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EMPL WALKING ACROSS SUPPLY ROOM FLOOR RIGHT KNEE POPPED OUT OF JOINT CAUSING PULLED MUSCLE TENDONS,LIGAMENTS.
HE WAS HELPING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE PUT SKIRT BOARDS ON THE CONVEYOER UNDER THE CRUSHER. WHILE HE WIN KNEE.
EMP WA> GRINDING A DRIL BIT WHEN A SMALL PC OF METAL GOT IN LEFT EYE UNDER SAFEY GLASSES.
EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING IN HER SWIVEL CHAIR AT HE DESK IN THE SCALE HOUSE. SOMEONE SPAKE TO HER AND SHE TURN IN HER CHAIR HITTING HER LEFT KNEE ON THE CORNER OF THE DESK. SHE DID NOT WANT TO G O TO THE DOCTOR AT TIME, BUT SHE COMPLAINED OF PAIN AND DISCOMFORT (SHE WENT TO THE DOCTORS).
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING FELLOW EMPLOYEE'S FREE A CABLE THAT HAD BECOME STUCK AROUND THE CABLE DRUM OF THE ELECTRIC SHOVEL USING A CHAIN HOOKED TO THE MOTORGRADER THEY MADE AND ATTEMPT TO PULL TH E CABLE STRIKING EMPLOYEE WHO WAS APPROXIMATELY TWO FEET AWAY ACROSS THE CHEST AND KNOCKING HIM TO THE GROUND CAUSING A SPRAINED RT HAND&SHLDR
EMPLOYEE GOR DUST IN HIS EYES.
REMOVE SHAKER LIP FROM CRUSHER, STRAINED LOWER BACK MUSCLES.
INJURED WAS HOLDING A 5'X1.5" DIAMETER STEEL BAR AGAINST THE INSIDE EDGE OF A DRUM BUSHING WHILE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE STRUCK THE END OF THE BAR WITH A 12 LB HAMMER TO KNOCK THE BUSHING OUT WHEN TH HAMMER HIT THE END OF THE BAR A PIECE OF STEEL FLECKED OFF THE BAR AND STRUCK THE INJURED IN THE LEFT SIDE PENETRATING THE SKIN AND LODGING IN THE FATTY TISSURES THERE EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN T
CLEAN-UP AROUND PIT AND GOT INTO POSION OAK.
EMPL REMOVING RADIATOR CAP SO WATER LEVEL COULD BE CHECKED.CAP WAS STUCK SO TURNED TO EXIT OFF BLADE TO GET TOOL SLIPPED P FELL BETWEEN DOZER BLADE AND RADIATOR BRUISING SHIN AND ABRADING RIGH T FOREARM.TAKEN TO HOSPITAL EMERGENCY RM WHERE SCRAPE WAS CLEANED AND ICE PACK APPLIED TO BRUISE.RX ISSUED.
EMPLOYEE HAD PROPPED HIS SHOVEL UP (HAND SHOVEL) TRIPPED AND FELL OVER IT.
EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING SLUG WRENCH WHILE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE HIT IMPACTG END OF WRENCH WITH AN 8LB HAMMER EMPLOYEES WERE IN A TIGHT AREA SIDE BY SIDE EMPLOYEE USING HAMMER SWUNG DOWNWARD MAKING CO NTACT WITH STEEL FRAMEWORK WHICH DEFLECTED THE HEAD OF THE HASMMER MAKING IT STRIKE EMPLOYEE HOLDING WRENCH ON THE HAND FRACTURING HIS LITTLE FINGER INJURED WAS TAKEN TO H OSPITAL WHERE HIS FI
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CONVEYOR BELT CONTRACTOR INSTALL NEW BELT. CRANE BOOM ON CONTRACTOR CRANE COLLAPSED CRUSHING EMPLOYEE'S LEFT HAND.
EMPL WAS WELDING ON RADIATOR BRACKET USING ELECTRIC WELDER. AS SPENT ELECTRODE BECOME STUCK TO STEEL. EMPL WORKED ELECTRODE LOOSE FROM STEEL & AS IT CAME LOOSE HIS RIGHT ARM SWUNG TO LEFT LOOSE FROM STEEL & AS IT CAME LOOSE HIS RIGHT ARM SWUNG TO LEFT BRINGING ELECTRODE IN C ONTACT WITH HIS LEFT FOREARM CAUSING SHALLOW PUNCTURE WOUND & BLEEDING FROM SMALL VEIN. EMMPL WAS TAK
I.NAME BITTEN BY BLACK WIDOW SPIDER WHILE SEATED IN PORTABLE TOILET ON PLANT SITE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING CONVEYOR BELT FRAME HE STEPPED BACKWARDS LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL ABOUT 20 FT TO THE GROUND
EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING DROPCORD TO ELECTRICIAN WORKING ON ROOF OF TRAILER. HE STEPPED ON 1/32" THICK FIBERGLASS SKYLIGHT UNDERLAID WITH STYROFOAM. HE FELL THROUGH ONTO FLOOR OF TRAILER HITTING BACK OF HEAD AND LEFT SIDE ON CONTACT WITH FLOOR. RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS FOR ABOUT 20-3- MINS DURING WHICH TIME WAS TRANSPORTED TO HOSPITAL.
