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EMPLOYEE WAS PALLETIZING TRAYS AND 12/5 LB BALES OF SALT. EMPLOYEE TURNED TO PUT A TRAY ON PALLET AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND HIP.

EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING 50 LB BAGS OF SALT ON PALLETS WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. EMPLOYEE WAS PLACED ON LIGHT DUTY.

EE WAS REMOVING PLYWOOD FROM PRODUCT IN LOADING OF A RAILCAR. SPLINTER ENTERD THE LITTLE FINGER OF LEFT HAND NEAR THE NAIL ON TOP OF FINGER. EE REMOVED SPLINTER, FINGER BECAME ABCESSED. WENT T O DR. ON 9-1-94.

EE WAS PLACING PALLET ON TURNTABLE AT BLOCK PRESS. EE TWISTING INSTEAD OF MOVING FEET. THE PALLET WAS EMPTY.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING OVERHEAD INTO CEMENT, PUT TING IN ANGLE IRON. WHEN HE PULLED THE DRILL OUT OF THE HOLE, SOMETHING FELL INTO HIS RIGHT EYEIT BECAME IRRITATED AND HE WENT TO THE DR. 3-19- 94. HE PRESCRIBED PAIN MEDICATION AND PRESCRIPTION EYE DROPS.

WHILE WORKING IN THE MINE THIS MECHANIC DROPPED A STEEL SUBASSEMBLY ON HIS HAND AND CRACKED A BONE. THE INCIDENT WAS NOT, AT FIRST BELIEVED TO BE REPORTABLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP 50 LB BAG THAT FELL OFF MIMA STRETCH WRAPPER. ALSO, SHE WAS PUTTING PLYWOOD SHEETS ON FINISHED LOADS OF PELLETS. SHE APPARENTLY RE-AGGRAVATED A PREVIOUS RITHT SHOULDER INJURY/SURGERY. PREVIOUS INJURY HAD OCCURRED 8/15/92. SHE ALSO HAD BEEN OPERATING FORKLIFT IN REVERSE.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A WEDGED CAP BETWEEN SEAT CHAIN & RAIL SUPPORT BLADE WITH RIGHT HAND. AS EMPLOYEE REACHED TO REMOVE CAP LOOKED AWAY. DURING LOOKING AWAY FINGER GOT TOO CLOSE TO SEAT CH AIN & FINGER WAS CAUGHT IN MOVING SEAT CHAIN OR CAUGHT BETWEEN SEAT CHAIN & RAIL SUPPORT BLADE ADJACENT TO SEAT CHAIN. LACERATION SUSTAINED TO MIDDLE FINGER RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE TOLD SUPERVISOR HIS BACK WAS SORE ON 10/26/93, BUT HE THOUGHT IT WAS DUE TO WATERBED BECAUSE HIS BACK DID NOT BOTHER HIM AT WORK. ON 10/27/93 AND 10/28/93, EMPLOYEE SACKED ON THE AUTO MATIC LINE WHICH DOES NOT REQUIRE MANUAL PALLETIZING OF BAGS. EMPLOYEE WAS SCHEDULED (NORMAL DAYS OFF) OFF ON 10/29 AND 10/30. HE WAS SCHEDULED TO WORK 10/31/93, BUT CALLED IN SICK. ON 11/1 S

EMPLOYEE HURT HIS BACK PALLETIZING 50 LB BAGS. EMPLOYEE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTIION UNTIL 8-26-93/

EMPLOYEE LEANED OVER A DESK TO OBSERVE SOME PAPER WORK WITH A CO-WORKER WHEN HE FELT HIS BACK POP.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING THE CASEER IN THE CAN LINE BACK OVER TO RUN REGULAR CASES AFTER RUNNING 12 PACKS (HALF CASES) WHEN HE WAS SETTING THE BLANK ADJUSTMENT BRACKET IN PLACE IT BECAME STUCK HE MOVED IT BACK & FORTH TO FREE IT & IT CAME LOOSE & FELL ON HIS FOURTH FINGER LEFT HAND PINNING FINGER BETWEEN TWO BRACKETS EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED A FRACTURE OF DISTAL PHALANYX FOURTH FINGER LEFT

EMPLOYEE WAS RESTACKING 50# BAGS. AS HE WAS PULLING THE BAG FROM THE STACK OF BAGS HE FELT A PAIN IN THE LOWER BACK.

