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EMPL WAS LOADING TRUCK AT RAILROAD SLIDING AT PLANT #1 WHEN HE STEPPED OFF RAILROAD CROSS TIE. HE FELT SHARP PAIN IN CALF OF RIGHT LEG. EMPL STRAINED LIGAMENT IN RIGHT LEG.
EMPL HAULING SETTLING POND MUD TO DESIGNATED AREA.ROCK BERM WAS IN PLACE FOR TRUCKS TO BACK UP AGAINST IN ORDER TO DUMP OVER EDGE OF SPOIL AREA.BEFORE DRIVER GOT BACK TO THE BERM HE NOTICED GR OUND GIVING WAY BENEATH HIM.UNBUCKLED SEAT BELT AND JUMPED OUT OF TRUCK INJURING ANKLE.FEARED TRUCK WOULD SLIDE OVER EDGE OF DUMP.
EMPLOYEE HAD FINISHED LOADING BULK HOPPER TRUCK & WAS CLIMBING DOWN THE ACCESS LADDER ON TRUCK WHEN HIS RT FOOT SLIPPED BEHIND THE LADDER IT CAUSED HIM TO FALL DOWN THE LADDER BACKWARDS WHILE FOOT WAS HUNG BEHIND THE LADDER SPRAIN TO RT ANKLE
EMPLOYEE WALKED THROUGH SOME WATER TO TURN ON A VALVE TO FILL THE WATER TRUCK. THE SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS SHOULDER. HE WAS GIVEN A PRESCRIPTION.
INJ AND FELLOW EMP WERE REBAGGING 100 LB. BAGS OF SOTNE INJ WA> PJOURING STONE FORM OLD BAG I NTO NEW BAG WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE AN: FELL CATCHING WT. WITH L. HAND.
EMPLOYEE FELL OFF K FOOT FLOOR HE WAS WORKING ON WITH BELT SAW ON EDGE SCRAPPED RIGHT SIDE, FRACTURED TWO RIBS.
EMPL CLIMBING OUT OF HAUL TRUCK STRAINED GROIN MUSCLE.GIVEN RX MEDICATION.
EMPL CLEANING AREA AROUND #5 TUBE MILL.SLIPPED IN OIL TO BE CLEANED UP.IN PREVENTING FALL,STRAINED HIP MUSCLE.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED GETTING OUT OF A HAUL TRUCK AND STRUCK HIS KNEE ON THE STEPS. HE HAD 6 S STITCHES APPLIED TO THE WOUND.
EEMPLOYEE WAS USING A HAND TRUCK TLOADED WITH 6 BAGS OF ANFO EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL HAND TRUC K FELL ON EMPLOYEE S HAND MASHING IT AGAINST THE BED OF THE TRUCK FINGER REQUIRED 2 SUTURES
EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING BOXED DOWN STAIRS AND SLIPPED AND FELL. HE STRAINED SOME MUSCLES IN HIS BACK AND WAS GIVEN MEDICATION.
EMPLOYEE WAS SEARCHING FOR AN AIR LEAK.WHILE WALKING UP A SET OF STEPS IN ROUTE TO THE PLANT 2 OUTSIDE DUST COLLECTOR,HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF A STEP AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING EMPTY BAGS FROM PALLET TO PACKER OPERATOR A STACK OF 3 EMPTY PALLETS HAD THE AISLE WAY BLOCKED INSTEAD OF MOVING PALLETS EMPLOYEE WALKED ACROSS TOP OF PALLETS HE SLIPPED ON CONCRETE FLOOR WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN OFF OF THE PALLETE HE BRUISED HIS BACK & WAS PRESCRIBED MEDICATION RETURNED TO WORK ON LIGHT DUTY FOR 1 WEEK
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHILE CLIMBING OFFA SCREEN BOX AND SUFFERED A PUNCTURE WOUND ON HIS LEFT HAND ON STITCH WAS APPLIED.
EMPLOYEE JUMPED OFF OF THE TIRE ON THE FRONT-END LOADER HE WAS OPERATING TO GET OFF OF IT INSTEAD OF USING THE LADDER PROVIDED ON THE LOADER. HE HIT THE GROUND AND LOST HIS FOOTING FALLING BAC KWARDS. HE STRAINED A MUSCLE IN HIS NECK. EMPLOYEE DID NOT USE LADDER AND HAS BEEN WARNED OF THIS BEFORE.
