USING RAKE TO FIND METAL ON 2F FEEDER BELT. WHILE RAKING, FELT PINCH IN MIDDLE OF BACK & RIGHT SIDE OF NECK. CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT SOUGHT.
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Showing all 21REMOVING HYDRAULIC CYLINDER PINS ON BACKHOE PINSCOMING OUT VERY HARD WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER SO EE USED JACK HAMMER TO REMOVE PINS. AFTER PINS WEREOUT NOTITICED NUMBNESS AND RECEIVED DIAGNOSES ON 4-1-03
STRIPPING CABLE INSIDE DISCONNECT BOX WHEN KNIFE SLIPPED CUTTING LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND. STITCHES REQUIRED.
LOOSENING NUTS ON H FILTER TO CHANGE BAGS FELT PAIN IN RIGHT WRIST LATER BECAME NUMB. USING WRENCH TO LOOSEN BOLTS.
EE STANDING NEXT TO SHOVEL WHILE VENDOR AND CO. MECHANIC WERE TAKING NEW STYLE TEETH OFF TO CHECK AND CLEAN. WHILE MECHANIC WAS SECURING PIN IN ADAPTOR WITH SLEDGE HAMMER A PIECE OF STEEL FLEW OFF IMBEDDED IN RIGHT SHOULDER RECEIVED MEDICAL NAME ON 9-9-02 INDICATING SURGERY REMOVAL.
UNPLUGGING ROCK FROM PAN FEEDER CHUTE WITH 5' PRY BAR. REACHED DOWN WITH PRYBAR TO UNPLUG FELT PAIN IN BACK. BEGAN LOSING TIME ON 6-25-02.
PRYING ON BEAM TO POSITION FOR INSTALLATION, BARSLIPPED & STRUCK EE IN FACE. LACERATION OF FACE BELOW LEFT EYE.
INSTALLING RETURN ROLLER LYING ON BACK UNDER 17S CONVEYOR. BRAKES ON SOUTH WALL WAS BENT HAD TO BE PRYED BACK INTO POSITION IN AN AWKWARD POSITION. SORE BACK FOLLOWING DAY. PHYSICIAN ORDERED P HYSICAL THERAPY ON 6-6-02.
WORKING ON REPLACING PUMP MOTOR IN 9022 SHOVEL USING CRANE. EE HAD PRY BAR BEHIND MOTOR PULLING MOTOR TOWARDS HIM WHEN PRY BAR SLIPPED HITTING EE. LACERATION BY LIP, 2 STITCHES REQUIRED.
WORKING ON FUSED CODER, EXPERIENCED DISCOMFORT NUMBNESS IN ARM CHEST PAIN DIAGNOSED AS NOT WORK RELATED PERSONAL MEDICAL CONDITION. EE WAS TRYING TO BREAK UP FUSED CODER MASS WITH PRY BAR, ETC . NO MEDICAL TREATMENT OCCURRED UNTIL PT BEGAN AT A LATER DATE.
IN SMALL AREA TORQUE WRENCHING HEAD BOLTS ON #16 CYLINDER ON 9191 TRUCK. FELT PAIN IN BACK AND LEFT LEG.
CLEANING LOWER DECK SCREEN EMPLOYEE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN LEFT SHOULDER BLADE AND NECK, DID NOT REPORT UNTIL 4-12-01 WHEN PAIN WORSENED.
REMOVING BOLT WITH A HYDRAULIC HOSE - PULLING ON WRENCH - FELT PAIN IN RIGHT SHOULDER. RECEIVED PHYSICIAN INFO 4/27/01.
UNPLUGGING # 4 PANFEEDER USING A 5' PRYBAR. USED SIDE TO SIDE MOTION TO LOOSEN ROCK AND STRUCK ELBOW AGAINST DOOR EDGE. ACTING AS OMT(JOB TITLE)-INTERMITTENT FILL. RECEIVED DR. DIAGNOSIS ON 3- 29-01 - SEE ATTACHMENT.
USING KNIFE TO CUT CORNERS OF SCREEN REPLACEMENTS FOR 8F SCREEN. KNIFE SLIPPED, TRIED TO GRAB KNIFE STRIKING HIS LEFT UPPER THIGH.
EE WAS CUTTING WITH TORCH AND SMALL FIRE STARTED. HE TRIED TO PUT IT OUT WITH HIS GLOVE AT THE SAME TIME HIS PARTNER TRIED TO DO THE SAME WITH HIS HAMMER. HAMMER HIT THE TIP OF HIS MIDDLE FING ER.
USING WRENCH TO RELEASE "TIGHT DOG" ON RAILROAD CAR. UNABLE TO FILE SONNER AS WE WERE UNAWARE EMPLOYEE HAD SEEN DOCTOR AND RECEIVED PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.
EE WAS PULLING ON RATCHET WRENCH WHEN HE FELT DISCOMFORT IN RIGHT SHOULDER.
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE PIPE GRATING AND VALVE PIPE WRENCH SLIPPED AND FINGER WAS SMASHED BETWEEN PIPE WRENCH & GRATING. EE WENT TO CLINIC AND RECEIVED STITCHES.
WHILE PRYING THE DRIVE REDUCER COVER OFF, WITH A 16" PRY BAR, THE BAR SLIPPED CAUSING HTE POINTED END OF BAR TO PUNCTURE EMPLOYEES CHECK.
WHILE USING A 5' BAR TO INSTALL 1F DUST COLLECTOR HOOD, EE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK. EE WENT TO THEDR. ON 1-24-00 AND WAS PRESCRIBED PHYSICAL THERAPY FOR A WEEK.