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EMPLOYEE WAS PRESSURIZING SASSAFRASS TANK WHEN FILTER BLEW OFF AND SPRAYED LIQUID IN FACE. EMPLOYEE WAS PUT UNDER EYE WASH STATION AND RINSED OFF. HE DID NOT WANT TO GO FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT B UT EYES WERE RED AND SUPERVISOR WANTED HIM TO BE CHECKED. HE WENT TO ER WHERE HE WAS EXAMINED AND GIVEN EYE DROPS TO USE.

EMPLOYEE WAS HAND BAGGING 4KG PRODUCT ON PACKAGING LINE WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.DID NOT GO FOR TREATMENT UNTIL 03-27-95.

EE WAS HAND BAGGING 11 PRODUCTS ON PACKAGING LINE 2 WHEN HE STRAINED HIS RIGHT WRIST.

EE WAS HAND BAGGING ON PACKAGING LINE. WHEN HE GOT HOME HIS BACK BECAME SORE AND PAINFUL. WENT TO CHIRPRACTOR FRO TREATMENT, 3/9/95.

EE WAS STACKING 44 POUND BALES ON A PALLET WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK. WENT TO ER. TYLENOL GIVEN, ADVISE REST.

EMPLOYEE WAS HAND BAGGING ON PACKAGING LINE BAGGING 10# PRODUCT WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING 30# BAGS OF CAT LITTER ONTO AN INCLINE CONVEYOR. HE WAS TAKING EACH BAG OFF OF A PALLET. AS HE REACHED FOR ANOTHER BAG TO PLACE ON THE CONVEYOR, HE JAMMED HIS THUMB ON ONE OF THE PALLETIZED BAGS.

EE WAS HAND BAGGING 10 LB PRODUCT ON PACKAGING LINE WHEN HE HEARD HIS WRIST POP. WENT TO EMERGENCY ROOM WHERE A SPLINT WAS APPLIED AND MEDICATION GIVEN. EE WAS ON OVERTIME SHIFT AND NOT ON REG ULAR JOB WHEN ACCIDENT OCCURRED. EE IS ABLE TO PERFORM HIS JOB AS JANITOR AND HAS MISSED NO TIME FROM WORK.

EMPLOYEE WAS DUMPING A HOPPER. THE HOPPER ROLLEDBACK ON HIS HAND CUTTING HIS RING AND MIDDLE FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND. ONE FINGER REQUIRED STITCHES.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A CUTTER BLADE ON THE PAYLOADER WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK DID NOT SEEK TREATMENT UNTIL 01-31-95

EE ALLEGES BACK STRAIN OCCURRED AS A RESULT OF AN OLD INJURY IN MAY OF 1991. HE CANNOT GIVE A SPECIFIC INCIDENT FOR THE NEW INJURY. HE IS RECEIVING MEDICAL TREATMENT FROM DR. RANDY OLIVER AND REMAINS OFF WORK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING A SLIDE TYPE CONVEYOR BELT, WHEN HIS THUMB CAME INTO CONTACT WITH A SHARP EDGE ON THE SLIDE. HIS THUMB WAS LACERATED AND REQUIRED 5 STITCHES.

EE WAS FREEING A PLASTIC JUG FROM SLEEVING EQUIPMENT. THE JUG CAME FREE SUDDENLY CAUSING RIGHT HAND TO HIT SHARP EDGE ON TOP OF SLEEVER. CUT RIGHT THUMB REQUIRED 2 STITCHES. EE WENT TO ER AND RETURNED TO WORK AND COMPLETED HIS SHIFT.

HE WAS LIFTING A 72 LB BALE OF PRODUCT FROM A CONVEYOR AND HIS BACK BEGAN HURTING.

EE CLAIMS THAT HE WAS STACKING 45# CASES OF CLUMPING LITTER, AND HE ALLOWED THE ACCUMULATION CONVEYOR TO FILL UP. WHEN HE PICKED UP ONE CASE, IT SLIPPED FROM HIS HANDS, AND HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER BLADE AREA. HE DID NOT REPORT THIS INCIDENT TO SUPERVISION UNTIL MONDAY, 11-21-94.

APPROX NOON 10-24-94 (MONDAY) MOVING STEEL BEAMS AND METAL BEAM FLIPPED UP AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON LEFT LEG CAUSING A LACERATION.

EE WAS PLACING PLASTIC JUGS INTO CARDBOARD CASESS & SOMETHING [PROBABLY DUST] BLEW INTO HIS EYE.EYE BECAME IRRITATED.

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO STEP THROUGH A RAILING AT OUR BAG-TOP SCREEN AREA. HE COULD NOT STRAIGHTEN BACK UP.

EE WAS STACKING 72 BALES OF CAT LITTER ON LINE 2, WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER/CHEST AREA. EE DID NOT REPORT THE PAIN UNTIL THE NEXT DAY 9-21-94.

