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DIGGING WITH SHOVEL UNDER BELT, SOME MATERIAL FELL OFF BELT, EE DOES NOT KNOW IF HIT OR NOT. NO MARKS, EE BACK IS SORE, DR SAID POSSIBLE STRAINED BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS ENTERING A CART WAGON TO START IT AND WARM IT UP. DOOR DID OPEN FULLY AND HE HIT HIS ELBOW ON DOOR. APPEARS TO HAVE CAUSED A BONE CHIP WHICH CAUSED INFECTION.
EMPL WAS IN TUNNEL TRYING TO WEDGE ROCKS FROM FEEDER ROCKS CAME LOOSE HITTING & MASHING EMPLOYEES LEFT LITTLE FINGER.
HE REPORTED TO WORK MONDAY 3-15-93, STATING THAT HE WAS HAVING PAIN IN HIS ARM AND SHOULDE RNA DHAD BEEN FOR LAST TWO WEEKS. WE SENT HIM TO DAY TO BAPTIST OCC CLINIC WHO HANDLES OUR FIRST AID AND WORKMAN COMP. DR CALLED AND STATED HE NEEDED TO SEE A ORTHO DR AS HE HAD TENDONITIS. TODAY, INJURED SAW DR WHO GAVE HIKM A SHOT OF CORTISONE AND TOLD HIM TO STAY OFF FROM WORK UNTIL 3-2
INJURED SAID HE HURT HIS BACK WHILE LIFTING A PIECE OF STEEL 05-24-91.HE CONTINUED TO WORK THAT DAY BUT OVER THE WEEKEND STATED HE HAD SEVERE PAIN IN BACK.WENT TO DOCTOR 05-28-91.HE HAS NOT RE TURNED TO WORK AS YET.
EMPLOYEE NORMALLY USED LOW PRESSURE AIR TO FORCE WATER FROM THE LINES.THIS TIME THE EMPLOYEE WHO IS VERY EXPERIENCED AND COMPETENT AT THIS TASK,MISTAKENLY APPLIED HIGH PRESSURE AIR TO THE SYST EM WHICH CAUSED THE FLEXIBILTIY TO BLOW OFF.THE SYSTEM HAS NOW BEEN MODIFIED TO REDUCE THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH FUTURE OCCURRENCE.
NECK AND SHOULDER STARTED HURTING ON 9-26-90 WHILE CLEANING IN SHOP
SHOVELING ROCK WRENCHED BACK
WHILE CLIMBING OUT OF PICKUP TRUCK WHICH WAS BEING USAL AS A MAN HAUL VEHICLE, INSURED SAID HIS HAND SLIPPED AND ARM CAME DOWN ON SIDE OF TRUCK. INJURED DID NOT KNOW HE WAS HURT TIL 5-31-89. W ENT TO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL EMERGENCY AT 7:17 PM ON 5-31-89. REPORTED INJURY TO COMPANY JUNE 1, 1989.
INJURED IS THE PARTS RUNNER FOR THE SHOP OPERATION HE WAS ASSISTING THE OFF LOADING OF A BUNDLE OF REBAR REINFORCING ROD FROM A PICKUP TRUCK TO A LOW TRAILER WHILE THE TWO WERE SLIDING THE BUN DLE A PIECE OF WIRE TIED AROUND THE BUNDLE PUNCTURED HIS WRIST CAUSING A SMALL PUNCTURE WOUND IN HIS R WRIST FIRST AID CONSISTING OF A BANDAID AND NEOSPORIN WAS APLLIED INJURED WENT TO THE DR
THE EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING A CREW FACING A CONVEYOR BELT.THE BELT WAS DEENERGIZED AND LOCKED OUT.THEY NEEDED TO MOVE THE BELT FORWARD.THE INJURED ATTEMPTED TO MOVE IT BY TURNING THE DRIVE PULL EY BY HAND.THE PULLEY TURNED EASIER THAN EXPECTED PINNING HIS MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN THE PULLEY AND DRIVE BELT.THE PRESSURE BROKE HIS MIDDLE FINGER.
THE EMPLOYEE AN8DRIVEA OTHERS WERE SHOVELING MATERIAL FROM UNDER THE BELT FOR MOST OF THE DAY AFTER RAIN HAD SHUT THE PLANT DOWN. AT 300 PM HE COMPLAINED TO THE SUPT THAT HE WAS HAVING PAIN IN HIS GOIN, AND A1PARENTLY PULLED A HERNIA.
WHILE CHANGING 2AMMERS IN CRUSHER (APROX. 80 LBS.) I,NAME SET A HAMMER OUT OF THE CRUSHER MOUTH ONTO THE OPENED DOOR SURFACE. MAOVING TO GET A BTTER POSITION TO BE ABLE TO TOS THE HAMMER DOWN TO THE GROUND;3I,NAME PLACED HIS HAND NEXT TOT HE HAMMER WHICH THEN ROLLED OVER ONTO HIS FINGER-PINCHING IT REGURING STITCHES TO CLOSE THE WOUND RUNNING THE LENGTH OF THE FINGER.