Employee was assisting with pulling pipe from dredge onto shoreline. Wire cables were hooked to pipe and they were using a loader to pull pipe with. When loader began to move, there was slack in cable that tightened quickly and struck the employee on the left leg causing them to fall and then cable ran across their right arm and back.
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Showing all 5While performing maintenance on the dredge, cap from radiator blew off and hot water spewed out onto employee's left arm and part of face.
He tripped and fell while attempting to enter the boat with a 4HP outboard engine in his hands. Cuts and scrapes/neck injury.
The employee was getting on a loader to load trucks. When he got to top of ladder 2 yellow jackets stung him on back of neck & when he was stepping down his right foot got hung & he fell backwards & broke his radius bone in right leg.
On 1/5/05 EE stepped out of the barge & slipped & jarred his tailbone or back. It was sleeting & raining so apparently he lost his balance. He reported the acc. but said he didn't think he needed to go to dr. Plant was closed 1/6/05 so on 1/7/05 EE worked on barge. On Sat. 1/8/05 EE went to dr before he came to work. Dr told him to come back Mon & they'd do x-rays.