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EE WAS DRIVING A MUCKER U/G (#510710) WHEN HE HIT A BUMP, ROCK, OR SOMETHING THAT BOUNCED HIM STRIKING HIS SAFETY GLASSES AGAINST AN UNKNOWN PART OF THE VEHICLE. THIS RESULTED IN HIS SAFETY GL ASS SIDE SHIELD LACERATING HIS LEFT EYE LID. THE LACERATION REQUIRED FOUR STITCHES.
EE WAS DUMPING STEEL TRASH BIN & GUST OF WIND BLEW FOREIGN OBJECT INTO HIS RIGHT EYE
OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS EE'S HEARING HAS DETERIORATED, POSSIBLY RESULT OF WORK RELATED HEARING LOSS
EE STATES THAT HE FELT SOMETHING IN THE EYE AFTER GOING TO BED SUNDAY NIGHT.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING OFF OF TRUCK AND DID NOT NOTICE THAT THE LADDER WAS OFF THE GROUND. HE FELL SIX FEET TO THE GROUND.
EE WAS INVOLVED IN WORK THAT REQUIRED HEAVY LIFTING WHICH AGGRAVATED A HERNIA
EE WAS LIFTING COVER ON CONVEYOR AND DEVELOPED PAIN IN LEFT ELBOW.
EE WAS DRILLING A HOLE WITHA DRILL WHEN THE BIT CAUGHT CAUSING THE DRILL TO SPIN OUT OF THE EE'SHAND
FELL BACKWARDS OFF OF SCAFFOLDING.
TWISTED BACK WHILE LIFTING/TWISTING CONVEYOR COVER.
EE WAS LINING UP PINS ON BREAK-OUT TOOL. TORQUE ARM OF TOOL FELL ON LEFT HAND MASHING HAND-LACERATION TO RING FINGER L HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A LOADER WHEN DOOR OPENEDAND HE REACHED AND CLOSED IT. IN DOING THIS, HE CAUGHT HIS LEFT RING FINGER IN THE DOOR. THIS WAS DIAGNOSED AS A LACERATION AND A FRACTURE OF TH E DISTAL TIP OF HIS FINGER.
EE WAS AT FACE OF A TUNNEL LOADING WHEN A ROCK FELL HITTING HIM. THIS CAUSED CONTUSIONS ON HIS HEAD & LEFT SHOULDER
EE WAS ANTICIPATING A COUPLING OF A DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE WITH A LOCI AND OPENED THE AIR LINE TO THE LOCI. THE AIR LINE ARCED UPWARD AS IT EXHAUSTED AND STRUCK HIM UNDER THE CHIN, CUTTING HIS CHIN .
EMPLOYEE WAS REFILLING WATER TRUCK. A MUCKER TURNED INTO MUD PRESS AND PINNED HIM BETWEEN MUCKER BUCKET AND WATER TRUCK. EMPLOYEE WAS RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL ON 6-24-99.
WHILE EE WAS WORKING ON A CATWALK, A DRUM ROLLED INTO THE OPEN LOADING DOOR. THIS IN TURN PUSHED EE'S HEAD DOWN TO THE CATWALK. HIS CHIN HIT IT CAUSING A LACERATION WHICH TOOL STITCHES TO CLOS E.
EMPLOYEE WAS DESCENDING A LADDER WITH A DRILL INONE HAND WHEN THE LADDER STARTED TO FALL BACKWARDS. EMPLOYEE JUMPED OFF LADDER 5 TO 6 FEET TO THE GROUND LANDING ON THE BALL OF HIS RIGHT FOOT O NTO ROCKY OR UNEVEN GROUND. DIAGNOSIS WAS TWO FRACTURED BONES IN HIS RIGHT FOOT.
EE WAS BARRING DOWN ROCK WHEN ONE OF THE ROCKS CAME OUT AT WAIST LEVEL AND HIT HIS LEFT FOOT. DR. DIAGNOSED THIS AS A LEFT FOOT FRACTURE. EE GIVEN CRUTCHES AND ADVISED NOT TO STEP ON HIS LEFT FOOT.
