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EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING BOXES ON PALLET WHEN HIS SHOE WENT IN BETWEEN HOLES ON PALLET. HIS NECK POPPED.
HE WAS USING A 6' STEP LADDER TO ACCESS A PLATE HE NEEDED TO REMOVE FROM A STORAGE BIN. HE STATED HE WAS ON THE 3RD STEP OF THE 6' LADDER WHEN THE LADDER SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM & HE FELL T O THE CONCRETE. HE SUFFERED A FRACTURE OF THE LEFT LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON ICE AND SNOW COVERED WALK WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL FALLING ON HIS LEFT SHOULDER. HIS SHOULDER HAS CONTINUED TO HURT HIM FOR THE PAST YEAR AND HE DECIDED TO SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT. SURGERY PENDING. DIAGNOSIS: FROZEN SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING OUT OF MAINTENANCE SHOP WHEN HE TRIPPED ONTHE THRESHOLD IN THE DOORWAY HE CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH TH4E HEEL OF HIS LEFT HAND PUTTING ALL OF HIS BODY WEIGHT ON HIS LEFT ARM HE NOTICED SLIGHT PAINTHAT WORSENED AS THE DAY WENTON HE WENT TO THE ER WHERE XRAY SHOWED A FRACTURE OF THE LEFT ELBOW RADIAL HEAD
APPROX. 945 AM 11-11-94 FRIDAY EE FELL APPROXIMATELY 10-15 FEET FROM A STEEL PLATFORM TO THE GROUND. HE STATES HE WAS SITTING ON A BEAM, HIS LEGS BRACED AGAINST A LADDER AND HE SOMEHOW FELL. H E DOES NOT RECALL EXACTLY HOW IT HAPPENED.
EMPLOYEE WAS COMING DOWN STEPS ON LINE #2 WRAPPER WHEN HIS BOOT HUNG ON STEP. HE CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HANDRAIL BUT TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE. DID NOT SEEK TREATMENT UNTIL 10-19-94.
EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING DOWN OFF PLATFORM TO PALLETIZER PLATFORM. HE TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE WHEN HE STEPPED FROM ONE LEVEL TO THE NEXT.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON TOP OF STACKED PRODUCT WHEN HIS FOOT WENT THROUGH TWO PALLETS CAUSING HIM TO FALL.HIS RIGHT KNEE WAS WEDGED BETWEEN THE PRODUCT.
EMPLOYEE TURNED HER ANKLE WHEN SHE SLIPPED ON NCATWALK. THE EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO UNJAM BAGS AT BAG STACKER.EMPLOYEE WORKED 08-05 BUT WAS OFF 08-08.
ACCIDENT ON 7-18 BUT EMPLOYEE FELT NO MEDICAL ATTENTION REQUIRED. HE REQUESTED MEDICAL ATTENTION ON 7-19 FIRST DR VISITI 8/1 LOST WORKDAYS BEGAN 8-1-94 AN ADDITIIVE TANK HOSE CAM EOFF HTE ADDITIVE TANK, ADDITIIVE SPILLED ON FLOOR, HE SLIPPED IN ADDITIIVE AND FELL TO FLOOR. SUFFERED LOWER BACK STRAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM THE BULLDOZER WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL ABOUT TWO FEET HE HIT THE GROUND ON HIS LEFT ELBOW WHICH CAUSED HIS LEFT SHOULDER TO HURT EMPLOYEE DID NOT FEEL THE NEED TO GO TO THE DOC AT THAT TIME EMPPLOYEE DECIDED HE WANTED HIS SHOULDER LOOKED AT ON 03-22-94 DOC RELEASED EMPLOYEE TO FULL DUT ON 03-22-94 EMPLOYEE WENT BACK TO DOC 04-11-94 SHO
EMPLOYEE WAS ON PLATFORM PALLETIZER ON LINE #1. STEPPED ON LOWER LEVEL OF PLATFORM AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED & FELL IN SLIPPERY MUD SPOT. WHEN FALLING, HE TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF WITH RIGHT HAND. IMPACT FROM HAND HITTING CONCRETE TRYING TO HOLD HIS WEIGHT UP SENT PAIN TO SHOULDER & NE CK -- RIGHT SIDE.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE MOVING A WOODEN PALLET. THE AREA HAD A MUDDY SURFACE, DUE TO RECENT RAIN.
