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EMPLOYEE WAS USING A 16LB. SLEDGE HAMMER TO LOOSEN WEDGES ON CONE CRUSHER. HE HAD BEEN RUNNING AROCK BREAKER AND THE PAIN HAD REALLY GOTTEN WORSE.

EE WAS CUTTING WIPERS FOR HEAD PULLEY WHEN THE CUTTER SLIPPED AND CUTH THE FLESHY AREA BELOW THE THUMB. HE WENT IN FOR STITCHES AND THE ACCIDENT WAS TREATED AS FIRST AID. BY CONTINUING TO USE IT AT WORK AND DIRT BIKES IT WAS NOT HEALING RIGHT WHEN HE WENT IN TO HAVE STITCHES REMOVE. THE DR REQUESTED HE TAKE THREE DAYS OFF AND COME BACK ON FRIDAY.

30 YEARS OF OPERATING HAS EFFECTED HIS LOWER BACK AND CHIROPRACTOR HE WENT TO SAID IT WAS PINCHED NERVE FROM BEING ON HEAVY DUTY EQUIP. IT HAS NOT IMPROVED AND WE FEEL HE SHOULD HAVE IT CHECKE D OUT BY A MEDICAL DR.

WHILE SHOVELING OVERFLOW MATERIAL FROM UNDER ANDNEAR CONVEYOR UP ONTO CONVEYOR, EMP SMACKED HANDAGAINST CONVEYOR. WAS TREATED AS FIRST AID INJURY AT TIME. WAS ONLY A BRUISE AND SWELLING. OVER TIME INJURY DID NOT HEAL. EMP WENT TO DR, WITH RESULT OF A CARPAL TUNNEL PROBLEM FROM A PREVIOUSINJURY.

EE JAMED RT THUMB BACKWARDS WORKING ON SAND CONVEYOR BELT HED DONE IT BEFORE ABOUT A MONTH AGO BUT DIDNT THINK MUH ABOUT IT IT DIDNT SEEM TO GET BETTER DOC PUT HIM ON RESTRICTED DUTY NO MILLRI GHT WORK FOR TWO (2) WEEKS

IN SWINGING SLEDGE HAMMER EE STRAINED MUSCLES AND THREW HIS BACK OUT AT TIME OF THIS REPORT HE HAS BEEN PUT ON RESTRISTED DUTY FOR 45 DAYS BY HIS DOCTOR.