ACCIDENT WAS CALLED IN ON 4/9/03. EMPLOYEE DECIDED TO HAVE NECK CHECKED ON 4/10. HE SAID HE PHYSICALLY TURNED AROUND TO WATCH FOR VEHICLES WHILE IN LOADER MOVING DGA. HE SAID LOADER STARTED TO JERK. HIS NECK STARTED ACHING TUESDAY & WORSEN AS THE DAY WENT ON.
EE MECHANIC WAS PUTTING PUMP ON AIR COMPRESSOR OF 275 MICH. LOADER- WHILE CLIMBING DOWN HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON RIGHT SIDE- EE'S WIFE PICKED HIMUP AT QUARRY- WENT TO ACUTE CARE FOR MEDICAL TRE ATMENT. FRACTURED SHOULDER FRACTURED ELBOW. EE IS TAKING PHYSICAL THEAPY.
EE WAS MOVING WELDER. LATER THAT NIGHT HE WAS INPAIN SO HE WENT TO DOCTOR & WAS TOLD HE HAD HAD A HERNIA FOR SOME TIME. DUE FOR SURGERY ON 1/30.
EE HAD BATTERY DROPPED ON RIGHT FOOT. EE DID NOT CHOOSE YTO GO TO DOCTORS, BUT SAID HE WOULD THAT NIGHT IF NEEDED TOO. EE WENT TO DOCTORS ON MORNING OF 8-31. EE HAD SOFT TISSUE DAMAGE. HE WAS NOT PUT OFF WORK-BUT ON LIGHT DUTY UNTIL 9=1=00, HE WAS TO RETURN TO REGULAR DUTY.
EMPLOYEE RECALLS HE WAS BURSTING ON ROCK AND REMEMBERS PULLING HAMMER BACK; HAMMER HIT THE ROCK AND SOMETHING HIT HIM IN THE HEAD (INSIDE CAB OF ROCK BREAKER). THE NEXT THING HE REMEMBERED HE WAS AT DOCTOR'S OFFICE. (OTHER EMPLOYEES SAID THEY DIDN'T SEE ACCIDENT.) HE WALKED TO SHOP SEEMING TO BE IN INCOHERENT STATE OF MIND. MGR CHECKED EQUIPMENT, FOUND 3"" ROCK 1"" THICK IN CAB.
EE LEFT HIS WORKPLACE AT NOON STATING THAT HIS BACK WAS HURTING. NEXT MORNING THE DR. AT ER CALLED OFFICE INFORMING THEM HE HAD COME IN CLAINING BACK INJURY FROM WORK. HE STATED EE HAD UPPER B ACK MUSCLE SPRAIN, BUT HAD NO REASON TO STAY OFF WORK. NO LIFTING OVER 15#. NO TWISTING OR BENDING.
EMPLOYEE DID NOT SHOW UP FOR WORK 03-22-00. CO-WORKERS TOLD OFFICE MANAGER THEY THOUGHT EMPLOYEE HAD INJURED HIS FOOT. SHE CALLED EMPLOYEE AT HOME-HE STATED THAT ROCK LODGED IN HOPPER-WHILE HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO BREAK LOOSE-ROCK ROLLED OVER LEFT FOOT. OFFICE MANAGER TOLD EMPLOYEE TO GO TO EMERGENCY ROOM AT HARDIN MEMORIAL AND HAVE HIS FOOT CHECKED OUT. HOSPITAL STATED HE HAD CONTUSI