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VICTIMWAS ASKED BY CONTTRACTOR TO CUT OFF NUTS TO 20 TON COUNTERWEIGHT FOR REMOVAL & TRANSPORT AS PER CONTRACT AS VICTIM CUT LAST OF TWO NUTS COUNTERWEIGHT SWUNG TOWARD HIM PINNING HIM BETWEEN CONTRACTORS GEN POLE WINCH TRUCK & THE WEIGHT VICTIM WAS CRUSHED AS HE STOOD ON HIS LADDERR TRYING TO ASSIST CONTRACTOR
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING PICKUP BOARDS FROM A BUILDING THAT HAD BEEN TORN DOWN. HE ACCIDENTLY STEPPED ON A BOARD THAT HAS A NAIL & PUNCUTURED HIS LEFT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING UNDER THE PLANT & HE SMASHED HIS RT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN A SHOVEL & A ANGLE STEEL BRACE
EMPLOYEE AND CO-WORKER WERE PLAYING AROUND IN THE SCALE OFFICE. THEY WERE FINGER WRESTLING WHEN THE CO-WORKER FRACTURED EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT HAND MIDDLE FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS TEARING DOWN BRUSH WITH THE DOZER AT PIT AREA. HE HIT AN OLD TREE WITH THE DOZER AND A SWARM OF BEES FLEW TOWARD HIM AND STARTED STINGING HIM ALL OVER HIS FACE, HEAD AND UPPER TOR SO.
EMPLOYEE SAW HIS CO-WORKER BEING ATTACKED BY A SWARM OF BEES, SO HE GOT HIS WATER COOLER AND DUMPED THE WATER ON HIS CO-WORKER. THE BEES STARTED STINGING HIM, SO HE SAW A PUDDEL OF WATER ABOUT 2 FEET DEEP AND TOOK HIS CO-WORKER AND HIMSELF TO THE PUDDLE TO GET RID OF THE BEES.
EMPLOYEE TWISTED HIS BACK WHILE TRYING TO FIT IN THE SPEED REDUCER INTO THE HEAD PULLEY SHAFT.
EE WAS MANUALLY MOVING A 35 DEGREE THROWING IDLER WHEN IT ACCIDENTLY FLIPPED AND PUNTURED HIS RIGHT HAND THUMB.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING BY THE GRAVEL STACKER AT THE PRIMARY PLANT. HE SLIPPED ON SOME WET CLAY THAT WAS ONT HE CONCRETE SLAB AND HURT HIS LEFT HIP AND NECK.
EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING A SCREEN CLOTH BY USING A J-BOLT.THE J-BOLT BROKE AND BOUNCED UP,HITTING INJURED ON HIS UPPER FRONT TOOTH#7.
EE WAS CUTTING SOME BOLTS ON SOME IDLERS AFTER CUTTING A BOLT EE ACCIDENTLY LEANED HIS RIGHT LEG ON A HOT PIECE OF BOLT, THUS GETTING BURNED BETWEEN HIS KNEE AND HIS ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING ON A HOOD ON THE TEREX DOZER, AS HE LIFTED THE HOOD HE GOT A PAIN ON HIS LEFT RIB.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING PLANT OPERATOR CHANGE SCREENS. EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OFF TOP DECK OF SCREEN, WHEN HE ACCIDENTLY SLIPPED AND HURT HIS BACK.
WHILE THE EMPLOYEE WAS SHARPENING A HOE, HE GOT DISTRACTED BY HIS CO-WORKER WHO CALLED HIM, AND AS HE TURNED TO ANSWER, THE HANDLE OF THE HOE GOT CAUGHT BY THE GRINDER, PULLING TWO OF HIS RIGH T HAND FINGERS IN THE GRINDER.
HELPING LOAD SOME TIES ON PICKUP HOLDING R R TIES AGAINST STOMACH AS THEY PUSHED THEM IN PICKUP IN THE PROCESS HAD WOOD SPLINTER EMBEDDED IN ABDOMINAL WALL.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING DIRT WITH THE TEREX DOZER AS HE BACKED UP HE RAN OVER A FAIRLY BIG ROCK MAKING THE DOZER RISE ABOUT ONE FOOT, AS THE DOZER HIT THE GROUND IT JERKED I.NAME AND HURT HIS BAC K.