ON 9-16-94, HE REPORTED PAIN IN HIS LEFT WRIST. FELT THIS PAIN WAS FROM REPETITIVE MOTION OF JOB ON PACKAGING LINE--FEEDING BAGS INTO DUMPER & SEALER EQUIPMENT OF PUSHING BAGS AROUND AT THE AI R TABLE. DIAGNOSIS: TENDONITIS.

EMPLOYE ENTOICED PAIN IN HIS RIGHT KNEE THAT WORSENED AS THE SHIFT WENT ON. THE PAIN CONTINUED UNTIL HE COULD NOT PUT WEIGHT ON HIS LEG. HE STATED HE DID NOT KNOW HE HURT HIS KNEE.

EE SUFFERED LOWER BACK PAIN LUMBAR STRAIN PER DR. HE WAS UNCERTAIN AS TO WHEAT CAUSED IT. HE PULLED ON BAGS WHICH WERE JAMMED AT THE SEALING EQUIPMENT DURING THE NIGHT AND THOUGHT THAT MAY HAV E BEEN THE CAUSE. HIS SHIFT BEGAN AT 1100 P.M. ENDED AT 700 A.M.

THE AUTOMATIC PALLETIZER QUIT WORKING, CAUSING CASES OF PRODUCT TO BACK UP ON THE CONVEYOR. EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING CASES OF PRODUCT FROM CONVEYOR AND STRUCK HER RIGHT ELBOW AGAINST THE CONVEYOR WHILE TURNING WITH A CASE OF PRODUCT IN HER HANDS.

A PINCH VALVE FELL ON EMPLOYEE'S HEAD,WHILE MAINTENANCE WAS WORKING ON THE POWDER SYSTEM ABOVE,THE VALVE CAME LOOSE AND FELL.

EMPLOYEE WAS TURNING FORKS ON FORK LIFT WHEN FORK SLIPPED PUT OF HIS HAND. IN AN ATTEMPT TO CATCH THE FORK HE WAS IN AN AWKWARD POSITION. HE IMMEDIATELY FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING BALES ON SMALL PKG. LINE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT WRIST AND NOTICE SWELLING. SENT TO ER ON 7-1 - WRIST SPLINT, MEDS GIVEN. RETURN TO WORK ON 7-5 AND EXPERIENCED PAI N AGAIN - OFF WORK. DIAGNOSIS- TENDONITIS.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A PALLET OF JUGS WHEN SOMETHING BLEW INTO LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING BALES (10#) ON PACKAGIN LINE WHEN HE STRAINE DHIS LOWER BACK. DID NOT SEEK TREATMENT UNTIL 5-18-94 WHEN HE SAW A CHIROPRACTOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS HAND BAGGING ON PKG LINE WHEN HE RUBBED SKIN OFF OF RT LITTLE FINGER HE SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT ON 05-06- & REPORT ED THE ACCIDENT BECXAUSE FINGER BECAME INFECTED WITH RED STREAK RUNNING UP TO WRIST DR PRESCRIBED ANTIBIOTIC

EE WAS HAND BAGGING ON 10# LINE ON 3/1. ON 3/2 HE REPORTED TO SUPERVISOR HIS RIGHT WRIST WAS SWOLLEN AND HURTING. HE WAS SENT TO ER ON 3/2 WHERE HE WAS GIVEN A WRIST SPLINT AND INSTRUCTED TO U SE ICE. HE RETURNED FROM ER, COMPLETED HIS SHIFT AND HAS LOST NO TIME. REFERRED TO ORTHOPAEDIST 3/4.

HE WAS STACKING 60 POUND BALES OF PRODUCT ONTO A PALLET & HIS BACK BEGAN TO HURT PHUYSICIANS DIAGNOSIS LOWER BACK STRAIN

EMPLOYEE WAS SEALING PINCH TOPS ON 50# BAGS OF CAT BOX FILLER ONE BAG HASD NOT FILLED PROPERLY CAUSING IT TO BE HORIZONTAL TO THE SEALING UNIT THE EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO RT THE BAG CAUSING A ST RAINING INJURY EMPLOYEEK DID NOT FEEL IT WAS A SERIOUS ENOUGH INJURY TO SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION SO HE WAS GIVEN LIGHT DUTY FOR THE REST OF HIS SHIFT & THE NEXT DAY NO OTHER MENTION OF THE INJU

HE WAS GETTING ONTO A POWER SWEEPER. WHEN HE REACHED UP TO PULL HIMSELF UP, HE JAMMED HIS RIGHT THUMB INTO THE GRAB BAR. THE RESULT WAS SPRAIN TO THE RIGHT HAND.

EE WAS SETTING UP EMPTY JUGS ON THE CLUMPING LINE, WHEN HE NOTICED SWELLING ON THE INSIDE OF HIS LEFT WRIST. HE THEN WENT TO WORK AT THE STACKING STATION, AND NOTICED SWELLING ON THE INSIDE OF HIS RIGHT WRIST.

EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING 60# BALES OF CAT LITTER, WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. EMPLOYEE WAS USING IMPROPER LIFTING TECHNIQUE TO ACCOMPLISH HIS TASK.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS LIFTING SEAT ON FORKLIFT WHEN HE STRAINED HIS UPPER RIGHT BACK. HE ALSO STATED HE HAD HAD A PREVIOUS BACK INJURY.

EE STATED HE WAS UNSURE HOW ACCIDENT HAPPENED. HE NOTICED HIS FINGER SCRAPED, STIFF AND BLEEDING WHEN HE REACHED IN HIS POCKET FOR CHANGE. HE WAS SENT TO ER WHERE HE RECEIVED X-RAY. DIAGNOSIS: RIGHT 5TH FINGER CONTUSION. SPLINT WAS APPLIED.

EMPLOYEE WAS OFF-BEARING 60 POUND BALES OF PRODUCT WHEN HIS LEFT ARM & SIDE STARTED HURTING. (DESCRIBED BY HIM AS SHOOTING PAIN FOLLOWED BY NUMBNESS). HE SUFFERED A STRAIN TO THE LEFT SHOULDER .

EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING 60# BALES OF PRODUCT ON LINE #2. EMPLOEYE WAS WEARINGA BACK SUPPORT BELT WHILE PLACING BALES ONTO PALLES. EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO STACK BALES ABOVE SHOULDER HEIGHT. HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS ENGAGED IN HORSEPLAY. EE WAS WORKING IN PACKAGING DEPT. WHEN HE GRABBED ANOTHER EE AND WRAPPED HIS LEGS AROUND HIM. WHEN THE OTHER EE TRIED TO GET FREE THEIR HEADS BUMPED TOGETHER CAUSI NG A LACERATION TO HIS LEFT EYE BROW. AFTER AN INVESTIGATION THE EE WAS DISCHARGED AFTER IT WAS DETERMINED HE WAS THE INSTIGATOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING THE RESTROOMA NDFOUND ONE OF TH ESTALLS TO BE LOCKED. HE STOOD ON THE COMMODE OF HT EADJACENT STALL AND BOOSTED HIKMSELF UP ONSIDE OF THE STALL TO REACH OVER AND UNLOCK STALL DOOR. HE RECEIVED A CHEST WALL INJURY-CONTUSION.

EE WAS FILLING ADDITIVE POWDER DISPENSER WHEN HE DROPPED THE SCOOP AND POWDER FELW IN HIS FACE AND EYES.

EE PULLED A PALLET DOWN FROM THE TOP OF A STACK OF PALLETS AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS WORKING ON LARGE PAK PKG LINE WHEN THE STACKER JAMMED. IN AN ATTEMPT TO UNJAM THE BAGS THHE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS RIGHT ELBOW.

HE GOT HIS RIGHT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN A FINISH BALE CONVEYOR & A ROLLER CONVEYOR ON THE PACKAGING LINE WHICH BAGS CAT LITTER.

HE WAS STACKING 60 LB. BALES OF LITTER ON A PALLET ON 6/15/93 WHEN HE TURNED AND EXTENDED HIS ARM TO STACK THE BALE ON THE 6TH LAYER & HIS ARM BEGAN TO HURT. HE DID NOT SEE A DR AT THIS TIME B UT DID ON 6/21 AS HIS ARM WAS STILL BOTHERING HIM. HE HAD A SPRAIN TO THE UPPER RIGHT ARM AREA. HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL JULY 9TH WHEN DR DECIDED HE NEEDED TO REST HIS ARM OR IT WOULD NOT H

HE WAS LIFTING 14 LB. JUGS OF LITTER, TURNING AND PUTTING THEM IN CASES. HE NOTICED PAIN AND NUMBNESS IN HIS LEFT SIDE. STRAIN TO LEFT SIDE.

EMPLOYEE STOOPED TO PICK UP FLATTENED CASES (ABOUT 30 LB. TOTAL) AS HE LIFTED THE CASES, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT GROIN AREA. WHEN DR. SAW HIM ON 5-20, THE DR. FELT HE HAD AN INFECTION AND STATED IT WAS NOT JOB RELATED. HOWEVER, WHENTHE DR SAW HIM AGAIN ON 6-3, HE SAID THERE HAD BEEN AN INJURY WHICH CAUSED THE TENDERNESS IN THEGROIN AREA. (LOWER BACK STRAIN WITH DEFERRED PAI

EE WAS STACKING 30 FILLED BAGS ON A PALLET WHEN HE SPRAINED HIS BACK.

INJURED & ANOTHER EMPL PULLED/DRAGGED A SKID OF CARDBOARD (ABOUT 400 LB.) FROM THE FRONT PART OF THE BED OF A PICK-UP TRUCK TO THE REAR OF IT IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO REACH IT WITH A FORKLIFT FO R UNLOADING. INJURED SUFFERED A BACK STRAIN.