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EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A4" X 1/4" STRAP OF IRON WITH A CUTOFF SAW WHEN HE RECEIVED METAL PARTICLES IN HIS RIGHT EYE.
WELDER RECEIVED WELDING BURNS TO HIS LEFT EYE DURING A WELDING OPERATION.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING WITH AIR CYLINDERS. AIR BLEW DUST AROUND AND A SMALL PIECE OF DUST LODGED IN HIS RIGHT EYE.
AFTER GRINDING ON DOZER BLADE, FELT IRRITATION TO LEFT EYE. PATIENT HAD RUST IN CORNEA OF LEFT EYE WHEN SEEN BY A DR OF OPTOMERTRY.
WHILE GRINDING ON SHOVEL PART EE GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN HIS EYE.
GRINDING PAINAT IN A TIGHT SPOT WITH HOOD ON & SAFETY GLASES ON. METAL SHAVINGS & PAINT CHIPS BLEW AROUND THE HOOD & SAFETY GLASSES & LODGED IN THE EYE (LEFT EYE).
WELDER WAS AIR ARCHING WELD ON SHOVEL BUCKET WHEN HE RECEIVED STEEL PARTICLES IN BOTH EYES.
WELDER WAS GRINDING ON THE BOTTOM OF LOADER BUCKET WHEN FILINGS FELL FROM HIS GRINDING SHIELD INTO HIS LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING ON A P & H 4100 GUSSET AND GOT A METAL FRAGMENT IN HIS EYE. EMPLOYEE WAITED FOR THREE DAYS BEFORE SEEING A DR ALLOWING RUST TO DEVELOPE IN THE EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING METAL WHEN FOREIGN BODIES BECAME ENTRAPPED IN HIS RIGHT EYE.
WHILE GRINDING ON THE HORSE COLLAR OF UNIT 26613, LEFT SIDE OF FRAME, PIECE OF METAL GOT INTO TECHNICIANS LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING AND GRINDING INSIDE CAR BODY ON UNIT 295 BE SHOVE. A PIECE OF METAL [SLIVER] GOT INTO HIS LEFT EYE.
EE WAS GRINDING OR POSSIBLY CLEANING UP AND GOT A SMALL PIECE OF METAL IN HIS EYE. EE WAS WEARING THE APPROPRIATE SAFETY EQUIPMENT SAFETY GLASSES AND DID NOT NOTICE THE IRRITATION TO THE EYE U NTIL LATER THAT EVENING AT HOME EE RECEIVED PRESCRPITON FOR EYE DROPS ON 7-9-92 HE DID NOT MISS ANY DAYS OF WORK BECAUSE OF THE SCRATCH TO HIS EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A CRANE.HE REACHED OUT TO GRAB THE BASKET.HE TURNED AND TWISTED HIS LEG.HIS KNEE POPPED OUT OF PLACE.THE ACCIDENT WAS DUE TO THE EMPLOYEE'S BODY TURNED IN AN AWKWARD POS ITION,AND ALSO TO TWISTING HIS LEG.
TWO MEN WERE CUTTING A PIECE OF METAL IN AN AREA OF RESTRICTED SPACE. BECAUSE OF THIS CLOSSNESS OF THE WORK AREA THE INJURED MANS HAND WAS CAUGHT INT HE PULLY OF THE BAND SAW CUTTING HIS MIDD LE FINGER OF HIS RIGHT HAND. HE HAD A GLOVE ON AND THE GLOVE IS WHAT PULLED HIS HAND INTO THE PULLY.
EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING NEW STEEL WITH A HEAVY DUTY 5600 RPM GRINDER WHILE IN A KNEELING POSITION THE GRINDER STRUCK THE EMPLOYEES LEFT LEG JUST ABOVE THE KNEE RESULTING IN A 4.0 CM LACERATION W HICH REQUIRED 10 STITCHES
AIR ARCING IN CONFINED SPACE, HOT METAL EMBEDDED IN LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS HEATING METAL WITH A ROSEBUD TORCH FOR A PROLONGED PERIOD IN A CONFIEND AREA AND SUFFERED A HEAT INJURY TO BOTH EYES.
ASSISTING IN REMOVING TRANS OF SHOVEL, IT WAS BEING LIFTED BY CRANE, IT BOUND UP GEAR CAME LOOSE STRUCK ON LEGS 4CM LACER TO R ANTER. LEG
EMPLOYEE HAD BACKED HAUL TRUCK UNDER SHOVEL TO GET A LOAD OF DIRT WHEN THE SHOVEL BUCKET TRIPPED PREMATURELY CAUSING THE BUCKET DOOR TO HIT THE SIDE OF THE TRUCK BOX.THE EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A LO WER BACK STRAIN AFTER BEING JARRED BY THE IMPACT.
EE WALKED TOWARDS MACHINE TO PICK UP BOOMER CLAMP ON GROUND NEXT MACHINE AND WING ON BALLAST REULATOR RAISED IN AIR AND MOVED OUTWARD TESTING HYDRAULIEC ON MACHINE AFTER REPAIR. THE WING FELL TOWARDS GROUND BECAUSE OF ORE IN SYSTEM AND STRUCK EE ON BACK WHO WALKED INTO ITS PATH KNOCKEING HIM TO THE GROUND.