TIGHTENING BOLTS WITH CRESCENT WRENCH ON JAW CRUSHER, WRENCH SSLIPPED AND EMPLOYEE JAMMED THUMB AGAINST CRUSHER WALL. THUMB WAS PREVIOUSLY BROKEN IN MINING ACCIDNET AT BEN HILL.
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTACHING RETAINING BOLT FOR WASH BIN FLIP GATE AIR CYLINGER EMPLOYEE LOST FOOTING WHILE EXITING WORK AREA AREA REQUIRES TWISTING & BENDING TO EXIT & FELL APPROX.25FT INTO NEARLY EMPTY BIN EMPLOYEE WAS NOT WEARING SAFETY BELT OR LINE EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED A CXUT TO THE HEAD A BROKEN LEFT FOREARM & A FX.CRACK TO 10TH VERTEBRAE EMPLOYEE H OSPITALIZED AT THIS TIME
PUTTING TIRES ON DROP BALL, EMPLOYEE SAID IT HURT HIS NECK.
EMPLOYEE TIGHTENING JAW CRUSHER WEDGE BOLT USING 1" AIR WRENCH. BOLT TIGHTENED DOWN AND WRENCH SOCKET SLIPPED AND CHIPPED OFF A SLIVER WHICH GOT BEHIND SAFETY GLASSES AND INTO EYE. EMPLOYEE AT TEMPTED REMOVAL BY WASHING OUT HIMSELF AT HOME ON 6-9-88. EMPLOYEE RETURNED TO WORK WHERE REMOVAL WAS ATTEMPTED BY MAGNETIC LOOP. EMPLOYEE WAS SENT TO COMPANY DR. WHO REFERRED HIM TO EYE DR.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING PAINT THINNER SPLAHED SOME IN HIS LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS PART OF SMALL CREW CLEARING TREES AT STIPPING SITE. EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING HARDWOOD TREE ABOUT 5" TO 6" ACROSS USING TOP EDGE OF CHAIN SAW. 'E HAD HIS LEFT LEG FORWARD OF HIS BODY AND WAS CUTTING AT APPROCIMATELY A RIGHT ANGLE TO HIS LEG. THE SAW KICKED BACK AS THE TREE BENT AND STRUCK JUST BELOW HIS LEFT KNEE CAUSING A SHALLOW CUT ABOU 3" LONG. DOCTOR CLEANED WOUND,
REMOVING CRUSHER BOLTS AND NUTS ANOTHER MAN WAS SWINGING SLEDGE HAMMER AND MISSED KNOCKED WRENCH AND HIT EMPLOYEES HAND
EMPLOYEE AS USING CUTTING TORCH WHEN PIEC OF METAL ENTERED LEFT EYE
EMPLOYEE WAS WASHING OUT UNDER THE #1 CONVEYOR TAKE-UP PULLEY USING A HIGH PRESSURE HOSE.BACK SPLASH WATER AND SAND ENTERED EAR CANAL WHICH CAUSED SOME INTIIAL DISCOMFORT.LATER DEVELOPED INTO EARACHE SUFFICENT TO KEEP EMPLOYEE OUT OF WORK UNTIL TREATED BY APHYSICAIN.
