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EE SUSTAINED CONTUSIONS TO HIS KNEES WHEN HE STEPPED ON A ROCK. EE'S KNEE GAVE OUT, HE FELL LANDING ON HIS KNEES, SWELLING OCCURRED ON BOTH KNEES. EE WAS WALKING TO HIS LOCKER BY THE WELD SHOP HE WAS CUTTING A TABLE.
EE SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO HIS LEFT WRIST WHENHE FELL & STRUCK HIS HAND AGAINST A SHARP ROCK
EE REPORTS WHILE WALKING TO HAUL TRUCK HE FELL CUTTING HIS EYE
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING OFF OF TRUCK AND DID NOT NOTICE THAT THE LADDER WAS OFF THE GROUND. HE FELL SIX FEET TO THE GROUND.
EE REPORTS WHILE MOVING CABLE, HE TRIPPED HITTING HIS ELBOW EE ON NO WORK STATUS STARTING 8-24-99.
FELL BACKWARDS OFF OF SCAFFOLDING.
EE WAS UNLOADING REELER OFF OF A FLATBED TRUCK WHEN HE STEPPED ON A ROCK TWISTING HIS RIGHT ANKLE & FALLING TO THE GROUND. THE ATTENDING DR RX PHYSICAL THERAPY
WHILE INDIVIDUAL WAS FLAGGING TRUCKS HE WAS WALKING BACKWARDS AND FELL OVER A ROCK IN THE ROAD, RECEIVING CONTUSIONS TO THE LEFT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS DESCENDING A LADDER WITH A DRILL INONE HAND WHEN THE LADDER STARTED TO FALL BACKWARDS. EMPLOYEE JUMPED OFF LADDER 5 TO 6 FEET TO THE GROUND LANDING ON THE BALL OF HIS RIGHT FOOT O NTO ROCKY OR UNEVEN GROUND. DIAGNOSIS WAS TWO FRACTURED BONES IN HIS RIGHT FOOT.
EE WAS FILLING A WATER TRUCK WITH WATER. WHILE TURNING OFF THE WATER, HE STEPPED DOWN, HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF THE STEP. HE WAS HOLDING ON WITH BOTH HANDS AND HURT HIS RIGHT SHOULDER EE WAS IM MEDIATELY CLEARED FOR LIGHT-DUTY WORK BUT NONE WAS AVAILABLE.
EE STEPPED IN A WATER PUDDLE AND FELT HIS LEFT KNEE POP.
EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED FRACTURES ON HER LEFT ANKLE AREA WHEN SHE TWISTED HER ANKLE AS SHE STEPPED OUT OF THE BREAK ROOM, LOCATED AT THE MINE REFUELING STATION.
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HIS LEFT FOREARM WAS LACERATED WHEN HE FELL AGAINST A JAGGED AEA OF PUMP GUARD. HE STEPPED ON SOME GRATING AND LOST HIS FOOTING. LACERATION REQUIRED 1 STITCHES.
EE SLIPPED ON ICE, FALLING ON RIGH KNEE. FRACURED THE RIGHT KNEECAP
AFTER ARRIVING AT WORK, EE GOT OUT OF VEHICLE & WENT AROUND TO PASSENGER SIDE TO GET LUNCHBOX. HE WENT OT OPEN THE DOOR & LOST HIS FOOTING CAUSING HIM TO TWIST & JERK & FALL & PULLED LIGAMENT IN LOWER BACK
EE CLAIMS HE SUSTAINED A KNEE INJURY WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL TO THE GROUND, SCRAPING HIS LEFT KNEE. EE WAS ON THE DRILL TOWER RESTRINGING THE CABLE. KNEE INJURY TURNED OUT TO BE A TORN LIGAME NT AND HAD TO HAVE SURGERY TO REPAIR.
EE STEPPED DOWN TO THE GROUND FROM A VEHICLE TURNING ANKLE (ANKLE WAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVING A FRACTURE OF THE LATERAL MALLEOLUS
EE CLAIMS HE FRACTURED HIS ANKLE WHEN HE STEPPEDON THE CRACKED, UNEVEN CONCRETE FLOOR AND TWISTED IT.
