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EMPLOYEE WAS DIRECTING THE WORK OF REMOVING A STUCK TRUCK WHEN THE CABLE BECAME TAUT STRIKING HIM IN THE CHIN.'
SHOVELING UNDER #24 BELT. SHOVEL SOMEHOW GOT CAUGHT IN BELT GRABBING AND TWISTING EMPLOYEE BEGORE HE WAS ABLE TO LET GO.
EMPL BACK STARTED HURTING WHILE OPERATING FRONT END LOADER.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING PIPING FROM COMPRESSOR WITH FORKLIFT.PIPE SWUNG FROM FORKLIFT,PINCHING EMPLOEYES FINGER BETWEEN PIPE AND JUNCTION BOX.
EMPL WAS TALKING WITH ANOTHER EMPL WHO WAS ON FORKLIFT. FORKLIFT DRIVER ACCIDENTLY RAN OVER FOOT.
EE WAS DRIVING A DUST TRUCK. THE RUBBER COVER PAD WAS MISSING ON THE CLUTCH PEDAL. HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE CLUTCH PEDAL AND SCRAPED HIS LEFT LEG ABOVE THE ANKLE. HIS FIRST DAY OFF WORK WAS 6/ 3/91.
THE EMPLOYEE STATES THAT DRIVING A FORKLIFT WAS INJURING HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING AS A PASSENGER IN PICKUP TRUCK DRIVER OF THE TRUCK BACKED UP & STRUCK A COUNTERWEIGHT OF A BELT CONVEYOR INJURED EMPLOYEE STRUCK THE BACK OF HIS HEAD AGAINST THE REAR WIND OW OF THE TRUCK INJURED EMPLOYEE BEGAN TO COMPLAIN OF SORENESS IN THE HEAD & NECK AREA & OF DIZZINESS H IS VISION WAS BLURRED & HE FELT NAUSEOUSHE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL NO SERIOUS IN
EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO RESTART ON CONVEYOR BELT IN THE PACKHOUSE. THE BELT WAS EVIDENTLY OVERLOADED WITH CEMENT BAGS AND THE WEIGHT OF THE BAGS CAUSED THE BELT TO SLIP AND THEN STOP. AT THE TIME OF THE INJURY HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO MOVE BAGS ONTHE BELT AND GET THE BELT MOVING ATAIN. THE BELT WAS STILL ENERGIZED, AND WHEN IT BEGAN TO MOVE AGAIN IT CAUGHT HIS FINGER, CAUSING THE INJURY A
WHILE THE WATER TRUCK WAS BEING LOADED WITH WATER.IT BEGAN TO ROLL BACK AND WHEN EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO GET INTO THE TRUCK AND STOP IT THE DRIVER"S DOOR CAUGHT HIM AT THE KNEE AND TWISTED HIS L EG.
EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING TRUCK TO GARAGE WHEN BRAKES FAILED ON A 7% GRADE.EMPL OYEE TRIED TO NEGOTIATE A CURVE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GRADE AND WAS ATTEMPTING TO CONTOL THE TRUC K WHEN THE TRUCK SLID INTO SOFT EARTH AND ROLLED.
EMPL. ATTEMPED TO READJUST CROOKED BAG OF CEMENT ON A BELT CONVEYOR THAT WAS STILL RUNNING. WHEN BAG BROKE FREE IT TRAPPED HIS HAND NEXT TO A ROLLER & SMASHED, CUT HIS HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS AL5EGEDLY DRIVING A FRONT END LOADER WHEN BLADE STRUCK SOMETHING IN THE PILE HE WAS MOVING. CONDITION WAS NOT REPORTED AT THE TIME AND DID NOT IMPROVE EMPLOYEE SOUGHT MEDICAL TREA MENT ON 9-21-871 AND CLAIMED IT WAS WORK RELATED.
EMPLOYEE WAS DR3VING A FORKLIFT WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING ENTER EYE. DR DISCOVERED SMALL PIECE OF METAL IN R EYE 2 DAYS LATER ANOTHER DR FOUND AND THE SMALL BIT OF METAL IN EYE AFTER EMPLOYEE COM PLAIN OF IRRATI2N.
