BACK STRAIN DUE TO LIFTING WOODEN BLOCK WHICH WERE TOO HEAVY FOR 1 INDIVIDUAL.
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Showing all 30EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING A COLUMN IN THE PROCESS PLANT WHEN SHE FELT A PULL FOLLOWED BY PAIN IN HER RT. SHOULDER AS SHE LIFTED A SAMPLE TO POUR INTO THE COLUMN,OULLINGOR TEARING A TENDON IN HER RT . SHOULDER.
EE WAS SQUATTING DOWN TO REMOVE END CAPS ON R.O. UNIT, AS HE STOOD UP AND TURNED HIS BACK WENT OUT. HE COULD NOT STAND UP STRAIGHT AND WAS IN PAIN.
EE'S BACK BEGAN BOTHERING HIM - HAS HAD BACK PROBLEMS & THOUGHT IT WOULD GO AWAY. NOTIFIED EMPLOYER ON 11/20/96 THAT DOCTOR SAID PART OF PROBLEMWAS WORK RELATED FROM LIFTING.
VICTIM WAS HELPING TO MOVE PORTABLE DRILL WHEN HE EXPERIENCED BACK PAIN, BECAME WORSE, VICTIM DID NOT MAKE NEXT SCHEDULED SHIFT.
CHECKING THE PH OF 4 BOTTLE ROLL SAMPLES WHEN HE STARTED FEELING DIZZY AND WEAK.
EE WAS SHOVELING DIRT WHEN HE HURT HIS BACK.
UNKNOWN. WORKING IN REFINERY.
EMPLOEYE'S DUTIES INVOLVED PICKING UP AND WEIGHING CRUSHER BUCKETS.DURING A BREAK HE BENT DOWN TO PET A DOG.
SAFETY CHAIN SLIPPED ON CYLINDER ALLOWING THE BOTTOM OF CYLINDER TO SWING SLIGHTLY AND PINCH LEFT FOREARM AND HAND BETWEEN THE REAR TIRE AND CYCLINDER CAUSING HAND AND FOREARM TO SWELL UP.
VICTIM WAS HELPING TO PICK RELIC MINE TIMBERS OFF BELT CONVEYOR.BY THE END OF THE SHIFT VICTIM HAD SEVERE MUSCLE SORENESS IN BACK.
VICTIM ORIGINALLY INJURED HIMSELF ON 02-26-92.VICTIM HAD BEEN GOING TO CHIROPRACTOR FOR 6 WEEKS DISCOMFORT BECAME TOO GREAT BY 04-08-92 VICTIM HAS NOT MADE SUBSEQUENT SHIFTS.
VICTIM WAS HELPING REFINER MOVE TRAYS OF METAL BEARING PRECIPITATE. VICTIM'S LEFT LITTLE FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO TRAYS WHEN THEY ROLLED TOGETHER. VICTIM RETURNED TO FINISH REGULAR WORK S HIFT. VICTIM THEN TOOK THE NEXT DAY OFF.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLOSING DOOR ON GRADER AND SHUT FINGER IN DOOR
VICTIM LOADED A PARTIALLY FULL ELECTRICAL CABLE REEL INTO BACK OF MAINTENANCE VEHICLE, INJURING SELF.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING 245 SHOVEL SHANKS/TIPS ONTO PICKUP (APPROX. 125 LB EACH). FELT SLIGHT BACK STRAIN AT TIME. PAIN WAS MORE SEVERE NEXT MORNING. DID NOT REPORT INJURY UNTIL 4-16-91 WHEN PAIN STARTED TO BECOME UNBEARABLE. DURING TIME BETWEEN INJURY AND REPORTING, EMPLOYEE HAS LIFTED PARTS AND SHOVELED SNOW- ALL OF WHICH MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED.
VICTIM WAS ATTENDING ANNUAL REFRESHER TRAINING CLASS OFF-SITE AT CONFERENCE ROOM OF LOCAL MOTEL.INSTRUCTOR WAS DEMONSTRATING EXPLOSIVE NATURE OFDIFFERENT FUELS. DURING DEMONSTRATION A RUBBER CORK STRUCK VICTIM IN LEFT EYE.
