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MEDICAL INJURY EE WAS WALKING DOWN THE WEST STAIRS TO THE 3RD FLOOR. AS HE STEPPED ONTO A WET & MUDDY SPOT, HIS FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM.HE TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF AND THIS RESULTED IN A SPRAINED RIGHT THUMB AND WRIST. A BRACE WAS APPLIED ON 7/31/98
A MECHANIC HANDED THE EE AN OIL NOZZLE. AT THAT TIME ANOTHER MECHANIC TURNED ON THE OIL PUMP. OIL SPRAYED FROM THE NOZZLE. THE EE JUMPED BACK TO AVOID THE SPRAY FROM THE NOZZLE, HE STRAINED HI S BACK.
EE DISMOUNTED THE TRACTOR USING 3 POINT CONTACT WHEN SHE PUT HER FOOT ON THE GROUND SHE TURNED HER ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WALKED UNDER THE AUGER. WHILE STOOPING, HE STUMBLED ON UNEVEN GROUND AND FELL TO HIS KNEES AND RESULTING IN BACK PAIN.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WALKED OUT OF SHOP DOOR AND DIDN'T SEE 3" STEP DOWN IN CONCRETE, SLIPPED AND HURT HIS BACK.
THE SHOOTER WAS ATTEMPTING TO CUT A SECTION OF DOWN LINE USING A RAZOR KNIFE. HE POSITIONED THE DOWN LINE ON TOP OF A WOODEN STAKE. HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO LACERATE HIS LEFT RING FINGE R.
DISMOUNTING THE LN7000 SUPPLY TRUCK. EMPLOYEE STEPPED DOWN INTO A PUDDLE OF WATER. THE WATER WAS COVERING A HOLE AND EMPLOYEE STEPPED INTO THE HOLE. HE TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE AND FELL INTO THE GROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING DOWN OUT OF HIS OB TRUCK WHEN HE MISSED THE CABLE STEPON THE BUMPER CAUSING HIM TO FALL ABOUT THREE FEET TO THE GROUND HE LANDED ON HIS LEFT BUTTOCK
EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING SLURRY DRAIN LINE VALVE ON 14" PIPELINE. HE SLIPPED AND FELL LANDING ON RIGHT SIDE.
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING ELECT BOX AND CABLE FROM VIRGIN FOR 2570 DRAGLINE. RAIN AND MUD VERY BAD SLIPPED IN MUD AND SPRAINED LEFT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED DOWN ONTO UNEVEN GROUND FROM BOARDING LADDER OF 236.12 HAUL TRUCK HE STEPPED INTO A HOLE & PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS LEFT CALF
DRIVER WAS FILLING DIESEL STORAGE TANK AS HE CLIMBED DOWN OFF THE TANK THE LADDER BROKE LOOSE FROM THE TANK. HE FELL ABOUT 8 FEET LANDING ON HIS SIDE AND ARM. ARM.
EMPLOYEE WALKED OUT ON THE 61-R WALKWAY ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE DRILL TO TALK TO SUPERVISOR AND DID NOT SEE A LARGE HOLE IN THE WALKWAY WHICH HE STEPPED INTO.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING UP ON A TRACTOR TO REMOVE A FLOOR BRACE. HE LOST HIS FOOTING ON A STEP ON THE PUSH ARM. THE EMPLOYEE FELL ON LIFT CYLINDER.
EMPLOYE WAS WALKING FROM PERSONAL VEHICLE AT WASHOUSE PARKING LOT, TO ELECTRICAN SHOP. HE STUMBLED AND FELL ON GRAVEL. THE FALL RESUTLED IN LACERATION TO HIS LEFT PALM.
