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WHILE STEPPING DOWN FROM A CRANE, HE SAYS HE STEPPED ON A 1" HOSE AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.
STEEL COVER ON MACHINE WAS TIGHT, FINALLY BROKE LOOSE DROPPING ON RIGHT INDEX FINGER POSSIBLY LOSS OF BENDING FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERA TING 50 TON QUARRY TRUCK ROCK FELL OFF LOADER BUCKET WHILE LOADING QUARRY TRUCK HIT MIRROR WHICH DEFLECT ED IT INTO SIDE DOOR WINDOW SPRAYING GLASS PARTICLES & STRIKING LEFT ELBOW OF DRIVER
AS THE EMPLOYEE WAS SHARPENING HIS BUTTON BIT WITH A DIE GRINDER HE CLAIMS A FILING WENT UNDER HIS FACE SHIELD AND UNDER HIS GLASSES LODGING IN THE RIGHT CORNER OF HIS LEFT EYE HE COULD FIND NOTHING IN HIS EYE WENT HOME WHEN HIS SHIFT WAS OVER HE SAYS HE FELT DISCOMFORT THAT NIGHT AT HOME AND WHEN HE CAME TO WORK ON 9-23-88 HE WENT TO DR WHO REMOVED A STEEL FILING FROM HISEYE
UNK-PREVIOUSLY RELATED TO OFF SITE BONE CHIP INJURY NON WORK RELATED.COMMENT.
WAS JACKHAMMERING TOE IN THE QUARRY THE TOE WAS ONLY A SLIGHT HUMP WHEN HE STARTED THE HOLE HE STOPPED TO CLEAN THE HOLE OUT THE TRIGGER ON THE AIR JACKHAMMER STUCK OPEN WHILE HE WAS PULLING THE STEEL OUT OF THE HOLE A PIECE OF ROCK CHIPPED OFF AT THE TOP OF THE HOLE CAUSING THE AIR HAMMER TO FALL AWAY FROM HIM HE GRABBED THE HAMMER FEELING A PIAN IN HIS BACK
WHILE TIGHTENING THE GRATES ON THE MILL THE BAR SLIPPED DOWN FORCING HIS RIGHT THUMB DOWN, CAUSING A SPRAIN.
CLAIMED WHILE CHANGING A GREASE LINE UNDER 7' CRUSHER DISCHARGE BOX HE WAS USING AN 8' LADDER WHICH HE HAD LEANING AT THE TOP AGAINST THE OUTSIDE WALL OF THE BOX WHEN CLIMBING DOWN A SECONDE TIME THE LEFT SIDE OF LADDER SLIPPED IN DIRT CAUSING HIM TO SWING TO THE RIGHT AND THROWING HIM INTO A PLATE OF STEEL ON OPPOSITE WALL
SPLICING A NEW CONVEYOR BELT A BELT CUTTER WAS HANDED I NAME BY ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WHEN THE CUTTER BLADE SLID ALONG CUTTER STRIKING INJURED'S RIGHT AND CUTTING PALM PALM REQUIRED TWO STITCHES T O CLOSE LACERATION
WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS WIRE BRUSHING AROUND BOLTS ON CUTTING EDGES OF BULLDOZER, A FLAKE OF RUST BLEW INTO LEFT EYE. WASHED EYE IMMEDIATELY AND IRRITATION NOT THOUGHT SERIOUS UNTIL SEVERAL DAYS LA TER.
HE WAS KNEELING IN THE BOTTOM OF A RAILROAD CAR PUTTING RAGS INTO HOLES INTO BOTTOM OF CAR. HIS FOOT BECAME WEDGED INTO THE SMALL AREA BETWEEN DOOR AND BOTTOM. WHEN HE STOOD UP TO MOVE TO THE NEXT POCKET HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOCKING RAIL CARS WHEN THE RAILROAD BAR SLIPPED OUT OF CAR DOOR AND EMPLOYEE FELL BACKWARDS ONTO LEFT LEG. LEG, ANLKE AND KNEE WERE TURNED AND WRENCHED BADLY.
