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EE WAS INSTALLING 10 LB. BAGS IN BAGS, WHEN HIS RIGHT WRIST BEGAN TO HURT.

THERE WAS DUST IN THE AIR WHERE EE WAS WORKING. EE DID NOT HAVE HIS SAFETY GLASSES ON.

RAISED UP UNDERNEATH EYE BEAM UNDER CLAY BREAKERIN CLAY SHED.

USING MACHETE TO CLEAR BRUSH, MACHETE CAUSED 5CMLACERATION TO RIGHT FOREARM. RECEIVED 14 STITCHES IN LOWER RIGHT ARM.

EE TOOK SAFETY GLASSES OFF TO GO TO LUNCH & WHEN HE PUT THEM BACK ON METAIRAL GOT IN HIS EYE.

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO MOVE AND LIFT ELEVATOR BELT.

YEMPLOYEE WAS REACHING OVER TOP OF GUARDRAIL, PULLING CAGES UP TO THE TOP OF THE BAG HOUSE. CAGES ARE ON A ROPE ON A PULLEY. PULLEY IS TIED TO GUARDRAIL. HE WAS PULLING THE CAGE AND OVER TH E GUARD RAIL. HE PULLED THE MUSCLE IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING 25# BAGS OF CAT LITTER PULLED HIS ARM. HAS RUPTURE OF LEFT BICEP.

EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING BOXES ON PALLET WHEN HIS SHOE WENT IN BETWEEN HOLES ON PALLET. HIS NECK POPPED.

LIFTING 50 LB. BALES HE TURNED TO SIT ONE DOWN AND HE GOT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

HE WAS CUTTING BANDS FROM A PALLET OF JUGS KNIFE SLIPPED & CUT HIS RT FOREARM LACERATION REQUIRED SUTURES

EMPLOYEE WAS PRESSURIZING SASSAFRASS TANK WHEN FILTER BLEW OFF AND SPRAYED LIQUID IN FACE. EMPLOYEE WAS PUT UNDER EYE WASH STATION AND RINSED OFF. HE DID NOT WANT TO GO FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT B UT EYES WERE RED AND SUPERVISOR WANTED HIM TO BE CHECKED. HE WENT TO ER WHERE HE WAS EXAMINED AND GIVEN EYE DROPS TO USE.

RELOCATING A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT & PUTTING PIPING BACK IN.

RELOCATING A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT AND PUTTING PIPING BACK IN.

EMPLOYEE WAS HAND BAGGING 4KG PRODUCT ON PACKAGING LINE WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.DID NOT GO FOR TREATMENT UNTIL 03-27-95.

EE WAS TAPING & SEALING BAGS ON PACKAGING LINE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT FOREARM. WENT TO ER WHERE SPLINT WAS APPLIED.

EE WAS HAND BAGGING 11 PRODUCTS ON PACKAGING LINE 2 WHEN HE STRAINED HIS RIGHT WRIST.

EE WAS HAND BAGGING ON PACKAGING LINE. WHEN HE GOT HOME HIS BACK BECAME SORE AND PAINFUL. WENT TO CHIRPRACTOR FRO TREATMENT, 3/9/95.

EE WAS STACKING 44 POUND BALES ON A PALLET WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK. WENT TO ER. TYLENOL GIVEN, ADVISE REST.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING WHEN A SPARK FROM HIS WELDING MACHINE FLEW INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.

EE GOT THIRD RING FINGER CAUGHT IN SLEEVER EQUIPMENT ON PACKAGING LINE WHILE TRYING TO ADJUST EQUIPMENT TO BETTER RUN PRODUCTION. FINGER WAS CUT LACERATIONS BUT NO STITICHES REQUIRED.

EMPLOYEE WAS HAND BAGGING ON PACKAGING LINE BAGGING 10# PRODUCT WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

HE WAS USING A 6' STEP LADDER TO ACCESS A PLATE HE NEEDED TO REMOVE FROM A STORAGE BIN. HE STATED HE WAS ON THE 3RD STEP OF THE 6' LADDER WHEN THE LADDER SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM & HE FELL T O THE CONCRETE. HE SUFFERED A FRACTURE OF THE LEFT LEG.

