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GETTING DOWN FR2M D9L WHEN HE SLIPPED AND HIT LOWER BACK ON HAND RAIL.
EMPL WORKING AROUND DE-ENERGIZED EQUIP AT SUB-STATION AND COME IN CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED TERMINATORS ELECTROCUTING EMPL.THEN FELL ONTO TOP-ROOF-OF TRANSFORMER CAUSING HEAD INJURY.EMPL EXPIRED DUE TO ABOVE INJURIES.
CHECKING HYDRAULIC OIL IN PAN, SLIPPED AND FELL HITTING ARM AND HAND ON PAN.
SLIPPED ON THE PIPE OPENING ON THE GMT SUCTION VALVE
TAKING A FACE PLATE OFF THE 8050 PIT, HAND BECAME WEDGED BETWEEN FACE PLACE AND NUT. LACERATION TO THE LEFT INDEX FINGER.
WRENCH SLIPPED WHILE TIGHTENING BOLT ON B HYDRAULIC PUMP. LACERATED TIP OF LEFT THUMB.
EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING CABLE OFF TRACTOR BOOM. LACERATED LEFT INDEX FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING ELECTRICAL JUNCTION BOX-HANDLE WAS STUCK-WHEN HANDLE BROKE LOOSE EMPLOYEE\S FINGER WAS CAUGHT ON LOCK RING ON HANDLE. LACERATION END OF MIDDLE RIGHT FINGER.
INSTALLING PIPE ON ROUGHER TAIL PUMP DISCHARGE EMPLOYEE TOLD BY I.NAME TO TOSS MECHANIC BAR TO HIM WHILE HE WAS ABOUT 20FT IN FULTON AERIOA PLATFORM BAR HIT A WATER PIPELINE & STRUCK I.NAME IN RIGHT HAND
FELL IN HOLE WHILE SETTING UP A WELLPOINT, TRIED TO GRAB ONE OF THE POINTS AND INJURED LEFT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE DISENGAGING RAILCAR COUPLING WHICH WAS IN A BIND AND HUNGUP DUE TO DERAILMENT OF RAILCARS. HE JERKED UP ON THE HANDLE OF CUTTING LEVER AND THE SUDDEN JERK RESULTED IN HIS LEFT WRIS T COMMENCED TO HURT. HE THOUTHT IT WAS A MINOR PROBLEM. THEN SWELLING AND ACHING OCCURRED A FEW DAYS LATER AND ON 11023083 HE REPORTED THE INCIDENT AND ASKED TO SEE THE DOCTOR.
HE WAS HELPING CLEANUP TRASH AT CHEMICAL PIT AREA. WHILE BENT OVER, A FELLOW EMPLOYEE MOVED SOME ADJACENT TRASH ON WHICH RESTED A PIECE OF PIPE THAT WAS LEANING AGAINST THE ADJACENT TOOL HOUSE . THE MOVEMENT OF THE TRASH RESULTED IN THE PIPE FALLING AND STRUCK INJURED ON THE LOWER BACK AREA. RESULT WAS LUMBAR MUSCULAR STRAIN.
HE WAS HELPING TO MOVE RAILROAD TIES BENT OVER AND PICKED UP ONE END AND STARTED TO WALK
INJURED APPARENTLY USED A MUSHROMMED CHISEL WITH A HAMMER TO LOOSEN A SOLIDIFIED CHUNK OF PULVERIZED CHEMICAL FROM INSIDE WALL OF THE DRYER-AND A PIECE OF THE CHISEL HEAD SPALLED-OFF AND ENTER ED HIS INDIDE OF LEFT THIGH.
INJURED STEPPED OUT OF CAB OF HIS TRUCK TO GROUND ALONGSIDE WHICH APPEARED SOLID HOWEVER THE AREA UNDERNEATH WAS ERRODED AND THE SURFACE GAVE AWATY AND HIS RIGHT FOOT WENT INTO THE ERRODED SPA CE AND HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT FOOT IN THE ACTION
INJURED WAS STANDING IN MUD AND ATTEMPTED TO ASCEND, ON A BENT FIXED METAL STEP, TO THE OPERATOR\S SEAT ON A PAYLOADER. HIS MUDDY LEFT SHOE SLIPPED OFF THE STEP AND HIS LEFT SHIN STRUCK AND SC RAPED AGAINST THE TOP EDGE OF THE STEP CUTTING SAME IN THE ACTION.