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DOING NORMAL DUTIES. NOTHING UNUSUAL. PICKING UP AND MOVING 50# BAGS OF PIGMENT, LOADING BLENDER WITH PIGMENT FOR SLURRY BATCHES. LOWER BACK STARTED HURTING AND WENT HOME AT ABOUT MIDNIGHT. BA CK HAS BEEN BOTHERING HIM FOR ABOUT SIX MONTHS.

EMPLOYEE PULLED LEFT ARM MUSCLE IN MORNING, PULLED CHEST MUSCLE IN AFTERNOON. NO PROBLEM UNTIL 4-8-99 WHEN EMPLOYEE REQUESTED DR. EXAM. EMPLOYEE REPORTED ON DATE OF ACCIDENT. USING HAB ND TOOLS AND HOIST DOING REPAIRS ON ROLL CRUSHER

EE WAS GREASING EQUIPMENT GREASE HOSE GOT CAUGHT CINDER LOADES TIRE. EE ATTEMPTED TO JERK HOSE FROM UNDER TIRE RESULTING IN PAIN TO LEFT SHULDER. ACCIDENT WAS NOT REPORTED UNTIL 3-31-99 500 PM EE WENT TO DR THIS DATE FOR X RAY WHICH WAS NEGATIVE RECIEVED PRESCRIPTION MEDICAITON.

POSSIBLE ROTOR CUFF TEAR. WALK DOWN RAMP, SLIPPED AND FELL.

INITIAL REPORT LIFTING BAGS OF PIGMENT STRAIN RIGHT CHEST MUSCLE

EE WAS STANDING ON ALLEN WRENCH WITH LEFT FOOT WHILE RIGHT FOOT WAS ON CRUSHER CONE. STRIKING ALLEN WRENCH WITH SLEDGEHAMMER ATTEMPTING TO LOOSEN MANTLE NUT CAP BOLT. WRENCH BROKE, EE FELL TO RIGHT KNEE. KNEE BRUISED AND SWELLED.

EE WAS REPLACING COVER ON TRANSITION CHUTE, WHILE DRIVING RETAINER CLIP IN PLACE WITH HAMMER EE STRUCK RIGHT INDEX FINGER RESULTING IN LACERATION AND FRACTURE TO TIP OF FINGER.

EE WAS REPLACING BOLT ON WEAR PLATE ON BOTTOM OFLOADER BUCKET. LOOSENING NUT WITH IMPACT WRENCH ATTEMPTING TO HOLD COUNTER SUNK BOLT UP INTO SQUARE SHOULDER HOLE IN BUCKET WHILE TURNING WITH A IR WRENCH EDGE OF BOLT WAS SHARP FROM WEAR LACERATING LEFT MIDDLE FINGER UNDER FINGERNAIL

EE WAS KNEEING DOWN ON LEFT KNEE, WENT TO STAND UP, HALFWAY UP THE LEFT KNEE LOCKED UP. HE WAS STANDING ON A GRATING WITH NO OBJECTS IN HAND AT THE TIME OF INCIDENT.

USING A PUSH BROOM TO SWEEP AREA BY SCALE BELT AND 73 SCREEN CONVEYOR UNDER CRUSHER DOCK. OPERATOR HAD TO STOOP DUE TO LOW OVERHEAD.

WALKING OWN A STAIRWAY, WATER BOTTLE IN ONE HAND THE OTHER ON RAILING. BACK OF HEEL CAUGHT LEADING EDGE OF PROCEEDING STEP. IMBALANCE CAUSED FALL FORWARD CAUSING CRTILAGE FRACTURE.

EE WAS MOUNTING SHOVEL TO LOAD HIS TRUCK. HE HAD REACHED THE UPPER CATWALK JUST OUTSIDE THE OPERATOR'S SEAT WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE. HE FELL TO THE GROUND, RESULTING IN A SPRAINED KNEE & BRUI SED SHOULDER.

WHILE STEMMING HOLES, THE EMP HIT A LARGE ROCK HIDDEN UNDERNEATH THE STONES. WHEN HE HIT THE ROCK WITH THE SHOVEL, IT JARRED HARD AGAINST HIS HAND. THERE WAS NO LOST WORK TIME BUT HE DID RECEI VE PAIN MEDICATION.

