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DOING NORMAL DUTIES. NOTHING UNUSUAL. PICKING UP AND MOVING 50# BAGS OF PIGMENT, LOADING BLENDER WITH PIGMENT FOR SLURRY BATCHES. LOWER BACK STARTED HURTING AND WENT HOME AT ABOUT MIDNIGHT. BA CK HAS BEEN BOTHERING HIM FOR ABOUT SIX MONTHS.

EE WAS GREASING EQUIPMENT GREASE HOSE GOT CAUGHT CINDER LOADES TIRE. EE ATTEMPTED TO JERK HOSE FROM UNDER TIRE RESULTING IN PAIN TO LEFT SHULDER. ACCIDENT WAS NOT REPORTED UNTIL 3-31-99 500 PM EE WENT TO DR THIS DATE FOR X RAY WHICH WAS NEGATIVE RECIEVED PRESCRIPTION MEDICAITON.

INITIAL REPORT LIFTING BAGS OF PIGMENT STRAIN RIGHT CHEST MUSCLE

EE WAS REMOVING DUST CONTROL WATER HOSE FROM SECONDARY CRUSHER WHENA PIECE OF ROCK WENT UNDER SAFETY GLASSES AND BECOME LODGED IN UPPER EYELID IN LEFT EYE. MATERIAL WAS REMOVED AT PLANT. EE RE QUESTED TOHAVE A DR LOOK AT HIS EYE. EE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES WITH THE SIDE SHIELD PROTECTION

EE WAS LIFTING A 30 LB CARTON FROM A TABLE TO PLACE IT ON A SHELF, WHILE MOVING THE ARTON, IT SLIPPED FROM EE S HAND. AS EE TRIED TO STOP CARTON FROM FALLING, HE FELT A SLIGHT DISCOMFORT IN HI S NECK AND LEFT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING A GRANULE INVENTORY. HE HAD TO REMOVE THE LID FROM TANK 14. HE HAD A FLOODLIGHT IN HIS RIGHT HAND, BENT HIS KNEES SLIGHTLY, LEANED OVER AND LIFTED LID WITH HIS LEFT HAND. A S HE RAISED UPRIGHT, HE FELT A SHARP, STABBING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER AND WAS ATTEMPTING TO PICK UPA TOGGLE SEAT RESULTING IN INJURY TO LOWER BACK.TOGGLE SEAT WEIGHT APPROX. 50 LBS.

TWO MEN WERE CARRYING AN ELEVATOR HOOD. THEY ATTEMPTED TO PLACE IT ON THE HANDRAIL TO GET A REST AND EE'S LITTLE FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE HANDRAIL AND THE ELEVATOR HOOD FRAME. A FRACTURE RESULTED. THEY WERE WORKING IN TIGHT QUARTERS WITHE A HEAVY METAL HOOD.

WHILE CHANGING OIL IN HYD. TANK OF THE RT 65 GROVE CARNE, THE EMPLOYEE UNSCREWED THE 2 IN. DRAIN PLUG. THE OIL SPRAYED OUT LIKE UNDER PRESSURE AND SOME SPRAYED ON EMPLOYEE. SOME OIL SPRAYED IN TO HIS RIGHT EYE.

INJURED PICKED UP AND THREW A FEW #20LB ROCKS AND RAISED A 4-STEP HINGED STAIRWAY ABOUT 1 HOUR BEFORE FEELING PAIN IN LOWER BACK. THE DR. DIAGNOSED HIS SITUATION AS A MUSCLE SPASM AND ARTHRIT IS AND PRESCRIBED IBUPROFEN 600 MG., CYCLOBENZPRINE, AND ONE WEEK OFF WORK.

HE WAS SHOVELING ROCK SPILLAGE FROM BEHIND THE GYRADISE. A FEW HOURS AFTER HIS SHIFT ENDED HIS BACK FELT VERY STIFF AND SORE. THE PAIN PERSISTED BUT AT GREATER OR LESSER LEVELS UNTIL HE DECIDE D TO SEEK A MEDICAL OPINION ON 9-20-93.

EE WAS LIFTING FILLED 8FT PLASTIC PIPE HURREDLY IN ORDER TO PREVENT A SHUTDOWN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWERBACK WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO MAKE HIS SECOND LIFT HE SUFFERED A LOWER BACK STRAIN & WAS TRE ATED BY DR IN ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL & RELEASED TO DO LIGHT DUTY WORK

WHILE ADUSTING FORKS ON FORKLIFT THE RIGHT FORK HUNG UP ONT HE BENT FORK PIN INCREASING ITS RESISTANCE TO THE LIFTING AND PULLING FORCES BEING EXERTED.

CLEANING WINDOWS ON CRANE, WHILE DISMOUNTING CRANE TWISTED LOWER BACK. PULLED TENDONS IN LOWER BACK.

HE WAS HELPING ANOTHER MAN LIFT A WINDOW TYPE AIR-CONDITIONER INTO AN OPENING IN THE WALL OF THE CONTROL TRAILER, WHEN HE TWISTED AND HURT HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE CAME IN OFFICE FOR PAY CHECK AND HE HANDED IT TO HIM WHEN HE REACHED FOR IT HIT HIS HAND ON BX DECK DRAWER & CUT HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN CRUDE ROCK PIT HOOKING UP SUMP PUMP TO 1 1/4" PVC PIPE WHILE HOLDING ONTO PVC PIPE WITH RIGHT HAND AND SHOVING HOSE INTO PIPE WIRE BROKE HOLDING PIPE AND GIVE WAY SPRAINING HIS RIGHT WRIST.