EE WAS FILLING A WATER TRUCK WITH WATER. WHILE TURNING OFF THE WATER, HE STEPPED DOWN, HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF THE STEP. HE WAS HOLDING ON WITH BOTH HANDS AND HURT HIS RIGHT SHOULDER EE WAS IM MEDIATELY CLEARED FOR LIGHT-DUTY WORK BUT NONE WAS AVAILABLE.
WHILE REMOVING STUFFING BOX FROM LOAT FEED PUMP, EE WAS HOLDING BAR TO BE HIT WITH HAMMER WHEN A SMALL CHIP FLEW OFF THE BAR AND STURCK HIM IN THE CHEST, PENETRATING UNDER THE SKIN.
WHILE EE WAS SHOVELING ROCK INTO A ORE CAR, HIS RIGHT ELBOW STARTED TO BE PAINFUL. HE WENT TO THE DR WHO DIAGNOSED THE PROBLEM AS A RIGHT LATERAL EPICONDYLITIS WHICH HE TREATED WITH AN INJECTI ON. HE WAS ADVISED TO ABSTAIN FROM SHOVELING WHICH COULD AGGREVATE THIS ILLNESS.
EE BUMPED HIS RIGHT ELBOW ON A PIPE RESULTING IN A CONTUSION. HE OBTAINED MEDICAL CARE FOR THIS AND RETURNED TO WORK. AFTER A FEW MONTHS HIS ELBOW AGAIN BECAME A MEDICAL PROBLEM. AS OF 5-19-99 HE WAS RESTRICTED TO NO USE OF HIS RIGHT ARM. THIS WE COULD NOT ACCOMODATE. ON 5-19-99 HIS ILLNESS BECAME REPORTABLE AND LOST TIME.
EE RECEIVED A CUT ON HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER WHILE WORKING ON A ENGINE AND TRYING TO RESET THE STARTER..LACERATION REQUIRED STITCHES.
EE STEPPED IN A WATER PUDDLE AND FELT HIS LEFT KNEE POP.
GRADUAL HEARING LOSS OVER TIME.
EE HAD HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER PINCHED BETWEEN A PIPE AND A 4" HEADER PIPE. THIS CAUSED A NAIL AVULSION OF THE FINGER NAIL WHICH POPPED UP. STITCHES WERE USED TO HOLD THE NAIL BACK INTO THE NA IL FOLD.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT WHILE HE WAS UNDER THE HOODOF A TRUCK, FIXING THE HOOD ATTACHMENT, HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A FAN TO BE HUNG WHEN EITHER DUST OR RUST BLEW PAST HIS GLASSES INTO HISLEFT EYE. CO-WORKERS TRIED TO FLUSH IT OUT TO NOAVAIL. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE BERGEN PARK MED ICAL CLINIC WHERE DR. BREKHUS TREATEDHIM. FULL RELEASE WAS GIVEN WITH NO FOLLOW-UP REQUIRED.
GRADUAL HEARING LOSS OVER TIME.
A ROCK FELL ON EMPLOYEE STRIKING HIS HARDHAT AND THE TOP BACK OF HIS SHOULDERS. COMP DR DETERMINED THIS TO BE A CONTUSION TO HIS NECK AND SHOULDERS.
EMPLOYEE WAS A PASSENGER IN A BUGGY WHEN IT JERKED AHEAD CAUSING HIM PAIN AND DISCOMFORT IN HIS NECK AND UPPER BACK AREA. REFERED TO A CHIROPRACTIC DOCTOR FOR TREATMNT. X-RAYS WERE NEGATIVE AT THE COMP. DOCTORS OFFICE. THIS INJURY WAS DIAGNOSED AS A CERVICAL STRAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING DOOR TO THE MINE WHEN THE DOOR SLAMMED HIS HAND BETWEEN THE DOOR AND THE DOOR FRAME.
EE WAS WORKING IN ELECTRICAL WIRES WHEN HIS HANDTOUCHED A LIVE WIRE SHOCKING HIM, HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL & GIVE A RELEASE WHEN THEY FOUND NO INJURY. THE COMP DR GAVE HIM A FULL RELEASE HE NOW IS HAVING PROBLEMS SCIATICA & HAS BEEN RX6 VISITS TO PHYSICAL THERAPY. HE HAS NOW BECOME REPORTABLE FOR MSHA PURPOSES.
