EMPLOYEE NOTICED A WATER LEAK IN A SMALL WATER PIPE. EMPLOYEE DECIDED TO PUT COUPLING ON TO STOP LEAK. HE WAS TIGHTENING SCREWS WHEN HE STATED THAT HE FELT WRIST POP.
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Showing all 11EE WAS LIFTING THE FOOT ON THE OUTRIGGER OF CRANE TO PUT PIN IN AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS SPREADING HOT ASPHALT AND STOOD ON HOT ASPHALT UNDERTERMINED LENGTH OF TIME. RESULTED IN BURNS & BLISTERS ON BOTH FEET.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING BELT DRESSING ON DRY SCRUBBER BELTS-BELT BROKE AND BRUISED FOREARM.
EMPTYING OIL FROM OIL DRAIN PAN - OTHER SIDE SLIPPED AND CUT RIGHT HAND - BETWEEN THUMB AND 1ST FINGER.
WHILE IN SCREENING PROCESS FOR SAND, HE PLACED HAND IN PILE OF SAND AND SATURES TO THE TIP OF FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS RO5LING UP A HOSE ON HIS GREASE TRUCK WHEN HIS LITTLE FINGER GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE REEL & MOUNTING BRACKET
EMPLOYEE WAS MO5ING ANGLE IRON FROM PICKUP TRUCK TO WORK AREA AND IN LAYING THE METAL DOWN IT CAUGHT FINGER ON RIGHT INDEX BETWEEN METAL AND CUT FINGER DOWN BESIDE OF NAIL AREA AND SORT OF MAS HED THE END OF 8AME FINGER.
LIFTED LONG PIPE TO UNCLOG THE SAND OUT OF IT AND WHEN LIFTING PIPE PULLED LOWER BACK MUSCLES
EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN CLEANING A GEAR BOX WITH AIR AND HAD GOTTEN DIRT AND GRIME ON HIS FACE AND WITH SWEATING LOOSE MATTER HAD GETTEN IN HIS LRIGHT EYE. IT REALLY DIDN\T BOTHER HIM UNTIL THE NIGH T OF AND IT SCATCHED HIS EYE, EYELID WAS SWELLED NEXT MORNING. EYE WAS WASHED AND SENT TO EYE DOCTOR. TWO GRAINS OF MATTER WHERE REMOVED FROM EYE CORNEAL, GIVEN EYE DROPS AND RETURNED BACK T
EMPLOYEE WAS UNCLOGGING LARGE PIPE AND CAUGHT FOOT BETWEEN PIPE AND WALKWAY HAD HARD TOE SHOES ON BUT BRUISED FOOT VESIDE EDGE OF METAL TOE END OF FOOT X-RAYS SHOW NO DISLOCATIONS OR FRACTURES ONLY SPRAIN CONTUSION RT FOOT TREATMENT ELEVATION ICE PACK AND REST NO IMPAIRMENT