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EMPLOYEE ARRIVED AT WORK WITH A SWOLLEN EYE AND DOES NOT RECALL ANYTHING ENTERING THE EYE. COMPANY EYE DOCTOR FOUND NOTHING IN THE EYE EXCEPT A DEVELOPING STYE AND STATED THAT IT WAS NOT RELAT ED. A SECOND DOCTOR(WONG) REMOVED A "BENIGN" NEOPLASM ON 05/17/99. PATHOLOGY REPORT SAID IT WAS A POSSIBLE REACTION TO A FOREIGN BODY. WORKER'S COMP. DECISION REVERSED ON 07/20/99.
EE RECEIVED DUST IN HIS LEFT EYE, DUE TO WINDS.
EMPLOYEE WAS TOSSING LIDS OVER THE CONVEYOR BELT WHEN WIND BLEW UP DUST. DUST ENTERED RIGHT EYE CAUSING EMBEDDED OF DUST.
EE WAS ON THE CLINKER TRANSFER TOWER WHEN DEBRIS BLEW IN HIS EYES.
RESTRICTED DUTY FOLLOWING SURGERY DUE TO AGGRAVATION OF A PAST INJURY.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING FROM HIS JOB SITE TO THE MAINTENANCE SHOP, AND WAS PASSING THROUGH THE BREEZEWAY, WHICH IS LOCATED AT THE CRANEWAY. FEEDERS FOR THE C-MILL CIRCUIT ARE LOCATED HGRT, AND SO RT DUST FROM TEH COUNTER FEEDER, BLEW INTO HIS EYE. HE WAS WEARING HIS SAFETY GLASSES. HE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL AID UNTIL 9-9-96.
EMPLOYEE SAYS THAT HE HAD BEEN HAVING PAIN SINCE 7-15-94, BUT DID NOT REPORT IT UNTIL 10-10-94. OUR INSURANCE DR. STATES THAT IT IS NOT A WORK RELATED INJURY. THE EMPLOYEE HOWEVER IS SEEING A CHIROPRACTOR WHO IS QUESTIONING THIS.
INJURED WAS EXITING OUT OF QUARRY SHOP WHEN A GUST OF WIND CAUGHT THE DOOR. EE PUT UP RT HAND TO STOP DOOR.
EMPLOYEE WAS ENGAGED IN NORAML WORK DUTIES WHEN A GUST OF WIND BLEW SOMETHING INTO HIS EYE.EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN HIGH WIND CONDITIONS.
LAYING ON GROUND BOLTING, WINDY CONDITIONS BLEW METAL IN EYE
GUSTING WIND HURLED A PALLET INTO THE AIR STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE & KNOCKING HIM OFF HIS FEET
INJURED CAME TO3WORK WITH A STIFF NECK AND WANTED TO GO TO A CHIROPRACTOR. HE WAS TOLD NOT TO WORK INTIL AFTER HIS APPOINTMENT. HE STARTED AT THE TIME HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS NE CK, ONLY THAT H9 WOKE UP WITH IT. AFTER HIS APPOINTMENT HE WENT TO HOSPITAL EMERCNGY THREE TIMES, THEY DID A CATSCAN AND DISCOVERED A SLIGHT FRACTURE TO HIS NECK.