EE was putting a piece of steel inside wash plant to be bolted with two people. EE was on outside putting bolt through steel. Steel slipped from the inside and smashed EE's finger against chute. Resulted in hairline fracture of middle knuckle on right index finger.
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Showing all 9Lifting a 4d battery out of a komatsu 480 loader. EE hurt EE's lower back during this. Drove self to the dr. @ 11 am that morning and got x-ray. Had an MRI scheduled that friday. x -ray showed herniated L5 disk.
felt a sharp pain when exiting the truck, strain to low back
Back Injury, Not sure of exact time/date of injury. Seems to be cumulative from clean-ups while shoveling.
Setting caterpillar water pump, the fill pipe swung and struck employee in the shoulder/neck area.
Strain of the calf muscle. We were setting a pump due to the extreme rain. He pulled his calf muscle while placing pipe. The slope (which was not extreme) may have helped cause the muscle strain.
Employee lifted a tank and strained his back.
REACHED ACROSS CONVEYER TO REMOVE ROCK. HURT BACK DUE TO STRETCH. ALREADY HAD A PREVIOUS BACK PROBLEM FROM NON-WORK RELATED INJURY. REMOVING THE ROCK REAGGRAVATED THE INJURY.
EYES WERE IRRITATED FROM WATCHING WELDER.