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Employee was standing outside of the lab building on a windy evening, directing a forklift when she felt something enter her eye. Employee was wearing safety glasses at the time. Employee returned to work after hospital flushed out her eye and prescribed antibiotics.
On 10/26/11 a Lab Tech was found in the lab storage room crying. He said he had chest pain & shortness of breath. Emt's on scene at 2:05 pm. ee is overweight, has high blood pressure and diabetes, heart attack was suspected. At 3:15 ee arrived at the hospital and was stable and responsive. On 10/27/11 ee called and said he was OK.
Employee got out of his pick-up truck, turned in the open doorway to retrieve his respirator and while doing so the wind blew the door shut, forcing the employee's left knee to impact the truck body.