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The miner put on rubber boots because it was raining and a spider that was inside bit foot. EE went to the hospital a couple days later and they amputated one toe.
While moving the plastic dredge pipe one of the Miners was injured. The pipe was pulled out of the lake to point A. Then we needed to reposition the wheel loader on the other side of the pipe. When he pulled out to move to the other side, the pipe swung wide knocking the miner to the ground and falling onto his legs breaking them both.
Employee was directing a front end loader to drop its bucket, but was standing under the bucket. His foot was caught between the bucket and the ground. His toe was broken.
Worker was welding on pontoon of dredge. He used flammable aerosols to clean the surface where he was welding. When he lit his torch, the flammable aerosols flashed. The worker sustained burns on his face, arms, and hands
driver from Eagle Lake plant was climbing ladder to gain access to safe area/platform to open hatch, approx. 10 foot from the ground his foot slipped and he fell on his right foot and side
Employee was cleaning screen and stepped back. Foot slipped on wet grading and he fell on his right side.
The man was stacking bags of sand using the palletizer. A bag of sand was sliding out of position; the man stuck his hand in the table to straighten bag and was caught between the table and the bag of sand. The man was burned by the hot sand before he could get released.
Employee hurt his foot getting off the forklift. Stepping down on uneven ground he hurt his foot.
EE feels the particulate may have entered his eye when he was shoveling slag the previous night.
Getting out of the truck, he set his foot on the fueling containment wall and slipped off the containment wall and he struck the dike wall when he fell.
Employee was using the grinder to cut and grind bolt heads when splicing conveyor belt when a metal shaving entered his left eye from underneath his safety glasses.
Driver came in 4:00 am to load his load his truck. When strapping load down, strap got caught between the pallet. He got on side to get strap when he slipped and fell and injured his lower backside.
Driver for our company, came to me on 9/20/05 and said he had injured his back while decsending a ladder after loading his truck on 9/15/05. He did not report the injury till 9/20/05 around 4:30 pm. I sent him to the doctor right after he told me of his injury, he did not miss any work, as he returned to work the next day. The doctor gave him light duty work.
EE CAME INTO MY OFFICE THIS MORNING & TOLD ME HE HAD STRAINED HIS BACK YESTERDAY (7/14/05) WHILE STACKING PALLETS. EE WAS SENT TO THE DOCTOR FOR AN EXAMINATION IMMEDIATELY & DOCTOR HAS RESTRICTED HIS ACTIVITY TO NO KNEELING, SQUATING, BENDING, STOOPING, PUSHING, PULLING OR PICKING UP MORE THAN 10 LBS. THE DOCTOR WILL RE-EVALUATE HIM ON MONDAY (7/18/05).
ANOTHER EE SWUNG AT HIM WITH A FILLED TUBE AND HIT HIM WHEN HE RAISED HIS HAND TO BLOCK HIS FACE FROM BEING HIT. INJURING EE'S RING FINGER.
IMPROPER USE OF FRONT END LOADER BUCKET BEING USED AS A LIFT LED TO THE ACCIDENT. FOREMAN FELL FROM THE LOADER BUCKET 6 TO 7 FT DOWN. HE LANDED ON HIS KNEE AND LOWER LEG. THE FALL BROKE THE BO NES IN HIS LOWER LEG.
WHILE CLOSING THE GATE ON THE BOTTOM OF SILO, EE RAN INTO HANDLE WHICH WAS STICKING OUT ON SIDE OF THE WALKWAY. HE HIT HIMSELF IN THE CHEST AND NICKED HIS FOREHEAD.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A DRUM OF HYDRAULIC FLUID AND PULLED HIS RIGHT GROIN MUSCLE CAUSING A HERNIA.