EE WAS DUMPING STEEL TRASH BIN & GUST OF WIND BLEW FOREIGN OBJECT INTO HIS RIGHT EYE
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Showing all 25EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A FAN TO BE HUNG WHEN EITHER DUST OR RUST BLEW PAST HIS GLASSES INTO HISLEFT EYE. CO-WORKERS TRIED TO FLUSH IT OUT TO NOAVAIL. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE BERGEN PARK MED ICAL CLINIC WHERE DR. BREKHUS TREATEDHIM. FULL RELEASE WAS GIVEN WITH NO FOLLOW-UP REQUIRED.
EE WAS BEING LOWERED IN A MANBASKET DURING A TRAINING EXERCISE WHEN HE BECAME FRIGHTENED AND CLENCHED HIS TEETH CAUSING A BACK MOLAR TO CHIP REQUIRING A CROWN.
EE BUMPED HIS RIGHT ELBOW WHICH WAS INFLAMED AND APPEARED TO POSSIBLY BE INFECTED. CO DR WITHDREW SOME FLUID TO CHECK AT LAB. RELEASED BACK TO WORK.
CONTRACTOR WAS LOADING BENTONITE ONTO BARGE FOR A SEALING JOB WHEN ONE OF THE BAGS BROKE. THIS HAPPENED ON 11-22-96. DUST FROM THE BAG BECAME IARBORN DUE TO A STRONG WIND AND BLEW DOWNWIND INT O EE EYES CAUSING A ALSIGHT DISCOMFORT. THE DISCOMFORT BECAME GREATER AND EE SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT. EYE GOT BETTER FOR A WHILE THEN STARTED CAUSING PAIN AGAIN. REVISITED DR AND HAD TO HAVE
EE SUFFERED CHEST PAINS WHILE DELIVERY TIRES TO A TRUCK/TRAILER AT THE HENDERSON MILL.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING THROUGH THE BATTERY ROOM IN THE LOCOMOTIVE SHOP WHEN HE FELT A PULL IN THE MUSCLES IN HIS LOWER BACK. NO KNOWN CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT.
EE DOESN'T KNOW OF ANY SPECIFIC INCIDENT TO HAVE CAUSED HIS LOWER BACK PAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING MUCK INTO TRAIN HAD DUST BLOW INTO HER EYE
NO NARRATIVE
ON JANUARY 7,1992 INJURED STARTED MISSING TIME AND HAS NOT RETURNED TO WORK.YOU WILL FIND A COPY OF THE 7000-1 FORM WGICH WAS MAILED TO YOU ON JULY 17,1991.
FOREIGN BODY IN EYE-UNKNOWN
EMPL WAS ON LUNCH BREAK,NOTICED IRRITATION IN LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UP FLIGHT OF STAIRS WHEN HIS KNEE GAVE OUT.
EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING ON A HOPPER EMPLOYEE HAD OPENED THE DOOR FOR GOOD VENTILATION & GUSTY WINDS BLEW A PARTICLE IN THE EMPLOYEES EYE FOREIGN BODY WAS IN THE RIGHT EYE
EMPLOYEE WAS ST5NDING AT LATHE WHEN HE TURNED AND FELT A POP IN HIS KNEE
EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING DOWN DRIFT, WHEN HE STARTED COUGHING. WHEN HE DID THIS HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMP HAD SPONDYL2ISTHESIS IN LOWER BACK AREA AT THE TIME OF HIS EMPLOYMENT THE CONDITION GRADUALLY GBECAME WORSE WITH HIS REGULAR MINING ACTIVITIES ON JAN 27 1986 THE EMPLOYEE HAD SURGERY FOR T THIS CONDITION 4EDICAL INFORMATION FINALIZED JUN 1
EMPL WALKING IN3WAREHOUSE,TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE.
EMP DOES NOT KNOW HOW OR WHEN HE GOT THE FOREIGN BODY INTO HIS RIGHT EYE. IT DIDNT BOTHER HIM AT FIRST THEN ON THE 24TH HE TOLD HIS SUPERVISOR HIS EYE WAS SOMEWHAT IRRITATED BY SOMETHING HE HA D GOTTEN INTO IT
WHILE WORKING UNDERGROUND FOREIGN BODY ENTERED EYE A FOREIGN BODY AND RUST RING WERE REMOVED FROM EMPLOYEES EYE
EE SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF PERFORMING HIS NORMAL JOB DUTIES. THE HEART ATTACK WAS UNRELATED TO WORK PROCEDURES OR DAILY EVENTS. RESULTED IN DEATH 4-24-85.
EMPLOYEE HAD KNEELED ON THE CONCRETE FLOOR WHILE WORKING ON THE CYANIDE CIRCULATING PUMP. SOME CAUSTIC SOLUTION SOAKED THROUGH HER CLOTHING AND CAUSED A CHEMICAL BURN TO THE RIGHT KNEE. IT HAS NOW BECOME INFECTED.
AS THE EMPLOYEE WAS DOING MAINTENANCE WORK UNDER A MACHINE, SHE TWISTED HER BODY TO CHANGE POSITION AND STRAINED HER BACK.
EE WAS IN SHOP OFFICE. HE RAISED HIS LEFT ARM ABOVE & BEHIND HIS HEAD DISLOCATING THE LEFT SHOULDER.