Employee was getting off the fork truck in the garage and stepped down onto the concrete floor and tripped over a water pump and scraped left arm from five inches above elbow to three inches below elbow. Cracked bone around ankle area. Tripping over the pump or the concrete floor caused the injury.
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Showing all 6EE was stepping off a portable platform elevated 12" off the ground. He was wearing the extra baggy pants and as he stepped off his right pant leg caught on the platform support causing him to lose his balance fall. as his pant leg ripped up the side he bounced off the step with his right hip and then landed on the floor.
EE WAS WALKING ON ABOUT 2" OF MUD ON A SANDSTONE BASE. HE WAS CARRYING A ROUND STEEL PIN 3" X 24" IN HIS LEFT HAND. HE STEPPED ON A FLAT PIECE OF SANDSTONE THAT HAD A LAYER OF WET CLAY ON IT. AS HE DID THIS HE SLIPPED AND FELL.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN A SIX FOOT LADDER. HE TURNED AS HE WAS STEPPING OFF THE LAST STEP. HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF THE LAST RUNG. THIS LEG WAS IN A TWISTED MOTION AS HIS FOOT HIT THE GROUND.
THE MILL HAD JUST PUT TWO BLOCKS ONTO THE CART AND PUSHED IT INTO THE GANG TO BE SAWED INTO SLABS. EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING TO SEE IF THE SWING FRAME WOULD BE ABLE TO COME DOWN PAST THE BLOCKS W ITHOUT HITTING. HE DECIDED TO GO DOWN INTO THE PIT, AND AS HE DID SO, HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A PIPE ATTACHED TO AN AIR HOSE TO BLOW LOOSE MATERIAL OFF AN AREA THAT HAD BEEN DRILLED, IT WAS ON A SLIGHT GRADE. AS HE TOOK A STEP FORWARD HIS FOOT CAME DOWN ON A PIECE OF STONE ABOUT THE SIZE OF A FOOT, HIS FOOT TWISTED AS HIS WEIGHT CAME DOWN ON IT, HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL NOON THENM WENT TO THE DOCTOR, HE HAD SPRAINED AN ANKLE.