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EE WAS USING GLOVES TO LIFT PIECES OF CUT SPROCKET. WT AND SHARPNESS OF SPROCKET INDUCED LACERATION REQUIRING STITCHES THROUGH GLOVE
EE & COWORKER WERE LIFTING 150LB SPROCKETS CORRECTLY. AFTER LIFTING EE COMPLAINED OF SORE THROAT. LATER IN THE EVENING AT HOME, EE EXPERIENCED SWELLING IN NECK & TROUBLE BREATHING AND WENT TO ER WHERE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH INTERNALLARYNGOCOELE FROM THE LIFTING
EE ASSISTED ANOTHER EE HOLD A 75# PIPE APPROX WAIST HEIGHT & THEN PROCEEDED TO SHOVEL SNOW. THE TWO ACTIVITIES APPARENTLY RESULTED IN LOWER BACKDISCOMFORT.
WHNE PULLING RUBBER HOSE OFF PINCH TUBE THE LITTLE FINGER OF LEFT HAND WAS CUT ON SHARP METAL EDGE.
LIFTED THE LOAD HOSE WITH A HOIST. HE WAS MOVING THE HOSE FORM ONE TANKER COMPARTMENT OT A SECOND ONE. WITH THE LOAD HOSE SUSPENDED IN THE AIR. HE PUSHE DIT TO THE NEW COMPAARTMENT WITH ONE ARM. HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHHT ELBOW AFTER DOIG THIS.
INJURED WAS GOING AROUND A PALLET AND SLIPPED ONSOME GLUE. WHEN HE SLIPPED HIS RIGHT FOOT GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE SLATS OF THE PALLET. HE ATTEMPTED TO GET HIS LEFT FOOT UNDER HIM BUT HE STRUC K HIS LEFT SHIN ON A STACK OF PALLETS. HE WAS RUSHING ATTEMPTING TO GET TO A BAG THAT BECAME STUCK.
EE WAS STACKING 50 LB BAGS ONTO A PALLET HE WENT TO PLACE A BAG ONTO THE PALLET HE TWISTED AND PLACED THE BAG DOWN ONTO THE PALLET. UPON PLACING THE BAG ONTO THE PALLET HE FELT A PULL AND SUDD EN PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
HELPING TO LIFT AN ELECTRIC MOTOR FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
CHANGING V BELTS TO 36 ELEVATOR WHILE TURNING BELT TO CHECK IF MOTOR SEIZED FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN BELT AND PULLEY CUTTING OFF END OF FINGER.
CLEANING FRESH SNOW OFF FROM WINDSHIELD OF OWN VEHICLE & SLIPPED ONSNOW COVERED ICE & STUCK RIGHT SHOULDER.
WALKING DOWN A SET OF STAIRS TO GO TO LUNCH, CAUGHT FOOT ON SOMETHING AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS AND FELL BACKWARDS STRIKING HIS BACK AS HE FELL.
EMPLOYEE WAS SWEEPING DOWN THE INSIDE OF A RAILROAD HOPPER CAR, WITH A BROOM, HE WAS SWEEPING OVER HIS HEAD. A PARTICLE OF DUST OR RUST MUST HAVE BECOME LODGED IN HIS LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS PLOWING SNOW WITH 930 LOADER STRUCK RAILROAD TRACK BUMPED HEAD & CUT NOSE WITH HARD HAT-REQUIRED SUTURES
ALLEGED POLMONARY DISEASE SECONDARY TO ALLEGED INHALATION OF RESIRABLE DUST
REMOVING 50 LB 6AGS FROM CONVEYOR AND STACKING THEM ON A PALLET.
THE INJURED WAS3CLEANING A SILO WITH A HYDRA-VAC WHILE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING STEEL ANGLE NEARBY.A PIECE OF STEEL ANGLE DROPPED 18" AND STRUCK HIM ON HIS RIGHT FOOT,CRACKING HIS BIG TOE.
INDV PUSHING PR2DUCT CHUTE INTO PLACE OVER DRAINAGE PAN.CHUTE PUSHED EMPL BACK INTO COVER RACK.BRUISED DELTOID MUSCLE.
INDIVIDUAL WAS 5IFTING L.P. TANK ONTO FORK LIFT, POSSIBLE PULLED BACK MUSCLE.
CLEANING UNDER 6AGGING PLATFORM,STRAIGHTENED UP AND STRUCK BACK ON DUST COLLECTOR PIPE CONTUSION OF LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS AT7EMPTING TO LIFT A REEL OF STRAPPING AND PULLED AN ABDOMINAL MUSCLE
ATTEMPTING TO DISCOUNNECT STUCK PIPE COUPLING, FITTING STRUCK INDIVIDUAL IN UPPER LIP WHEN IT BECAME DISLODGED.
EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO DISMOUNT FROM ATOP A TRUCK TIRE AFTER REPAIRING A RADIATOR HOSE HE SLIPPED & FELL BACKWARDS ONTO THE PAVEMENT. EE SUSTAINED A CONCUSSION & A SLIGHT SKULL FRACTURE.