EE HAD SOME ROCKS FALL & HIT HIM SCRATCHING HIS BACK CAUSING SCRATCHING HIS BACK AND HITTING HISLEFT ELBOW CAUSING A LACERATION. THIS REQAUIRED 8 STITCHES. HE WAS GIVEN A RELEASE TO COME BACK TO WORK WITH STIPULATION TO KEEP WOUND CLEAN & DRY
EE WAS BARRING DOWN WHEN A ROCK ROLLED AND HIT HIM IN THE RIGHT KNEE AND LOWER LEG. EXAMINATION AT ST. ANTHONY'S HOSPITAL SHOWED THERE TO BE NO FRACTURES.
EE WAS OPERATING A VEHICLE (#904-1700 LOADER), AND AFTER GETTING IN, SHUT DOOR CATCHING THE TIP OF HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN DOOR AND FRAME. THIS RESULTED IN A AMPUTATION OF THE TIP OF HI S FINGER BACK TO THE BASE OF THE FINGERNAIL.
EE WAS LIFTING 6' LONG STEEL BOLTS INTO A BUCKET WHEN HE FELT A "POP" IN HIS ABDOMINAL AREA. DIAGNOSED AS A POSSIBLE HERNIA.
EE SLIPPED ON ICE, FALLING ON RIGH KNEE. FRACURED THE RIGHT KNEECAP
EE WHILE WORKING WITH HAND AND AIR TOOLS HAD SOME DEBRIS FALL PAST SAFETY GLASSES AND INTO HIS LEFT EYE. THIS WAS DIAGNOSED AS A FOREIGN BODY AND CORNEAL ABRASION TO HIS LEFT EYE.
EE CAUGHT RIGHT INDEX FINGER TIP IN A VEHICLE DOOR. DIAGNOSED AS A FRACTURE.
AFTER ARRIVING AT WORK, EE GOT OUT OF VEHICLE & WENT AROUND TO PASSENGER SIDE TO GET LUNCHBOX. HE WENT OT OPEN THE DOOR & LOST HIS FOOTING CAUSING HIM TO TWIST & JERK & FALL & PULLED LIGAMENT IN LOWER BACK
EE WAS USING STEAM CLEANER WHEN SOME SEEPED INTO HIS BOOT BURNING HIS RIGHT FOOT
GRADUAL HEARING LOSS OVER TIME.
EE WAS BEING LOWERED IN A MANBASKET DURING A TRAINING EXERCISE WHEN HE BECAME FRIGHTENED AND CLENCHED HIS TEETH CAUSING A BACK MOLAR TO CHIP REQUIRING A CROWN.
EE COMPLAINED OF PROBLEM WITH HIS LEFT ELBOW WHEN HE WENT TO THE DR TO HAVE HIS RIGHT ELBOW CHECKED. HIS RIGHT ELBOW HAS FLARED UP AGAIN AS IN THE PAST.
AS EE WAS DESENDING A MUCK PILE OF ROCK, HE STEPPED ON THE POINT OF ONE OF THE ROCKS. THIS BEGAN TO HURT AND LATER WAS DIAGNOSED AS A FOOT SPRAIN.
EE WAS LIFTING A HEAVY JACK AND ALSO TWISTED WHICH RESULTED IN A MUSCLE SPASM. DR. DIAGNOSED THIS AS A SPASM OF THE RIGHT TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE AND REFERRED HIM TO PHYSICAL THERAPY.
EE BUMPED HIS RIGHT ELBOW WHICH WAS INFLAMED AND APPEARED TO POSSIBLY BE INFECTED. CO DR WITHDREW SOME FLUID TO CHECK AT LAB. RELEASED BACK TO WORK.
LABORER BENT DOWN TO CLEAN OFF BLUE TOP & LOADERRAN OVER HIS FOOT. CRUSH INJURY TO RIGHT FOOT
LOWER BACK PAIN WHICH EE CONTRIBUTES TO WEARING A HEAVY TOOL BELT.