THERE WAS A JAMK-UP ON THE PACKAGING LINE WHERE EE WAS OPERATING THE SEALER MACHIEN (SEALS TOPS OF BAGS SHUT) EE DID NOT ACITIVATE ALL THE E-STOPS TO COMPLETELY SHUT POWER TO THE SEALER BEF ORE REACHING FOR THE JAMMED UP BAG. HER RIGHT HAND WAS CAUGHT IN BELT AND HER RIGHT INDEX FINGER WAS AMPUTATED (ABOUT ONE-HALF WAY UP).

EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING 30# BAGS OF CAT LITTER ONTO AN INCLINE CONVEYOR. HE WAS TAKING EACH BAG OFF OF A PALLET. AS HE REACHED FOR ANOTHER BAG TO PLACE ON THE CONVEYOR, HE JAMMED HIS THUMB ON ONE OF THE PALLETIZED BAGS.

EE WAS HAND BAGGING 10 LB PRODUCT ON PACKAGING LINE WHEN HE HEARD HIS WRIST POP. WENT TO EMERGENCY ROOM WHERE A SPLINT WAS APPLIED AND MEDICATION GIVEN. EE WAS ON OVERTIME SHIFT AND NOT ON REG ULAR JOB WHEN ACCIDENT OCCURRED. EE IS ABLE TO PERFORM HIS JOB AS JANITOR AND HAS MISSED NO TIME FROM WORK.

EMPLOYEE WAS DUMPING A HOPPER. THE HOPPER ROLLEDBACK ON HIS HAND CUTTING HIS RING AND MIDDLE FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND. ONE FINGER REQUIRED STITCHES.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A CUTTER BLADE ON THE PAYLOADER WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK DID NOT SEEK TREATMENT UNTIL 01-31-95

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON ICE AND SNOW COVERED WALK WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL FALLING ON HIS LEFT SHOULDER. HIS SHOULDER HAS CONTINUED TO HURT HIM FOR THE PAST YEAR AND HE DECIDED TO SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT. SURGERY PENDING. DIAGNOSIS: FROZEN SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING OUT OF MAINTENANCE SHOP WHEN HE TRIPPED ONTHE THRESHOLD IN THE DOORWAY HE CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH TH4E HEEL OF HIS LEFT HAND PUTTING ALL OF HIS BODY WEIGHT ON HIS LEFT ARM HE NOTICED SLIGHT PAINTHAT WORSENED AS THE DAY WENTON HE WENT TO THE ER WHERE XRAY SHOWED A FRACTURE OF THE LEFT ELBOW RADIAL HEAD

EMPLOYEE WAS WEALING 50# BAGS OF PRODUCT. THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER OF THE BAG HAD NOT PROPERLY FILLED OUT & WHEN IT DID, THE SUDDEN MOVEMENT TOOK EMPLOYEE'S HAND WITH BAG INTO THE ROLLERS OF THE SEALER EQUIPMENT. CONTUSION OF LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING A PALLET ON CONVEYOR BY PALLETIZER ON PACKAGING LING. CORNER OF PALLET HUNG ON RAIL OF CONVEYOR. WHEN PALLET CAME LOOSE IT CAUGHT EMPLOYEE'S ARM BETWEEN GUARD RAIL FOR ELE CTRONIC EYE AND PALLET BRUISING AND SCRAPING RIGHT ARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING A SLIDE TYPE CONVEYOR BELT, WHEN HIS THUMB CAME INTO CONTACT WITH A SHARP EDGE ON THE SLIDE. HIS THUMB WAS LACERATED AND REQUIRED 5 STITCHES.

EE ALLEGES BACK STRAIN OCCURRED AS A RESULT OF AN OLD INJURY IN MAY OF 1991. HE CANNOT GIVE A SPECIFIC INCIDENT FOR THE NEW INJURY. HE IS RECEIVING MEDICAL TREATMENT FROM DR. RANDY OLIVER AND REMAINS OFF WORK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING OPEN BOX CUT HAND WITH BOX CUTTER

EE WAS RUNNING 30 POUND BAGS OF PRODUCT THROUGH THE DUMPER & SEALER EQUIPMENT ON THE PRODUCTION LINE & NOTICED A WEAKNESS IN HER LEFT THUMB MOST LIKELY CAUSED FROM THE REPETITIVE MOTION OF JOB

EE WAS FREEING A PLASTIC JUG FROM SLEEVING EQUIPMENT. THE JUG CAME FREE SUDDENLY CAUSING RIGHT HAND TO HIT SHARP EDGE ON TOP OF SLEEVER. CUT RIGHT THUMB REQUIRED 2 STITCHES. EE WENT TO ER AND RETURNED TO WORK AND COMPLETED HIS SHIFT.