EMPLOYEE REPORTS WHILE SITTING ON FENDER OF TRUCK WORKING ON ENGINE, HE FELL, HITTING THE CONCRETE BELOW.
EE STEPPED OFF OF A CURB AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE. THIS WAS LATER DIANOSED AS AN ANKLE SPRIAN.
EE WAS MAKING REPAIRS TO A LEAKING WATER PIPE THE PIPE AREA HAD BEEN EXCAVATED TO EXPOSE THE PIPE. WHEN THE EE STEPPED INTO THE HOLE THE SIDE COLLAPSED TWISTING HIS KNEE, AS HE CAUGHT HIS BA LANCE. CLASSIFIED AS A 1ST AID UNTIL MENISCUS TEAR WAS IDENTIFIED, SURGERY PERFORMED ON 7/22/98 REPORTING OVERSIGHT FOUND DURING INTERNAL AUDIT
EE SLIPPED ON ICE LANDING ON HIS ELBOW RESULTING IN A SHOULDER STRAIN.
EE WAS GETTING DOWN FROM FORKLIFT AND WHEN HER FOOT HIT THE GROUND, HER FOOT AND/OR LEG TWISTEDEXAM AT THE HOSPITAL SHOWED A FRACURED UPPER TIBIA & FIBULA
EMPLOYEE WAS EXITING OUT THE NORT SIDE OF THE MILL BUILDING TO CHECK ON SOME PARTS. EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL ON ICY ROADWAY, BREAKING RIGHT ANKLE AND LEG.
EE WAS FUELING VEHICLE. WHEN HE WALKED TO PASSENGER SIDE, HE SLIPPED ON ICEY PAVEMENT CAUSING FRACTURE TO RIGHT MIDDLE & PINKY FINGER
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE SUSTAINED A BACK STRAIN WHEN HE STEPPED INTO A MUD PUDDLE, SLIPPED AND CAUGHT HIMSELF ON THE STAIRWELL IN A EFFORT TO KEEP FROM FALLING.
EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED A LEFT INGUINAL HERNIA WHEN HE STRETCHED FORWARD TO KEEP FROM FALING AS A RESULT OF SLIPPING WHILE WALKING IN SLIPPERY MUCK AT THE SOLVENT EXTRACTION DUMP LEACH PAD.
EE CLAIMS HE SUSTAINED A KNEE STRAIN WHEN HE FELL OF A CABLE TOWER APPROX. FIVE FEET. THE KNEE INJURY CAUSED FLUID BUILD UP AND HAD TO BE DRAINED BY THE DR. THIS INJURY WAS INITIALLY CLASSIFIE D AS A FIRST-AID CASE. BUT AS THE INJURY BECAME WORSE AND REQUIRED FURTHER TREATMENT, IT WAS RECLASSIFIED AS A REPORTABLE INJURY MEDICAL TREATMENT.
EE STEPPED SIDEWAYS ON TO A ROCK WHICH BROKE, & EE FELL TO THE GROUND. THIS WAS DIAGNOSED AS AN ANKLE SPRAIN.
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HIS KNEE WAS INJURED WHEN HE SLIPPED OFF THE LADDER STEP EDGE AND TWISTED HIS KNEE. HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN THE LADDER WHEN HE MISSPLACED HIS FOOT AND LOST HIS BALANCE.
EMPLOYEE WAS APPROACHING A POWER POLE TO REPAIR AN INSULATOR. GROUND WAS SET A STEEPINCLINE AND EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND INJURED KNEE.
EE STEPPED FROM VEHICLE AND SPRAINED LEFT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE INJURED LEFT HAND, RIGHT ANKLE. EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL ON WET SURFACE WHILE TAKIGN SAMPLES AT THE LEACHING PAD. EMPLOYEE TRIED TO BREAK HER FALL WITH HER LEFT ARM RECEIVVING A FR ACTURE OF THE LEFT HAND.
