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EE WAS PUTTING UP HIS CABLE AND HOOK ON HIS SERVICE TRUCK BOOM. HE HOOKED THE CABLE TO THE BASE OF THE BERM AND LET IT DOWN TO TAKE THE SLACK OUT OF CABLE AND THE HOOK BROKE, THE CABLE FLEW O UT AND HIT EE IN THE HEAD CAUSING THIS INJURY.
EMP WAS REPAIRING A RADIATOR, HE WAS TAKING OFF A VALVE ON THE RADIATOR WHEN HOT WATER SPRAYED ON HIS FACE, CHEST, STOMACH AND ARMS. DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION AT THIS TIME. LATER WENT TO DR FOR SOME BURN CREAM ON 6-13-97.
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON A HOSE, FROM A HOSE REELWHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT BACK SHOULDER.
EE AND COWORKER WERE MOVING SOME 55 GAL. DRUMS AROUND. EE DID NOT FEEL ANY PAIN WHILE MOVING BARRELS BUT LATER IN HIS SHIFT HE FELT NUMBNESS IN HIS RIGHT ARM. THE FOLLOWING DAY HE FELT STIFFNE SS IN HIS LOWER BACK AND HIS LEGS WERE TINGLING.HE WENT TO THE DR. ON THE SAME DAY.
EE WAS LIFTING A GEAR BOX WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK, IT DIDN'T SEEM TO BOTHER HIM ENOGH TO GO SEE A DCR AT THE TIME. HE LATER WENT TO THE DR ON JAN 11 DR RELEASED HIM HE IS OK.
HE WAS BENDING OVER TO PICK UP A CABLE HE DID NOT ACTUALLY PICK UP THE CABLE. HE RAISED UP FROM THIS POSITION WHEN A SHARP PAIN WENT THROUGH HIS BACK.
HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REPLACE STILLS BACK IN DERECK WHEN MASK ROLLERS SHIFTED AND ROLLED DOWNWARD MASHING HIS FINGERS.