EMPL PALLETIZIN1 CEMENT BAGS ON #2 PALLETIZER WHEN BAG BECAME JAMMED ON BELTS ABOVE PALLETIZING TABLE.DISLODGING BAG WITH BELT STILL RUNNING.RIGHT GLOVE BECAME TRAPPED BETWEEN BELT AND ROLLER NEXT TO IT CAU8ING IT TO DRAW FINGERS INTO PINCH POINT BETWEEN ROLLER AND BELT.SUSTAINED LACERATED RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER REQ 9 STITCHES TO CLOSE.
EMPLOYEE WAS AL5EGEDLY WALKING OUT OF A DOORWAY AT THE 22 GROUP WHEN ANOTHER EMPLOYEE PUT A SMALL ELECTRIC CART INTO THE WRONG GEAR AND STRUCK I NAME IN THE LEG.
MAN LOST CONTRO5 OF TRUCK WHILE COMING DOWN DUST ROAD.
EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING SPILLED CEMENT NEAR AN CONVEYI-NG SCREW WHEN HE ALLEGEDLY STUCK HIS FINGER INTO HOLE IN SCREW TO LOCATE A PIECE OF METAL NEAR THE SPILL
EMPLOYEE ALLEGEDLY WAS LOADING A PALLETT ONTO A TRUCK WHENTHE TRUCK PULLED AWAY FROM FORKLIFT EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING OTHER LOADED PALLETS WERE BEHIND AN ONE BEING HANDLED CAUSING FORKLIFT TO T IP OVER PINNING EMPLOYEE BENEATH IT EMPLOYEES LEGS WERE BROKEN AND LEFT KNEES WAS CUT
EMPLOYEE ALLEGEDLY WAS PLACING A LARGE ROCK ON A MOVING BELT WHEN ANOTHER ROCK ON THE BELT STRUCK HIS HAND.
EMPLOYEE ALLEGEDLY WAS DRIVING THE POWDER TRUCK AND WHILE BACKING UP TO THE FACE THE LEFT REAR TIRE CLIMBED OVER A ROCK. EVIDENTLY THE ROCK ROLLED CAUSING THE TRUCK TO SLAM INTO THE FACE. THE ON HIS BACK.
MAN WAS CLEANING AROUND A BUCKET CONVEYOR IN THE SKIP BASEMENT WHILE IT WAS RUNNING HE REMOVED A GUARD HE STOPPED TO PULL UP ONE OF HIS SACKS LOST HIS BALANCE AND PUT RT HAND ON THE CONVEYO RAIL WHERE IT WAS RUN OVER BY A CONVEYOR BUCKET WHEEL
WINDBLOW PARTICLE IN LEFT EYE AND CAUSE IRRITATION.
MAN HAD RIDDEN THE MANLIFT TO TOP OF NEW FINISH SILOS TO CHECK ON A JOB AS HE WAS GETTING READY TO BOARD IT ON THE WAY DOWN HE PUT HIS RIGHT HAND ON THR ROLLER GUIDE FRAME AND AS THE LIFT CAME AROUND THE ROLLER CAUGHT TWO FINGERS CAUSING LACERATIONS
EMPLOYEE WAS TRANSFERRING FILLED CEMENT BAGS FROM CONVEYOR TO PALLET HE REACHED TO REMOVE AN EMPTY CEMENT BAG WHICH WAS INADVERTENTLY FLOWING ON CONVEYOR EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT GLOVE A RIGHT HA ND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN POWER BELT & ROLLER AND HAND FOLLOWED SEVERELY PINCHING & CATCHING FINGERS BETWEEN BELT AND ROLLERS.
HE WAS WORKING AT THE RAW MILL AT #2 MILL. ANOTHER MAN WAS PULLING A 600# STEEL SADDLE OUT FROM UNDER THE MILL WITH A FORKLIFT. HENDERSON HAD HIS BACK TO THE SADDLE WHEN IT HIT A PLATE ON THE FLOOR, FELL OVER & LANDED ON HIS SAFETY SHOE ON THE RIGHT FOOT.