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EMPL REPAIRING 9OTARY BREAKER,GUARD FELL ON EMPL LEFT LEG CAUSING SERIOUS BRUISES TO HIS LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS DO3NG REPAIRS TO COAL DRYER. THE EMPLOYEE RAISED UP AND STRUCK A PIPE WITH HIS HARD HAT JAMMING HIS NECK.
EMPLOYEE WAS WO9KING ON A SIEVE SCREEN,AFTER CLIMBING UP BESIDE THE SIEVE BOX TO TURN THE SCREEN HE TWISTED AROUND AND FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AND RIGHT LEG.EMPLOYEE COULD POSSIBLY HAVE A DISLOCA7ED DISC IN LOWER BACK.
EMP WAS INSTALL3NG A DRYER WEAR PLATE WHEN HE DROPPED IT ON BOTH HIS FEET TURNING BOTH ANKLES OVER BUT ONLY INJURING RT ANKLE, WHICH RESULTED IN AN ABRASION AND CONTUSION
EMPL PREPARING 8URFACE FOR PAINTING WHEN PIECE OF RUST STRUCK HIM IN LEFT EYE.EMPL WENT TO DR THE NEXT DAY DURING WORKING HOURS AND HAD THE FOREIGN BODY REMOVED FROM LEFT EYE UNDER TOPICAL ANE STHESIA. 3
EMP WAS WORKING3TO UNSTOP A SLURRY LINE GOING FGROM SEPARATOR. THE LINE BECAME UNSTOPPED CAUSING SLURRY TO BE SPLASHED INTO EMP RT EYE. EMP IMMEDIATELY WASHED HIS EYE OUT WHEN THE ACCIDENT HA HAPPENED. EMPLO2EES EYE CONTINUED TO HURT OVER THE WEEKEND HE WENT TO THE DR ON MONDAY 020287
EMPLOYEE WAS CH5NGING BATTERIES IN A ROCK TRUCK. TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES, OTHER EMPLOYEES LIFTED THE BATTERY UP TO EMPLOYEE, WHO LIFTED THE BATTERY UP ONTO THE TRUCK AND THEN MOVED BATTERY INTO PL ACE. WHILE LIFT3NG THE BATTERY, EMPLOYEE STRAINED AND FRACTURED RIGHT ELBOW AND SHOULDER.
EE WAS SHOVELIN1 SLUDGE FROM A SCREEN UNDER THE REFUSE BELT & STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK. RESULTING IN AN ACUTE LUMBAR RADICULAR SYNDROME OF L-4 & L-5.
EMPLOYEE WAS CA9RYING A DRILL PRESS DOWN 4 FLIGHTS OF STEPS TO THE OUTSIDE OF THE PREP PLANT AFTER EMPLOYEE REACHED THE OUTSIDE HE FELT HIS ARM HURTING WHICH RESULTED IN A SPRAIN OF THE RT EL BOW EMPLOYEE DI8 NOT GO THE DR UNTIL 5-27-86
EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE TO LOAD 8D BATTERIES THAT THEY WERE TAKING TO BOOST A BACKHOE AT THE LUKE PREPARATION PLANT WHILE LIFTING THE BATTERIES ONTO A PICKUP TRUCK THE EMPLOYEE RUPTURED HIS L2WER RT ABDOMEN EMPLOYEE WENT TO DR ON 3-20
EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING TO LOAD DRYER PARTS, USED IN THE PREPARATION P ANT, ONTO A SUPPLY TRUCK. WHILE LIFTING THE PARTS THEEMPLOYEE HURT HISRIGHT SIDE REULTING IN STR ETCHED STOMACH 4USCLES. EMPLOYEE DID NOT MISS ANY WORK UNTIL APRIL 18,1986 WHEN HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR AFTER REALIZING THAT HE WAS NOT GETTING BETTER AND HE WAS IN PAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING AND CHECKING SHELVES GETTING READY FOR INVENTORY WHEN SHE PUSHED A PILLOW BLOCK WITH HER RT FOOT ON THE SHELF THE BEARING SLID FASTER THAN SHE EXPECTED CAUSING HER TO HIT HER RT KNEE AG5INST THE SHELF THIS RESULTED IN A STRAIN AND SPRAIN TO RT LEG
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 INSTALLING A NEW BATTERY INTO A 773-B ROCK TRUCK, THE EMPLOYEE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK AS HE WAS LIFTING THE BATTERY INTO THE TRUCK.
EMPLOYEE WAS DO3NG MAINTENANCE WORK IN THE PREPARATION PLANT, WHILE LIFTING SOME HEAVY OBJECTS. I NAME HURT LOWER RIGHT SIDE OF HIS STOMACH WHICH RESULTED IN AN INGUINAL HERNIA. HE DID NOT MI SS ANY WORK TIL3HE ENTERED THE HOPSITAL ON JAN 20 1986 FOR SURGERY TO HAVE THE INGUINAL HERNIA REPAIRED.
EMPLOYEE WAS UNRAVELLING A DRILL CHAIN THAT WAS ON TOP OF THE DRILL HEAD.THE CHAIN SLIPPED STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ACROSS THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS FACE.THIS RESULTED IN A FRACTURE TO THE UPPER LEFT SIDE OF HIS FACE.THIS RESULTED IN A FRACTURE TO THE UPPER LEFT JAW BONE.
EMP WAS IN THE PROCESS OF LOADING POWDER MAGIZINES WHEN THE MAGAZINE SLIPPED AND FELL CAUSING THE CABLE OF THE WINCH TO STRIKE THE LEGS OF EMP KNOCKING HIM OFF THE TRUCK AND OVER THE HILL