EMPL WAS WELDING SOME PIPES INSIDE THE VIBRATOR ON THE SECOND DECK AS HE STEPPED OUT TO THE FLOOR HE SLIPPED ON SOME MUD AND FELL HURTING HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CO-WORKER WELD AT THE FINISHING PLANT. EMPLOYEE BURNED HIS LEFT EYE ACCIDENTLY BY LOOKING AT THE LIGHT ALL DAY LONG AS CO-WORKER WELDED.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A B-70 BOTTOM DUMP EUCLID MOVING DIRT AT THE PIT AREA WHEN EMPLOYEE DUMPED A LOAD OF DIRT AT THE PIT HE HAD DUST FLY AT HIS FACE CAUSING A DUST PARTICLE TO EMBED IN HIS LE FT EYE
LOOSING SOME BOLTS ON CRUSHER MANTLE WHEN THE WRENCH USING BROKE HIT HIM ON LOWR ABODOMEN
EMPL REMOVING CLAY PARTICLES FROM FEED HOPPER BELT AT PRIMARY PLANT WHEN FOREIGN PARTICLE FLEW IN LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CO-WORKER, OTHER EMPLOYEE, WELD AT THE FINISHING PLANT. EMPLOYEE BURNED HIS EYES ACCDIENTLY BY LOOKING AT THE LIGHT ALL DAY LONG AS CO-WORKER WELDED THE V-CHUTE.
EMPL LIFTED ONE END OF DRILL TRANSMISSION HURT GROIN INSTEAD.
EMPL WAS SWINGING SLEDGE HAMMER TRYING TO PUT IN GEAR ON CRUSHER. HE WAS SWINGING SLEDGE HAMMER & END OF HANDLE KEPT ONTINUALLY HITTING LEFT ELBOW IN WHICH WEEK LATER HE DEVELOPED LUMP ON EL BOW.
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OFF A B-70 EUCLID AFTER FINISHING HIS SHIFT. HE DEVELOPED A PAIN ON HIS BACK AS HE STEPPED OFF THE UNIT HE HAD DRIVEN ALL DAY. DR DIAGNOSIS WAS DORSAL SPINAL SPRAIN.
I NAME WAS CHANGING SCREENS HE WAS INSIDE THE SCREEN LYING ON HIS BACK TRYING TO LINE UP THE SIDE THAT HOLDS THE SCREENS IN PLACE HE ACCIDENTLY HAS A FOREIGN PARTICLE FALL IN HIS R EYE
EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING WORN OUT PADDLES AT LOG WASHER. HE WAS LEANING ON PIPE TO TRY TO TIGHTEN NUTS ON PADDLES. HE CLAIMS HE PUT TO MUCH PRESSURE ON HIS LEFT FOOT, THIS CAUSING HIS LEFT UPPER FOOT TO SWELL UP.
I.NAME AND I.NAME WERE WELDING ON THE BLADE OF A SHREDDER THE SHREDDER WAS ON ITS SIDE WHILE I.ANAME WELDED ON BLADE WHEN I.NAME WAS THROUGH THEY BROUGHT THE SHREDDER SLOWLY DOWN MANUALLY AND ABOUT A FOOT FROM THE CONCRETE FLOOR THE SHREDDER SLIPPED AND FELL ON I.NAMES RT FOOT
WAS LEAVING THE OFFICE AND WAS ABOUT TO CLOSE THE SOUTH DOOR BEHIND HIM WHEN AN OTHER EMPLOYEE OPENED THE NORTH DOOR CAUSING THE SOUTH DOOR TO SLAM SHUT CATCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE DOOR AND THE DOOR FRAME
I.NAME WAS DRIVING A 1982 FORD SUPERCAB PICKUP AND WAS HEADED TO SULLIVAN CITY AUTO PARTS I.NAME WAS DRIVING EAST ON THE ROAD COMING FROM BEHIND THE SHOP AT A SPEED OF ABOUT 25 MILES PER HOUR A TRUCK LOADED WITH HOT MIX MATERIAL COMING SOUTH FROM THE HOT MIX PLANT WAS APPROACHING THE INTERSECTION AT THE SAME TIME AS I.NAME AND THE TRUCK DRIVER AND I.NAME WERE UNABLE TO AVOID EACH
EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON A 1" CONSTRUCTION STAPLE WHILE CLEANING INSIDE THE SHOP AS ASSIGNED. THERE WERE SOME PLYWOOD FORMS LEFT OVER AFTER THE FOOTING FOR THE NEW PLANT WERE LOADED ON A LOWBOY. HW HE WAS ASSIGNED TO PICK UP THE PLYWOOD LEFT AT THE SHOP AND HE ACCIDENTLY STEPPED ON A STAPLE STICKING OUT OF A PIECE OF PLYWOOD.
