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INJURED WAS WALKING CATCHING SAMPLES HE SAID A METAL OXYGEN LINE WAS HIDDEN IN GRASS & HE TRIPPED OVER IT AND FELL
INJURED WAS LIFTING HOPPER FROM GROUND TO BULK TRAILER-LIFTED EVERYTHING OK BUT ON THE LAST PUSH UP TO CLEAR THE FENDER ON BULK TRAILER IT PULLED THE MUSCLE.
INJURED WAS GETTING OFF TRACTOR WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS FOOT IN CUT OUT HOLE ON FLOOR OF BACKHOE
INJURED HAD BEEN HAULING CASING IN MORNING. SAT DOWN TO EAT LUNCH AND FELT TINGLE WHEN HE GOT UP. DOESN\T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN INJURY OCCURRED.
INJURED WS WORKING WITH CEMENTING CREW PREPARING CEMENTER FOR CEMENTING 708I WHEN THE CASING CREW HAD FINISHED SETTING 4-INCH PVC SCH 40PIPE IN HOLE INJURED WAS POSITIONED JUST TO SIDE OF LIF T WHEN AT ABOUT 10-FT OVERHEAD CHAIN DISENGAGED SAFETY LATCH CAUSING CHAIN & LOAD TO FALL
INJURED DRAGGED A DEAPHRAM PUMP FROM GROUND SURCACE TO CEMENT LOADING PAD APPROX. 20FT. HE THEN HAD TO REMOBE RESIN FROM BARRELS TO RESIN TRAILER. HE ALSO STATED HE TILTED ONE FO THE BARELS R EMOVE ALL RESIN BUT IT ALMOST FELL SO HE STOPPED IT FROM FALLING.
HYDRO-SULFRIC ACID LINE UNDER PRESSURE BROKE & SPRAYED ACID ON VICTIMS UPPER ARM, CHEST AND FACE
INJURED PICKED UP A PIECE OF PIPE THAT A JETTING HOSE HAD GOTTEN HUNG UPON
INJURED WAS LIFTING UP FOOT BATH CONTAINER WHEN BACK JUST STARTED HURTING.
INJURED HAD STARTED COMPRESSOR TO BEGIN JETTING WELL.PACKING GLAND THAT HOLDS THE JETTING HOSE IN WELL WAS LEAKING WHEN HE PUT PIPE WRENCH ON GLAND TO TIGHTEN IT THE HOSE BEGAN COMING OUT OF W WELL.HE GRABBED HOSE AND IT JERKED HIS ARM. PAIN BEGAN IMMEDIATELY IN BI-CEP MUSCLE OF LEFT.
INJURED WAS HELPING TO UNLOAD SMALL MILLER WELDING MACHINE FROM PICKUP. HE HAD LOWERED FIRST END TO FLOOR, AND WAS LOWERING LAST END. FINGER WAS CAUGHT UNDER ANGLE IRON FRAME AND SEVERED.
INJURED WAS ON HIS WAY TO BACKWASH HYDROCLONES I.NAME STAPPED OVER 4" PVC DRAIN LINE WITH HIS LEFT FOOT FIRST. WHEN HIS FOOT CAME DOWN HE STEPPED ON A ROCK ABOUT 1 1/2" DIAMETER WITH HIS LEF T HEEL CAUSING PAIN.
INJURED WAS ON TOP OF TRAILER UNLOADING FRP PIPE. HE STEPPED ON TIRE OF TRAILER TO GET DOWN AND THE WHEEL WAS OFF THE GROUND AND THE WHEEL TURNED CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE GROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UP AND DOWN POND BANK AND EXPERIENCED A PAIN IN THE CHEST AND GOT SICK TO HIS STOMACH
LIFTING PUMP MOTOR ONTO TRUCK
INJURED WAS STANDING A PUMP UP ON END TO WASH THE INSIDE OF PUMP
INJ WAS TURNING ON P10 PUMP AND STEPPED OFF A STEEL COVERED SUMP ON TO A ROCK WHICH CAUSED HIM TO TWIST HIS ANKLE
INJURED WAS PULLING VALVE SEAT FROM MUD PUMP WITH VALVE PULLER & 24" PIPE WRENCH. WHILE TIGHTENING NUT ON VALVE PULLER EMPLOYEE STRAINED HIS BACK.
THE INJURED WAS CARRYING A VALVE TO FORKLIFT WHEN HIS FOOT GOT CAUGHT ON PIPE OR GUARD, LOST BALANCE AND TOSSED VALVE AWAY FROM BODY. MAY HAVE AGGRAVATED LATER IN AFTERNOON WHEN HELPING TO MOV E LLW DRUMS ONTO TRAILER.
INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO PULL PUMP OUT OF M-13A WHEN ELECTRIC SYSTEM WENT OUT. AS PUMP STARTED TO DESCEND INJURED GRABBED HOLD OF MANUAL BAR IN AN EFFORT TO SLOW DESCENT OF PUMP SO CO-WORKER COULD INSERT PIN TO STOP DESCENT. WHILE ATTEMPTING TO SLOW DESCENT OF PUMP WORKER STRAINED BACK.
DRILLER WAS PULLING PIPE OUT OF HOLE AND PULLED INTO A TIGHT SPOT, SLACK GOT IN CABLE AND PIPE FREED UP CAUSING A SUDDEN JERK ON CABLE PULLING CABLE THROUGH CLAMPS AND BLOCK CAME DOWN STRIKIN G EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT HAND.
THE EE WAS WORKING IN FREEZING TEMP. WHEN HE NOTICED HE COULDN\T BLINK HIS LEFT EYE & HIS MOUTH WENT OFF TO THE SIDE OF HIS FACE. HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR & IT WAS DETERMINED HE HAD A CONDITIO N KNOWN AS BELL\S PALSY.