RAIL CAR DOOR WAS STUCK AND WOULD NOT MOVE. EE AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE TRYING TO GET DOOR UNSTUCK BY ROCKING DOOR. THE DOOR CAME FREE ALL AT ONCE AND THE BOTTOM OF THE DOOR STRUCK THE TOP OF EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT FOOT, BRUISING FOOT. FOOT SWELLED AND EMPLOYEE COULD NOT GET SAFETY SHOE ON, SO WAS GIVEN TRAINING (LIGHT DUTY) THE FOLLOWING DAY.

EE HAD STACKED APPROX. 100 SALT BLOCKS WEIGHTING 50 LBS EACH AS HE WAS TAKING A BLOCK OFF OF TABLE HE FELT A PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND IT POPPED AT THE SAME TIME LOW BACK STRAIN.

EMPLOYEE WENT TO THE AUTOMATIC PALLETIZER TO CLEAR PALLETS THAT WERE HUNG UP I NPALLET DISPENSER. HE OBSERVED A PALLET WHICH WAS PLACED AT AN ANGLE IN THE DISPENSER, WITH 8 PALLETS ABOVE. WH EN HE PUSHED THE PALLET IN, THE PALLETS ABOVE DROPPED, CATCHING HIS LEFT THUMB BETWEEN THE PALLETS AND FINGER OF DISPENSER. EMPLOYEE BRUISED THUMB ON LEFT HAND, WITH A MINOR CUT TO BOTH SIDE

EE WAS PULLING A JAMMED CASE BLANK OUT OF THE DIABLO CASE PACKER THE GLUE HAD BEEN APPLIED TO THE TOP GLUE FLAP. AS THE JAMMED CASE CAME LOOSE, IT FLIPPED THE GLUE FROM THE FLAP INTO EE S FACE AND GLUE RAN INTO EE RIGHT EYE. EE WAS WEARING REQUIRE EYE PROTECTION AT TIME AND EYE WAS FLUSHED OUT BUT ON 1/19/93 EYE WAS STILL RED AND EE WAS SENT TO DR THIS WAS A WATER BASED GLUE.

EMPLOYEE SCOOPED SALT FOR ABOUT 3 HOURS AND THEN BAGGED AND PALLETIZED SALT BAGS THE BALANCE OF THE SHIFT. AFTER HE WENT HOME, HIS BACK AND BUTTOCK BECAME VERY STIFF AND SORE.

EMPLOYEE WAS FILLING & LEADING BAGS INTO THE SEWING HEAD WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT WRIST SAME DISCOMFORT HE HAS EXPERIENCED BEFORE

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING BETWEEN TURNTABLE AND BLOCK CONVEYOR. FORKLIFT OPERATOR WAS SETTING IN PALLETS, WHEN HE BACKED UP HE MOVE THE PALLETS. HE SET THE BLOCK DOWN ON THE PALLET THEN PICKED IT BACK UP AND PLACED IT ON THE BLOCK CONVEYOR. THIS CAUSED A POP IN THE LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING 50LB SALT BAGS FROM TABLE & PLACING THEM ON A PALLET AS HE REACHED TO PLACE A BAG ON THE TOP LAYER ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF PALLET HE SPRAINED A MUSCLE IN MIDBACK ON LEFT SI DE

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING 50 LB SALT BLOCKS FROMT EH HPM PRESS DISCHARGE CONVEYOR AND PLACING THEM ON A PALLET. DURING THE ACTIVITY, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LEFT WRIST WHICH MADE IT VERY DIFF ICULT TO CONTINUE THE TASK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLOSING THE OUTER DOOR ONT HE FREIGHT ELEVATOR AND AS A RESULT OF NOT USING THE PULL STRAPS PROVIDED, GOT HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TWO SECTIONS OF THE DOOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS CATCHING 50 LB SALT BAGS AT #6 SEWING STATION AND STACKING THEM ON A PALLET WHEN HE FELT A "POP" IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. AS A RESULT, HIS RIGHT SHOULDER STARTED HURTING HIM. HE WAS PLACED ON RESTRICTED DUTY DUE TO INJURY.

54736YEE WAS PALLETIZING 80 LB BAGS.A DAMAGED BAG CAME DOWN THE CHUTE AND EMPLOYEE TOOK THE BAG INTO THE BAGGING MACHINE AREA.HE DUMPED THE CONTENTS INTO ANOTHER BAG,UPON RETURNING TO THE PALL 53999NG AREA HE NOTICED SOME BACK PAIN.

