Watertown Plant Metal/Non-Metal

EMPLOYEE USING UTILITY KNIFE TO CUT CONVEYOR BELT. KNIFE SLIPPED, CUTTING THROUGH SAFETY GLOVE, LACERATING LEFT INDEX FINGER.

EMPLOYEE CUTTING AND SPLICING CONVEYOR BELT AT CRUSHING PLANT, USING UTILITY KNIFE AND T-SQUARE - CUT RIGHT HAND WITH UTILITY KNIFE REQUIRING STITCHES AT LOCAL EMERGENCY ROOM.

Employee was handling lifting straps, twisted left wrist resulting in the need for surgery at a later date to repair tendon/ligament damage.

Employee was climbing down the ladder of a quarry haul truck, when his foot slipped and he hit his left leg on a metal step of the haul truck, producing a laceration of the left leg just below the knee. Employee required 4 sutures to close wound.

EE WAS SEATED USING LARGE WRENCH TO PERFORM MAINTENANCE ON CRUSHER. WHEN EE STOOD UP HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK & LEG. HE WAS ASSISTED OFF CRUSHER AND AWAITED MEDICAL ATTENTION.

EMPLOYEE SPRAINED BACK MUSCLES WHILE REMOVING FOOTBALL SIZED STONES FROM SCREENS UNIT AT PORTABLE CRUSHER.

EE WAS USING PICKAXE TO CLEAN FROZEN CHUNKS OF STONE OFF GRATES ON STONE HOPPER. EE STRAINED BACK MUSCLES WHILE DOING SO.

EE WAS REMOVING LIFT CYCLINDER FROM EUCLID TRUCK #20296, WHEN HIS RT HAND BECAME WEDGED BETWEEN THE LIFT CYCLINDER AND THE NEARBY HYDRAULIC TANK. EE SUFFERED LACERATION TO RING FINGER OF RT HA ND. EE REQUIRED 8 SUTURES. HE WAS TREATED AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL ER AND RETURNED TO WORK THE SAME DAY.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE WAS HELPING LIFT A LAWN TRACTOR OFF OF A PICKUP TRUCK. A WHEEL OF MOWER SLIPPED OFF TAILGATE PINCHING INDEX FINGER WHICH WAS REPORTED AT THAT TIME. ON 6-25-95 EMPLOYEE REPOR TED THAT HE WAS GOING TO SEE DR. FOR INJURED BACK.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE WAS WORKING ON A QUARRY TRUCK WITH AN IMPACT WRENCH WRENCH SLIPPED FREE OF ONE HAND SPUN AROUND STRIKING LEFT ARM JUST ABOVE WRIST CAUSING BRUISE OR SPRAIN TO WRIST

EE CLAIMS THAT SHOVELING STONE UNDER CRUSHER ALL DAY MADE HIS BACK BOTHER HIM AT END OF SHIFT.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED OR WHEN. HE HAD MENTIONED TO SHIFT SUPERVIOSR THAT HE HAD A SORE BACK.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS3THAT WHILE POUNDING ON BLOW BARS AT PORTABLE CRUSHER A PIECE OF METAL BROKE OFF BAR AND WENT INTO HIS LEFT LEG BETWEEN KNEE AND ANKLE. HE CAME IN TO OFFICE TO REPORT INJURY AND WAITED UNTIL A0TER WORK TO GO TO EMERGENCY. METAL PIECE HAD TO BE REMOVED SURGICALY.

EMPL SHOVELING 8TONE HAD SHARP PIN IN UPPER BACK BETWEEN SHOULDERS.CAME IN TO OFFICE AND WENT TO EMERGENCY RM.

EMP CLAIMS WHIL9 SHOVELING STONE HE THREW BACK OUT, HAS PAIN IN LOWER BACK. TO H.G.S. VIA AMBULANCE EMP ALSO STATES PRIOR BACK PROBLEMS

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS3THAT MATERIAL HE WAS WORKING ON BROKE ALLOWING JACKHAMMER TO SLIP PINCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN IT AND CRUSHER.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS3THAT HE MISSED HIS TARGET WITH HAMMER AND THE OVERSWING RESULTED IN HIS HAND HITTING AGAINST SIDE OF CRUSHER.

EE CLAIMS THAT 4HILE LOADING A PIECE OF CUTTING EDGE OPN BACK OF PICKUP HE SLIPPED ON MUD FALLING WITH CUTTING EDGE CAUSING LACERATIONS TO HIS LEFT HTUMB.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS3THAT SPEED REDUCER ON CONVEYOR SWUNG FREE WHEN HE PULLED OUT A PIN STRIKING & CUTTING THROUGH LEFT EAR

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS3THAT HE RECEIVED AN ELECTRIC SHOCK WHILE PLACING A WELDING ROD IN HOLDER ASSISTING WELDER EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A LADDER AND GFELL OFF LANDING ON LEFT HIP AND WRIST FRACTURIN G BOTH RAIN AND3WET SNOW CONTRIBUTED TO SHOCK

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS3THAT WHILE EXITING LUNCH ROOM HE STEPPED DOWN OUT OF DOORWAY TWISTING HIS ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THAT WHILE GUIDING A SECTION OF ROOF TO BE PLACED FOR LOADING A BERTICAL PIECE OF ANGLE IRON CAUGHT AND SPURNG BACK STRIKING HID FOREHEAD.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THAT WHILE CLIMBING UP LADDER OF HIS 988B CAT LOADER HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF 2ND. RUNG. HIS LEFT FOOT CAME DOWN ON A ROCK CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS LEFT KNEE.