THE INJURED WAS CHANGING A VALVE THAT WAS LEAKING. HE HAD A CHEATER PIPE BETWEEN TWO FLANGES PRYING IT APART WHEN IT SLIPPED CAUSING THE INJURED TO FALL BACK, STRIKING HIS RIGHT HAND AGAINST A N 8 IN. PVC PIPE.
THE INJURED WAS CONTRACTED TO PAINT THE 02 TANK WHICH IS LOCATED ON THE MOSER PROPERTY (CLAY WEST PLANT). AS HE WAS PREPARING TO LEAVE THE PREMISES, HE UNTIED THE LADDER FROM THE 02 TANK AND T HE LADDER SLIPPED ON THE ROUNDED SURFACE OF THE TANKL CAUSING THE INJURED TO FALL APPROX. 30 FT BEFORE STRIKING THE GROUND.
INJURED WAS USING LARGE HYDRAULIC JACK AND SECTION OF PIPE TO RAISE A DENT OUT OF ROOF OF SHOVEL CAB PIPE GAVE WAY ALLOWING ROOF TO POP BACK DOWN PINCHING HIS FINGERS BETWEEN ROOF AND BEAM HE WAS HOLDING ONTO
EMP WAS ON LADDER CROSSING TO A BEAM ON VERTICAL AUGER WHEN LADDER SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER LEFT LEG HE FELL STRAIGHT BACK AND HIT A BOX OF METAL EMP WAS KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS FOR A SHORT TIME HE AWOKE LYING ON THE FLOOR ON HIS RT SIDE
WHILE DRIVING A STEEL PIN INJURED CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE HEAD OF T HE PIN & A HAMMER.
WHILE WALKING TO THE ENTRANCE DOOR OF THE CENTRAL MAINTENANCE BUILDING THE INJURED TRIPPED & FELL.
WHILE PULLING TUBING FROM THE END OF A GLASS VESSEL IT BROKE CAUSING A LACERATION.
SLIPPED ON OIL SPOT AND FELL TO KNEES.
INJURED WAS CUTTING A HOLE IN A PIECE OF 2" STRAP WITH CUTTING TORCH WHEN A HOT PIECE OF SLAG ENTERED HIS LEFT EAR. INJURED DIDN\T THINK THE INJURY WAS SERIOUS UNTIL OVER THE WEEKEND THE EAR S TARTED TO DRAIN.
WHEN EMPLOYEE WAS COMING DOWN THE LADDER HE FELL HITTING THE GROUND LANDING ON HIS COLLARBONE%
WHILE LOWERING PIPE INTO HLE,ROPE USED TO PULL PIPE DOWN CAME LOOSE AND CO-WORKER PULLING ON ROPE SLIPPED AND FELL ON TOP OF INJURED EMPL.CO-WORKERS KNEE STRUCK EMPL ON THE B ACK.
INJURED FELL WHILE GETTING UP ON A TR-43 WHEN THE FILTER HE WAS CLIMBING UP ON FELL OVER. THE INJURED FELL TO THE MAIN. FLOOR STRIKING HIS LEFT SIDE FRACTURING 2 RIBS.
PUTTING FULL CHLORINE CYLINDER ON RACK.PUSHING ON CYLINDER AND GOT FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN 2 CYLINDERS AND BROKE FINGER.
INJURED SLIPPED WHILE CLIMBING OUT OF A VAN AND STRUCK HIS ELBOW ON THE MANIFOLD-SUTURES.
EMPL SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE WALKING TO STEP III LOADOUT POCKET.
INJURED WAS STANDING ON TOP OF TRAILER UNLOADING A PIECE OF 02 HOSE AND WHEN HE THREW IT OVER A 2IN BUTTERFLY VALVE THAT WAS TANGLED IN THE HOSE CAME LOOSE AND FELL AND STRUCK HIS RIGHT 5TH TO E
INJURED JUMPED FROM THE SECOND RUNG OF THE LADDER HE WAS STANDING ON WHEN HE STARTED TO SLIP WHILE WELDING ON A SHOVEL BUCKET IN THE MAINT SHOP AND FELT A SNAP IN HIS RIGHT KNEE
INJURED TRIPED AND FELL WHILE WALKING ON THE XX RETURN GRATE OF 2 MACHINE IN THE AGGLOMERATOR CATCHING HIMSELF WITH HIS HANDS THE MACHINE HAD JUST BEEN SHUT DOWN AND WAS STILL VERY HOT
MAXIMO VASQUEZ HAS BEEN EMPLOYED WITH TEXAS URANIUM OPERATIONS, U.S. STEEL CORP SINCE 9-18-78. HE HAS WORKED PRIMARILY IN THE MAINTENANCE DEPT.. IN NOV 1982, HE WENT INTO THE UTILITY POOL WORK ING AS A LABORER WHEREVER REQUIRED. ON 1-28-83 FOLLOWING VACATION FROM JAN 7, HE BEGAN WORK AS A PUMP MECHANIC, A JOB HE HAD DONE PREVIOUSLY WHEN HE WAS WORKING IN MANTENANCE. DURING HIS EMPL
CUTTING BOLTS OF A BALL MILL SCOOP USING A CUATTING ATORCH AND A HAMMER 183 HE WAS HOLDING THE TORCH WITH LEFT HAND WHILE HAMMERING WITH RIGHT HAND WHEN THE WORKING TORCH GOT INSIDE OF THE RIGHT GLOVE. INSIDE OF RIGHT WRIST - 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS.