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CREW WAS HOOKING UP LARGE HOSE TO BARGE. HOSE SLIPPED AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON SHOULDER. EMPLOYEE THOUGHT HIS SHOULDER WAS JUST BRUISED BUT IT STARTED BOTHERING HIM MORE SO HE WENT TO DR ON 3/7/01.
EMPLOYEE WAS DOING REPAIR WORK ON GRAVEL DREDGE USING GRINDER TO SMOOTH A METAL SURFACE. A SMALLPIECE OF METAL IN EMPLOYEES LEFT EYE CAUSING SORENESS AND REDNESS.
EE WAS DRILLING HOLES WITH LARGE DRILL IN 1/2" METAL. HE RECEIVED CONTUSIONS ON HIS RIBS FROM PUSHING ON DRILL.
EE WAS ON DREDGE MOVING CABLE, ANOTHER EE WAS ON BANK ON TRACTOR. CABLE BECAME TANGLED ON DREDGE & WHILE INJURED EE WAS WORKING TO UNTANGLE CABLE, EE ON TRACTOR MOVED SLOWLY AHEAD & PULLED INJ URED EE'S ARM, INJURING HIS SHOULDER. INJURED EE DIDN'T REPORT PROBLEM UNTIL 2/23/00 & WENT TO DR ON 2/24/00. EXTENT OF INJURY NOT KNOWN AT THIS TIME. EE SCHEDULED FOR MRI ON 3/1/2000.
EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED DIZZINESS AND NUMBNESS IN HIS LEFT ARM. HE CALLED FOR HELP AND WAS TAKEN TOFAITH REGIONAL HOSPITAL BY RESCUE UNIT. HE WAS CHECKED OUT IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM AND RELEASED. H E IS TO HAVE ADDITIONAL TESTS ON MON., 11/22/99.
EE MISSED A STEP WHILE COMING DOWN A LADDER. EE DID NOT COMPLAIN OF PROBLEM UNTIL 10-20-97.
EMPLOYEE WENT AROUND LAKE TO MOVE ANCHOR ROPE FROM ONE ANCHOR POST TO ANOTHER. HE NEEDED TO ADD ADDIT. ROPE WHICH WAS IN PICKUP-WENT TO PICK-UPTO GET ROPE & COLLAPSED. DREDGE OPERATOR THOUGH T HE STOOPED DOW FOR SOME REASON, BY THAT TIME ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS AROUND LAKE, SAW FIRST EMPLOYEE DOWN AND CALLED FOR HELP ON RADIO. AMBULANCE ARRIVED WITHIN A FEW MINS. & TRANS TO HOSP.
EMPLOYEE WAS HLEPING TO MOVE AND TURN A PONTOON THAT WS BEING BUILT INT HE SHOP. WOOD BLOCKS WERE PLACED BENEATH THE PONTOON SO IN CASE OF SLIPPAGE THE BLOCKS WOULD CATCH THE PONTOON. BUT TH E EMPLOYEE TOOK HOLD ABOVE ONE OF THE BLOCKS & PINCHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN TE BLOCK THE POTOON. HE CAUGHT THE VERY EDGE OF HIS FINGER PULLED THE FINGERNAIL. SKIN OFF.
EE WAS HELPING WITH SOME ROUTINE MAINTENANCE REPAIRS IN SHOP AND DROPPED A PIECE OF IRON ON HIS FOOT A SMALL BONE WAS BROKEN IN HIS FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING JACK ON PIECE OF EQUIPMENT WHEN JACK SLIPPED HITTING EMPLOYEE IN EYE AREA. EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO EMERGENCY ROOM THEN TO DR. OFFICE. NO STITCHES REQUIRED. BROKE GLASSES, BUT NO DAMAGE TO EYE, JUST AREA AROUND EYE. FOLLOW UP VISIT TO DR. OFFICE ON 8/7/89. AREA HEALING NICELY, SWELLING DOWN. WILL NEED EYE EXAM AND GLASSES REPLACEMENT. APPT WILL BE 8/11/89 AT EYE DR.
ELECTRIC COMPANY POWER LINE FUSE TRIPPED SHUTTING DOWN OUR EQUIPMENT. I,NAME HURRIED TO ELECTRICAL SHED TO RESTARTMOTER, SLIPPED ON FLOOR, FELL & STRUCK HIS KNEE ON WELDER, REQUIRING 2 STITCHE S.