EE WAS REMOVING DUST CONTROL WATER HOSE FROM SECONDARY CRUSHER WHENA PIECE OF ROCK WENT UNDER SAFETY GLASSES AND BECOME LODGED IN UPPER EYELID IN LEFT EYE. MATERIAL WAS REMOVED AT PLANT. EE RE QUESTED TOHAVE A DR LOOK AT HIS EYE. EE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES WITH THE SIDE SHIELD PROTECTION

EE WAS TIGHTENING A BOLT AND NUT ON A WATER WRENEXTENSION. HE WAS HOLDING RATCHET IN RIGHT HAND TIGHTENING THE BOLT, HOLDING END WRENCH IN LEFT HAND ON THE NUT. 1/2" DRIVE RATCHET SLIPPED OFF THE BOLT STRIKING EE ON FOREHEAD ABOVE THE EYES.RECEIVED A VERTICAL LACERATION APPROX. 1 1/2" LONG IN CENTER OF FOREHEAD.

GRINDING OLD PAIN AND WIRE BRUSHING IN PREPARATION FOR PAINTING. WIND BLOWING, OUTSIDE JOB. SAFETY GLASSES WITH SIDE SHIELD AND EAR PLUGS USED.

EE STATES REPETITIVE MOTIONS OF JOB OVER TIME CAUSE OF CARPAL TUNNEL BOTH WRIST AND HANDS. J0OB IS TO MAKE A BATCH OF MATERIAL EVEY 10-13 MINUTES.

LOW OVERHEAD, WORKING UNDER A PLATFORM SWEEPING FLOOR BACKING OUT & RAISED UP BEFORE CLEARING OVERHEAD. SHOULDER HIT PLATFORM, STRAINED LOWER BACK.

STEPPED BACK OFF OF A STEP/PLATFORM AND TWISTED ANKLE. NEXT DAY COULD NOT PUT WEIGHT ON RIGHT ANKLE, XRAYED, ANKLE BRACE AND OFF WORK UNTIL NEXT APPOINTMENT.

EE WAS STEPPING DOWN FROM GRADER, USING A GRAB HAND RAIL WHEN HE FELT HIS RIGHT ARM BECOMMING NUMB.

EE WAS LIFTING A 30 LB CARTON FROM A TABLE TO PLACE IT ON A SHELF, WHILE MOVING THE ARTON, IT SLIPPED FROM EE S HAND. AS EE TRIED TO STOP CARTON FROM FALLING, HE FELT A SLIGHT DISCOMFORT IN HI S NECK AND LEFT SHOULDER.

HE WAS PRYING OUT AN OIL SEAL WITH AN 18" PRYBAR THE SEAL POPPED LOOSE AND HIS LEFT ELBOW BUMPED THE YOKE ON AN OIL TANK WAGON.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING EMERY CLOTH TO POLISH SHAFT WHICH WAS TURNING ON LATHE. EMERY CLOTH CAUGHT ON SHAFT, PULLIGN EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT HAND AROUND LATHE. EMPLOYEE WAS USING EMERY CLOTH THAT WAS TO O SHORT AND HOLDING THE CLOTH TOO TIGHTLY.

WHILE DESCENDING LADDER EMP'S RT KNEE WITHER GAVE WAY CAUSING HIM TO SLIP OR HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THE SECOND RUNG CAUSING HIS KNEE TO TWIST. THIS RESULTED IN A SPRAINED RT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING A GRANULE INVENTORY. HE HAD TO REMOVE THE LID FROM TANK 14. HE HAD A FLOODLIGHT IN HIS RIGHT HAND, BENT HIS KNEES SLIGHTLY, LEANED OVER AND LIFTED LID WITH HIS LEFT HAND. A S HE RAISED UPRIGHT, HE FELT A SHARP, STABBING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER AND WAS ATTEMPTING TO PICK UPA TOGGLE SEAT RESULTING IN INJURY TO LOWER BACK.TOGGLE SEAT WEIGHT APPROX. 50 LBS.

