFFERED A MILD AND CONTINOUS HEADACHE.

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 CUTTING A PIECE OF HOSE OFF A WELLHEAD WHEN THE KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT HIS ARM. THE CUT WAS ABOUT 1" LONG AND DEEP ENOUGH TO REQUIRE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR STITCHES.

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.

CONTRACT EE WAS TRACING AN ELECTRICAL CABLE AND TRACED IT TO A CULVERT. AS HE ATTEMPTED TO PULL THE CABLE OUT OF THE CULVERT HE STIRRED UP A NEST OF HONEYBEES THAT WERE INSIDE THE CULVERT. EE SUFFERED BEE STINGS TO THE HEAD AND EAR WHICH CAUSED HIM TO HAVE AN ALLERGIVC REACTION.

CONTRACT EMPLOYEE WAS SHREDDING POLY HOSE WHEN A 12' PIECE OF HOSE BECAME LODGED IN THE SHREDDER. EMPLOYEE DISENGAGED THE SHREDDER AND AS HE ENGAGED IT AGAIN THE HOSE WHIPLASHED AND STRUCK HIM ACROSS THE NECK AND CHEST AREA. CONTRACTOR SUFFERED SOME SCRAPES AND CONTUSIONS TO THE NECK AND CHEST AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS KNEELING ON BOTH KNEES ATTEMPTING TO TIGHTEN SOME BOLTS ON AN RO AND CAP. WHEN HE STRETCHED TO REACH THE FURTHEST MOST BOLT HE FELT A MINOR DISCOMFORT TO HIS LEFT GROIN AREA. HE H AD DIFFICULTY WALKING. WAS DIAGNOSED BY THE DOCTOR AS A LEFT INGUINAL STRAIN.

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

EE WAS REMOVING ELECTRICAL CABLE FROM ONE FIELD TO TAKE TO ANOTHER. HE SHUT OFF 3 MAIN BREAKERS WHICH HE THOUGHT ENERGIZED AN ELECTRICAL RACK. HE USED THE CABLE CUTERS TO CUT AN ENERGIZED 480 VOLT CABLE ON THE ELECTRICAL RACK. THIS RACK WASENERGIZED FROM A DIFFERENT SOURCE. THE RACK WAS LABELED. HE SUFFERED ELECTRIAL SHOCK AND BACK MUSLE SPASMS. LOST 4 DAYS WORK.

EMPLOYEE PICKED UP A HOT PIECE OF IRON WHILE WELDING.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING AND LCOSING 6" BUTTLERFLY VALVES ONTOP OF THE 1X COLUMNS WHEN HE FELT SOME BACK PAIN AS HE OPENED A VALVE USING A CHEATER PIPE.

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

EE'S JOB ACTIVITY REQUIRES REPETIVE HEAVY LIFTING OF CEMENT SACKS & EE HAD TROUBLE SLEEPING THATNIGHT DUE TO RIGHT SHOULDER PAIN. EE VISITED A LOCAL DR & DIAGNOSED AS BURSISITS. HE WAS PRESCR IBED RX MED AND PLACED ON RESTRICTED DUTY. HE LAER VISITED A SPECIALIST AND HAD A CORTISONE INJECTION & PRESCRIBED RX MEDICATIONA

A SUBMERSIBLE PUMP WAS PULLED TO THE TOP OF A WELL BY REELING UP THE ATTACHE DPOLY PIPE WITH A HYDRAULICALLY OPERATED HOSE REEL. WHILE EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE THE PUMP FROM THE WELL, THE 2 INCH POLY PIPE BROKE AT A FUSED CONNECITON. THE SPOOLED POLY PIPE RECOILED ADN THE LOOSE END HIT EE IN THE FACE, BREAKING HIS NOSE AND CAUSING MINOR BRUISING.

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 WALKING ALONGSIDE A PUMP HOIST WHEN HE STEPPED ON A ROCK THAT CAUSED HIS RIGHT LEG TO BUCKLE. HE SUFFERED ONLY MILD PAIN BUT PAIN GRADUALLY WORSENED. HE VISITED A DR. ON 5-5-98 AND WAS DIANOSED WITH SPRAINED KNEE. HE WAS PRESCRIBED MEDICATION FOR PAIN & INFLAMMATION.

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.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A PUMPHOIST AND HAD PARKED UNDERNEATH SOME POWERLINES. HE WAS CARRYING SOME ELECTRICAL CABLE ON THE PUMP HOIST AND WAS ATTEMPTED TO RAISE THE MAST TO FACILITATE THE CABL E DROP-OFF. EMPLOYEE WAS AWARE OF THE PWERLINES BUT HE THOUGHT HE COUDL MISS THEM. THE MAST CONTACTED A POWERLINE AND CREATED A PHASE TO GROUDN CURRENT. EE SUFFERED BURNS TO HIS L HAND AND FT

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING TO TRUCK AND SLIPPED ON THE ICY GROUND AND FELL FLAT ON HIS BACK.

EE SLIPPED ON A WET PIPE, FELL FORWARD AND CAUGHT HIMSELF PARTIALLY WITH ONE HAND. SEVERE BACK PAIN WAS IMMEDIATELY NOTICED.

SLIPPING ON AN ICY SLOPE.

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.

NO OBVIOUS CONDITIONS CONTRIBUTED TO THE INJURY. THE EE WAS NOT LIFTING HEAVY OBJECTS, HE WAS SIMPLY WALKING AT THE TIME. EE WAS PREVIOUSLY CONDUCTIN ROUTINE LIGHT DUTY WORK. EE SUFFERED A BAC K INJURY PREVIOUSLY (2-13-96) WHICH WAS REPORTED TO MSHA. THIS INJURY COULD BE A REOCCURRENCE FROM THAT INJURY.

