BITTEN BY SCORPION WHICH HAD CRAWLED INTO HIS BOOT
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Showing all 23Employee sustained a right eye injury which he believes occurred while working in the vicinity of an employee who was welding. However, employee was diagnosed with a corneal foreign body and thinks he may have encountered some trash that blew into his right eye while working around calciners.
An employee was walking back from break to his job and saw another employee laying on the floor.
OPERATOR WAS CUTTING OPEN OXIDE BAGS CREATING SOME DUST, CAUSING HIM TO SNEEZE. WHEN SNEEZED, HE FELT SOMETHING (PAIN) ON HIS LEFT SIDE OF LOWER BACK.
WHILE DESCENDING A FIXED LADDER, WASPS FROM A NEARBY NEST FLEW AT EMPLOYEE. HE QUICKENED HIS PACE AND POSSIBLY MISSED A RUNG OF THE LADDER, THENFELL TO THE GROUND.
EE EXPERIENCED A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK CAUSING IMMEDIATE DEATH.
EE WAS INSPECTING COOLER COLLECTORS. A LARGE GUST OF WIND BLEW THE DOOR OF THE COLLECTOR CLOSED THEY HAD BEEN HELD OPEN BY DOOR STOPS. THE DOOR STRUCK EE LEFT ARM AS IT SWUNG CLOSED. INITIALLY DIAGNOSED AS BRUISED WRIST FOREARM BUT LATER X RAY SHOWED FRACTURE OF ULNA. EE PLACED ON LIGHT DUTY.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING FIREWOOD FOR PERSONAL USE ON MINE PROPERTY DURING OFF DUTY HOURS AND SUFFERED FATAL HEART ATTACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS FLAGGING OUT DRILL HOLES FOR BULL DOZER OPERATOR WHEN HE BRUSHED AGAINST A LIMB THAT DISRUPTED A HORNET NEXT AND STUNG THE EMPLOYEE ON HIS HEAD X 2, BACK X 2 AND ON HIS LEFT ARM X 1. HE DEVELOPED SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK.
EE STATES FOREIGN PARTCLES BLEW INTO HIS LEFT EYE WHILE WORKING ON THE DRIVE PIER OF 11-D CALCINER. IT WAS A VERY WINDY DAY AND EE WAS WEARING HIS SAFETY EYE WEAR.
EE WAS SQUATTING DOWN STEAM CLEANING A SCRAPER. WHEN HE STOOD UP, HIS LEFT KNEE POPPED CAUSING KNEE STRAIN--LIGHT DUTY.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN FILTER BUILDING EXPOSIVE TO CHEMICAL FUMES CAUSED CHEMICAL INDUCED BROUCHITE-COMPANY DID NOT KNOW THIS WAS RELATED UNTIL 1-18-93.
BUMPED KNEE ON EQUIPMENT.
EMPLOYEE STARTED TO COMPLAIN OF CHEST AND ARM PAIN AT END OF AFTERNOON BREAK PERIOD. EMERGENCY HELP WAS SUMMONED. EMPLOYEE'S CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE. EMPLOYEE DIED OF APPARENT HE ART ATTACK.
IT WAS VERY WINDY IN HER WORK AREA AND DUST WAS BLOWING SO SHE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CLOSE A TARP AROUND HER AREA WHEN THE WIND BLEW IT OUT OF HER HANDS AND SHE LOST HER BALANCE AND FELL DOWN STRI KING HER RIGHT SHOULDER.
EXPERIENCED EYE IRRITATION WHILE INLOADING BAGS OF MICA FROM TRUCK
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS SITTING IN A CABLE TRAY AND TRIED TO REPOSITION HIMSELF USING THE SIDE OF HIS RIGHT LOWER LEG.
PER CALL PULLING CHUTE TO DISCHARGE PELLETS FROM SILO- HEART ATTACK.
DURING THE DAY EMPLOYEE GOT BOTH SHOES WET CAUSING THE TOP OF BOTH FEET TOBECOME BLISTERED.
EMPL ON KNEES W2RKING ON FILTER.WHEN EMPL STOOD UP HE TWISTED RIGHT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A ROAD ON WILDCAT DRILL PROPERTY WHEN A BEE STUNG HIM ON HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER. AS HE IS ALLERGIC TO BEE STINGS, HE WAS TREATED BY A PHYSICIAN AND SUPPLIED WITH A BEE STI NG KIT. NO TIME WAS LOST FROM WORK.
EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN WATER TRUCK ENROUTE TO QUINCY PLANT. A YELLOW JACKET ENTERED THE WINDOW AND STUNG HIM ON HIS LEFT FOREHAND. AT 1:00 P.M. EMPLOYEE REPORTED HAND AND FACIAL SWELLING AND WAS TAKEN TO GADSDEN MEMORIAL EMERGENCY ROOM WHERE HE RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING INJECTIONS: 2-BENADRYL, 1-DECADRON, AND 1-EPINEPHRINE. HE HAS LOST NO TIME FROM WORK.
MR SELLARS WAS REMOVING OLD METAL CONVEYING FRAME FROM PICK & SAVE AREA. HE RECEIVED A STING ON HIS R HAND THE NEXT MORNING THIS AREA ON HIS HAND WAS RED SWOLLEN AND PAINFUL HE WAS TREATED BY DR EMKO WHO GAVE HIM AN INJECTION AND PRESCRIPTION FOR AN ANTIBIOTIC EMPLOYEE HAS NOT LOST ANY TIME FROM WORK