EE WAS USING A CAT FORKLIFT WITH A PALLET ON THE FORKS AS A PLATFORM AND WAS WORKING ON AN OVERHEAD CRANE RAIL. WHEN THE OPERATOR LOWERED THE FORK WITH THE PLATFORM THE CYLINDER FORK TRUCK RET RACTRD BUT THE CARRIAGE HUNG AGIANT THE SIDE ANDTHE GUIDE RAILS THE CARRIAGE BRAKE FREE A MOMENT LATER CAUSING THE PLATFORM AND EE TO DROP APPROX. 6 FT 6 CAUSING A SPRAIN TO LEFT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS WALKING THRU A DOOR ON THE DRAGLINE & FELT HIS KNEE POP HE WAS NOT CARRYING ANY LOAD & JUST WALKING NORMALY RESULTED IN A KNEE STRAIN TO THE RT KNEE
EMPLOYEE HAD CITED THE OPERATORS CAB OF THE 2550 DRAGLINE AND WAS DESCENDING THE LADDER TO THE WALKING SHOE.HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL ONTO THE EXPANDED METAL WALKWAY OF THE SHOE STRIKING HI
DURING ROUTINE INSPECTION OF DRAGLINE MACHINERY ROOM,EMPL LOST FOOTING TURNING HIS FOOT INWARD.
EMPLOYEE WAS DESCENDING DRAGLINE, MISSED THE STEP AND FELL ONTO THE TRACK PAD TURNING HIS ANKLE UNDER AND FRACTURING A BONE.
EMPL MOUNTING DOZER GRABBED DOOR HANDLE WHICH WASNT LATCHED CAUSING HIM TO FALL BACKWARDS TO GROUND RECEIVING SPRAINED ANKLE.
EMPL STEPPED DOWN D9H ON UNEVEN GROUND & TWISTED RT KNEE. OTHOSCOPIC SURGERY PERFOMRED 7/31/89. THIS WAS 1ST DAY MISSED.
EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A LARGE BEARING OIN THE HOSIT GEARING. BEARING SLIPPED ON SHAFT AND EMPLOYEE FELL ABOUT SIX FEET LANDING ON HIS FEET AND SIDE. IF HE HAND NOT HAVE ACTED QUICKL;Y AND PARTIALLY JUMPED, HE WOU;LD HAVE BEEN HURT BAD.
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING COAL INTO BREAKER WHEN HIS FEET SLIPPED & HE STRUCK HIS RIGHT KNEE ON THE EDGE OF THE CHUTE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING TO HER WORK AREA. SHE WALKED DOWN A SMALL HILL AT THE REAR OF THE SHOP. THE GROUND WAS FROZEN AND ICE COVERED. SHE SLIPPED AND FELL ON THE ICE CAUSING HER INJURY.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOUNTING DRAGLINE SHOE, SLIPPED, FELL FORWAR STRIKING HIS FACE ON THE DRAGLINE SHOE.
THE EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING SOME 4160 CABLE WHEN HE STOPPED IN A HOLE.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON ROCK AND JAMMED BACK WHILE WALKING AROUND TRACTOR.
SLIPPED WHILE DISMOUNTING TRACTOR AND STRAINED MUSCLES IN LOWER LEFT SIDE
EMPLOYEE STATED3HE JUMPED ACROSS THE CONVEYOR BELT WHILE MAKING A BELT EXTENSION AND WHEN HE LANDED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BELT HE LANDED ON A CHUNK OF COAL CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS LEFT ANK LE. 3
EMPLOYEE SLIPPE8 AND FELL BACKWARDS WHILE CLIMBING DOWN FROM PLATFORM OF MOBILE CRANE. HE STRUCK HIS HEAD EITHER ON THE GROUND OR OUTRIGGER CAUSING A LACERATION ON THE BACK OF HIS HEAD THAT RE QUIRED ONE SUTU9E.
EMPLOYEE'S FOOT3SLIPPED WHILE DISMOUNTING LOADER SHOVEL CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS RIGHT ELBOW ON THE LOADER TRACK.EMPLOYEE UNDERGOING TREATMENT TODAY 08/10/87.HOWEVER,ORIGINAL REPORT TURNED IN AS BRUISED ELB2W 03/06/87 WITH NO LOST TIME.
EMPLOYEE STEPPI3G DOWN OUT OF TRUCK #105 OR #108 & STEPPED ON ROCK T WISTING RIGHT KNEE
EMPL USING 48''3PIPE WRENCH TO LOOSEN FITTING ON ELECTRIC PUMP-SLIPPED AND HIT WRENCH WITH RIGHT SIDE OF RIB CAGE.