EE WAS PERFORMING MAINTENANCE ON A WELL IN THE FIELD & AS HE ATTEMPTED TO BRACE HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT LEG, THE LEG SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM. THIS ACTION CAUSED HIS LEFT KNEE TO TWIST. IT WAS INITIALLY LOGGED IN AS FIRST AID, HOWEVER PERSISTENT PAIN PROMPTED A DOCTOR'S VISIT. HE WAS GIVEN PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION FOR THE PAIN. EE IS SCHEDULED FOR SPECIALIST APPOINTMENT ON MARCH 31S

EMP REINJURED HIS LEFT KNEE DURING HIS NORMAL COURSE OF WORK. HAD INITIALLY INJURED KNEE ON 8-18-96. ALTHOUGH RELEASED TO WOEK BY DR, EMP CLAIMS KNEE NEVER REALLY HEALED. REPETITIVE MOTION OF GETTING ON AND OFF TRUCK CAUSED SOME PAIN TO LEFT KNEE. WAS PLACED ON RESTRICTED WORK DUTY. SCHEDULED FOR SPECIALIST APPT ON 1-28-97.

EMP WAS SIMPLY GETTING OUT OF THE SEAT OF A PICKUP TRUCK WHEN HE EXPERIENCED SEVERE PAIN IN LOWER LEFT RIBS.

A BACKHOE WAS MOVING A SECTION OF 14 INCH POLY PIPE INTO POSITION TO BE CONNECTED WHEN IT SPRANG OUT OF THE CONCRETE SUPPORT BLOCK AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON HIS LEFT HIP, KNOCKING HIM DOWN.

EMP WAS CONDUCTING RADIOLOGICAL SURVEYS IN THE PLANT AREA WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO STEP OVER A CONCRETE BERM. AS HE STEPPED OVER THE BERM HE PLACED HIS FOOT ON A 1/2" POLY HOSE AND LOST HIS BALAN CE. FELL TO ONE KNEE. INJURY WAS DIAGNOSED BY THE DR AS HYPERTENSION OF THE LEFT KNEE. WAS PLACED ON RESTRICTED DUTY.

EE WAS OPERATING A FOKLIFT WHEN THE WEIGHT OF THE FORKLIFT CAUSED THE LID OF AN OLD SEPTIC TANK TO COLLAPSE. THIS ACTION CAUSED THE EE TO JERK BACKWARDS. HE SUFFERED WHIPLASH AND WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CERVICAL & BACK STRAIN.

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.

EE WAS WALKING AROUND THE WELLFIELD TURNING ON ELECTRICAL PANELS WHEN HE TRIPPED OVER SOME HOSE & ELECTRICAL CABLES. HE FELL TO ONE KNEE [R]. ORIGINALLY REPORTED TO US AS AN INCIDENT WITH NO D AMAGE CAUSED ATO EE. HE INJURED HIS BACK ON JAN-95 & HAS BEEN SEEING DRS SINCE THEN FOR HIS BACK INJURY. FOR THE PAST YR HE HAS LIMPPED VERY NOTICABLE & HAS DEVELOPED PAIN IN HIS R KNEE. ....

EMP WAS POUNDING A GROUND ROD INTO THE GROUND USING A HOMEMADE DRIVER. CAUGHT LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE GROUND ROD AND THE DRIVER.

EMP WAS WALKING AROUND THE WELLFIELD WHEN HE STEPPED ON A POLYHOSE IN A WET AREA. EMP SLIPPED AND LOST HIS BALANCE, BUT DID NOT FALL. DID NOT FEEL ANY PAIN OR DISCOMFORT AT THAT TIME. WHEN HE WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING, HE WAS SUFFERING LOWERBACK PAIN. SUFFERED A LOWER BACK STRAIN, WAS PLACED ON RESTRICTED DUTY AND GIVEN RX MEDICATION.

INDIVIDUAL WAS DRIVING THE TRUCK PULLING A CEMENTING UNIT UP A HILL. THE TRUCK APPARENTLY RAN OUT OF GAS & STALLED. THE TRUCK STARTED GOING BACK DOWNT THE HILL & THE DRIVER PANCKED & JUMPED OU T.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A SHOVEL TODIG UP A SEPTIC TANK LID WHEN HE FELT SOME LOWER BACK DISCOMFORT. LID WAS LOCATED 4-6" BELOW GROUND LEVEL. DURING THIS JOB ACTIVITY, SEVERAL LIDS WERE UNCOVERED. INJURY WAS NOT REPORTED UNTIL 5-4-96. DIAGNOSED AS A SPRAIN OF THE LUMBOSACRAL REGION - MRI REVEALED A HERNIATED DISK. HE WAS PLACED ON LIGHT DUTY BY DR ON 5-16-96.

EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING WELL CEMENTING DUTIES IN A WELL FIELD. EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AND STANDING ON COMENTING UNITS FENDER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL ABOUT 4 FT TO THE GROUND ON HIS RIGHT SHOU LDER. THE WATER AND CEMENT SLURRY CAUSED THE FENDER TO BE VERY SLIPPERY.

LIFTING AND INSTALLING LARGE VALUES AND PIPING.

EE WAS DRO[PPING THE FILTER PRESS AND AS HE WAS PUSHING THE YELLOWCAKE WITH A HOE INTO A PUMP OPENING, HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

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.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING A BRACE TO AN I-BEAM WHEN HE WAS SUDDENLY SHOCKED ON THE LEFT ARM. HIS LEFT ARM WAS BEING USED AS SUPPORT AAINST A 3" PIPE. WAS UNABLE TO USE ARM FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF T IME.