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EMPL WAS OBSERVING DREDGE START UP. SEEMED HAVE SEIZURE PASSED OUT FALLING FACE FIRST ONTO STEEL DECK.
INJURED WAS COMING DOWN GANTRY LADDER HE SLIPPED AND FELL TO THE DECK,LANDING ON HIS FEET.LEFT FOOT SUSTAINED MOST OF THE CONTUSION.HE JAMMED HIS ARCH AND HEEL OF HIS LEFT FOOT.HE DID NOT REQU EST MEDICAL TREATMENT ON THE DATE OF THE INJURY.AT THIS TIME INJURED COMPLAINED OF PAIN IN HIS HEEL AND ARCH AREA OF HIS LEFT FOOT.
JUMPED OFF LADDER ON NUT WITH L FOOT
WHILE GREASING PORT UPPER TRUMMEL BEARING SLIPPED AND FELL STRICKING ELBOW ON BEAM SCRATCHING HAND TRYING TO BRAKE FALL.
THE TROMMEL HAD JUST BEEN EMPTIED IN PREPARATION OF REPAIRS. THE SMOOTH BOTTOM HAD WATER AND MUD ON IT. THE TROMMEL IS A VERY LARGE CYLINDER, SO THE INTERIOR HAS NO FLAT SURFACES. IT ALSO SLOP ES UP TOWARD THE BOW. THE FIRST FEW FEET AT THE DISCHARGE END IS SMOOTH METAL KEPT SMOOTH BY THE PASSAGE OF SAND AND OTHER MATERIAL OVER IT. AS HE STEPPED ONTO THIS SURFACE, TO ONE SIDE OF CE
SLIPPED ON ICE & SPRANG LEFT ANKLE.
SLIPPED AND TWISTED MY RIGHT ANKLE WHILE WALKING UP STAIRS.
EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OVER A WELDING LEAD. HIS LEFT TOE CAUGHT THE LEAD AND HE FELL ONTO HIS RIGHT KNEE.
MOVING POWER CABLE ON FLOATS. I. NAME STEPPED FROM THE LAUNCH TO THE FLOAT AND SLIPPED AND HIT AN ANGLE IRON WHICH COVERS THE POWER CABLE, CAUSING A LACERATION TO THE RIGHT LEG (SHIN).
WHILE LOADING BARGES AT DREDGE LANDING,HE WENT DOWN STEEP EMBANKMENT TO GET ON BARGE,FOOT SLIPPED ON LOOSE GRAVEL AND HIS HEEL CAME DOWN HARD TO KEEP HIMSELF FROM FALLING PULLING A CALF MUSCLE .
WHILE CLIMBING ONTO BARGE FROM BANK, ROCKS SLID FROM BENEATH FOOT AND CAUSED LET TO HIT EDGE OF BARGE.
HE WAS TRANSPORTING THE SAND SKIP TO THE BARGE LANDING IN THE MORNING AND HAD POSITIONED THE BARGE AGAINST THE BANK, GOTTON OUT OF THE BOAT AND TIED OFF THE BARGE TO THE LEG OF THE CRANE. AS HE STEPPED DOWN TO THE BANK TO TRETURN TO THE BARGE, HE SLIPPED ON LOOSE GRAVEL, REACHED OUT WITH HIS RIGHT ARM TO GRAB THE BARGE AND BREAK HIS FALL AND LANDED ON HIS RIGHT FOOT WITH HIS LEFT
ORIGINAL INJURY3OCCURRED 12-8-87 BUT TREATED AS FIRST AID. HE COMPLAINED OF INCREASING PAIN IN HIS FOOT ON 1-7-87 AND WAS AGAIN REFERRED TO THE DOCTOR WHO PRESCROBED MOTR3N, WHICH MADE THIS ACCIDENT REPORTABLE.
TRIPPED ON MAIN3DECK AT CROSSOVER PLATFORM TO STERN OF SWING/WINCH LEAVING DREDGE OFF SHIFT.
STEPPING DOWN F9OM LOW BED TREAILER. AS EMPLOYEE STEPPED DOWN FROM TRAILOR, WEIGHT SHIFTED CAUSING ANKLE TO ROLL OUTWARD RESULTING IN POSSIBLE SPRAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING V-80 FORKLIFT.UPON DISMOUNTING FROM EQUIPMENT EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON GREASE WHICH WAS ON FLOOR BOARD OF EQUIPMENT RESULTING IN BACK INJURY.
WET-OILY SHOES 8LIPPED ON STAIRS FELL BACK ON ELBOW-RIGHT ARM
WHILE SCRATCHING JIG BEDS ON THE PORT SIDE OF THE DREDGE, I,NAME STEPPED BACKWARDS AND FELL INTO TAIL SLUICE TWISTING HIS LOWER BACK.
I.NAME WAS LIFTING A FABRICATED CLEANER JIG TROUGHING. WHILE LIFTING THE TROUGHING I.NAME SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS BACK, LOWER.
WHILE LOADING A JACKPOT DRIVE, I.NAME SLIPPED DOWN 3 STAIRS INJURING RIGHT SIDE OF BUTTOCKS ANDTAILBONE.
I.NAME ASSISTING JIGMAN IN REPLACING BELT ON STARBOARD JACKPOT.WHILE AIDING IN BELT REPLACEMENT,I.NAME STEPPED OFF BOX ON WHICH HE WAS STANDING AND MISSED 1ST STEP.HE STUCK HIS HAND OUT TO CAT CH HIS FALL AND FELL ON GOLDROOM TABLE CUTTING HIS MIDDLE FINGER.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING INTO A 980C LOADER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND HIT HIS LEFT SHOULDER ON THE LOADER HANDRAIL.
EMPLOYEE WAS LEANING OVER TO CHECK COMPASS DEGREES.THE CHAIR IN WHICH HE WAS STITTING BROKE ALLOWING HIM TO FALL AGAINST CONSOLE.
FELL FROM DREDGE INTO WATER INJURING LEFT SHOULDER
WHILE STANDING ON A SCAFFOLDING NEAR THE STERN END OF THE DREDGE PLACING DOGS AND WEDGES, AS A WELDING WIRE FEEDER WAS LIFTED TO MAN STANDING ON SCAFOLDING, SCAFFOLDING GAVE WAY CAUSING EMPLOY EE TO FALL TO THE DECK OF THE BARGE PULLED UP NEXT TO THE DREDGE. EMPLOYEE FELL ABOUT 12 FEET.
WHILE STANDING ON SCAFFOLDING HE WAS SET TO PULL UP A WELDING WIRE FEEDER USING NYLONE ROPE THE SCAFFOLDING GAVE WAY & HE FELL 12\ TO BARGE BELOW.
WHILE STANDING ON A SCAFFOLDING NEAR THE STERN END OF T HE DREDGE PLACING DOGS & WEDGES, AS A WL%%** WELDING WIRE FEEDER WAS LIFTED TO MAN STANI%% STANDING ON SCAFFOLDING, SCAFFOLDING GAVE WAY CAUSING EE TO FALL IN THE POND. HE WAS IMMEDIATELY PULLED ONTO BARGE.
EMP WAS WEARING VEST TYPE LIFE JACKET WHICH BLINDED WALKWAY THEREBY CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS LEFT FOOT ON UNSEEN 3 IN STEP
WALKING DOWN STAIRS FROM MAIN DRIVE TO SECOND DECK OUT ON DREDGE 21 SLIPPED AND STARTED TO FALL.GRABBED RAIL WHICH CAUSED HIM TO BE JERKED AROUND AND TWISTED.