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MAN AS INSTALLING PACKING ON A 36" PUMP WITH A PRYBAR. THE PRYBAR SLIPPED AND SMASHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE BAR AND THE PUMP.
GREASING THE DISC. CLIMBED ON TOP.SLIPPED AND HIT KNEE. MINOR INJURY.
NO ADVERSE CONDTIONS.WIND CAUSED GATE TO BLOW MAKING IT MORE DIFFICULT TO CLOSE. WORKER STUMBLED WHILE CLOSING GATE. SPRAINED ANKLE & BROKEN SHOULDER DUE TO FALLING.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON ICY/FROSTY CATWALK/STAIRWAY ON GRAVEL PLANT. FELL AND BRUISED RIGHT FOREARM.
THE CONDITIONS WERE NORMAL. SIMPLE TASK OF INSTALLING A KEY IN A KEY WAY ON A SHAFT. RATHER THAN USING A BAR TO TURN THE SHAFT EE PUT HIS CHEST ON THE 24" DIA COUPLING AND TRIED TO TURN IT BY HAND. THE FORCE APPLIED TO HIS CHEST BY PULLING WITH HIS ARMS CAUSED HIS STERNUM TO POP.
WHILE CHANGING SCREENS ON THE SAND PLANT, DROPPED THE TENSION BAR. BAR CAUGHT LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND AND SMASHED FINGER INTO BIN WALL.
EE WAS STARTING UP THE BOOSTER PUMP. HIS WORK BOAT WAS DOCKED. HE BEGAN THE FLOATING PUMP. HE RETURNED TO THE BOAT AND WENT OVER THE HANDRAILS AT THE EDGE OF THE PUMP INSTEAD OF GOING THROUGH THE GATE IN THE RAILS. THE BOAT MOVED WHEN HE STEPPED IN AND HE WAS BRUISED WHIL STILL STRADDLING THE RAIL.
MOVING BLOCK TO SET PLANT LEGS ON. HURT BACK. CAME TO WORK 8-26-94, BACK WAS HURTING. LEFT AT 11:00 AM.
RAINING, SLIPPED ON WET & MUDDY SURFACE OF FENDER ADJUSTING LIGHT, FELL TO GROUND, LANDED ON FOOT, CAUSING BRUISE.
PLANT AND DREDGE OPERATORS SHUT DOWN PRODUCTION TO MOVE SWING LINES ON DREDGE. THE PLANT OPERATOR TOOK WORK BOAT TO GET DREDGE OPERATOR ON LAKE. ON THE WAY BACK THE BOAT DRIVER WAS CHECKING TH E PLUG AT THE BACK OF THE JOHN BOAT AND NOT LOOKING WHERE HE WAS GOING.
PICKED UP 5 GAL GAS CAN WHICH I THOUGHT WAS FULL BUT WAS 1/2 FULL AND PULLED RIGHT ELBOW FUELING 4" WAKE PUMP.
AFTER ROLLING UP 45 FT. OF A 60 FT. 3" HYDRAULIC HOSE, PAIN ON RIGHT SIDE OF LOWER BACK APPEARED.
WHILE UNLOADING A 55 GAL DRUM FROM A LOADER BUCKET THE VICTIM PINCHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE DRUM AND THE PROCESS PLANT. NO FRACTURE, BUT HAS FOUR STITCHES.
THE MAN WAS GETTING OFF THE LOADER. AS HE WAS PREPAIRING TO GET ON THE LADDER HE SLIPPED AND FELL TO THE GROUND, HE PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK AND COMPRESSED TWO URTRBA IN HIS LOWER BACK.
BOOM CABLE BROKE ON CRANE