TWO MEN WERE CARRYING AN ELEVATOR HOOD. THEY ATTEMPTED TO PLACE IT ON THE HANDRAIL TO GET A REST AND EE'S LITTLE FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE HANDRAIL AND THE ELEVATOR HOOD FRAME. A FRACTURE RESULTED. THEY WERE WORKING IN TIGHT QUARTERS WITHE A HEAVY METAL HOOD.

WHILE CHANGING OIL IN HYD. TANK OF THE RT 65 GROVE CARNE, THE EMPLOYEE UNSCREWED THE 2 IN. DRAIN PLUG. THE OIL SPRAYED OUT LIKE UNDER PRESSURE AND SOME SPRAYED ON EMPLOYEE. SOME OIL SPRAYED IN TO HIS RIGHT EYE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A PRE-HUNG DOOR. THE LOCKING MECHANISM DID NOT LINE UP WITH THE FRAME. THE EMPLOYEE CUT HIS FINGER ON THE STEEL SIDING WHILE TRIMMING THE DOOR FRAME.

WHILE TRAINING #2 UNDER CRUSH TAIL PULLEY A WRENCH BECAME STUCK ON ADJUSTING BOLT AND EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO DISLODGE WRENCH FROM BOLT WITH ANOTHER WRENCH. THAT WRENCH GOT CAUGHT IN TAIL PULLEY AND FLIPPED UP STRIKING EMPLOYEE UNDER CHIN. EMPLOYEE RESULTED WITH A BITTEN TONGUE.

A PARTAIL 3/4" SHEET OF METAL FELL FROM ITS POPPED POSITION WHEN THE INJURED PERSON HIT IT WITH A SLAG HAMMER. IT STRUCK HIS RIGHT FOOT IN THE METAL TORSAL AREA CAUSING A FRACTURE.

THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS RODDING OUT DISCHARGE PIPE UNDER A SCREW CONVEYOR. WHEN THE CLOG DIS LODGED HIS HAND CONTACTED THE CONVEYOR HOUSING CAUSING HIS FINGER NAIL TO BE PULLED UP . THE FINGERNAIL HAD TO BE REMOVED AND STITCHES APPLIED.

IN PREPARATION FOR A BELT SPLICE EMPLOYEE WAS TRIMMING THE TOP COVER FROM A PIECE OF CONVEYOR BELT WHEN RAZOR KNIFE SLIPPED & CUT EMPLOYEE IN RT KNEE APPROX 2 INCHES LONG REQUIRED EIGHT STITCH ES

EE & COWORKERS WERE IN PROCESS OF RAISING BARGE TO CLEAN THE FOOT VALVE. WHEN IT WAS RAISED, EE SIGNALLED TO COWORKER TO HOLD IT IN POSITION. COWORKER MOVED CHAIN SO THAT EE'S FINGERS WERE CAU GHT BETWEEN CHAIN & LOADER, CAUSING THEM TO BE MASHED AND ONE FINGER FRACTURED.

INJURED PICKED UP AND THREW A FEW #20LB ROCKS AND RAISED A 4-STEP HINGED STAIRWAY ABOUT 1 HOUR BEFORE FEELING PAIN IN LOWER BACK. THE DR. DIAGNOSED HIS SITUATION AS A MUSCLE SPASM AND ARTHRIT IS AND PRESCRIBED IBUPROFEN 600 MG., CYCLOBENZPRINE, AND ONE WEEK OFF WORK.

HE WAS SHOVELING ROCK SPILLAGE FROM BEHIND THE GYRADISE. A FEW HOURS AFTER HIS SHIFT ENDED HIS BACK FELT VERY STIFF AND SORE. THE PAIN PERSISTED BUT AT GREATER OR LESSER LEVELS UNTIL HE DECIDE D TO SEEK A MEDICAL OPINION ON 9-20-93.

EE WAS LIFTING FILLED 8FT PLASTIC PIPE HURREDLY IN ORDER TO PREVENT A SHUTDOWN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWERBACK WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO MAKE HIS SECOND LIFT HE SUFFERED A LOWER BACK STRAIN & WAS TRE ATED BY DR IN ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL & RELEASED TO DO LIGHT DUTY WORK

WHILE ADUSTING FORKS ON FORKLIFT THE RIGHT FORK HUNG UP ONT HE BENT FORK PIN INCREASING ITS RESISTANCE TO THE LIFTING AND PULLING FORCES BEING EXERTED.

