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INJURED BACK LIFTING BUCKET STEVES.
INJURED NECK GETTING OUT OF CRANE.
INDIVIDAUL WAS WALKING ON CATWALK WHILE CARRYING EMPLOYEE BARREL ON SHOULDER AND BUMPED INTO LOWER BEAM WHICH RESULTED IN SAME SHOULDER AND NECK MUSCLE.
I.NAME WAS MOVING A BARREL OF OIL. WENT BY AREA WHERE WELDERS WERE PUTTING 3 SHEETS OF 1/4" STEEL UP OUT OF THE WAY OF APPROACHING STORM. THE SEAS WERE ROUGH CAUSING THE STEEL SHEETS TO FALL O VER AND HIT ADAM IN THE LEFT HIP.
LIFTED BEARING WEIGHING 300-400 LBS. MUSCLE SORENESS LEFT SHOULDER.
THE INJURED WAS RIGGING LINES AND STRAINED A MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK WHEN PULLING ON A HEAVY CABLE.
CHIPPING ICE SHOVELING ICE AND SNOW OUT ON BIMA.LEFT SHOULDER/CLAVICAL TENDONITIS.FIRST RIG OUT OF PLACE.
WORKER WAS WORKING ON HYDRAULIC JIGS AND BELIEVES HE RECEIVED SLIVER UNKOWN HOW.
WORKER WAS USING A SHOVEL TO DISLODGE ROCKS IN THE DROP CHUTE. HE PULLED ON THE SHOVEL HANDLE AND DISLOCATED. HIS LEFT SHOULDER WAS PREVIOUSLY INJURED IN MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT 7-88.
EMPLOYEE DISCONNECTED AIR LINE UNDER PRESSURE, BEFORE RELEASING AIR PRESSURE, THE LINE RECOILED AND THE END WITH THE BRASS FITTING STRUCK HIS FACE CAUSING MINOR LACERATION THAT REQUIRED SEVEN SUTURES TO CLOSE.
WHITH CO WORKER WE WERE LIFTING 200 LB SLEEVES TO ANOTHER LOCATION . DID NOT USE LOADER TO MOVE THEM STRAINED BACK MUSCLES.
LEFT RING FINGER SMASHED FIRST KNUCKLE BETWEEN DREDGE BUCKET AND SIDE OF BOAT.
STINGING NEW WIRE ROPE THRU WORE GUIDE ON 5 TON WHIP, LINE OF 42 TON CRANE. LACERATED R. INDEX FINGER ON SHARP EDGE OF WIRE GUIDE . REQUIRED 4 STICHES TO CLOSE CUT.
CARRYING SLUICE BOX TO A STORAGE AREA. WHILE CLIMBING A STARIWAY STRAINED LOWR BACK.
WORKER WAS USING 2" HOSE WITH NOZZLE TO WASH DECK. WORKER APPLIED TOO MUCH PRESSURE & WAS PUSHED BACK 4' INTO ANGLE IRON A FRAME. RECEIVED MINOR LACERATION TO LEFT ELBOW & BRUISE TO FOREARM
LIFTING 5GAL BUCKETS OF HEAVY CONCENTRATED MATERIAL 70-80 LBS FROM SECONDARY JUGS
LIFTED LIP OF DREDGE BUCKET BY HAND RATHER THEN USING AVAILABLE CRANE INJURED BACK MUSCLES.
LIFTING AND MOV3NG A SLUICE BOX ACROSS THE DECK OF THE BIMA.
EMPLOYEE WAS PU5LING ON CABLES DID NOTNOTICE ANYTHING UNTIL HE GOT HOME AFTER SHIFT WHEN BACK BEGAN TO HURT