I,NAME AND HIS CO-WORKERS WERE REPLACING WORN OUT PADDLES ON THE LOG WASHER. HE WAS TIGHTENING A BOLT WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL BACK AND HIT HIS COCCYX ON A PADDLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING TOWARD HIS ASSIGNED WELDING TRUCK AFTER FINISHING A SMALL JOB AT THE PRIMARY PLANT. HE WAS STEPPING FROM ONE CENCRETE FLOOR ON THE ANOTHER AND ACCIDENTLY STEPPED ON A ROCK WHICH TWISTED 2IS RIGHT ANKLE.
I NAME AND OTHE9 WERE PUTTING THE TRACKS ON THE NORTHWEST SHOVEL F-800. THEY WERE USING A SMALL SLEDGEHAMMER TO PUT IN THE PIN CONNECTING TRACKS TOGETHER. HE HIT THE PIN WITH THE SLEDGEHAMMER CAUSING A CHIP3TO FLY AND HIT HIM IN HIS LEFT EYE.
I.NAME STOOD ON3CHANNEL ATTACHED TO V-CHUTE IN FRONT OF SCREEN #1.REMOVING ROOTS FROM MATERIAL COMING OVER SCREEN SLIPPED AND HIT LEFT KNEE OF SIDE OF CHUTE.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN3THE PROCESS OF REMOVING THE BOLTS WHICH CONNECTE SQUARE TANK CHUTE TO THE UPPER PLATFORM STRUCTURE.HE SLIPPED ON THE STEPS RIGHT ABOVE SQUARE TANK AND HIT HIS UPPER RIGHT LEG,B ECAUSE STEPS HA8 LOOSE GRAVEL AND WERE NOT CLEANED.
EE WAS IN T HE 1ROCESS OF INSTALLING A NEW DODGE SIZE 4 MOUNTED SPEED REDUCER TO THE HEAD PULLEY SECTION ON THE FEED CONVEYOR TO THE CRUSHER. WHEN THE SPEED REDUCER BROKE FREE FROM THE SHAFT BECAUSE IT WAS3NOT PROPERLY INSTALLED THUS CAUSING THE RT ARM OF EE TO BE PINNED AGAINST THE CONVEYOR FRAME WHICH CAUSED HIS ARM TO BE BRUISED & MUSCLES TO BE STRAINED.
HE WAS TIGHTENI3G BOLTS ON CRUSHER FEEDER WHEN HIS RATCHET SLIPPED OFF OF BOLT AND SMASHED HIS RIGHT THUMB.
THREE EMPLOYEES3WERE IN THE PROCESS OF PULLING ALUMINUM SUCTION PIPE OUT OF THE LAKE.THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING NEXT TO THE PIPE AS THEY TOOK THE LAST BOLT OFF,THE PIPE SWUNG UP HITTING HIM ON HIS UPPE9 LIP AND THE SIDE OF HIS NOSE.
I,NAME WAS HELP3NG LOAD AN OLD LOG WASHER TO A FLAT BED TRUCK. THE LOG WASHER HAD BEEN LAYING ON THAT SAME SPOT FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND GRASS AND WEEDS HAD GROWN AROUND IT, AND FOR THAT REASON I,NAME WAS UNAB5E TO SEE THE NAIL THAT PENETRATED HIS BOOT WHICH CAUSED A PUNCTURE ON HIS LEFT FOOT.
THE INJURED WAS3WASHING THE SAND SPILLAGE FROM THE CONCRETE FLOORING,THE WATER FROM THE HOSE PASSED OVER A LARGE AMOUNT OF SAND WHICH CAUSED SOME OF THE SAND AND WATER TO SPLASH BACK INTO HIS FACE,CAUSING S2ME SAND PARTICLES TO ENTER HIS RIGHT EYE.