HE WAS WORKING ON TO OF A HOPPER CAR, SLIPPE DON WET CLAY WHICH WAS ON THE CAR ANDFELL ONTO TOP OF CAR. FELL ON LEFT KNEE. CONTUSIO TO KNEE.
ANKLE STRAIN. HE STEPPED OFF A FORKLIFT ONTO RIBBED TRAILER FLOOR AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE WHICH GAVE AWAY CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE AND FALL TO THE TRAILER FLOOR. HE STATED HIS ANKLE WAS STILL SORE FROM A PRIOR INJURY.
EE STATED THAT SOMETIME IN JAN HE STEPPED IN A HOLE AND TURNED HIS ANKLE. HE DID NOT GO FOR TREATMENT UNTIL 4-13-93, WHEN HE SAW A DR. HIS TREATMENT INCLUDED AN X RAY AND TWO INJECTIONS. EE ST ATED HE HAD A SMALL CHIP OF BONE IN HIS ANKLE. WHEN ASKED WHY HE WAITED SO LONG TO HAVE TREATMENT HE STATED HE HAS TROUBLE WITH HIS ANKLES ANYWAY AND DID NT WANT TO GO TO DR HE MISSED NO TIME
EMPLOYEE STEPPED OFF A FORKLIFT ONTO A PIECE OF A PALLET AND TWISTED HIS LEFT FOOT.
EE WAS ON TOP OF BAGS OF FINES MATERIALS COVERING THEM WITH A TARP. HE JUMPED OFF THE TOP OF THE LAST BAG APPROX. 4 FT HIGH STUMBLED AND TRIED TO BREAK HIS FALL WITH HIS LEFT HAND HE CAUGHT HI S THUMB ON ANOTHER BAG OF FINES AND JABED THAT THUMB.
EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OFF THE STEPS, WHEN HE DECIDED TO STEP ONTO A PALLET THAT WAS BY THE STEPS. AS HE STEPPED ONTO THE PALLET, HIS ANKLE TWISTED, CAUSING HIM TO FALL.
AS EMPLOYEE WAS LEAVING THE BUILDING, GOING DOWN STAIRS, HE SLIPED ON WET MUD/CLAY LANDING ON HIS BACK, ARM AND POSTERIOR. (RIGHT SIDE).
HAD JUST PUT A SEAL ON A RAIL CAR DOOR. WAS WALKING AROUND THE RAIL CAR AND SLIPPED IN SOME MUD FELT SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK IT WAS RAINING.
85076T OFF A FORKLIFT INSIDE A RAIL CAR AND TWISTED HIS LEFT FOOT IN CHANNEL FOR LOCKING BULKHEAD DOORS OF RAIL CAR.
EE WAS STACKING 48 CASES OF CAT LITTER ONTO A PALLET. THE CASES WERE COMING DOWN A CONVEYOR TO THE EE WHO THEN TOOK THE CASE OFF AND PLACED IT ON A PALLET LOCATED ON THE FLOOR TO HIS RIGHT AS THE EE TURNED HE CAUGHT HIS BOOT ON THE CORNER OF THE PALLET THIS CAUSED HIM TO GET OFF BALANCE AND TWIST HIS BACK.
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO MOVE BARRELS OUT FROM UNDER STORAGE RACKS,HER FOOT GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE SKIDS,CAUSING HER TO LOSE HER BALANCE AND TWIST HER ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS BENDING OVER TO OPEN THE TOP DOOR OF A HOPPER CAR AS HE OPENED THE DOOR HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF THE ROOF GRATING CAUSING HIS LEFT KNEE TO TWIST EMPLOYEE DID NO T REPORT THE ACCIDENT UNTIL 04-13-92
WASHING CAB OF LOADER SLIPPED HIT LOWER JAW ON HANDRAIL LOOSENED TEETH ON FRONT OF LOWER JAW
EMPL FOOT HUNG IN STEEL STEP OF LOADER WHEN DESCENDING.
EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING ON A TENNANT SWEEPER.HE STATED HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS ABDOMINAL AREA AND PASSED OUT FALLING FROM THE SWEEPER ONTO THE CONCRETE FLOOR STRIKING HIS HEAD AND LEFT SHOULD ER.EMPLOEYE WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM ON 08-01-91,WHERE THE EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTOR TOOK AN X-RAY AND SAID HE COULD RETURN TO WORK.HE CAME BACK TO WORK ON 08-02-91.ON 08-05- HE SAW HIS FAMILY