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USING PRY BAR TO UNPLUG FEED HOPPER WHEN EMPL FELT SUDDEN PAIN IN LOWER RIGHT ABDOMEN STRAINING SIDE AGGRAVATING OLD INJURY.
VICTIM WAS CLEANING OFF GRIZZLY SLIPPED & FELL FACE DOWN ON BARS CAUGHT SELF LEFT LEG WAS DOUBLED UNDER VICTIM RIGHT LEG WAS OUT STRAIGHT.
VICTIM WAS IN HOPPER ON TOP OF DIRT USING BAR TO DISLODGE PLUGGED MATERIAL WHEN HE SLIPPED DUE TO MOIST CONDITIONS OF DIRT AND TO STEADY HIMSELF HE GRABBED SIDE OF HOPPER AND PULLED SHOULDER.
VICTIM ESD LIFTING BARREL WHEN SUSTAINED HERNIA IN LEFT GENITAL REGION.
VICTIM WAS HANGING SHELF IN STORAGE TRAILER, SHELF WOULDN\T GO IN PLACE CORRECTLY, REACHED UP WITH LEFT HAND TO ADJUST, SHELF FELL ON RIGHT HAND, BEHIND 2ND KNUCKLE.
VICTIM WAS REPLACING FUEL HOSE TURNED HEAD TOO FAR AGGREVATING OLD INJURY CAUSING PARTIAL PARALYSIS
CRIBBING NEW MILL SITE,STACKING BOULDERS,ONE ROLLED FROM ABOVE PINNING LEFT HANDAGAINST OTHER BOULDER.POSSIBLE FRACTURE OF MIDDLE AND THIRD FINGER CONNECTING BONES.
GIVEN TOO MUCH RESPONSIBILITIES,PRESSURE FOR PRODUCTION,NUMEROUS BREAKDOWNS DUE TO FAULTY EQUIP,RESULTING IN NAUSEA,HEADACHES,ABDOMINAL PAIN.
WAS HITTING RING ON TROMMEL WITH HAMMER, HAMMER GLANCED OFF RING & HIT LEG BELOW KNEE.
AT APPROXIMATELY 6:30 A.M. ON 3/35/83 VICTIM SPILLED GASOLINE ON CLOTHING. WHEN ARRIVE FOR NIGHT SHIFT VICTIM WAS WEARING SAME CLOTHING. AT 9:00 P.M. CLOTHS IGNITED WHILE WORKING IN GENERATOR SHED. APPROXIMATELY 45 MINUTES LATER VICTIM PASSED INTO SHOCK. VICTIM SUSTAINED FIRST DEGREE BURNS ON RIGHT SIDE OF CHEST AND LOWER ABDOMEN.
SELF INFLICTED. STEPPED ON JAGGED ROCK WHILE RUNNING TO SHUT DOWN CONVEYOR BELT AFTER NOTICING MATERIAL SPILLING FROM HEAD OF CONVEYOR.