I.NAME HELPING 9EPLACE BROKEN CABLE ON NW SHOVEL F-913. TIGHTENING CABLE CLAMPS.GOT LEFT HAND SMALL FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN CABLE AND WRENCH.SOCKET WAS A SIZE BIGGER THAN THE NUT CAUSING SOCKET TO SLIP. 3
I NAME WAS CHEC5ING THE RAW MATERIAL DRIVE OVER DUMP HOPPER, TO FIND OUT WHY MATERIAL WAS NOT FLOWING FREELY FROM THE FEED HOPPER. AS HE WAS HELPING TO CLEAR SOME OF THE CLAY AND WET MATERIAL FROM THE HOPPE9 SIDES, HE LOST HIS FOOTING ON THE GRIZZLY BAR WHERE HE WAS STANDING, WHICH CAUSED HIS RIGHT LEG TO PASS BETWEEN TWO GRIZZLY BAR CAUSING THE CONTUSION TO THE RIGHT LEG.
HE SPOKE TO I.N5ME,COMPANY SUPERVISOR ON SATURDAY MAY 16, REGARDING WHAT HIS DOCTOR SAID CONCERNING HIS HEARING.THE DOCTOR STATED TO HIM AND BELIEVED THAT HIS HEARING PROBLEM MAY BE CAUSED EIT HER BY OLD AGE 5R WORKING CONDITIONS.
EE WAS GETTING 2FF THE PLATFORM SURROUNDING THE CRUSHER WHEN HE SLIPPED FALLING & HITTING HIS ELFT HAND ON THE HANDRAIL AROUND PLATFORM AS HE FELL. HE HAD A BRUISED LEFT AHND.
I.NAME A DIABE7IC DIED OF APPARENT HEART FAILURE ON 7-26-86.
EMPLOYEE WAS GE7TING OFF THE NORTHWEST SHOVEL AFTER IT HAD RAINED AND HE STEPPED BACKWARDS ON THE TRACKS HE SLIPPED AND HIT HIS ELBOW ON THE FLOOR TO THE ENTRANCE OF THE CAB OF THE NORTHWEST SHOVEL 3
EMPLOYEE WAS PU4PING WATER OUT OF SAND HOPPER TUNNEL HE SLIPPED AS HE PULLED ON THE HOSE OF THE PUMP HE HAD USED TO DRAIN THE WATER FROM UNDERNEATH THE SAND HOPPER HE CUT UNDERNEATH HIS CHIN T HAT REQUIRED 5 8TITCHES
EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING BUILD A 14 X 35 FT STEEL PIPE FRAME ROOF INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING ONE END OF PIPE WHILE THE OTHER END WAS LEANING ON THE ROOF AND OTHER MAN WAS HOLDING THE PIPE IN THE MIDDLE THE MAN 3N THE MIDDLE SLIPPED AND FELL SO INJURED EMPLOYEE HELD THE PIPE SO IT WOULD NOT FALL ON THE OTHER MAN AND THAT CAUSED THE PIPE TO TWIST HIS RT ARM
EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING CLEAN SOME EXCESS WASTE ALONG THE HOPPER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL BACK LANDING ON HIS HANDS AND CUTTING HIS LEFT HAND PALM WITH A SHARP EDGE ROCK
EMP WAS GETTING3OFF TEREX DOZER AND MADE THE MISTAKE OF GRABBING MUFFLER AFTER IT HAD BEEN WORKING ALL DAY AND BURNED HIS RIGHT HAND
EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING RAISE SCREENS FOR THE SHAKER AT THE PRIMARY PLANT WHEN HE GOT HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN CABLE AND PULLEY PINCHING HIS FINGER
EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING REPLACE A BROKEN CABLE ON THE SHOVEL AND HIS RT HAND SLIPPED AS HE PULLED ON THE CABLE AND CUT HIS RT INDEX FINGER
EMP WAS GETTING3OFF THE MACHINE FACING THE CAB AND HE ACCIDENTLY SLIPPED FROM THE TRACKS AND HIT HIS RIGHT KNEE
EMPL STANDING ON STEP OUTSIDE CAB OF HAUL UNIT OILING HINGES OF DOOR WHEN HE LOST FOOTAGE AND FELL TO GROUND AND LANDED ON HIS RIGHT SIDE.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON A SMALL TRENCH AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT LEG.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED FROM THE TRACKS OF SHOVEL F-800 AS HE WAS GETTING OFF, BUT MANAGED TO GRAB PART OF THE DOOR AS HE WAS GOING DOWN, THAT CAUSED EMPLOYEE TO HURT HIS ARM.
I.NAME & I.NAME WERE MOVING WITH THEIR HANDS A 3\X2\X3" JUNCTION BOX WHEN I.NAME LOST HIS GRIP ON THE BOX CAUSING THE JUNCTION BOX TO FALL ON HIS RT TOE.
INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON CRUSHER RETURN BELT AFTER GETTING OUT FROM UNDER CRUSHER HE TOOK HOLD OF THE HAND RAIL OF THE CONVEYOR AND JUMPED OVER RAIL ON TO THE CATWALK AND HURT HIS LEF T KNEE.
EE CUT HIS LEFT HAND SMALL & RING FINGER WHEN MOTOR FROM A WATER PUMP SLIPPED WHILE THE BOLTS WERE TIGHTEN ONT HE MOTOR.
A HEAVY CHAIN USED TO UNLOAD SILOS GOT UNHOOKED FROM TEH SILO, HITTING I,NAME ON HIS RIGHT KNEE.
EMPL REPLACING BRAKE PADS ON DRAGLINE WHEN STEEL RING THAT HOLDS PADS IN PLACE FELL AND HIT LEFT LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING A 12" X 12"= PIECE OF PLATE ON THE BACK OF A PICKUP, WHEN IT SLIPPED AND FELL ON TOP OF HIS RIGHT FOOT INSTEP
EMPLOYEE WAS SERVICING UNIT 792,WHEN HE SLIPPED ON OIL THAT WAS SPILLED ON THE CONCRETE, AND FELL BACKWARDS LANDING ON HIS HAND AND HURTING HIS LEFT WRIST.
WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING AIR COMPRESSOR A HOSE BROKE LEAKING OIL AND FORCING EMPLOYEE TO MOVE AWAY TO AVOID THE OIL LEAKAGE BUT HURT HIS UPPER LEFT LEG ON THE GUARD RAIL OF CAB IN THE RP OCESS
EMP WAS HOLDING A LINE UP PUNCH AND HITTING THE END OF PUNCH WITH A HAMMER TO REMOVE PIECES OF PLATE LEFT GLUED TO THE SIDE WALLS OF JAW CRUSHER. A PIECE OF STEEL FROM PUNCH FLEW AND EMBEDDED ON HIS RIGHT KNEE
EMP WAS GREASING BUCKET FROM TEREX LOADER WITHA HAND GREASE GUN THE GUN NOZZLE MANAGED TO GET STUCK SO EMP JERKED IT LOOSE BUT HIT HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER AGAINST THE HEAVY STEEL ARM OF LOADER I IN DOING SO
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A EUCLID WHEN A PIECE OF STONE FELL FROM THE EDGE ON TOP OF EUCLID, AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON HIS LEFT TEMPLE.
INJURED PERSON WAS PULLING ON CABLE AND HAD A PIECE OF CABLE EMBEDDED ON HIS LEFT THUMB
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING GET THE PRIMARY PLANT STARTED, AND HE WAS ON HIS WAY DOWN THE PLANT, WHEN HE SLIPPED ON THE LAST STEPS AND FELL ON HIS RIGHT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A BOLT THAT HAD BROKEN WITH A CHISEL AND HAD A PIECE OF STEEL THAT FLEW FROM THE BROKEN BOLT, EMBEDDED IN HIS LEFT ARM JUST ABOVE THE WRIST.
HE WAS HITTING RETURN IDLER TO GET THE CLAY OFF WHEN HE LOST GRIP OF THE HAMMER AND HIT HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE IDLER, INSTEAD.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING THROUGH SOME BRUSH AND ACCIDENTLY GOT HIT BY A BRANCH JUST LEFT OF HIS ELFT EYE
PUTTING NEW WIRE CLOTH ON SCREEN SHAKER,CUT FINGER ON EDGE OF MIDDLE SCREEN SCRAP IRON.
A PIECE OF STEEL FROM THE SLASH HAMMER FLEW & EMBEDDED IN BETWEEN HIS INDEX FINGER & RING FINGER.
EE WAS HELPING PUT ON WIRE SCREENS & STANDING ON THE SIDE RAIL OF THE SCREEN TO DO SO, WHEN HE ACCIDENTLY SLIPPED FALLING BACK & LANDING ON HIS RIGHT ELBOW.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING EUCLID BELLY DUMP AND WAS ATTEMPTING TO DUMP HIS LOAD ON RAW MATERIAL STOCKPILE WHICH WAS WET AT TIME AND HIS UNIT SLID AND OVERTURNED EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED ABOUT HURTING AROUND HIS CHEST @AREA AND HIS WRIST