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An employee was walking on the wet plant concrete pad adjacent to the west side of the process tank when they slipped and fell on to their left shoulder. On 03/04/24 the employee was diagnosed with a contusion and muscle strain of the left shoulder and given work restrictions.
While descending a fixed access ladder the employee slipped on one of the rungs causing employee to fall below striking tailbone area causing injury. On 11/20/2023 the injured employee was diagnosed with a fracture of the second/ L2 lumbar vertebra.
Injured employee opened the hatch for a sand box. Once back on platform, the cage caught the box lid. While freeing the cage, the truck moved pulling the gangway down the horizontal track leaving an opening in the handrail. The injured employee fell 12½ feet to the asphalt below suffering a head laceration that required 15 sutures, fractured sternum, ribs, and back.
The injured employee was standing on a belt conveyor guard changing a gearbox when EE slipped causing EE to fall and strike left elbow on a disconnect box that was in the area. Upon medical evaluation, EE was diagnosed with a fracture to the left elbow.
Employee was spotting an employee on a ladder when EE stepped back to look up and slipped. EE struck EE's lip and back while EE fell.
The employee was cleaning off the waste belt when EE went to turn the water off, and stepped into a small dip and twisted EE's knee and felt a pop. The employee was taken to an offsite clinic and seen and released back to work and followed up with a clinic and at this time was given work restrictions.
Employee was exiting a sand screw basin, while starting to exit the basin retractable lanyard seized causing the employee to stumble backwards and strike middle back on the sand screw (auger) causing a contusion.
Employee was closing hatches on top of a semi-trailer. Employee was wearing fall protection. The driver released EE's air brakes and began pulling off the scale. The sudden movement caused the employee to stumble backwards and EE fell off the side of the trailer. The employee struck the side of the trailer.
Technician was on on-call weekend and was unloading and placing barrels. The technician had to cross over a concrete transformer pad. There was a hole that was not covered and the area was poorly lit. As the technician turned around the technician missed footing and tripping on the edge of the hole and foot going into hole.