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Employee was on a platform washing down the plant when EE was observed collapsing to the floor. CPR was performed until EMTs arrived and EE was transported to the hospital for a heart attack.
The EE had finished welding in the shop, when the wind blew a particle into his left eye. He could not flush it out. Medical facility had to remove a small piece of metal, given RX.
While operating the front-end loader, the employee felt ill with chest pains. ambulance was called & employee taken to hospital. He was checked out & his heart was OK. He was diagnosed with COPD - a non-work related illness caused by years of smoking cigarettes.
Former employee told his supervisor that he hurt his right shoulder in a bar fight in March 2010, but he was being treated for right shoulder pain before this because of his job, told supervisor on 6/21/10
Employee states he was in a dusty area when debris flew into his left eye. He does not know when it happened, he was wearing safety glasses. Scratched cornea, Rx.
When standing by the back of the service truck, the wind blew sand and dirt into his left eye, that resulted in a scratch to the cornea that required an antibiotic perscription.
THE EMPLOYEE STATES THAT REPETATIVE NECK MOTION (TURNING HEAD FROM SIDE TO SIDE) WHILE OPERATING THE DREDGE AGGREVATED A PRE-EXISTING CONDITION OF A HERNIATED NUCLEUS PULPOSIS.
THE EE WAS TAKING TRASH OUT TO THE DUMPSTER FROM THE SCALE OFFICE AND WAS STUNG BY TWO WASPS ON HER RIGHT WRIST AND CHIN. SHE HAD AN ALLERGIC REACTION AND WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND GIVEN A SHOT.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS ONLY HANDLING TOOLS TO ANOTHER EMPLOYEE AS A CONVEYOR BELT WAS BEING SPLICED BACK TOGETHER. IT WAS WARM & HUMID ON THIS DAY, BUT NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY. EE BEGAN TO LOOK PALE AND WAS SWEATING MORE THAN USUAL. CO-WORKER FELT HIS PULSE IT WAS RACING. HE TOOK HIM TO MEDICAL CENTER. STRESS TEST & CATHERIZATION DETERMINED THAT HE HAD BLOCKAGE RESULTING IN SURGERY.
IN THE EE WAS AT AN MSHA ANNUAL REFRESHER TRAINING CLASS WHILE SITTING AT A TABLE HE STARTED TO FEEL LIGHT HEADED AND DIZZY. HE STOOD UP AND WAS GOING INTO THE RESTROOM HE FELT LIKE HE WAS GOI NG TO COLLAPSE AN AMBULANCE WAS CALLED, HIS VITAL SIGNS WERE OK-HOSPITAL DIAGNOSIS WAS DEHYDRATION AND ELEVATED BLOOD SUGAR-NOT EATING AND CONSUMING ALCHOL THE NIGHT BEFORE.