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STEPPED FROM LOADER TO GROUND AND TURNED ANKLE
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AROUND A PARKED LOADER CAME TO CLOSE AND BUMPED HIS KNEE. HE DID NOT THINK HE WAS HURT AND WENT ON HOME. OVER THE WEEKEND, THE KNEE BECAME SWOLLEN ON MONDAY EE TOOK EE T O NEWTON CO HOSPITAL TO HAVE HIM CHECKED OUT. IT WAS A MINOR INJURY, THEY GAVE HIM A KNEE BRACK TO WEAR AND SAID HE COULD RETURN TO WORK.
EE WAS STANDING TOO CLOSE TO AN 8" PLASTIC PIPELINE WHILE IT WAS BEING MOVED. PIPE SLID DOWN LOWER FRONT OF LEG AND MADE A SMALL SCRAPE ON SHIN. EE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AS A PERCAUTION. HE WA S X RAYED, GIVEN ADVIL, AND RELEASED.
STEPPING FROM LOADER PLATFORM TO FINDER OF LOADER FOOT SLIPPED & CHEST HIT LIGHT BAR THEN SLID TO GROUND
OTHER EMPLOYEE DROPPED A SHACKEL OUT TOP OF PLANT. INJURED WALKED AROUND THE CORNER AND THE SHACKEL STRUCK HIM IN SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS WASHING OUT CLASSIFIER WITH A 2" HOSE AND WHEN HE WAS MOVING HE TRIED TO WEDGE HOSE IN WALKWAY TO MOVE TO ANOTHER SPOT. THE HOSE WAS NOT SECURE AND CAME BACK UNDER PRESSURE AND ST RUCK VICTIM WITH CONE NOZZLE ON END OF HOSE.
EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING CROSS TIES FROM 4 WHEEL DRIVE. WHEN TIE SLIPPED AND FELL ON HAND.
EE WAS CHECKING THE BATTERIES ON THE DREDGE & SPLASHED BATTERY ACID IN HIS FACE & EYES.
INJURED WAS USING PHOSPHORIC ACID AND HYDROFLUORIC ACID TO WASH HIS TANDEM PUMP.HE GOT SOME OF THE ACID ON HIS HANDS.HE WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM THAT NIGHT.IT IS NOT KNOWN AT THIS TIME IF HE FOLLOWED THE POSTED INSTRUCTIONS IN CASE OF SKIN CONTACT.
I NAME WAS CLEANING THE NED OF A PIPE ANOTHER PIPE WAS BEING PULLED WITH A LOADER WHILE IN A BEND AS THE PIPE WAS GOING AROUND A CURVE THE TAIL END SWANG TOWARD I NAME STRIKING HIM ON THE TOP AND SIDE OF HIS FOOT
PULLING CABLE ON RIVER BANK,STRAINED LEFT ELBOW.
HE WAS CLIMBING UP THE BANK LEAVING THE RIVER AND HIS FOOT CAUGHT IN A TREE ROOT. HE FELL TWISTING HIS ANKLE AND KNEE AND HUNG UPSIDE DOWN MOMENTARILY UNTIL THE ROOT BROKE AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND, HURTING HIS SHOULDER.
I.NAME ON LADDER PUTTING WATER IN RADIATOR AT TOP OF BOOSTER PUMP.LADDER SLID SIDEWAYS FROM UNDER HIM.HE FELL TO GROUND.COMPLAINED OF PAIN IN KNEE,ARM & CHEST FROM IMPACT WITH GROUND.
IT WAS BEGINNING TO RAIN EMPLOYEE GOT OFF THE DREDGE AND WAS WALKING UP A HILL TO THE OFFICE.HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THE GROUND AND HE FELL CAUSING HIS ABCK TO TWIST OR SPRAIN.
WE HAVE EXPERIENCED HEAVY RAINS IN THE LAST FEW DAYS AND THE SOUTH RIVER WAS AT FLOOD STAGE.WE HAD TO CHECK THE CONDITION OF THE BOOSTER PUMP.SINCE ALL ROADS TO THE BOOSTER WERE FLOODED,THE ON LY WAY TO THE EQUIPMENT WAS BY WATER.WE DECIDED TO USE AN AIR BOAT TO REACH THE BOOSTER.TO GET TO THE BOOSTER WE HAD TO PASS BY THE DREDGE.TO GET PAST THE DREDGE WE HAD TO LET THE WRENCH CABL
SEE LETTER ATTCHD:I.NAME INJURED FROM INHALATION OF MERCURY -UNAUTHORIZED BURNING. I.NAME ALONE IN SCALE HOUSE.HAD GONE TO ABANODONED PLANT SITE,COLLECTED POND SEDIMENT,TOOK IT TO SCALE HOUSE AND TRIED TO "COOK OUT" ANY GOLD WITH MERCURY...INJ NOT RELATED TO JOB DESC.NO ONE ELSE WAS AWARE OF HIS ACTIVITIES BEFORE OR DURING INCIDENT. HOSPITALIZED-HIGH FEVER,DIFFICULTY BREATHING.BEI
WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF DUMPING LOAD OF SAND DRIVER WAS ROLLING TARP BACK & SAND BLEW IN HIS LEFT EYE
EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF CLEARING SOME TREE THAT HAD BEEN DISCEASED WHEN A SWARM OF YELLOW JACKET BEE ATTACKED HIM RESULTING IN A NUMBER OF BEE STINGS