USING HYDRAULIC PORTA-POWER TO PUSH V-BELT SHEAVE OFF VIBRATING SCREEN SHAFT HAND CHAIN HOIST USED TO HOLD WEIGHT OF SHEAVE.WHEN SHEAVE CAME OFF CHAIN HOIST SLIPPED LEFT HAND BECAME WRAPPED I N HOIST CHAIN AND HYDRAULIC HOSE WHEN SHAEAVE DROPPED JERKING HIM FORWARD INTO VEAM.
STANDING IN A BIN UNDER A CONVEYOR & REACHING U TO REMOVE A RET URN IDLER HE DROVE ONE SIDE & THE OTHER SIDE SLIPPED OUT OF H IS HAND & HIT HIS HEAD KNOCKING OFF HIS HAT & GLASSES
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING UP HIS MACHINE AFTER THE REGULAR SHIFT AND BENT OVER TO PICK UP A HAMMER AND COULD HARLKY STRAIGHTEN BACK UP. PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS BACK.
WHILE LOADING SCREEN CLOTH INTO LOADER BUCKET MAN CAUGHT HIS FINGER ON EDGE O F SCREEN, CUTTING THE FINGER, GLOVES WERE WORN.
AS THE EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN THE LADDER ON A CAT F E LOADER HE WENT TO STEP ON THE BOTTOM RUNG OF THE LADDER WHICH WAS BROKEN OFF AND HE LOST HIS BALANCE HE GRABBED THE HAND RAIL WITH HI S LEFT HAND CAUSING A SORE ELBOW AND SHOULDER THE EMPLOYEE DECIDED TO WAIT AND SEE HOW HIS ARM PROGRESSED AND SINCE HE STILL HAS PAIN IN HIS ELBOW HE WENT OT A CHIROPRACTOR ON 6-7-88
INJ EMPL REACHED FOR SOUTH SIDE OF CHUTE AS ANOTHER EMPL PUSHED ON NORTH SIDE OF CHUTE.AS CHUTE MOVED IT CAUGHT HIS FINGER.CHUTE WAS BEING PERMANENTLY FITTED AND PLACED AT #2 SIMPLICITY SCREEN .EMPL RECD LACERATIONS AND CONTUSIONS TO END OF MIDDLE DIGIT FINGER OF LEFT HAND.
BURNING ANGLE FOR HANDRAIL
GETTING OFF THE LOADER, CLIMBING DOWN LADDDER AND TWISTED LOWER BACK.
FINISHED CLEANING LEDGE AND BIN OF SCREEN DISCHARGE,IN CLIMBING OUT HE PULLED HIMSELF UP AND THERE HIS LEG OVER LIP OF BIN,FELT A SHARP PAIN IN GROIN AREA.EDGE OF BIN ROUGHLY 3-4 FEET HIGH.
JUST BEGINNING TO CLIMB UP TO THE PLATFORM OF THE BLAST HOLE DRILLING MACHINE. HE HAD ONE FOOT ON THE TRACK AND BOTH HANDS ON THE RAILING FIRST ONE HAND SLIPPED OFF, THEN THE OTHER AND HE QUIC KLY PUT HIS FOOT DOWN. HE WAS LEANING TOO FAR BACK AND SET DOWN HARD ON THE GROUND.
EMPL GRINDING SLAG FROM DISASSEMBLED CONVEYOR WITH HAND-HELD GRINDER.GRINDING WHEEL KICKED BACK AND STRUCK EMPL LEFT LOWER LEG.
