EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A TOOL BOX 20LBS INTO A WALL LOCKER AS HE STARTED TO PUT THE TOOL BOX INT O THE LOCKER HE TURNED & TWISTED THE UPPER PART OF HIS BODY STRAINING A MUSCLE IN HIS RT LOWER BA CK
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Showing 50 of 144EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING THE FLOW SWITCH ON THE PRIMARY CRUSHER LUBE SYSTEM WHEN THE WIND BLEW DUST INTO HIS EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING #201 SHOVEL WHEN HE STEPPED ON A ROCK CAUSING HIS RT ANKLE TO TWIST
THE BOOM ON THE MECHANICS TRUCK GOT HUNG UP ON A TELEEPHOINE CABLE. EMPLOYEE STOOD IN LOADER BUCKET TO FREE CABLE. THE CABLE HAD MORE TENSION THAN THE EMPLOYEE EXPECTED AND WHEN HE RELEASED IT , IT SPRUNG BACK PUSHING THE OPERATOR INTO THE SIDE OF THE TRUCK. THE EMPLOYEE RECEIVED LARGE HEMATOMA TO HIS RIGHT LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN WATER TRUCK LADDER ABOUT 5 FEET OFF OF THE GROUND. HER FOOT SLIPPED OR SHE MISSED THE LADDER RUNG. SHE LOST HER BALANCE AND FELL TO THE GROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING ON PIPE WRENCH AND SLIPPED. THIS CAUSED A PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING AN AIR COMPRESSOR FROM A HAUL TRUCK HE LOST HIS GRIP & HIS HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE AIR COMPRESSOR & THE BELLY PAN ON THE HAUL TRUCK
THE EMPLOYEE WAS CLOSING THE GATE IN FRONT OF THE OFFICE AND CAUGHT HER WRIST IN THE GATE, RECIEVING A CONTUSION TO HER LEFT WRIST.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN BENT OVER POSITION PLACING A PLASTIC LINER DOWN A DRILL HOLE.WHEN HE BEGAN TO STAND STRAIGHT HE RECEIVED A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING THE CAP OFF OF A ACETYLENE BOTTLE THE CAP WAS STUCK & WOULD NOT TURN EMPLOYEE WAS TWISTING TURNING BACK & FORTH & LIFTING UPON THE CAP THE CAP CAME LOOSE & AS IT DID THE E MPLOYEE HIT HER SELF IN THE MOUTH WITH THE CAP
THE EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A ROLL OF GEOTEXTILE AND STRAINED HIS R/SHOULDER-FOREARM.
EMPL WAS WALKING ACROSS PARKING BY MINE SHOP TO GET IGNITION KEYS TO A BACKHOE FROM OFFIE. HE STEPPED ON SMALL ROCK ROCK CAUSED HIM TO ROLL LEFT FOOT & ANKLE TO SIDE RESULTING IN SEVERE SPRAIN TO LEFT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A GRINDER WHEN IT CAME IN CONTACT WITH HIS LEFT LEG, CUTTING HIS LEG WHICH REQUIRED SIX STITCHES.
EMPLOYEE I.NAME COMPLAINED OF A SORE BACK NEAR THE END OF THE SHIFT ON 4/18/89. SHE HAD DRIVEN A HAUL TRUCK TRUCK ALL SHIFT. AFTER 2 DAYS OFF ON 4/21/89 EMPLOYEE WORKED ONE HOUR AND COMPLAINED OF HER BACK HURTING.
EMPLOYEE WAS BLOCKING HAUL TRUCK. AFFTER LIFTING A CHOCK BLOCK SHE COMPLAINED THAT HER HIP AND LOWER BACK WAS HURTING.
EMPLOYEE HIT A PIECE OF CORE WITH A HAMMER AND FB IN EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING DOWN RODS ON ROD PILE AND ROD FELL ON HIS HAND CAUSING INJURY TO RIGHT HAND.
EMPL & COWORKER LIFTING 20'LONG 12" CULVERT ONTO BUCKET OF BACKHOE.LIFTING,STARTED WALKING TOWARD BACKHOE.FOOT SLIPPED IN MUD FELT BACK POP AND HAD PAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING DETONATING CORD WITH A KNIFE AS HE CUT THE CORD, TOWARD HIS BODY, THE KNIFE CUT HIS LEFT FOREARM.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A ELECTRIC MOTOR AT THE CARBON REACTAVATION AREA MOTOR WOULD NOT RUN SO EMPLOYEE USED A PIPE WRENCH ON THE MOTOR COUNTER WEIGHT TO TURN THE MOTOR THE WRENCH SLIPPED & H IS FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE WRENCH HANDLE &THE SIDE OF THE INSPECTION HOLE
EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO MOVE A PIECE OF FROZEN ORE OFF OF THE ARMS OF A LOADER. HE WAS STANDING ON THE LEFT ARM OF THE LOADER PULLING ON THE FROZEN ORE, A PIECE OF ORE BROKE LOOSE HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL TO THE GROUND.