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CUT SKIRT RUBBER WHILE SITTING ON CONVEYOR BELT UNILITY KNIFE SLIPPED & MADE A 1/2" LONG CUT (INCISION) IN CALF OF LEFT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING APPROX. 6' FROM FELLOW EMPLOYEE WHO WAS CUTTING OUT OF A CAR DOOR. SLAG BLEW BACK INTO INJURED EMPLOYEE'S EYE. INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS NOT WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.

WHILE RUNNING THE CASE LOAD HE STATED HE LEFT IT GET AWAY FROM HIM AND IT THREW HIM FORWARD AND THE SEAT BELT CAUGHT HIM AND THREW HIM BACK AGAINST THE SEAT REAL HARD WE SAID HE DID NOT HAVE S EAT BELT TIGHT ENOUGH.

VICTIM WAS STANDING BEHIND FELLOW EE WHO WAS REMOVING MANTLE NUT FROM CONE CRUSHER WITH SLEDGE HAMMER WHEN HAMMER HEAD HIT WRENCH HEAD JARRED LOOSE, STRIKING VICTIM IN CHEST.

I.NAME MIXING PIGMENT IN MIXING BOWL.FINISHED BATCH,WALKED OVER TO COLOR MIXER CONTROLS AND LOADED CHARGE INTO MIXER. SET SAFETY GLASSES DOWN,WENT BACK OVER TO PUMP LIQUID BATCH INTO COLOR MIX ER. LOOKED INTO MIXING BOWL.GRAY PIGMENT SPLASHED UP INTO I.NAME RIGHT EYE. WENT TO SINK FIRST THING.

STANDING BEHIND 5' GROUNDING ROD CONNECTED TO ANOTHER ROD WITH CABLE & CLAMPS.TALLER ROD WAS BENT OVER AWAY FROM WORKER.WHEN WORKER INTENTIONALLY KNOCKED CABLE LOOSE WITH A SHOVEL THE ROD SPRU NG TOWARD HIM.CABLE CLAMP BOLT STRUCK SIDE OF FACE CAUSING LACERATION NEAR LEFT EYE.

ON FRIDAY 10/25/91 EMPL WORKED ON EIGHT HOUR SHIFT BUILDING UP PULLY SHAFT ON PRI CRUHER. SHAFT WAS BUILT UP WITH WELD & RESURFACED BY USE OF SIDE GRINDER. EMPL EXPRERIENCED IRRITATION TO LEFT EYE LATER THAT DAME NIGHT WENT TO LOCAL DR ON SAT. WHER PIECE OF RUST WAS REMOVED FROM LEFT EYE. EMPL WAS REFERED TO DR IN POPLAR BLUFF FOR SCOOPING. TWO MORE PIECES F RUST WERE REMOVED.

EE WAS SHOVELING AND WAS GRAGING WHEELBARREL HANDLES WHILE STANDING UP AND FELT SHARP PAIN IN SMALL LOWER BACK AREA FELL TO HIS KNEE.

WHILE POSITIONING A LARGE ROCK WITH HOIST & TONGS INJURED PERSONS MIDDLE FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TONGS & ATTACHED CHAIN AT THE PRECISE MOMENT THAT THE ROCK LOADED THE TONGS THE MIDDLE FI NGER WAS CUT & MASHED REQUIRING 13 STITCHES

EMPLOYEE COLLASPED OF AN APPARENT HEART ATTACK WHILE AT WORK. EMPLOYEE HAD HISTORY OF HEART PROBLEMS AND NO OUT OF THE ORIDNARY WORK WAS PERFORMED PRIOR TO THE COLLAPSE. EMPLOYEE DIED IN THE E MERGENCY ROOM AT DOCTORS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER IN POPLAR BLUFF.

LOADING HAY IN COMPANY VEHICLE TO BE USED FOR ERROSION PURPOSES ON SEDIMENT POND UNDER CONSTRUCTION. DISTURBED WRASP NEST IN A FELLOW EMPLOYEE BARN WHEN BECAME STING ON LEFT WRIST.

USING LOADER SOME DIRT OBJECTS FELL OFF TOP OF CAB AND BLEW IN EYES SM PC OF METAL