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EMPL WAS INSPECTING CEMENT COOLER COMING DOWN LADDER FELL FROM LADDER INJURING BACK.
EMPL WAS GRINDING ONE END OF METAL ARM WHEN IT KICKED BACK HITTING HIM ON KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING TO HELP INSTALL A PICE OF PLASTIC ON A HOPPER.WHILE STANDING ON A BOARD HE SLIPPED.THE INJURY CAME THROUGH DUE TO HIS FOOT GETTING CAUGHT ON A LADDER RESTING BESIDE HIM.
CONTRACT WORKER WAS WALDKING ON THE BARE GROUND AND SOMEHOW SIMPLY SLIPPED OR TRIPPED HIMSELF AN DFELL DOWN THERE WERE NO TRIPPING HAZARDS INVOLVED OR COMPANY SAFETY VIOLATIONS IT WAS JUST A FOOT TRIP. THIS ACCIDENT SHOULDER NOT BE A NEGATIVE W ANY WAY AGAINST OUT PLANT ON RECORD CONTRACTOR WORKED UNTIL 1-17-88.
EMPLOYEE WAS ABOUT TO CLIMB STEEL LADDER (WITH PROTECTIVE CAGE) WHEN HE JAMMED HIS HARD HAT ON THE PROTECTIVE CAGE AS HE STARTED UP PROTECTIVE CAGE WAS MODIFIED SO THAT THIS SHOULD NOT REOCCU R WHILE MAINTAING PROTECTION FOR LADDER CLIMBER DOC.COULD NEVER FIND ANY INJURY EMPLOYEE DIDNT MISS ANY WORK UNTIL NOW-SOME 21/2MONTHS AFTER ACCIDENT
CONTRACTOR STAT9S JE WAS STEPPING OUT OF CARRY BASKET AFTER DOING SOME SAND BLASTING.THE BASKET WAS A COUPLE OF FEET OFF THE GROUND.HE STEPPED ONTO A SANDY SURFACE THAT WAS A LITTLE SLOPED AND SLIPPED.HIS KN9E TWISTED WHEN HE SLIPPED.
EMPLOYEE STATES3HE TWISTED HIS K NEE WHILE HELPING INSTALL BATTERIES IN CRANE
CONTR WAS HELPI3G OTHER SUB-CONTR REMOVE FEED-END BARREL ON A FINISH MILL. THEY WERE USING CO .ME-ALONGS TO PULL IT OUT BUT IT WAS GIVING RESISTANCE. SUBCONTR WAS MOVING ON THE OTHER SIDE TO R PREPARE COUNTER4EASURES TO PREVENT BARREL FROM SPRING OUT
REPAIRED CHERRY3PICKER RETURNED BY A TRANSPORATION COMPANY ON A FLAT BED TRAILER. TIRES WERE OVER THE SIDES ON THE TRAILER. IT WAS RAINING:TIRES AND TRAILER WERE MUDDY, EMPLOYEE STARTED MANEUV ERING CHERRY PI7KER OF WHEN IT SLID OVER THE SIDE OF TRAILER & TIPPED ON SIDE. OPERATOR FELT A JOLT AND SLIGHT INJURY (SPRAIN TYPE) IN LEFT SHOULDER COULD ONLY DO LIGHT DUTY WORK.
AGITATED 1975 INJURY BY SLIPPERY FOOTING ON TRUCK STEP APPROX 11-15-84 AND 3-15-84
MAINTENANCE WELDER WAS CUTTING BOLTS OFF SITUATED REAILING CHERRY PICKER WAS HOLDING RAILING WITH CHOKER AS WELDER WAS CUTTING SOME TENSION WAS PUT ON RAIL TO LIFT IT UP THEN IT SPRANG LOOSE BUMPING WELDER ON CHEEK AND NOSE
INJURED PARTY AND ASSISTING EMPLOYEE WERE LIFTING A CROSS BAR TO THE MILL DOOR TO FIT OVER THE BOLTS. ASSISTING PARTY LET GO OF THEIR END BEFORE THE INJURED PARTY DID, PINCHING HIS FINGER ON THE SIDE.
EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP A MILL DOOR BRACE (PIECE OF STEEL APPROX 4"X4" X14") WHEN IT SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HANDS AND MASHED HIS FINGER
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING SOME COMPRESSED BOTTLES AND PINCHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN TWO OF THEM HE WAS GIVEN 3 STITCHES
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS HELPING LOOSEN A NUT OFF #1 COMPARTMENT OF MILL #1, WHEN THE NUT BROKE FREE AND THE WRENCH SLIPPED. RESON FOR THIS REPORT IS THAT A CAST WAS PUT ON HAND.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PICK UP A PIECE OF STEEL GRATING AND MOVING IT OUT OF THE WAY, WHEN HIS BALANCE SWAYED AS FEET SLIPPED A LITTLE AND HE FELL ONTO THE PIECE OF GRATING, HITT ING HIS CHIN.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS MOVING SOME CEMENT BAGS OF WHICH HE ORDINARILY SWINGS THEM AROUND TOWARD HIS RIGHT SIDE. HE SWUNG A BAG AROUND TOWARD THE LEFT SIDE WHEN IT HURT HIS ELBOW. HE SAID IT WA S DUE TO NOT BEING USED TO DOING IT THAT WAY.
WALKING DOWN BY DOCK ALONG SIDE OF CLINKER PILE.SLIPPED AS HE STEPPED ON CLINKER.ON A VERY SLIGHT INCLINE.
EMPLOYEE HAS SOME RECURRING DERMATITIS HE USES A PRESCRIPTION SALVE THIS REPORT INVOLVES HIS MERELY GOING AND GETTING A SALVE REFILL
STEPPING ON BULLDOZER TRACKS SLIPPED HIT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING OFF A STEEL PIN FROM CLINKER ELEVATOR #3 WHEN HOT SLAG DROPPED INTO GLASS
EMPLOYEE PUSHING LCINKER ON BULLDOZER SWEAT AND DUST IRRITATED SKIN
CLOSING R R CAR DOOR WITH BREAKER BAR WHEN BAR SLIPPED AND RIGHT ELBOW HIT SIDE OF RAIL CAR.
EMP WAS WORKING ON #2 ELEVATOR WHEN THE SIDES OF THE WALLS WERE HIT OR WHEN DRILLS WERE USED CEMENT DUST FELL FROM ABOVE AND ALSO JUST DUSTY AIR
EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING REMOVING A 3 PART GUARD THEY WERE REMOVING 2 PARTS AND THOUGHT THE 3RD PART WAS STILL BOLTED UP BUT IT WASNT THEREFORE IT FELL ON PATIENTS FINGER WHEN 1ST TWO PARTS WE
IN BASKET ON CRANE.BASKET SLIGHTLY SWIVELED.MAN LOST BALANCE -HIT EYE ON PART OF TOP BASKET COVER.
EMPLOYEE HAS AN OCCASIONAL TENDENCY TO HAVE RECURRING CONTACT DERMATITIS
CARRYING BRAKE SHOE FOR OVERHEAD CRANE DOWN FROM NORTH CRANE ,LOST BALANCE AND WEIGHT OF SHOES JERKED LEFT SHOULDER.