VICTIM WAS PICKING LARGE TIMBERS OFF BELT CONVEYER, STRAINED RIGHT SHOULDER SOME TIME DURING SHIFT. WENT TO SEE CHIROPRACTOR 4 DAYS LATER AND REPORTED INCIDENT OF FOLLOWING DAY.
EMPLOYE WAS REMOVING TRACK FROM D9L. METAL FLECK FLEW INTO EYE. EMPLOYEE RINSHED EYE. DID NOT HELP.
VICTIM WAS HELPING UNLOAD 6" X 20' HDPE PIPE FROM TRUCK. VICTIM REACHED DOWN TO STRAIGHTEN PIPES ON GROUND. A SECTION OF PIPE ROLLED OFF TRUCK STRIKING VICTIMS THU. BROKEN CARPAL BONE LEFT THU MB.
THE PITGTAIL ON THE VALVE OF A 2000# CHLORINE GAS CYLINDER WAS DEFECTIVE RESULTING IN A LEAK EMPL INHALED CHLORINE GAS IN THE PROCESS OF APPROACHING AND THEN SHUTTING OFF THE CHOLRINE CYLINDER VALVE CHLORINE GAS MASKS WERE USED THESE WERE INADEQUATE THEN A SCOTT AIR PAK WAS USED
VICTIM AND OTHER EMPLOYEE WERE TIPPING A 55 GALLON DRUM TO EMPTY IT OF ORE SAMPLES. EMPLOYEE HELPING VICTIM TIPPED BARREL TOO FAST. VICTIM WAS GIVEN PRESCRIBED MEDICATION, MAKING INCIDENT REPO RTABLE.
EMPLOYEE HANDLING A PIECE OF SHEET METAL, SHEET SLIPPED, SMASHED RING FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.
VICTIM TOLD SUPERVISOR ON 2-16, THAT HE HAD WRENCHED HIS BACK ON THREE OCCASSIONS PREVIOUS TO THAT DATE. AT THAT TIME AN ACCIDENT REPORT INTERNAL WAS FILLED OUT. VICTIM REINJURED HIS BACK ON 2 -22. AT THAT TIME HE STARTED HE HAD SEEN A DR DURING HIS DAY OFF, AND THAT HE WAS TAKING PRESCRITION MUSCLE RELAXANTS.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM 769 WATERTRUCK AND RING ON LEFT HAND CAUGHT ON STEP WHEN EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OFF LAST STEP. RING FINGER WAS CUT DEEP BUT WAS NOT BROKEN. RING HAD TO BE CUT OF F AND WOUND WAS WRAPPED. DOCTOR SAID IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO STITCH.
EMPL WAS LOADING A WOODEN PALLET INTO A GARBAGE TRUCK WHEN PALLET SLIPPED AND CAME DOWN ON EMPL FINGER
EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING GATE TO PROPERTY AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING D8L DOZER AND PULLED MUSCLE IN GROIN AREA. HE DID NOT THINK IT WAS SERIOUS AT THE TIME BUT THE CONDITION WORSENED AND WAS REPORTED ON FRIDAY,APRIL 1,1988 WHICH WAS HIS F IRST DAY OFF WORK.
HE WAS ADJUSTIN1 CHLORINE FLOW IN CHLORINATOR. IF CHLORINE FLOW IS ADJUSTED TOO HIGH, THERE IS A RELEASE OF CHLORINE GASS INTO ATMOSPHERE AND GAS WAS INHALED BY EMPLOYEE.
I.NAME WAS ADJU8TING THE CHLORINATOR WHEN A VALVE LEAK DEVELOPED. HE WAS WEARING A CHLORINE MASK BUT BECAUSE OF AM IMPROPER SEAL OF THE MASK HE INHALED SOME CHLORINE GAS. HE LEFT THE AREA & W AS LATER SENT T2 THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS HELD FOR OBSERVATION FOR 2 NIGHTS.