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HE WAS FUELING THE MOBILE EQUIPMENT FROM A FUEL TRUCK. AS HE WALKED AROUND THE FUEL TRUCK, THE WIND BLEW FUEL OIL THAT WAS LEAKING FROM A WATER SEPARTION FILTER ON THE FUEL TRUCK, INTO HIS EY ES. MINER BURNS TO EYES.
I NAME HAD BEEN OPERATING A TS-24 TEREX SCRAPER STOCKPILING TOPSOIL. HE STARTED TO FELL ILL, BECOMING NAUSEATED AND DIZZY. HE STOPPED THE SCRAPER AND CALLED FOR HELP ON HIS CB RADIO. THE PIT F OREMAN AND A MECHANIC RUSHED TO ASSIST HIM. THE EMERGENCY SQUAD WAS TELEPHONED HE WAS REMOVED FROM THE SCRAPER AND TREATED FOR SHOCK UNTIL THE SQUAD ARRIVED AT THE MINE. HE WAS THEN TRANSPORT
REOCCURANCE OF OLD INJURY IT WAS DESCRIBED BY THIS DOCTOR THEN AS TRAUMATIC MYOFASICIAL SPRAIN LUMBO-PELVIC SPINE NEURITIS LOWER EXTREMITY WORKERS COMP CLAIM
THE INJURED WAS3WALKING BETWEEN WAREHOUSE AND PREP PLANT RETURNING TO LAB.HE WAS STUNG BY AN UNIDENTIFIED INSECT,PROBABLY A WASP,ON TOP SIDE OF RIGHT HAND OPPOSITE THE PALM.DOCTOR PRESCRIBED S TEROID AND BENA8RYL.
I.NAME WEARING 8AFETY GLASSES WHEN GRINDING MAST .TUESDAY RIGHT EYE WAS IRRITATED.WEDNESDAY WENT TO DR WHO REMOVED SMALL PIECE OF RUST IMBEDDED IN RIGHT EYE.ASSUME FOREIGN PARTICLE ENTERED RIG HT EYE ON MONDA2.WIND HAD BEEN BLOWING MONDAY.
STOOPED DOWN TO3CHECK TRANSMISSION OIL IN END DUMP WHEN SOMETHING SNAPPED IN BACK FELT PAIN IN BACK OF NECK & DOWN RIGHT ARM
FINISHED HIS DA2S WORK PARKED TRUCK IN PIT PARKING AREA. AS HE WAQS GETTING OUT OF TRUCK, FELT SHARP BITE TO LEFT SIDE OF NECK. EMP IS ALLERGIC TO INSEXT BITES. WENT TO HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS GIVEN A SHOT 3
HE WAS STANDING3ON A BARGE PREPARING TO LOAD THE BARGE WHEN WIND BLEW A FOREIGN PARTICLE INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.THE EMBEDDED PARTICLE WAS REMOVED BY A DOCTOR.
I NAME WAS AWAI7ING A PHONE CALL ABOUT PARTS. WHEN THE PHONE RANG ,I STARTED FOR OFFICE TRAILER BECAUSE OF THE NOISE LEVEL IN SHOP. AFTER LEAVING SHOP I TURNED TOWARDS THE OFFICE TRAILER AND F ELT THE PAIN IN3MY LEFT FOOT. WHEN I GOT BACK TO THE SHOP AN EMT WAS NOTIFIED.
I NAME HAD BEEN3DRILLING OVERBURDEN WITH A VERTICAL DRILL WHEN PROBLEM DEVELOPED CAUSING SLOW HEAD DRIVE ROTATION ON DRILL STEEL.HE BORROWED A PIPE WRENCH FROM ANOTHER DRILL OPERATOR IN SAME A AREA AND PROCEE8ED TO MAKE A MINOR REPAIR ON AIR LINE FROM THE ROOF OF THE DRILL CAB.I NAME WAS FOUND ON GROUND BESIDE DRILL BY THE OTHER DRILLER.I NAME TOLD OTHER DRILLER THAT HE THEW THE WR
OPERATOR OF SCRAPER CAME TO WORK RAN TEREX SCRAPER APPROX ONE HOUR AND COMPLAINED ABOUT BEING ILL HE WENT TO OFFICE AT MINE AND CALLED WIFE TO TAKE HIM TO DOCTOR TO BE CHECKED LATER THE SME DAY HE WAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVING A HEART ATTACK THERE ARE NO CIRCUMSTANCES TO INDICATE THE ILLNESS TO BE MINE RELATED
PARTICLE BLEW INTO AND IMBEDDED ITSELF IN LEFT EYE. HE WAS INSTALLING A BOOM BUSHING WIND WAS BLOWING.