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EMPLOYEE SPRAINED HIS LOWER BACK WHILE PULLING ON A 6" WATER HOSE WHILE SETTING UP WATER PUMP.
EE WAS CHAINGING DOWN A SET OF TIRES ON A FLAT BED TRAILER. HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND WAS TWISTED IN THE CHAIN, BREAKING A BONE IN HIS LEFT FOOT.
WAS HIT ON LEFT KNEE BY A 55 GALLON DRUM OF OIL THAT WAS SWINGING ON A BOOM CABLE.
EMPL WAS REPAIRING PLASTIC PIPE THAT RUNS TO WASH PLANT. WHEN LINE WAS PULLED APART IT SNAPPED AROUMD & SMALL AMOUNT OF SODIM HYDROXIDE IN PIPE NOT IN RIGHT EYE & ON FACE. EMPL FAILED TO REPOR T ACCIDENT TO OFFICE AT TIME OF INJURY.
EE WAS UNCHAINING A DOZER FROM THE LOW-BOY TRUCK TRAILER, WHEN EE KNELT DOWN EE PUT HIS KNEE CAP ON A SHARP ROCK WHICH IMMEDIATELY CAUSED HIM TO JERK UP QUICKLY AND IN DOING SO, EE HIT THE SAM E KNEE (LEFT) ON THE CORNER OF THE TRAILER CAUSIING SOME PAIN, SWELLING AND A BRUISE.
HE WAS HOOKING UP AUGERS IN THE MIDDLE OF AUGER PILE. THE PILE SHIFTED AND HIS RIGHT LEG GOT PINNED BETWEEN TWO AUGERS.
KEIM WAS PREPARING TO CHANGE CUTTING EDGES ON SCRAPER. A CHUNK OF FROZEN GROUND FELL FROM THE APRON STRIKING KEIM ON THE LEFT HIP. HE WAS ADMITED TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TESTS AND OBSERVATION AND RELEASED.