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CEMENT DUST IN EYE. CONDITIONS WERE WINDY AND DUST FLEW UP UNDER SAFETY GLASSES.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING THROUGH THE YARD WHEN HE WAS STUNG NEAR THE RIGHT EYE BY A BEE.
THE EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN CLEAN UP ACTIVITY IN SURGE TUNNEL AND ADVISED OTHER EMPLOYEES THAT HE WAS GOING TO HOSE DOWN TAIL PULLEY ON #2 CONVEYOR AND THEN PROCEED TO PRIMARY CRUSHER TO GET READY FOR START OF SHIFT. EMPLOYEE, ENROUTE TO PRIMARY, COLLAPSED AND DIED FROM HEART ATTACK. CORONER RULED DEATH DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES, PRELIMIN ONLY.
ILLNESS: SUBJECT HAD BLOCKAGE OF ARTERY TO HEART CAUSING SHORTNESS OF BREATH AND CHEST PAIN. SEE ATTACHED SHEET FROM CARDIOLOGIST.
EMPLOYEE HAD A MILD HEART ATTACK.
EE ON 5/17/97 WHILE WEARING HIS SAFETY GLASSES [TINTED] & DURING HIGH GUSTING WINDS HAD SOMETHING BLOW INTO HIS LEFT EYE. INCIDENT WAS REPORTED 5/21/97 & ON THIS DATE HE WENT TO SEE A DR ABOUT THE EYE IRRITATION. NO FOREIGN OBJECT WAS FOUND. THE DR PRESCRIBED AN OINTMENT FOR THE EYE.
EMPLOYEE GETTING READY TO PUT SAMPLE OF GRAVEL INTO SPLITTING MACHINE. EMPLOYEE CALLED TO SUPT. SAID HE FELT DIZZY, HE WAS TAKEN TO CLINIC.
EE WAS GETTING IN TRAILER, THE WIND WAS BLOWING EXTREMELY HARD, WIND BLEW DOOR SHUT, SLAMMED ONTO EE HAND.
EE CLIMBED THREE FLIGHTS OF STAIRS & WHEN HE REACHED THE TOP HE COLLAPSED & WENT UNCONSCIOUS. PLANT EE CALLED 911 WHILE ANOTHER PLANT EE STARTED FIRST AID. EE WAS THEN TANSPORTED TO THE HOSPIT AL.
EE WAS WORKING AT HIS DESK WHEN HE FELT SOME PAIN ON HIS RIGHT THIGH MUSCLE. SWELLING WAS OCCURRING RAPIDLY. EE THEN ATTEMPTED TO DISCHARGE THE FLUID THUS ENABLING IT TO ONLY TO BECOME EVEN MO R INFLAMED. EE THEN WEN TO THE ER. TO SEEK TREATMENT.
TORN ROTATOR CUFF, EXACT CAUSE NOT KNOWN. CONFIRMED WORK RELATED BY CO. PHYSICIAN. SURGERY SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 21, 1997.
EE HAD CHEST PAINS & SWEAT . HE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL BY EMTS PERRY TOWNSHIP.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING UP LADDER ON 980 B FRONT END LOADER AND THE WIND BLEW DOOR SMASHING HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN DOOR AND THE HAND RAIL.
EE REPORTED TO WORK THIS AM & STATED TO SEVERAL EES THAT HE WAS EXPERIENCING TIGHTNESS IN HIS CHEST, NAUSEA & SOME PAIN IN HIS ARMS. EE ALSO STATED THAT HE BEGAN EXPERIENCING THIS PAIN PRIOR T O REPORTING TO WORK. AT THE INSISTANCE OF LOCAL PLANT SUPERVISION HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL FOR EVALUATION. IT WAS THEN DETERMINED THAT HE HAD A MILD HEART ATTACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS STARTING TO OPERATE THE KOMATSU GRADER HE PLACED HIS LEFT ARM ON THE ARM REST WHICH HAD A BEE ON IT THE BEE STUNG HIS LEFT ARM BETWEEN THE ELBOW & WRIST
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A ;1990 CHEVY 1/2 TON PICKUP TRUCK ON THE MINE PROPERTY WHEN AN INSECT STUNG OR BIT HIM ON THE BACK THIS HAPPENED AT APP 10:00AM IN THE MORNING HE START FELL HOT DIZZY & V ERE SICK TO HIS STOMACH HE WAS TAKEN TO RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL
EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING HIS REGULAR JOB AS SCALER OPERATOR WHEN HE HAD SEVERE CHEST PAINS WHICH WAS LATER DETERMINED HE HAD SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK.
