PASSING STERN OF DREDGE ENROUTE TO POWER CABLE WHEN ROCK FELL FROM STACKER, HIT LAUNCH, BOUNCED HITTING EE IN FACE.
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Showing all 9ANOTHER EMPL STARTED FORKLIFT WHICH ISNT SUPPOSED TO START IN GEAR BUT IT STARTED IN REVERSE.I.NAME TRIED TO MOVE OUT OF THE WAY BUT LEG WAS PINNED BETWEEN FORKLIFT AND A WELDING TABLE.
PICKED UP STEEL CUT PALM OF HAND
THE DREDGE WAS IN OPERATION AND THE MOVEMENT OF THE DREDGE COMBINED WITH THE MOVEMENT OF THE BARGE CAUSED I.NAME TO LOOSE HIS BALANCE. HE HELD HIS OPEN KNIFE IN HIS RIGHT HAND FOR CUTTING ROPE TO TIE OFF THE OXYGEN AND ACETYLENE BOTTLES HE HAD JUST LOADED ONTO THE BARGE. THE SUDDEN LURCH CAUSED HIM TO LOOSE HIS BALANCE. HE GRABBED THE BOTTLES WITH HIS LEFT HAND FOR SUPPORT. AT THE
I,NAME IS A LOADER OPERATOR HE SAYS FROM RUNNING/OPERATING LOADER HE HAS SHOULDER AND NECK PAIN.
INJ DROVE OUT TO DREDGE PICKED GAS TANK AND ON WASY BACK THERE WS A LOUD RUM BING NOISE AND SHAKING AND TRUCK STARTED TO HEAD TOWARDS CLIFF HE ATTEMPTED TO JPUT ON BRAKES WHICH PROPELLED TR UCK CLOSER TO CLIFF AND THEN FINALLY THREW TRUCK INTO PARK IN ORDER TO STOP IT HIS HEAD CAME IN C ONTACT WITH STEERING WHEEL WITH SUDDEN STOP.
OPERATING LOADE9- BOUNCING IN LOADER WITH A LOT OF NECK MOVEMENT TO VIEW BACK UP AREA.
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING HIS 980C LOADER AND HAD BEEN SEEING A DOCTOR FOR AN ONGOING BACK PROBLEM.THE CONSTANT JARRING IRRITATED HIS ALREADY PRE-EXISTING CONDITION.
MOVING FROM ONE BARGE TO ANOTHER IN DREDGE POND,EMPL HAND WAS SMASHED BETWEEN BARGES.