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PUTTING ON WORK3COVERALLS IN CHANGE ROOM FELT STRAIN IN UPPER BACK-NECK PORTION OF BODY....DIDNT REPORT IT AS ACCIDENT AT THE TIME.8 DAYS LATER EXPERIENCED MORE PAIN IN UPPER NECK AND CONTINUI NG TO RIGHT SID9 RIB CAGE AREA.IS SEEING MEDICAL DR AND IS BEING TREATED FOR MUSCLE SPASMS.

EMPLOYEE WHILE 4ORKING TO REMOVE A RADIATOR FROM 637D CATERPILLAR SCRAPER STRAINED HIS BACK ACCIDENT WAS NOT REPORTED UNTIL FOLLOWING WEEK 021386 AT WHICH TIME EMPLOYEE WENTTO SEE CHIROPRACTER FOR TREATMENT E4PLOYEE SAID HE FELT A LITTLE SORENESS BUT DID NOT THINK ANYTHING OF IT AT THE TIME RADIATOR SHROUD & SMALLER PARTS OF RADIATOR APPARENTLY CAUSED STRAIN & DISPLACEMENT OF EMPLO

INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON AN ASSIGNED TASK OF GRINDING SHARP EDGES OFF PC OF STEEL WHICH WAS IN A VISE NEAR WORK BENCH ANOTHER EMPLOYE WHO WAS WORKING ON WORK BENCH HAD SET DOWN CYLINDR AL SHAFT ON WORK BENCH WHICH ROLLED OFF WHILE HE WAS WORKING WITH ANOTHER OBJECT WHICH HE WAS WORKING ON IN SAME AREA SHAFT THAT ROLLED OFF WORK BENCH & STRUCK EMPLOYEE THAT WAS WORKING ON PRO

KELLER & REHLING WERE REPLACING CUTTING EDGES ON A SCRAPER. REHLING HAD JUST BROUGHT ONE OF THE REPLACEMENT EDGES TO T HE WORK SITE & KELLER WAS TO HOLD THE CUTTING EDGE UP WHILE REHLING WAS R ETUENING A WHEEL CART BACK TO ITS PROPER PLACE. KELLER TRIED TO LAY THE CUTTING EDGE DOWN ALONE WHEN EDGE BOTTOM SLIPPED OUT & LANDED JUST ABOVE STEEL TOED BOOT.

DAVE REILLEY LOWER BACK WAS STRAINED WHILE LIFTING A 12 VOLT BATTERY THAT WAS BEING PUT INTO SCRAPER. BATTERY WEIGHT WAS 151 LBS THERE WERE TWO OTHER EMPLOYEE\S NEAR BY WHICH COULD HAVE HELPED LIFT THE BATTERY IN PLACE HAD THE INJURED EMPLOYEE ASKED FOR HELP. EMPLOYEE HAD A PREVIOUS LOW BACK INJURY IN WHICH HE HAD FAILED TO GET HELP BRUISE PROPER LIFTING EQUIPMENT OF WHICH HE WAS W