Electrician tried to manually manipulate a locked out electrical motor via the "V" belts and got fingers pinched in the flywheel.
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Showing all 15EE was hosing down the wash plant pad when EE felt a pop in shoulder.
Material slough, partial engulfment, follow up appointment revealed hernia.
Worker strained back while pulling a 5 gallon bucket of water up onto an elevated walkway to prime a pump on April 17. He continued to work his normal schedule until May 2nd. On May 3, he went into the doctor due to ongoing back pain and was prescribed a prescription muscle relaxer, physical therapy and released to full duty. He returned to work on his next scheduled shift.
Employee was working in a feeder tunnel trying to straighten a plastic tube. He didn't feel any pain initially but started to hurt a few hours later.
Employee was loading and off-loading blasting supplies (approx 50 lb bags) from storage machine to a pick up truck and from the truck to drill holes at the quarry bench. Employee could not identify a particular incident or event of injury but started to feel pain in his hip that continuously got worse during the day.
Employee had sand in eye resulting in scratched cornea. Employee unsure when sand got in eye, it may have been during clean up around the wash plant or having rubbed his eye with a dirty glove.
Employee strained tendon in his left leg as he was working on changing a conveyor belt.
Worker was lifting steel door into the syntron of the pit run tunnel when he strained his back. Worker is receiving therapy and on prescription medication.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOUNTING A TOOLBOX ONTO A SERVICE TRUCK. WHEN HE PUSHED THE TOOLBOX, THE LID CAME DOWN ONTO HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER, LACERATING AND BREAKING IT.
WHILE MOVING SOME PIPE HE SMASHED HIS SMALL FINGER.
WHILE REPLACING A TROUGHING ROLLER HE STRAINED HIS BACK
WHILE LIFTING A PIECE OF DRILL STEEL FROM THE GROUND TO PUT RT BACK ONTO THE DRILL HE STRAINED H LOW BACK.
WHILE CHANGING OUT SCREENS EE LIFTED THE ONE END OF THE SCREEN AND THEN TURNED THE SCREEN SO HE COULD HOOK THE END OF THE SCREEN TO THE BOOM TRUCK HOOK TO RAISE IT OUT AND IN. HE TWISTED HIS R IGHT KNEE. NOTE: HE DID NOT SEE A PHYSICIAN FOR THIS UNTIL 7/26/01.
EE HAD HIS RIGHT HAND RESTING ON A SOLID PIECE OF MACHINERY WHEN THE VBELT SWING AWAY GUARD SWUNG BACK AGAINST HIS HAND