TESTING STONE GRADATION HE DROVE TO PLANT & FILLED 2 BUCKETS 35LBS EACH RETURNED TO LAB CARRYING A BUCKET IN EACH HAND IN LAB HE TURNED TO HIS LEFT AS HE WAS PUTTING DOWN THE BUCKETS HE HEARD HIS LEFT KNEE POP & FELT PAIN AROUND HIS KNEE CAP
I.NAME CLAIMED WHILE HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM TRUCK THE BOTTOM STEP WAS SWINGING BACK AND FORTH HE MISJUDGED STEP MISSING IT AND FELL TO SAVE HIMSELF HE CLUNG TO RAILS OF LADDER STRIKING HIS RT SIDE AGAINST SAME STEP
EXPANDED METAL 7ATWALK SECTION WAS CORRODED AT THE JUNCTION OF ITS ANGLE IRON SUPPORTS AND SHEARDED OFF UNDER WEIGHT OF INJURED EMPLOYEE.THE SECTION HINGED AT ONE END WITH SHARP JAGGED TINES P OINTED UP,THE I3JURED EMPLOYEE'S HAND WAS PIERCED AND LACERATED BY THE TINES AS HE FELL VERTICALLY ABOVE FIVE FEET TO THE GROUND.
EMPLOYEE CLIMBED ON SIDE OF PARTS RACK LOOKING FOR A HOSE THE EMPLOYEE DID NOT SEE SHARP EDGE ON TOP POST OF RACK AS HE WAS GETTING DOWN HE CAUGHT HOLD OF THE RACK WITH HIS LEFT HAND HAND SLIP PED CUTTING PALM OF HAND
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING METAL TUBES FROM BOTTOM OF SCREEN WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND TWISTED RIGHT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS3THAT WHILE POUNDING ON BLOW BARS AT PORTABLE CRUSHER A PIECE OF METAL BROKE OFF BAR AND WENT INTO HIS LEFT LEG BETWEEN KNEE AND ANKLE. HE CAME IN TO OFFICE TO REPORT INJURY AND WAITED UNTIL A0TER WORK TO GO TO EMERGENCY. METAL PIECE HAD TO BE REMOVED SURGICALY.
WHILE KNOCKING 4UD OFF SNUBBER PULLY OUR EMPLOYEE SMASHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN A SHOVEL AND HANDLE AND ANGLE IRON. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WERE STITCHES WERE REQUIRED ON HIS FINGER. HE RETU RNED TO WORK TH5T DAY.
I.NAME CLAIMED 4HILE HE WAS PREPAIRING TO CHECK B C SCREENS HE WAS LIFTING UP THE DISCHARGE CHUTE WITH 3 OTHER EMPLOYEES HE FELT A PULL AND SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER RT ABDOMEN APPROX 3 WEEKS L ATER WHILE AT H2ME HE FELT MORE PAIN AGAIN THIS TIME MORE SEVERE HE THEN WENT TO THE DOCTOR
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING A 966D CAT LOADER AND HIT A POT HOLE THIS CAUSED HIM TO TWIST HIS BODY AND INJURE HIS LOWER BACK
EMPL SHOVELING 8TONE HAD SHARP PIN IN UPPER BACK BETWEEN SHOULDERS.CAME IN TO OFFICE AND WENT TO EMERGENCY RM.
THE EMPLOYEE HA8 JUST CLEANED OFF THE #1 BELT AND WAS ON HIS WAY BACK TO THE ELECTRICAL ROOM TO REMOVE THE LOCK-OUT SYSTEM.THE EMPLOYEE WAL KED INTO A LOW-HANGING WATER PIPE AND SUSTAINED A LACERATION T2 HIS NOSE AND FOREHEAD.
HE WAS LOADING 40 LB CARTRIDGES OF EXPLOSIVES ONTO A TRUCK. WHEN HE PICKED ONE UP FROM THE GROUND, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS NBACK
LIFTED A 90 LB 8TEEL DISC TO A WELDING BENCH CAUSING PAIN IN GROIN RT SIDE
EMP CLAIMS WHIL9 SHOVELING STONE HE THREW BACK OUT, HAS PAIN IN LOWER BACK. TO H.G.S. VIA AMBULANCE EMP ALSO STATES PRIOR BACK PROBLEMS
A FRONT END LOADER WAS LIFTING SOME SCRAP AND JARRED A PILE OF RAILROAD RAIL AND ALTHOUGH AWARE OF THE SITUATION, AN UPPER RAIL UNEXPECTEDLY ROLLED DOWN AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON THE TOP OF THE F OOT.
