EMPLOYEE WAS HOOKING UP A CHAIN ON A 6" PIPE AND THEN TO A 966 LOADER. SHORT TIME LATER EMPLOYEE NOTICED PAIN IN HIS BACK. EMPLOYEE WAS UNABLE TO WORK ON 6-25-96 AS A RESULT OF THIS. THIS INJU RY IS AN AGGRAVATION OF A PREVIOUS INJURY ON 5-21-96.
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Showing all 40EE WAS PULLING 4" HDPE PIPELINE FOR A WATER SYSTEM WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK. DID NOT REPORT THE INJURYUNTIL 5-23-96.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING OBJECT ONTO BULK TRUCK, CAUSING PULLED MUSCLES.
EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PLUG A HOSE THAT WAS LEAKING AGGLOMORATION AID SOLUTION. WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO PLUG THE 2" LINE, THE SOLUTION SPRAYED INTO HIS RIGHT EYE. SOLUTION IS AN IRRITATNT THAT REQU IRED FLUSHING AND EXAMINATION BY PHYSICIAN AND PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION PRESCRIBED BY DR.
EE WAS BENDING OVER TO PICK UP SOME 2X4 LUMBER, WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. X RAYS AND MRI REVEALED A HERNIATED DISC IN LOWER BACK. PHYSICAL THERAPY WAS PRESCRIBED AS TREATMENT AT THIS TIME.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING BOREHOLES FOR A BLAST PATTERN. MATERIAL WAS MUDDY AND THIS REQUIRED THE HOLES TO BE CLEANED OUT FREQUENTLY. CLEANING THE HOLE CONSISTS OF REPEATED PULLING AND PUSHING OF HOIST AND PULLDOWN LEVERS. THIS MOTION AGGRAVATED THE LEFT ELBOW.
EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A GEAR BOX INTO A STORAGE TRAILER WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK FROM STRAINING MUSCLES. THIS INJURY WAS QUESTIONABLE WHETHER IT WAS WORK RELTATED, AS EMPLOYE E WAS RECIEVING TREATMENT BY A CHIROPRACTOR FOR A NON WORK RELATED BACK INJURY. DIAGNOSIS BY A CHIROPRACTOR ON 11/15/94 INDICATED THE INJURY WAS WORK RELATED.
EE WAS SHOVELING DIRT WHEN HE FELT HIS WRIST POP AND EXPERIENCED A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LEFT WRIST. INJURY WAS REPORTED TO SUPERVISOR, BUT EE FELT IT WAS ONLY A SPRAIN. PAIN CONTINED AND IT WAS R ECOMMENDED THAT HE SEE A DR. EE WENT TO A DR ON 10-03-94, WHERE EXAMINATION AND X RAYS REVEALED A FRACTURED BONE IN LEFT WRIST.
EMPLOYEE WAS UNABLE TO WORK ON 9-7-94 REGULAR SHIFT DUE TO BACK PAIN CAUSED BY WORK RELATED STOCKPILE BACK INJURY.
EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING A SECTION OF SCREEN ON THE L.J. SCREEN DECK, WHENA DRIVE BLET GUARD FELL APPROX 6 INCHE SNAD LANDED ON HIS RIGHT HAND. LITTLE FINGER OF RIGHT HAD HAS A BONE FRACTURED.
EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING EMITTER LINES ON LEACH PAD, WHEN HE BENT OVER TO PICK UP A HALF (1/2) INCH PLASTIC EMITTER LINE, HIS LOWER BACK BEGAN TO ACHE TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT HE COULD NO LONGER S TAND UP.
WHILE LAYING LINER IN A DITCH, EMPLOYEE CAUGHT A BUNDLE OF STAKES AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
THIS INJURY HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED BY A DOCTOR AS POSSIBLE RESULTING FROM A SUBSEQUENT NON-REPORTABLE INJURY THAT OCCURRED IN AUGUST 1992. NO SPECIFIC INJURY PRECIPATED THIS INJURY.
EE WAS INSTALLING A VALVE AND A HOSE IN THE CYANIDE MIX AREA WHEN A PARTICLE GOT LODGED IN HIS EYE.
EE ATTEMPTED TO MOVE A ROCK FROM ACCESS ROAD, USED IMPROPER LIFTING TECHIQUE AND FAILED TO GET ASSISTANCE MOVING HEAVY OBJECT.
EMPL DISMOUNTED FROM A RETRACTABLE ACCESS LADDER AND AS THE LADDER RETRACTED,RIGHT HAND WAS CAUGHT IN THE STOP BLOCK APPARATUS.