54736YEE WAS DUMPING A WASTE SALT HOPPER INTO THE DISSOLVING TANK THE HOPPER DID NOT COMPLETELY EMPTY OUT EMPLOYEE DID NOT SEE THIS & WAS UNAWARE OF THE FACT THAT THERE WAS SALT IN THE HOPPER 13038IS TIME SHE PULLED THE HOPPER BACK DOWN INTO THE LATCHED POSITION OVER EXERTING HER RT ARM & SHOULDER EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A ROTATOR CUFF INJURY TO HER RT SHOULDER & ARM HER ARM WAS PUT IN A

STACKING BAGS ON SALT

EMPLOYEE WAS FILLING BAGS AT THE SALT SCALES AND FEEDING THEM INTO THE SEWING HEAD AND FELT PAIN IN THE LEFT WRIST AND THUMB WHICH HE HAD COMPLAINED OF FOR A COUPLE DAYS. THE PAIN IS SIMILAR T O THE DISCOMFORT HE EXPERIENCED IN NOVEMBER OF 1991 WHICH DID NOT REQUIRE MEDICAL ATTENTION. ON 7-8-92, EE WANTED TO SEE A DOCTOR. THE DOCTOR PUT THE EE ON RESTRICTED DUTY FOR ONE WEEK, THEN

EMPLOYEE HAD JUST RETURNED (6/25/92) FROM A PRIOR HAND INJURY AND WAS ALTERNATING SEALING AND THROWING 80 LB. POLY PELLET BAGS OF SALT WITH TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES. THESE EMPLOYEES STACKED AND EST IMATED 350-400 BAGS DURING THE SHIFT. EE STATED HIS SHOULDER WAS SORE AND ATTRIBUTED IT TO LACK OF USE AND DID NOT REPORT THE PROBLEM UNTIL 7/1/92, WHEN HE CALLED HIS FOREMAN AT 7:45 AM.

INJ R SHOULDER PULLED ON DOOR

EMPLOYEE NOTIFIED HIS SUPERVISOR THAT HE WAS EXPERIENCING LOWER BACK PAIN, BUT DID NOT NEED MEDICAL ATTENTION. ON 4-2-92, EMPLOYEE STATED HIS BACK WAS STILL BOTHERING HIM AND HE WANTED MEDICA L ATTENTION. EMPLOYEES NORMAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDE SEWING BAGS, PALLETIZING BAGS AND OPERATING A FORKLIFT. WE ARE UNAWARE WHICH OF THESE ACTIVIITIES MAY HAVE CAUSED HIS BACK PROBLEM.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON THE ELMS PRESS FELT AREA AROUND SHOULDER BLAD TIGHTEN UP. THE EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A STRAINED MUSCLE IN LEFT SHOULDER BLADE AREA.

PULLED A PALLET OFF A STACK. AS THE PALLET FELL TO THE GROUND, HE WAS BACKING UP AND STRUCK AN I-BEAM. HE THEN COULD NOT GET HIS FOOT OUT OF THE WAY. THE PALLET STRUCK HIS LEFT FOOT CAUSING AN INCISION AND FRACTURE.

ON 01-07-92 AT 3:00PM EMPLOYEE WAS GIVEN A 3 DAY DISCIPLINARY SUSPENSION WITHOUT PAY ON 01-09-92 EMPLOYEE CALLED RECEPTIONIST & SAID HIS BACK HURT LATER HE CALLED THE FOREMAN & SAID HIS BACK HURT THAT HE HAD WOKE UP WEDNESDAY MORNING WITH IT TENDER EMPLOYEE STATED IT MAY HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY SCOOPING SALT OR IT COULD HAVE BEEN THE SWEEPER HITTING HOLES IN THE FLOOR HE SAID HIS BACK

EE WAS CLOSING THE OUTSIDE DOOR ON A RAIL CAR WHILE STANDING BETWEEN THE CAR AND BUILDING AFTER THE EE UNLATCHED THE DOOR, HE GAVE THE DOOR A PUSH AND AS A RESULT GOT HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON RIGH T HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN THE DOOR OF CAR AND CAR, CAUSING A LACERATION WHICH REQUIRED 4 STITCHES TO CLOSE.

EE WAS HANGING 50 LB BAGS WHEN HE TRIED TO CATCH ONE BAG AND FELT A PULL IN HIS BACK.