EMPL WAS HELPING LOOSEN & REMOVE WEDGE FROM CONE CRUSHER PINS. SECOND EMPL WAS TAKING TURN STRIKING WEDGE WITH S LEDGE HAMMER. SECOND EMPL STRUCK WEDGE THAT WAS ALREADY LOOSEDEN & WAS MISS ING ITS RETAINER. WEDGE POPPED OUT OF ITS SLOT & STRUCK INJURED ON FOOT CAUSING BRUISE & SWELLING. FIRST AID APPLIED AT PLATNT. EMPL WORKED NEXT 3 REGULAR WORKING DAYS BUT SELLING & PAIN
EMPLOYEE DOING MAINTENANCE WORK ON DROPBALL.A STRONG GUST OF WIND BLEW LOOSE QUARRY DUST INTO HIS WORK AREA.SOME OF WHICH GOT AROUND HIS SAFETY GLASSES AND INTO HIS LEFT EYE.IRRITATION OF EYE TREATED WITH EYE WASH AT PLANT.CONTINUED IRRIATION PROMPTED EMPLOYEE TO SEEK TTEATMENT ON 04/UK/88 AT EMERGENCY ROOM.04/18/88 WITH DOCTOR WHO ISSUED PRESCRIPTION AND RELEASE TO WORK.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING FRONT END LOADER AT A STOCKPILE WIND BLEW DUST INTOT HE CAB A PARTICLE OF DUST GOT AROUND EMPLOYEE S SAFETY GLASSES AND INTO HIS EYE WHICH CAUSED IRRITATION EMPLOYEE IRR IGATED THE EYE AND CONTINUED WORKING THE NEXT DAY EMPLOYEE WENT TO DR DUE TO CONTINUED IRRITATION PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION USED ON EYE EMPLOYEE TOOK REST OF DAY OFF AND RETURNED TO WORK ON NEX
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING WEDGES INTO CRUSHER BOWL AND STRAINED HIS ABCK.
EMPLOYEE WAS ADJUSTING 5 1/2 FT STANDARD NORBERG CRUSHER WITH A 1" DIAMETER 100FT LONG WIRE ROPE ATTACHED TO A 988-B LOADER. THE CABLE WAS ATTACHED TO THE CRUSHER BY MEANS OF A 5" CLEVIS WITH A 5" LONG 1 1/4" DIAMETER BOLT. WHEN PRESSURE WAS APPLIED TO THE CABLE, THE 5"BOLT CAME OUT OF THE CLEVIS CAUSING WHIPPING EFFECT STRIKING HIM COMPLETELY SEVERING BOTH LEGS.
EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING UP SNATCH BLOCK ON PULLEY & CONVEYOR FRAMEWORK TO LIFT PULLEY TO REMOVE A HANG-UP EMPLOYEE PUT HIS LEFT FOOT ON PULLEY ON OPPOSITE SIDE OF HANG-UP WHILE HOOKING UP THE BLO CK PULLEY ROTATED TOWARDS HANGUPHIS FOOT BECAME CAUGHT IN ONE OF THE PULLEY CLEANING WINGS & WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN BELT & PULLEY EMPLOYEE WAS PULLED INTO PINCH POINT TORSION BETWEEN HIS KNEE & F
EMP WAS PUTTING NEW CABLE ON DROPBALL CRANE. AS HE WAS PUTTING LOOPED CABLE INTO LOT OF CABLE DRUM TO WEDGE IT T.IT SLIPPED OUT STRIKING HIS UPPER LIP
CONTUSION TO LIP & LEFT LEG. A FIST TO THE LIP, & STEEL TOE BOOT TO THE LEG. BY A WELDER HELPER.
EMP WAS CLENAING UP AROUND CRUSHER WITH A SHOVEL AND WHEEL BARROW. STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE ROLLING A WHEEL BARROW
I.NAME WAS HELP3NG I.NAME TIGHTEN CRUSHER NUTS I.NAME WAS HOLDING A WRENCH FOR I.NAME AS I.NAME SWUNG SLEDGE HAMMER IT RICOCHETED OF A BEAM SMASHING I.NAME LEFT INDEX MIDDLE & RING FINGERS CA USING BRUISES &3SWELLING
EMPLOYEE STATED3HE WAS ON HIS KNEES ON CAT WALK ATTEMPTING TO CLEAN BUILD-UP UNDER RETURN ROLLER ON 36" TUNNEL SURGE FELT. ROLLER CAUGHT JACKET SLEEVE PULLING LFT ARM BETWEEN RETURN ROLLER& B ELT.. 3
EMPLOYEE WAS LO2KING FOR CONVEYOR ROLLER IN THE GRID HOUSE WHEN HE TRIPPED OVER A BUMPER ANDFELL HITTING HIS RIGHT WRIST ON THE OPPOSITE END OF THE BUMPER. POOR LIGHTING WAS A CONTRIBUTING FAC TOR. 3
EMPLOYEE WAS IN3THE FEEDER BOX TRYING TO FREE UP A LARGE ROCK THAT HAD BECOME JAMMED ON ONE SIDE OF THE BOX. HE WAS WORKING ON THIS ROCK WHEN SOME OTHER ROCKS FELL AND STRUCK THE BAR WHICH KN OCKED HIS HAND 6P AGAINST THE SIDE OF THE FEEDER. THIS CAUSED SOME BRUISING.
CHANGING SCREEN AT PLANT, SCREEN GOT HUNG WHILE UNHANGING THE SCREEN HIS HARD HAT FELL OFF. WHEN HE RAISED UP HE HIT HIS HEAD ON RETURN ROLLER.