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE SUSTAINED A BACK INJURY WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL LANDING ON HIS BUTTOCKS.
EMPLOYEE TWISTED HIS BACK WHILE PUMPING AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON A ROCK.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED FROM A VEHICLE SPRAINING HIS RIGHT ANKLE AND FRACTURING A BONE IN HIS RIGHT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON WET FLOOR STRIKING RIGHT ELBOW ON CORNER OR TABLE. THIS RESULTED IN A FRACTURE OT HER RIGHT ELBOW.
EMPLOYEE HAD JUST FINISHED WASHING DOWN A MACHINE WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL TO THE GROUND. HIS FALL RESULTED IN A HEAD LACERATION, A WRIST SPRAIN, AND A CONTUSION TO HIS LOWER LEG.
EE STARTED TO SLIP [MUDDY CONDITIONS] & GRABBED FOR EQUIPMENT RAIL. THIS CAUSED PAIN IN THE LEFT SHOULDER AREA. THIS WAS DIAGNOSED AS A SHOULDER IMPINGMENT.
EE CLAIMS HE SUSTAINED A SCALP LACERATION AND CHEST CONTUSION WHEN HE FELL FROM STANDING ON THE STAIRCASE WHICH HE WAS TRYING TO LOWER. THE STAIRCASE DROPPED DOWN AND HE FELL, LANDING ON HIS U PPER BACK HITTING HIS HEAD.
EE WAS CLEANING OUT A TRENCH FOR DRAINAGE. WHEN REINSTALLING THE GRATE, EE SLIPPED ON WET SURFACE AND HURT HIS BACK. EE S BACK WAS TWISTED WHEN HE TRIED TO REGAIN HIS BALANCE.
EE REPORTS WHILE STEPPING OFF A LADDER, HE LOST HIS BALANCE, SET HIS HAND DOWN TO BREAK FALL, BENT WRIST BACK.
SLIPPED WHILE GETTING DOWN OUT OF 500 KOMOTSU LOADER HIT THE STEPS OF LOADER IWTH RIGHT ARM AND RIBS. BROKEN MIRROR PIECES GOT INTO EE'S ARM. EE'S BOOTS WERE MUDDY AND THIS COULD HAVE CONTRI BUTED TO HIM SLIPPING.
EE WALKED OVER SOME RETURN IDLERS WHILE TRYING TO GET BACK TO HIS CRANE. HIS PANT LEG GOT CAUGHT ON THE EDGE OF THE ROLLER, CAUSING HIM TO TRIP AND FALL, HITTING HIS LEFT ARM AND CUTTING HIS R T HAND.
EE WAS UNLOADING SOME RETURN ROLLERS FOR A CONVEYOR OFF OF A PALLET. HE PULLED ON ONE OF THE ROLLERS AND HIS FEET SLIPPED OUT AND HE TWISTED HIS BACK.
EE SLIPPED OFF TRUCK BOARDING LADDER, FELL TO THE GROUND & SPRAINED HIS LEFT KNEE.
EE CLAIMS HE WAS PULLING ON A 2" PIPE AT A LEACHPAD WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING, FELL & STRUCK HIS MOUTH ON A ROCK. 1 TOOTH WAS BROKEN & 3 OTHERS WERE LOOSENED
CLIMBING DOWN STAIRS KNEE POPPED WHEN REACHING THE GROUND. TWISTED.
EE CLAIMS HE WAS DESCENDING A WHEEL DOZER, MISSED THE BOTTOM STEP AND FELL ON HIS BACK. CONTUSION TO RIGHT HIP.
EMPLLOYEE WAS POURING CONCRETE ON A FLOOR THAT HAD BLOCK OUTS IN IT FOR EQUIPMENT TO BE PLACED IN. HE WAS WEARING A FULL BODY HARNESS AND IT WAS ATTACHED TO A FALL ARREST SYSTEM. WHILE BACKI NG UP HIS FOOT WENT INTO ONE OF THE BLOCK OUTS AND HE FELL, HITTING HIS RIGHT SIDE ON THE FLOOR.