EMPOLOYEE WAS SHOVELING AT PRIMARY THE WIND BLEW SOMETHING INTO HIS EYE
EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED AN ALLERGIC REACTION TO SOME UNKNOWN PARASITE PRESENT WITHING HTE OPERATOR'S CAB OF RENTAL FRONT END LOADER THAT HE WAS OPERATING. SKIN REACION OCCURRED ON HANDS, ARMS AN D LEGS.
WORKING IN PLANT & WAS WEARNING SAFETY GLASSES. WHEM EMPLOYEE TURNED AROUND TO LOOK AROUND HE GOT SOME DUST INTO HIS RIGHT EYE. DOCTOR PUT A PATCH ON EYE AFTER FLUSHING EYE OUT.
INJURED WAS NOT ENGAGED IN ANY PHYSICAL WORK ACTIVITY AND WAS IN THE VICINITY OF THE PRIMARY CRUSHER WHEN SOME DUST PARTICLES THAT HAD BEEN GENERATED BY THE CRUSHING OPERATION APPARENTLY WS BL OWN INTO HIS EYE BY A GUST OF WIND.
EE WAS WALKING BACK TO THE FORD 1 TON AND MUD FROM SOMEWHERE FLEW AND HIT HIM IN THE RIGHT EYE.
EE WAS HOSING UNDERNEATH SOME BINS ON A WINDY DAY WHEN DIRTY WATER DEBRIS FROMA BELT SPRAY OVERHEAD BLEW INTO HIS EYE. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.
WHILE WORKING WITH HDSOY-SPILL INTO TANK, WIND BLEW H2504 INTO RIGHT EYE.
EMPL CLIMBED DRILL MAST TO LOWER CANOPY INTO ITS PROPER POSITION. WIND BLEW CANOPY TO RESTING POSITION,KNOCKING EMPL TO THE GROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOOKING BEHIND RUBBER FLAP ON CRUSHER #1 AND A FOREIGN OBJECT FELL BEHIND THE SAFETY GLASSES TO THE LEFT EYE.,
EMPL CLEANING BASEMENT OF PRIMARY WITH SHOVEL.WIND CAUGHT MATERIAL AND BLEW IT BACK INTO FACE.MATERIAL GOT IN RIGHT EYE AROUND SAFETY GLASSES.
THE EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE WAS WORKING UNDER CONVEYOR.AFTER COMPLETING THE JOB HE RAISED AND STRUCK HIS LEFT SHOULDER ON THE CONVEYOR FRAME.EMPLOYEE WAS TREATED AND RELEASED BY DOCTOR.EMPLOYEE IS NOW LOSING TIME FOR BONE SPURS WHICH IS CLAIMED TO BE A RESULT OF THIS INJURY.FIRST DAY LOST TIME 11-02-90.
STORM CAME UP WITH HEAVY WINDS KNOCKING I NAME DOWN HE FELL & HIT KNEE(RIGHT) ON ROCKY GROUND SPLITTING IT OPEN
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UP AN INCLINE, OF STACKER CONVEYOR WITH 2-V-BELTS AND KEEDLED OVER AND FELL ON THE CAT WALK.
WIND BLEW DUST INTO EMPL EYE.
I NAME WAS HAUL3NG ROCK OUT OF QUARRY A BEE FLEW IN THE EUCLID AND STUNG HIM HS HE IS ALLERGIC TO BEE STINGS