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Employee hurt (sprained / strained) EE's back dragging a wash out hose thru the plant doing normal work activities.
Employee was turning on a nozzle of a 1 1/2" Water Hose and felt something pop in their right elbow causing discomfort.
Employee felt tension in lower back while operating dozer mid-morning. Later in the afternoon was hooking up a clevis and felt more pain in lower back. Employee waited a day pain got worse went to physician. Doctor indicated back spasm, prescribed meds released back to normal job duty no restrictions. No time lost.
EE was changing a fuel filter. He squatted down to remove the filter. When he stood back up, he felt his left knee pop. He had an MRI done on 7/14/11 to determine extent of damage. Based on results of MRI, he had an outpatient procedure to fix torn tissue/muscle on 8/31/11. Returned to light duty.
Employee was moving an oil drain barrel from under dozer ripper. Drained transmission.
June 7, 2010 EE manually lifted an anvil out of the 103 crusher. Boom Truck was available to lift it out but employee did not wait. EE as he lifted the anvil felt pain in the lower back. June 9, 2010 EE told us he needed to go see a doctor that the pain wasn't going away. MRI Completed 6/23/10 release to full work duty 6/24/10
Cut finger on burr from crusher screen while lifting it onto the skid steer