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EE IS A DIABETIC AND HIS BLOOD SUGAR GOT TO LOW WHICH CAUSED HIM TO FUNCTION IMPROPER. WE GAVE HIM SOME CANDY BUT IT DID NOT HELP SO WE CALLED 911 FOR AN AMBULANCE WHICH ARRIVED ABOUT 15 MINUT ES LATER. THE MEDICS TOOK HIS BLOOD SUGAR READING, THEN ADMINISTERD THE PROPER MEDICATION. HE WAS THEN BACK TO NORMAL. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR OBSERVATION THEN RELEASED ABOUT 8:00 PM
OPERATOR CAME TO WORK WITH A SWOLLEN LOWER EYE- LID, COMPLAINING THAT SOMETHING WAS SCRATCHING HIS EYE. WASHING THE EYE WITH COLCYRIUM EYE WASHDID NOT HELP SO HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR THE NEXT DAY AND THE DOCTOR REMOVED A FOREIGN PARTICLE FROM HIS EYE.
EMP DOWS NOT KNOW WHY OR HOW INJURY OCCURRED. ON 4-15-97 EMP SAYS THAT HIS KNEE WAS HURTING AND THAT NIGHT IT HURT SO BAD THAT HE COULD NOT SLEEP. IS UNDER DRS CARE AND HAS NOT RETURNED TO WRK