EMPLOYEE ASCEND9D RIGHT SIDE LADDER OF TRUCK TO CHECK THE BRAKE FLUID LEVEL. AT THE TOP O F THE LADDER THE EMPLOYEE WAS MOUNTING THE PLATFORM WHEN HIS LEFT HAND AND THEN HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED THOUGHT THAT T2ERE MAY HAVE BEEN SOME GREASE ON THE LADDER OR HIS FOOT. HE THEN FELL TO THE GROUND, LANDING ON HIS RIGHT SIDE. HE SUFFERED A BRUISED ELBOW AND KNEE BUT CONTINUED WORKING. LAT
EMPLOYEE WAS RE4OVING METAL FROM BED OF TRUCK WHILE METAL FELL ON FOOT CAUSING FRACTURE
EMPLOYEE WAS AT7ACHING RETAINING BOLT FOR THE WASH BIN FLIP GATE AIR CYLINDER. EMPLOYEE LOST FOOTING WHILE EXITING WORK AREA (AREA REQUIRES TWISTING AND BENDING TO EXIT) AND FELL APPROX. 25' I NTO NEARLY EMPT2 BIN. HE WAS NOT WEARING SAFETY BELT OR LINE. HE SUSTAINED A CUT TO THE HEAD, A BROKEN LEFT FOREARM AND A FRACTURE (CRACK) TO THE 10TH VERTIBRAE. EMPLOYEE HOSPITALIZED AT THIS
EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING TO THE BLENDING PLANT TO REPLACE BELTS ON THE MOTOR. AS HE WAS WALKING ALAONG, HE WAS SWINGING HIS ARMS AND HE WAS TO THE INSIDE EDGE OF THE CATWALK. HE MADE CONTACT WIT H HIS LEFT FORE5RM TO THE TOP CORNER OF A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON THAT IS PART OF A CONVEYOR CATWALK FRAME. THE ANGLE IRON HAD A SHARP EDGE WHICH OPENED UP A CUT ON HIS FOREAR
MASHED RIGHT HAND LITTLE FINGER.EMPLOYEE WAS USING A HAND WRENCH TO TIGHTEN A NUT.WRENCH SLIPPED ON NUT.MASHED EMPLOYEE FINGER BETWEEN WRENCH ANND STEEL SURFACE.
DRILL HELPER CO3NECTED NEW SECTION OF HOSE TO COMPRESSOR AIRLINE. WALKED TOWARD DRILL NEAR LINE AFTER STARTING COMPRESSOR. HOSE COUPLING CAME LOOSE BETWEEN NEW & OLD SECTION. END OF LINE HIT E MPLOYEE ON HEEL3OF LEFT FOOT DROPPING HIM TO GROUND. NO RESTRAINT CHAINS OR CABLES ON NEW SECTION OF HOSE. SENT TO DR. FOR X-RAY WAS ISSUED PRESCRIPTION FOR PAIN & RETURNED TO WORK.
EMPLOYEE WAS HO5DING A WIRE IN HIS LEFT HAND TO CUT HIS KNIFE SLIPPED & CUT HIS RING FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND
EMPLOYEE WAS LI0TING ROCKS OFF OF A CHAIN USED TO LIFT ROCKS OUT OF JAW CRUSHER DUE TO BRIDGING. EMPLOYEE USED ONE HAND TO LIFT ROCK UP AND USED OTHER HAND TO MOVE CHAIN CLEAR OF THE ROCK. HE HAD TO TWIST H3S UPPER BODY TO DO THIS. APPARENTLY, THE TWISTING MOTION PUT OT MUCH STRAIN ON HIS LOWER BACK WHICH RESULTED IN SOME PAIN WHICH INCREASED DURING THE DAY. ON 8/4/87 HE WAS SENT
DRILL SERVICE M9CHANIC WAS CHANGING BITS ON DRILL HAMMER. WHILE CHANGING THE CENTRALIZER BUSHING FELL & STRUCK HANDS. DESCRIPTION OF INJURY AVULSION BI-LATERAL THUMBS-LEFT HAND -THUMB & INDE X FINGER- RT H3ND THUMB.
EMPL GRINDING B3TS AT DRILL SITE.FLAKE OF METAL LODGED IN LASHES OF RIGHT EYE AND WAS TRANSFERRED INTO EYE BY RUBBING.EMPL SUFFERED SOME DISCOMFORT GOT WORSE DURING NIGHT.EMPL SENT TO CO DR RE MOVED SMALL FLA5E OF METAL FROM CORNEA OF RIGHT EYE.NO DAMAGE TO EYE.RX MED FOR PAIN.