INDIVIDUAL WAS UNLOADING PAN OF PRECIPITATE FROM MERCURY REPORT OVEN AND COMPLAINED OF GROIN PAIN. HE WAS REFERRED TO MEDICAL ATTENTION AND WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A HERNIA AT THE TIME. NO NOTIFICA TION OF THE MAY 1992 DIAGNOSIS WAS RECEIVED BY GRMC. NO REPORT OF INJURY WAS FILED BY INJURED PRIOR TO THE MAY DIAGNOSIS.
WHILE HE WAS ON A TRAILER WITH BAGS HE STARTED TO LIFT THE BAG FROM TRAILER TO THROW ACROSS TO LOAD A TRUCK STRAINED MIDDLE BACK
WHILE HE WAS ON THE TRUCK HE THREW ANFO BAGS ONTO THE TRAILER & PULLED MUSCLES IN BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS DIGGING WITH SHOVEL ON A SIDE SLOPE OF THE HEAP FOR ENTRIE SHIFT JUST FELT STIFF AT END OF DAY NEXT MORNING VERY SORE BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS INSERTING 2ML PIPETTES INTO A SUCTION BULB WHEN THE PIPETTTE BROKE THE BROKEN END PUNCHURED EMPLOYEES LEFT HAND FIRST AID WAS ADMINISTERED AT THE TIME & ALL APPEARED WELL ON JULY 10 1992 POSSIBLE INFECTION WAS SUSPECTED & EMPLOYEE WAS REFERRED TO MEDICAL ATTENTION EMPLOYEE WENT ON VACATION ON JULY 11 92 ON JULY 20 1992 EMPLOYEE RETURNED FROM VACATION & INFECTION NOT OV
EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A PIECE OF CONVEYORING BELTING UP A STAIRWAY & PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS SHOULDER HE WAS SENT TO A DOC & T HEN TO A CHIROPRACTOR FOR TREATMENT
THIS IS A REOCCURRING INJURY FROM JUNE 1991. NO SPEICFIC INCIDENT PRESCIPITATED THIS INJUYR. THIS INJURY WAS OCCURRING OVER A PERIOD OF TIME SINCE THE JUNE. EE COMPLAINED OF PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. DR X RAYS SHOWED DAMAGED TO LIGAMENTS IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING AT THE CREST OF THE CELL PULLING UP A 3" HEADER PIPE THAT WAS ATTACHED TO A ROPE,WHILE PULLING THE LOAD UP THE SIDE OF THE CELL,HE INJURED OR STRAINED A MUSCLE IN HIS BAC K.
EMPLOYEE PICKED UP A BROKE WIRE CABLE WITH BARE HANDS. CUT LITTLE FINGER ON RIGTH HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON A WALKWAY HIT A STEP WITH LOWER PART OF LEG (ABOVE ANKLE) WHICH CAUSED THE HEMATOMA
AS EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A ROCK, HIS FINGER WAS CUT BY A JAGGED EDGE OF THE ROCK.
CARRYING BUCKETS MINOR BURNING IN SHOULDER
EE WAS CLEANING PRECIPT PRESS. EE BENT OVER TO LIFT PRECIPT FILTER PRESS PLATE WHILE WASHING THE PRESS. EE PULLED UP ON PLATE AND STRAINED HIS ARM AND NECK AND PINCHED A NERVE.
WENT TO PICK TIRE UP & BOTTOM SWUNG OUT & PINNED EMPL BETWEEN TIRE & TRUCK.
WHILE CHECKING WIRE CONNECTIONS ON LIGHT TOWER AND BASE WITH LEADMAN, LEADMAN OPENED LENS COVER ON ONE OF THE CONNECTIONS AND SOMETHING BLEW INTO LEFT EYE.
EMPL MOVING CUTTING EDGES FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER.EMPL TURNED AND STRAINED MUSCLE IN HIS NECK.NOT CARRYING A LOAD AT THE TIME OF SPAZM.
EMPLOYEE WAS LAYING ON BACK INSTALLING STEEL WHEELS ON A TRUCK AXLE.
I,NAME WAS RAISING A RETRACTABLE LADDER AND HIS HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE LADDER FRAME AND LADDER STOP.
AS INJURED WAS CLIMBING AN ACESS LADDER A CHIPPING HAMMER FELL FROM THE PLATFORM ABOVE STRIKING HIM ON THE BRIDGE OF THE NOSE.
HE BUMPED HIS LEG ON A STEEL BEAM.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING SOME HEAVY STEEL WHEN HE STRAINED HIS SIDE.
PUTTING WEAR PLATES ON LOADER BUCKET-LIFTED PLATES CAUSING LOWER BACK STRAIN.
EMPLOYEE REACHED TO SWING PART OF A CHUTE ON A CONCRETE TRUCK (ANOTHER EMPLOYEE HAD SWUNG THE OUTHER PART) AND CAUGHT HIS HAND BETWEEN THE SECTIONS OF THE CHUTE.
EMPLOYEE WAS BENT OVER DOING AN INVENTORY OF REBAR WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.