KNEE GAVE OUT WHILE PALLETIZING BAGS

LOADING BAGS OF SALT SUFFERED BACK STRAIN

PICKED UP PALLET FELT PULL IN BACK

EE WAS TAKING 50 LB SALT BLOCKS FROM TABLE IN FRONT OF BLOCK PRESS AND STACKING THEM ON A PALLET THAT WAS 27INCH OFF OF THE FLOOR, WHEN HE BEGAN COMPLAINING OF PIAN IN HIS HIP. WHEN FOREMAN AN D EE GOT TO EMERGENCY RM, EE SAID HIS WRISTS WERE ALSO HURTING.

EMPL HAD PICKED UP EMPTY BARREL WITH TOP OUT & PLACED IT ON PALLET. HE SAW BARREL WAS ON EDGE OF PALLET & GRABBED TOP OF BARREL TO CENTER IT ON PALLET. AS HE MOVED BARREL HE CAUGHT TWO FINGERS ON ROUGH EDGE THAT HAD BEEN LEFT WHEN TOP WAS CUT OUT. EMPL WAS NOT WEARING ANY TYPE OF HAND PROTECTION.

EMPLOYEE HAD JUST COMPLETED THE PALLETIZING OF A PALLET, WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN ABDOMINAL AREA. EMPLOYEE BELIEVED IT TO BE HIS APPENDIX. DOCTOR'S FINDINGS WAS A STRAINED LOWER ABOMINAL MUSCLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING 50LB SALT BLOCKS ON PALLETS.HE PICKED UP A BLOCK OFF OF THE TABLE AND TURNED TO SET IT ON A PALLET,WHEN HE FELT A PAIN INLOWER BACK.EMPLOYEE WAS PLACED ON LIGHT DUTY.

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO TIE SHOE FELT PAIN IN BACK. BEGAN TO MISS WORK ON 7-1-91.

EE REPORTED PAIN IN HIS RIGHT ELBOW ON 6-19-91. EE STATES HE WAS LOADING TOP LAYER OF CASES ON A PALLET. AS HE LIFTED THE CASE, HIS RIGHT ELBOW BEGAN HURTING SO HE REQUESTED SEEING DR EE SAID HIS ELBOW HAD BEEN HURTING FOR AWEEK. EE WAS SENTO TO DR ON 6-19-91.

EMPLOYEE WAS CATCHING 50 LB SALT BAGS ON PICKING TABLE AND LOADING THEM ON WOODEN PALLETS. AS HE REACHED FOR A BAG COMING DOWN THE DISCHARGE CHUTE, HIS LEFT HAND STRUCK THE FRONT EDGE OF THE C HUTE, CAUSING A HAIR LINE FRACTURE TO LEFT RING FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS ENGAGED IN MIXING A CHARGE OF IODIZED PREMIX. AS HE BENT OVER THE PICK UP A 50 LB BAG OF PREMIX, WHICH WAS ON THE BOTTOM LAYER ON WOODEN PALLET SETTING ON THE FLOOR, HE FELT A PAI N IN HIS BACK AS HE PICKED THE BAG UP. EMPLOYEE THOUGHT HE COULD WORK THE PAIN OUT, HOWEVER ON 5-6-91, HE REQUESTED MEDICAL TREATMENT.

EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN ENGAGED IN SHOVELING PILES OF SALT & MINICUBE FROM THE FLOOR INTO WASTE SALT CARTS THESE CARTS ARE THEN DUMPED BY HAND INTO THE DISSOLVING TANK DURING THE ACTIVITIES THE EMPL OYEE HAS DEVELOPED PAIN IN THE RT SHOULDER

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRING A GALLON OF ELECTRICAL SOLVENT (TOLUENE UN1294) IN AN UNCOVERED 5 GALLONG BUCKET. AS HE WAS ENTEREING A DOORWAY, ANOTHER EMPLOYEE CAME OUT OF THE DOOR, BUMPING EMPLOYEE W ITH SOLVENT IN BUCKET. SOLVENT SPLASHED IN EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT EYE, CAUSING CHEMICAL IRRITATION TO EYE. EMPLOYEE IS ISSUED PRESCRIPTION EYE DROPS FROM EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTOR.

THE EMPLOYEE INDICATED HIS BACK HAD BEEN TIGHTENING UP OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS.HE COULD NOT TIE IT TO ONE SPECIFIC INCIDENT.THE PAIN GOT PROGRESSIVELY WORSE,TO THE POINT HE COULDN'T STAND O R SIT WITHOUT PAIN.