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WHILE A BENT BOLT WITH ONE HAND & OPERATING AN IMPACT WITH THE OTHER HAND, IMPACT SLIPPED & CUT FINGER
DIGGING WITH SHOVEL UNDER BELT, SOME MATERIAL FELL OFF BELT, EE DOES NOT KNOW IF HIT OR NOT. NO MARKS, EE BACK IS SORE, DR SAID POSSIBLE STRAINED BACK.
EE WAS SWINGING A SLEDGE HAMMER DRIVING A PIN INTO FRAME OF A WHEEL LOADER AND AGGREVATED EXISITING ARTHRITIS.
EE HAD FINISHED WORKING ON DOZER AND SLIPPED WHILE GETTING OFF AND TWISTED HIS BACK.
OVER MEMORIAL HOLIDAY WEEKEND OF MAY 30, 1994, EE EXPERIENCED A HEART ATTACK. HE WENT TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT THAT INCLUDED SURGERY. OUR PLANT WAS CLOSED FOR THIS LONG WEEKEND. EE CLAIMS IT HAPPENED AT WORK. SINCE WE ARE NOT DOCTORS, WE CANNOT SAY THAT HIS CLAIM IS UNTRUE, ALTHOUGH WE SEE NO RELATIONSHIP TO WORK.
INJURED WAS DRIVING ON MURFREESBORO ROAD AND SPENCE LANE WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A STATION WAGON AND IN TURN STRUCK ANOTHER TRUCK WHICH CAUSED WHIPLASH AFFECT AND LOSS OF MOTION IN NECK AND B ACK.
EMPLOYEEWAS HLEPING TO INSTALL 1 1/2 STEEL PLATE. PINCHED HIS LEFT HAND AT RING FINGER.
WHILE DOING SOME REPAIRS ON A SCREEN,INJURED WAS GRINDING AND GOT SOME FOREIGN BODIES IN RIGHT EYE.EMPLOYEE WAS WARNED HE WAS NOT WEARING GLASSES JUST BEFORE THE ACCIDENT.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING SOME BUSHED WITH HIS POCKET KNIFE. SAID KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT ABOVE HIS RIGHT KNEE.
SHOVELING ROCK WRENCHED BACK
EE TRIPPED ON WET ROCK WHILE DRILLING LANDED ON RIGHT KNEE AGAINST A ROCK. SMALL CUT SUBSTAINED AT CENTER OF KNEE CAP. EE COMPLAINED OF PAIN BETWEEN KNEE AND HIP.
WHILE CHANGING 2AMMERS IN CRUSHER (APROX. 80 LBS.) I,NAME SET A HAMMER OUT OF THE CRUSHER MOUTH ONTO THE OPENED DOOR SURFACE. MAOVING TO GET A BTTER POSITION TO BE ABLE TO TOS THE HAMMER DOWN TO THE GROUND;3I,NAME PLACED HIS HAND NEXT TOT HE HAMMER WHICH THEN ROLLED OVER ONTO HIS FINGER-PINCHING IT REGURING STITCHES TO CLOSE THE WOUND RUNNING THE LENGTH OF THE FINGER.
OPERATOR WAS DESCENDING GRADE FROM CRUSHER RUN PILE & COULD NOT SLOW MACHINE SUFFICIENTLY TO COMFORTABLY NEGOTIATE ROUGH GROUND. LOWER BUCKET INTO GROUND TO STOP. MACHINE STOPPED ABRUPTLY THR OWING OPERATOR AGAINST STEERING WHEEL. BRUISING CHEST.
WHILE WELDING BUILDUP ON THE CRUSHER ROTOR WILLIAM TURNED THE ROTOR WITH HIS FOOT TO ROTATE HIS WORK THE ROTOR TURNED MORE EASILY THAN EXPECT ED ALLOWING HIM TO PUSH IT FASTER THAN EXPECT ED H IS FOOT WEDGED BETWEEN ROTOR AND STATIONARY EQUIPMENT RESULTING IN A SPRAIN TO THE FOOT (LEFT)
WHILE DISMOUNTING HIS BULLDOZER MR SWAFFORD LOST HIS BALANCE WHILE STEPPING ONTO THE CLEAR TRACK FALLING BACKWARD ONTO SUPPORT FRAME FOR BLADE HE BRUISE HIS RIBS WITH ASSOCIATED ABRASIONS FROM HIS BELTLINE TO HIS RIGHT SHOULDER