MINING OPERATION WAS TOP SOIL STRIPPING. METHOD WAS PUSH LOADING SCRAPERS WITH D9 PUSH TRACTORS. INJ OPERATORS SCRAPER WAS STOPPED IN CUT WAITING FOR PUSH. PUSH TRACTOR OPERATOR MISJUDGED DIST ANCE WHEN APPROACHING SCRAPER & MADE SUDDEN CONTACT. PUSH TRACTOR OPERATORS INEFFICIENCY AT THAT MOMENT CAUSED ACCIDENT. NO EQUIPMENT DAMAGE OCCURRED. OPERATION WAS NOT IMPAIRED IN ANY WAY. A
EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING USING A HAND GRINDER AND BUFFING WHEEL. SOMETIME DURING THIS WORK, A FOREIGN PARTICLE GOT IN HIS RIGHT EYE. THE PARTICLE DIDN'T BEGIN TO IRRITATE HIS EYE UNTIL HE WAS DR IVING HOM AFTER HIS SHIFT (AFTER 7:00 A.M.). HE REPORTED THIS TO ONE OF THE SAFETY PERSONNEL AT 8:15 A.M. ADN WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT THE HOSPITAL WHERE HIS EYE WAS MEDICATED FOR REMOVA
EMPLOYEE BECAME SICK & WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL ATTENDING PHYSICIAN WAS UNSURE POSSIBLY HEART ATTACH STROKE OR MAY HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH EMPLOYEES HISTORY OF DIABETES HE WAS TESTED TESTS TURN ED OUT NEGATIVE EMPLOYEE GOT A WORK RELEASE FROMEMPLOYEE RAN SCRAPER FOR COMPANY EMPLOYEE DROVE TRUCK FOR COMPANY REOCCURRENCE OF SYMPTOMS XRAY HERNIATED DISC EMPLOYEE FILLED OUT A WORKMANS C
TRAMMING DOZER,DOZER SLID ON FROZEN GROUND WENT OVER HIGHWALL DOZER FELL ABOUT 30 FT AND THEN ROLLED OVER. ROLLOVER STRUCTURE SEAT BELT HELD HOWEVER THE EMP APPARENTLY STRUCK HIS FACE FRAC T. L CHEEKBONE.
OPER DOZER ON DUMP. DUMP WA> NARROW AS THEY WERE IN PROCESS OF FILLING FENDER ON N END OF PIT. DOZER OPER TO DOD GREAT DEAL OF TURNING HEAD OT CHEK TRAFFIC. EMP NECK WA> BOYTHERING HIM , PA IN GOT WORSE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING ON A BEAM INSIDE SILO, SPARK GOT ONTO KNEE, BURNING IT. BURN BECAME INFECTED AREA SEVERAL DAYS LATER.
EMPLOYEE WAS TR2UBLESHOOTING THE PENDULUM CONTROL BOX FOR A 71/2 TON YALE CRANE IN SILO #3. EMPLOYEE PUSHED THE "DOWN" CONTROL, BUT THE CRANE WENT UP, PAST THE UPPER LIMIT SWITCH, BREAKING THE WIRE CABLE AND3DROPPING THECAGE WITH TWO 55-GALLON DRUMS OF WEN-DON CHEMICAL AND BARREL CAGE TO THE FLOOR WHERE IT BOUNCED INTO THE UPPER THIGH OF THE EMPLOYEE'S LEFT LEG, CAUSING DEEP-SEEDED
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING A MICHIGAN 380 RUBBER-TIRED DOZER. DURING THE COURSE OF THIS 8-HOUR SHIFT, HE EXPERIENCED BACK (SHOULDER AND NECK) PAIN, WHICH GOT WORSE DURING THE NIGHT.
EMPLOYEE WAS HO5DING A NUT WITH A WRENCH. IMPACT AIR WRENCH TWISTED BOLT WRENCH WAS JERKED FROM EMPLOYEE S HAND CAUSING A 2 CM LACERATION TO THE INDEX FINGER OF HIS RIGHT HAND. REQUIRING 3 SU TURES. 3
EMPLOYEE WAS RE3NSTALLING A RETAINER BOLT ON THE RIGHT FRONT BRAKE OF A DOZER. AFTER TIGHTENING THE BOLT. EMPLOYEE PROCEEDED TO DRILL A HOLE FOR A SAFETY WIRE. THE LOCATION OF THE BOLT REQUIRE D THE EMPLOYEE 7O ASSUME AN AWKWARD POSITION WHILE DRILLING THE HOLE. WHILE PUSHING ON THE DRILL, EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A STRAINED MUSCLE BEHIND HIS LEFT SHOULDER BLADE.
OPERATING HILDE3ROTARY DRILL.WORKED FULL DAY WITH NO COMPLAINT.IN MONDAY DIDNT REPORT TO WORK.CALLED SUPT AT 9:30PM AND SAID WRIST WAS HURTING.ON TUES CAME TO JOBSITE ABOUT 3:30 WITH DR SLIP S AYING HE WAS DI8ABLED UNTIL 4-21-87.WRIST WAS WRAPPED HE SAID DR DIAGNOSIS WAS TENDONITIS.
I,NAME SAID HE 4AS BREAKING CONCRETE AND JACK HAMMER FELL ON HIS FOOT. HOSPITAL SAID CONTUSION ON TOP OF LEFT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE USING IMPACK WRENCH TO TIGHTEN BOLTS ON 326 CROWD/DETRACT ROPE WEDGES.
EMP WAS USING IMPACT WRENCH TO REMOVE NUTS FROM BOLTS ON SWING TRANSMISSION WHEN THE AIR FROM THE IMPACT WRENCH BLEW DUST INTO HIS EYE
EE WAS BENDING METAL WITH A METAL MUNCHER TO MAKE A HOSE WHEN HIS HAND SLIPPED & HIS THUMB WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE METAL MUNCHER BLADES & THE METAL.