EMPLOYEES WERE 3NSTALLING ELECTRICAL WIRES TO VENTILATION FAN WHEN ACCIDENT OCCURRED INJURED HAD STEPPED UP ON A APPROX.2IN FLANGE ON A VENTILATION FAN ABOUT 2FT.ABOVE GROUND IN ORDER TO HAND ELECTRICAL WIRE8 TO HIS PARTNER IN BUCKET OF CHERRY PICKER HE FELL BACKWARD LANDING ON HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE STEPPE8 OUT OF DOOR TO OUTSIDE TAKING MILL SAMPLE TO LAB EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON ICE FROM SONWSTORM AND LOST HIS BALANCE HE FELL BRUISING THE LOWER PART OF HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE STARTE8 THE 15M BLOWER ON THE BARBLENDE CIRCUIT AND WAS WALKING BACK TO THE PLANT WHEN H E SLIPPED ON SOME ICE DUE TO SNOW STORM ON A CATWALK. HE FELL AGAINST THE HANDRAIL AND BROKE H IS LEFT COLLARB2NE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CL3MBING OUT OF A P & H CRANE. HE STARTED TO CLIMB OUT AND THEN REALIZED HE HADNOT SET THE SWING BRAKE. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL ABOUT 3 1/2 FEET TO THE GROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING DOWN STEPS AT THE PRIMARY CRUSHER AT PLANT 2 HE SLIPPED ON SOME MUD AND STARTED TO FALL. HE REACHED OUT AND GRABBED THE HANDRAIL AND DISLOCATED HIS LEFT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS GO3NG TO CHECK HIS ENGINE ON A FRONT END LOADER.HE WENT ACROSS THE HANDRAIUL AND HAWAS CLIMBING ACROSS THE BACK TIRE,HE FELL OFF THE LOADER TO THE GROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING REPLACE A CONVEYOR BELT.HE WAS PULLING THE NEW BELT INTO POSITION.HE FELL OFF THE BELT ONTO A STOCKPILE.HE FELL APPROXIMATELY 10 FEET.
EMPLOYEE WAS ST9PPING UP ON QUARRY BAR DRILL WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HIT HIS LEG AGAINST HIS SHIN BONE- CUT IN FRONT OF LEFT LEG REQUIRING 7 STITCHES.
EMPLOYEE WAS CL3MBING STEPS AT 2 RAYMOND MILL WHEN FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING KNEE TO STRIKE STEP. DAMAGED CARTILAGE IN LEFT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CA9RYING TWO WHEELS ACROSS QUARRY FLOOR WHEN HE TRIPPED OVER A 2" AIR LINE AND JERKED THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS BACK. PULLED MUSCLE ON RIGHT SIDE OF BACK.
EMP WAS WALKING3TOWARS THE BACK OF A DROPBALL OF CATWALK ON THE MACHINE. HE SLIPPED ON SOME TOOLS AND SPARE PARTS AND FELL ONTO THE WALKWAY. HE BRUISED HIS RT WRIST
EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING TO HER CAR AT THE END OF HER SHIFT. SHE STEPPED ON SOME UNEVEN GROUND AND SPRAINED HER LEFT ANKLE. EMPLOYEE DEVELOPED PROBLEM IN AUGUST AFTER INCIDENT IN FEB.
EMPLOYEE WAS WA8HING BLOCKS AND STEPPING FROM THE TOP OF ONE BLOCK TO THE OTHER WHEN HE FELL AND HIS HAND LANDED ON SHARP PIECE OF MARBLE- SMALL PUNCTURE WOUND IN PALM OF LEFT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING IN AIR COMPRESSOR ROOM & HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON OIL ON FLOOR. EMPLOYEE STRAINED MUSCLE IN BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS WA8HING OUT RAIL CAR, SLIPPED AND LANDED AGAINST HIS ARM, DISLOCATING IT. THIS OCCURRED THE FIRST TIME ON 6-6-85. ON 9-29-86. SHOULDER POPPED OUT SEVERLY REQUIRING DR TO PUT BACK IN PLACE SURGE9Y 10-22-86.
