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EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING LARGE, HEAVY HOOKS FROM CHAIN USED TO MOVE GRANITE. HE'S NOT SURE WHAT HE DID.....TURNED WRONG OR SOMETHING WHILE HANDLING THE HOOKS DR. SAID EMPLOYEE HAS A COMPRESSED DI SC.
EMPL PICKING UP ROCK AND STRUCK HAND ON ANOTHER ROCK.
INJ WAS MOVING 8TEEL AND GOT HIS HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO PIECES OF STEEL WHEN ATTEMPTING TO SET IT DOWN
HE WAS CARRYING3A METAL CABLE AND GOT A SLIVER THIS HAPPENED SOMETIME IN NOVEMBER HE GOT THE SLIVER OUT BUT THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHING LEFT IN TGHE WOUND BECAUSE IT GOT BADLY INFECTEDC AND NEEDED MEDICAL3TREATMENT AND ANTIBIOTICS TO CONTROL THE INFECTION.
EMPLOYEE IS NOT3SURE WHAT HAPPEN HE WAS PERFORMING HIS ROUTINE WORK DUTIES. LATE THAT AFTERNOON HE NOTICED AN IRRIATION IN HIS EYE. WHEN HE AWOKE ON 3/10 HIS EYE WAS BADLY IRRIATED.
EE WAS REPLACIN1 STEELS UNDER THE LIFTHOLE MACHINE. HE STOOD UP & TURNED AROUND STRIKING HIS ELBOW ON A STEEL IN THE LIFTHOLE MACHINE.
WHILE EMP WAS U3HOOKING A CABLE FROM A BLOCK THE HOOKS SLIPPED AND PINCHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE HOOKS AND ROCK
EMPL DOESNT KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO CAUSE HIS INJURY.DURING NORMAL COURSE OF HIS DUTIES HE PULLED MUSCLES IN HIS CHEST.
WHILE MOVING A SLAB OF GRANITE THE EMPLOYEE CAUGHT HIS FINGER ON THE ROCK AND TORE HIS FINGERNAIL OFF.
WHILE UNHOOKING THE CHAINS FROM THE LOADER THE HOOK FELL ON THE RT FOOT OF THE EMPLOYEE AND BROKE IT