WIRE FRAY PUNCTURED INDEX FINGER OF LEFT HAND: BECAME INFECTED.
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Showing all 20UPON ENTERING THE CAB OF THE INGERSOL-RAND BLAST HOLE DRILL, SMASHED RIGHT RING FINGER IN THE DOOR. TOP PART OF THE RING FINGER FRACTURED.
ATTEMPTING TO BALANCE AN AXLE. TIP OFRIGHT RING FINGER GOT SMASHED BETWEEN AXLE AND PRESS. FINGER NAIL REMOVED.
REMOVED EX400 RADIATOR CAP & ANTIFREEZ SPURTED ON RIGHT SIDE OF EE'S FACE AND ON RIGHT HAND. 2ND-3RD DEGREE BURNS ON RIGHT CHEEK AND RIGHT HAND.
ATTEMPTING TO MOVE BARREL OF SCRAP IRON WITH BARE HANDS. LACERATIONS TO 6 FINGERS. 133 STITCHES TOTAL.
MOVING TUB TO CLOSE SLUICE BOX CAGE DOOR, TUB SLIPPED OFF BOX TRAPPING LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN TUB AND SLUICE BOX RESULTING IN LACERATION TO LEFT LITTLE FINGER, SEVEN STITCHES.
PIPE SLID ON SNOW AND BUMPED EMPLOYEES LOWER RIGHT ARM CAUSING SOFT TISSUE ABRASION.
WAS MOVING WOOD. GOT A SPLINTER IN LEFT INDEX FINGER WHICH BECAME INFECTED. INFECTION WAS DRAINED.
TWISTED WRIST WHILE REMOVING ROCKS FROM PLANT; CRACKED WRIST.
WAS LOADING METAL SHEETS INTO SUBURBAN. CUT TOP OF RIGHT THUMB. THREE STITCHES.
MOVEMENT OF PANNING SAMPLES (MOVING PAN FULL OF MATERIAL AROUND AND BACK AND FORTH). TENDONITIS - ROTATOR CUFF (RT).
MOVING A HEAVY OBJECT WITH HANDS, STRAINED NECK MUSCLES.
WAS ASSISTING IN MOVING OXYGEN & ACETYLENE CYLINDERS. LOWER BACK PAIN.
WORKING IN WET CONDITIONS. FEET WERE DAMP. WHILE STEPPING ONTO A BIG TRUCK, SKIN BETWEEN LITTLE AND 2ND TOE SPLIT AND LATER BECAME INFECTED.
WAS ASSISTING WITH REMOVING RIFFLES FROM A SLUICE BOX WHILE DOING A CLEANUP THE EDGE OF ONE OF THE RIFFLES CUT INTO THE INSIDE LEFT RING FINGER LACERATION WAS CLOSED WITH 5 STITCHES
EE WAS LIFTING A METAL SCREEN & HIS "BACK WENT OUT". NO PHYSICIANS' REPORT RECEIVED; UNKNOWN IF OFF-TIME WAS DIRECTED BY DOCTOR OR ELECTED BY EE.
WAS GUIDING A PIPE TO BE FITTED INTO ANOTHER PIPE THAT WAS LYING ON TOP OF A BARREL. FIGNER SCRAPED ONT HE BARREL AS PIPE WAS BEING LIFTED AND PUSHED TO FIT INTO OTHER PIPE. A 1.5 CM LACERATI ON REQUIRING STITHCES WAS SUSTAINED.
WAS PULLING ON A CHAIN TO FREE IT FROM SOME SNOW. THE CHAIN BECAME LOOSE, FLEW UP IN THE AIR AND THE HOOK ON THE END HIT AND KNOCKED OUT TWO FRONT TEETH. A TEMPORARY PARTIAL IS BEING PUT IN UN TIL A PERMANENT ONE CAN BE MADE AND INSTALLED.
LIFTING & STOOPING & CARRYING HEAVY BUCKETS OF GOLD CONCENTRATE CAUSED ACUTE LOWER LUMBAR STRAIN
MOVEMENT OF PANNING GOLD (MOVING PAN FULL OF MATERIALS AROUND AND BACK AND FORTH) AND PUSHING GRAVEL WITH A SHOVEL.