HE WAS LIFTING A 72 LB BALE OF PRODUCT FROM A CONVEYOR AND HIS BACK BEGAN HURTING.

FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO BOLTS

EE WAS DRIVING A FORKLIFT WHEN A FOREIGN OBJECT [MOST LIKELY DUST] GOT INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.

EE CLAIMS THAT HE WAS STACKING 45# CASES OF CLUMPING LITTER, AND HE ALLOWED THE ACCUMULATION CONVEYOR TO FILL UP. WHEN HE PICKED UP ONE CASE, IT SLIPPED FROM HIS HANDS, AND HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER BLADE AREA. HE DID NOT REPORT THIS INCIDENT TO SUPERVISION UNTIL MONDAY, 11-21-94.

APPROX. 945 AM 11-11-94 FRIDAY EE FELL APPROXIMATELY 10-15 FEET FROM A STEEL PLATFORM TO THE GROUND. HE STATES HE WAS SITTING ON A BEAM, HIS LEGS BRACED AGAINST A LADDER AND HE SOMEHOW FELL. H E DOES NOT RECALL EXACTLY HOW IT HAPPENED.

ON 11/15/94, THE EMPLOYEE CLAIMED HE WAS HAVING PAIN IN HIS BACK. HE STATED THAT THE PAIN STARTD 11/1/94 AT 1:00PM. HE SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN COLD THAT DAY AT WORK, & HE HAD SOME MILD PAIN AFTE R HE WENT HOME FROM WORK. HE FELT THAT IT WAS DUE TO THE COLD. HOWEVER, HE SAYS THAT HE HAS PAIN ALL THE TIME NOW. WE SENT HIM TO THE DOCTOR ON 11/15/94.

APPROX NOON 10-24-94 (MONDAY) MOVING STEEL BEAMS AND METAL BEAM FLIPPED UP AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON LEFT LEG CAUSING A LACERATION.

EE WAS PLACING PLASTIC JUGS INTO CARDBOARD CASESS & SOMETHING [PROBABLY DUST] BLEW INTO HIS EYE.EYE BECAME IRRITATED.

EMPLOYEE WAS COMING DOWN STEPS ON LINE #2 WRAPPER WHEN HIS BOOT HUNG ON STEP. HE CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HANDRAIL BUT TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE. DID NOT SEEK TREATMENT UNTIL 10-19-94.

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO STEP THROUGH A RAILING AT OUR BAG-TOP SCREEN AREA. HE COULD NOT STRAIGHTEN BACK UP.

EE WAS DUMPING PRODUCT FROM LINE 1 SCALE INTO A DUMPSTER. AIRBORNE DUST PARTICLES ENTERED HIS RIGHT EYE. HIS EYE WAS FLUSHED WITH EYE WASH, AND THERE DID NOT SEEM TO BE ANY PROBLEMS. THE INJUR Y DATE WAS ON FRIDAY. MONDAY THE EE LET US KNOW THAT HIS EYE WAS STILL BOTHERING HIM, AND WE SENT HIM TO THE DR. DR DIAGNOSED AN EYE INFECTION. NO PARTICLES WERE FOUND TO BE IN THE EYE.

EE WAS STACKING 72 BALES OF CAT LITTER ON LINE 2, WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER/CHEST AREA. EE DID NOT REPORT THE PAIN UNTIL THE NEXT DAY 9-21-94.

ON 9-16-94, HE REPORTED PAIN IN HIS LEFT WRIST. FELT THIS PAIN WAS FROM REPETITIVE MOTION OF JOB ON PACKAGING LINE--FEEDING BAGS INTO DUMPER & SEALER EQUIPMENT OF PUSHING BAGS AROUND AT THE AI R TABLE. DIAGNOSIS: TENDONITIS.