EMPL LEAVING CA6 OF DRAGLINE AND SLIPPED GOING DOWN STEPS TO DRAGLINE HOUSE INJURING BACK AND RIBS.
EE SLIPPED ON 7RACKS WHILE MOUNTING DOZER & GRABBED HANDRAIL WITH LEFT HAND PULLING MUSCLES IN BACK & SHOULDER.
LOADING WEDAG BASKET INTO ENDLOADER HAD SLIPPED OFF OF BASKET EMP FELL INTO BASKET INJURING RT EYE BROW THREE SUTURES WERE NECESSARY TO CLOSE WOUND
COOL FROSTY MORNING THERE WAS FROST ONT HE FLAT BED TRUCK USED FOR HAULING. THE MAN SLIPPED PULLING A CUT WIRE FROM A BALE OF STRAW WHILE FEEDING THE STRAW BLOWER.
EMPL SLIPPED OFF STEP OF POWDER TRUCK WHILE GETTING OUT AND STRUCK KNEE ON STEP OF TRUCK.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED OUT OF TRACTOR. AS HIS FOOT CAME IN CONTACT WITH CRAWLER PAD HELOST HIS FOOTING AND SLIPPED. IN ORDER TO CATCH HIMSELF HE GRABBED DOOR FRAME. DOOR SLAMMED SHUT ON FINGERS.
EMPL CLIMBING DOWN LADDER IN DRAGLINE HOUSE AREA AND STEPPED DOWN ONTO RAG STORAGE CONTAINER.IT COULDNT SUPPORT WEIGHT OF EMPL AND IT COLLAPSED CAUSING EMPL TO FALL,STRIKING HAND/WRIST AGAINS METAL STORAGE BOX.
CLIMBING DOWN TRUCK STEPS, BRUSHED AGAINST 1ST STEP SUSPENSION CABLE. CABLE WAS BURRED AND CUT HIS RIGHT BUTTOCK.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING 4160 POWER CABLE FOR #3 LOADER WHEN HE SLIPPED ON LOOSE COAL, LOSING HIS BALANCE. AS HE TRIED TO REGAIN HIS FOOTING HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE
EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING ON TO DRILL AND LOST HIS GRIP AND STARTED FALLING FORWARD FROM ONE LEVEL TO ANOTHER-APPROX. 18 IN. HE EXTENDED HIS LEFT HAND TO BREAK HIS FALL AND STRUCK THE PALM AGAINST A LIFTING LUG.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UP STAIRS OUT OF 2550 BASEMENT CARRYING A BUCKET OF GREASE LOST FOOTING AND FELL CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH FREE ARM AND STRUCK BACK AGAINST HANDRAIL.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN THE LADDER CARRYING HIS BUCKET OF TOOLS AT 2570 BUCKET SHED WHEN HE STEPPED OFF THE LADDER ONTO THE WHITE ROCK. HE TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE AND BROKE IT.
EE FELL OR SLIPPED FROM REAR OF GRADER WHILE FUELING. HE WAS CHECKING BACK-UP ALARM WHICH WAS NOT WORKING PROPERLY & SLIPPED FROM GRADER LANDING ON FACE & RIGHT HAND IN MUD & ROCKS.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING BOLTS ON THE TRUNION CAP OF WABCO SCRAPER 097.24 AS HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN HE PUT HIS RT FOOT ON A METAL RUNG THE RUNG WAS COVERED WITH DRIED MUD AND AS HE BEGAN TO STEP DO WN WITH HIS LT LEG HIS RT FOOT SLIPPED ON THE RUNG AND HE TWISTED HIS RT KNEE
EE WAS DESCENDING RIGHT SIDE LADDER OF DJB TRUCK & WAS HOLDING ONTO BOTH HANDRAILS WHEN THE LEFT HAND SIDE GAVE WAY. THIS OCCURRED AT A POINT THAT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE WELDED, BUT WAS ONLY TACKED EE FELL ABOUT 5 1/2\ TO THE GROUND, LANDING ON HIS FEET & THEN FALLING ONTO HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON THE 8750 DRAGLINE, WHILE HE WAS WALKING NEAR THE TUB, HE STEPPED ON UNEVEN GROUND.