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WHILE TIGHTENING PINON BOLTS ON CONE CRUSHER WITH 3/4 IN RATCHET, DEVELOPED PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND BUTTOCKS. COULD NOT STAND UP STRAIGHT.
EMPLOYEE WAS INSTRALLING DISCHARGE GRATES IN "B" BALL MILL WHILE PULLING OVERHEAD ON A PRYBAR HE PULLED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER
EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING VALVE ON NO. 2 BOILER INSIDE DOOR. ACCESS TO THIS AREA IS RESTRICTED. DISPLACED VERTEBRA, POSSIBLE MUSCLE SPRAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING HINGE PIN FROM LOADER BUCKET WITH HAMMER AND DRIVING BAR. AS THE PIN WAS REMOVED, EMPLOYEES HAND CAME IN CONTACT WITH LOADER BUCKET. THE BUCKET FELL PINCHING THE SIDE OF THE LEFT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING AN ELBOW FROM A 7IN PIPE NIPPLE(THREADED) WITH A 24IN PIPE WRENCH AS THE EMPLOYEE PULLED BACK ON THE WRENCH HE FELT HIS BACK GO BUT DIDNT THINK IT WAS SERIOUS AT THE TIME THE ELBOW & NIPPLE WERE IN A PIPE VISE PULLED ABACK MUSCLE DID NOT BECOME REPORTABLE UNTIL 02-24-94
EMPLOYEE WAS IN CONDITIONER TANK AND WORKING OVER HIS HEAD. ACCUMULATED SCALE (MOSTLY RUST) FELL FROM PLANT SUPPORT STRUCTURE. SMALL PARTICLE OF SCALE SLIPPED BEHIND EMPLOYEES SAFETY GLASSES AND INTO HIS LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING MATERIAL FOR A BELT RUB WITH A KNIFE AND SLICED THROUGH THE MATERIAL INTO HIS HAND. MADE AN L-SHAPED LACERATION OF THE LEFT 4TH FINGER REQUIRING SUTURES.
EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING A FITTING ON THE DRILL JUMBO WITH A PIPE WRENCH. WHILE PULLING ON WRENCH THE WRENCH SLIPPED STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN THE MOUTH. DRILL JUMBO WAS OPERATING AT TIME OF INCID ENT.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING PAN ON BELT GOING TO ROLLS. SHOVEL CAUGHT ON SPLICE AND THE HANDLE JAMMED ON A PIPE WITH HAND IN BETWEEN. CAUSED LACERATION TO HAND.
650807-92 EMPLOYEE WAS USING A PIPE WRENCH TO TIGHTEN A LEAKING JOINT IN THE DRILL RODS ALREAY INT EH DRILL WHEN HE EXPERIENDED A SHARP BURNING PIN IN HIS LOWER LEFT ABDOMEN. HE DID NOT GO TO 03850DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY AS HE WAS NOT SURE IT WAS EXTREME ENOUGH. WENT TO DOCTOR ON 8-10-92 WHERE IT WAS DETERMINED THAT HE HAD A LARGE HERNIA AND NEEDED SURGERY.
EMPL CUT BAND HOLDING STACK OF LUMBER & LUMBER ROLLED OVER STRIKING HIM ON LEFT LEG.
WORKING ON SIDE RODS ON DRILL, HURT HIS NECK.
WAS TAKING A ONE INCH PIPE APART. HE WAS HITTING THE PIPE WRENCH WITH A HAMMER. HE STRUCK HIS HAND A GLANCING BLOW WITH THE HAMMER.