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Employee was swinging a sledge hammer to free bridged coal on conveyor transfer chute. Felt pain in his abdomen. Diagnosed with hernia by doctor.
GRT Employee was closing a railcar hopper door at GRT#1. He was using a pry bar to close the latch and the bar slipped off the latch and struck him in the left knee
While pulling off 2 barges to drop in Cora's fleet, employee had trouble with a coupling wire. He was pulling on the wire while the other deckhand was beating on it with a sledgehammer. When that did not work to free the wire, he grabbed a bar and tried to pull up the tight wires. As he stood up he then felt a pinch on his left lower side around his hip.
Employee caught his right hand between a prybar and rail car frame while attemping to close a reailcar hopper door.