WHILE DISMOUNTI3G A 35 TON HAUL TRUCK EMP LOWERED HIMSELF DOWN THE STEPS AND LADDER CLAIMS TO HAVE STEPPED ON A SMALL STONE WITH LEFT FOOT AT TIME OF DISMOUNT APPRENTLY FOOT SLID OFF SIDE OF STONE CAUSING K3EE TO CATCH HIS WEIGHT THUS TWISTING KNEE TAKEN TO EMERGENCY ROOM TREATED AND RELEASED LATER VISITS CONCLUDED SURGERY NECESSARY ON 7 8 86
OPERATOR SLIPPE8 ON LOOSE GRAVEL AND FELL.WHILE FALLING HE GRABBED DRILL TRAMMING CONTROLS PULLING THEM TOWARDS HIM.THIS CAUSED DRILL TO WALK BACKWARDS AND ONTO LEFT FOOT /ANKLE.BRUISES AND SK IN ABRASION. 3
EE CLIMBED UP L5DDER. LADDER SLIPPED & EE FELL 2' & SPRAINED ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING UP BROKEN BAGS IN BOX CAR SHE PLACED HER HAND ON METAL BAND IN DOORWAY OF BOX CAR AND WAS BENDING DOWN TO PICK UP A BAG WHEN THE BAND BROKE CAUSING HER TO FALL OUT OF T HE BOX CAR ONTO THE GROUND
I.NAME WAS CLIMBING ONTO THE BACK OF THE EXPLOSIVES TRUCK TO TRANSFER ANFO FROM THE STORAGE TAILR ONTO THE TRUCK. HIS FOOT SLIPPED FROM THE TRUCK AND HE FELL BACKWARDS ONTO THE GROUND. THE SMA LL OF HIS BACK LANDED ON AN EARTH BERM.
I.NAME SLIPPED FROM STEPS #1 & #2 WHILE CLIMBING BACK ONTO HIS LOADER AFTER FUELING. HE LANDED FLAT-FOOTED JARRING HIS BODY. THIS RESULTED INHIS REINJURING A PREVIOUS BACK INJURY
AFTER SHIFT WAS OVER, I.NAME WENT TO DUMP CONTENTS OF HIS LUNCH BOX INTO OLD QUARRY BESIDE CHANGE HOUSE TO FEED THE FISH. AS HE CROSSED THE BERM, HE SLIPPED CAUSING THE BACK OF HIS RIGHT LEG TO HIT A PARTIALLY BURIED PIPE. ALTHOUGH THIS IS NOT A WORK AREA, EMPLOYEES FREQUENTLY LOOK AT THE FISH. A BETTER WALKWAY IS NOW PROVIDED.
EMPLOYEE WAS BEATING ON A PIPE WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER, HIS FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM CAUSING HIM TO FALL ONTO THE CATWALK. THE CATWALK WAS WET. EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT SIDE AND LOWE R BACK AREA. PHYSICIAN DIAGNOSIS ON 1-18 WAS ACUITE LUMBAR SPRAIN. THE PAIN CONTINUED AND ANOTHER PHYSICIAN ON 2-9-84 DIANOSED A SLIPPED DISK.
EMPLOYEE WAS AT A JUNK YARD IN GAINESVILLE, GA. WALKING OVER JUNK MATERIAL LAYING ON THE GROUND LOOKING FOR PARTS TO USE AT THE QUARRY. EMPLOYEE WALKED OVER SOME MATERIAL THAT HAD A ROLLER CON VEYOR UNDERNEATH, CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO SLIP AND FALL INJURING WRIST.
EMPLOYEE CLIMBING DOWN LADDER ON A R-35 EUCLID TRUCK, WHEN EMPLOYEE STEPPED FROM LAST STEP TO THE GROUND EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON SOME SOFT GROUND 4 INCHES DEEP. EMPLOYEE FELL TO THE GROUND INJURI NG BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING LADDER ON BOX CAR-FOOT SLIPPED AND LEFT SIDE STRUCK BOX CAR.
OPERATING A GADDER- HE STEPPED INTO A LOW AREA CAUSING HIS RIGHT KNEE TO TWIST. DAMAGE TOT HE JOINT IN T HE RIGHT KNEE.