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS3THAT HE MISSED HIS TARGET WITH HAMMER AND THE OVERSWING RESULTED IN HIS HAND HITTING AGAINST SIDE OF CRUSHER.
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS3THAT MATERIAL HE WAS WORKING ON BROKE ALLOWING JACKHAMMER TO SLIP PINCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN IT AND CRUSHER.
THE EMPLOYEE ST5TES HE WAS DRIVING AN EUCLID QUARRY TRUCK,GOING DOWN TO THE PIT WHEN THE REAR AXLE DROPPED OFF THE TRUCK(ACTUALLY DRIVE LINE FELL OFF TRUCK),A ND THE BACK OF THE TRUCK HIT THE TRUCK HIT THE 1ROUND,CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE TO BOUNCE IN THE CAB OF THE TRUCK.
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 IN THE PROCESS OF SLOWING DOWN ACRUSHER ADJUSTMENT WITH ABOLT WHEN HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER,WHICH HAD BEEN HOLDING THE BOLT,BECAME WEDGED BETWEEN THE CRUSHER AND THE BOLT.
HE CLIMBED ONTO3A CONVEYOR BELT THAT WAS STOPPED SO HE COULD PULL A PIPE OFF BACK OF MAGNET HE DID NOT PULL OUT THE ROPE SWITCH OR LOCK OUT THE CONVEYOR SWITCH PLANT OPERATOR JOGGED BELT FORWA RD A LITTLE SO 5S TO CLEAR STONE FROM UNDER THE MAGNET THIS PULLED I.NAME UNDER THE MAGNET & UNDER CHUTE FEEDING THE SAME CONVEYOR
I,NAME CLAIMED 4HILE USING WRENCH TO REMOVE BOLTS FROM SKIRT BOARD THE WRENCH SLIPPED OFF NUT AND STRUCK RING FINGER ON RIGHT HAND. HIS RIGHT HAND SLAMMED INTO THE SIDE OF THE SCREEN.
EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING DOWN STAIRS WITH HIS HANDS FELL AS HE WAS WALKING DOWN HIS FEET SLIPPED ON THE STAIRS AND HE SLIPPED BACKWARDS AND SLID DOWN 4 STAIRS
I,NAME CLAIMED 4HILE LIFTING 3/4" SCREEN PLATE INTO POSITION HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LEFT SIDE WHICH CONTINUED TO BOTHER HIM FOR SEVERAL DAYS, HE THAN WENT TO HOSPITAL TO GET CHECKED OUT, AND FOUND HE PU5LED A MUSCLE.
WHILE THE INJUR9D WAS MOVING A 55 GALLON DRUM ALONG A CATWALK IN THE SCREEN BUILDING,HIS FEET SLIPPED AND HE FELL DOWN.THE DRUM FELL ON HIS HAND AND CRUSHED HIS THUMB AGAINST THE EDGE OF A STE EL STEP. 3
I.NAME STANDING3AT DUMPING SPOT AT LOADING DOCK OF RR.THE NEXT TRUCK DROVE TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGE AND I.NAME HAD TO JUMP INTO THE RR CAR TO AVOID BEING HIT.A REGULAR TRUCK DRIVER WAS TEACHING NEW MAN TO DRI5E AT THE TIME.
I.NAME REMOVING3BIT FROM BENT DRILL ROD BY HOLDING BIT IN WRENCH AND USING DRILL TO UNSCREW ROD.WHEN IT CAME OFF THE END WHIPPED AROUND AND HIT I.NAME IN THE ARM AND CHEST.
STEPPED ON STEE5 PLATE THAT WAS NOT PROPERLY INSTALLED THE PLATE TILTED CAUSING THE INJURED TO FALL AND STRIKE HIS RT LEG AGAINST THE STEEL I BEAM NOTE: THE STEEL PLATE WAS FABRICATED TO PROVI DE A SAFE WORK 1LATFORM TO PREVENT INJURY FROM FALLS - A TEMPORARY WALKWAY