TAKING WET SAMPLES DRILLING WITH WATER HAD TO TIE BAGS OF DIRT SHUT EXTREMELY COLD COMPLAINED CIRCULATION DISTAL RT RING FINGER FROM COLD
EMPL WAS COUPLING 6" HOSE FROM PUMP TO WATER TRUCK HOSE SLIPPED & FELL TO GROUND. EMPL REACHED DOWN SIDEWAYS TO PICK UP HOSE AS HE DID HE FELT SOME PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING VEHICLE HE HIT A SLICK SPOT ON ROAD & THE REAR OF THE VEHICLE SWUNG AROUND & THEN ROLLED OVER INTO THE MEDIAN DITCH VEHICLE ROLLED OVER THREE TIMES BEFORE COMING TO AREST ON ITS WHEELS
LIFTING AND PUTTING FEEDER PIPE ON LEACH PAD SLIPPED ON THE ICE AND FELL HITTING RIGHT HAND ON A COOPLER BOLT CAUSING A LARGE CUT ON THE RIGHT THUMB.
INJURED WAS LIFTING AND TURNING OVER SAMPLE PANS AND STRAINED WRIST
WHILE LIFTING FILTER PRESS CHAMBER TOPUT OVER THE FILTER PAPER IN THE LAB PRESS CHAMBER, EMPLOYEE'S ARMS WERE EXTENDED OUT AWAY FROM HER BODY. SHE FELT PAIN IN HER BACK. EMPLOYEE DID NOT SEE A DOCTOR UNTIL MAY 5, 1989. FILTER CHAMBER WEIGHS ABOUT 20 LBS.
EMPLOYEE WAS BREAKING KELLY ROD AND SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS RIGHT HAND RESULTING IN A WRIST SPRAIN.
EMPL WAS INSPECTING UNDER FRONT END OF EQUIPMENT TO SEE WHAT WAS MAKING A NOISE AND DIRT FELL DOWN INTO HIS LE EYE
THE EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING STEEL INTO A BUCKET OF A LOADER WHEN A PIECE SLIDE OUT OF BUCKET AND ONTO HIS FOOT.
EMPLOYEE HIT RIGHT ELBOW AGAINST SOMETHING ON THE INSIDE OF THE CAB. OF GR-56. AT THE TIME EQUIPMENT WAS IN MOTION.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON METAL PIPES AND HURT ANKLE AND CAUGHT FINGER IN WRENCH, ALSO PULLED GROIN MUSCLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING PRILL HOSE FROM BLAST HOLE. SOME HOW THE HOSE GOT PLUGGED. THE EMPLOYEE BEGAN SHAKING THE HOSE WHEN A SECOND EMPLOYEE BEGAN ASSISTING AND THE HOSE SUBSEQUENTLY STRUCK I.N AME IN THE RIGHT KNEE AREA. EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN UNDER DR. EVALUATION SINCE DATE OF ACCIDENT. FINAL EVALUATION WAS SURGERY. LOST TIME TO START ON 2-17-89.
EMPL HANDLING EQUIP AND SAID RIGHT WRIST HURTING AND THEN WOULD GO NUMB....DIAGNOSED AS CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING BOARDS AND WAS BITEN BY A SCORPION.
EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE DRAIN HOT OIL FROM LINE. THE OTHER EMPLOYEE DROPPED THE BUCKET. OIL HIT EMPLOYEE ON THE ARMS APPARENTLY FROM THE WIND BLOWING.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRAWING HOT OIL FROM ASPHALT TANK ONTO DRUM INTO A BUCKET, EMPLOYEE DROPPED BUCKET AND WAS SPRAYED WITH HOT ASPHALT OIL OVER HIS FACE AND HANDS.
EMPL TAKING SAMPLES TURNED TO DUMP OUT PAN PULLED TENDONS IN HIS BACK.LOST 3 DAYS OF WORK AND TRET TO WORK 6-12-88.ON 6-14-88 HAD RECURRENCE OF SAME PROBLEM AND MISSED 1 MORE DAY.
EMPLOYEE WAS GUIDING LOADER TOWARDS PIPE 48 INCH CMP ACCORDING TO THE OPERATOR THE BRAKES FAILED CAUSING THE LOADERS BUCKET TO HIT THE 1ST JOINT OF PIPE WHICH ROLLED INTO I NAME AND PINCHED ;H IM BETWEEN OTHER PIPE.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING EQUIPMENT WHEN HE EXPERIENCED CRAMPS IN LOWER BACK AND LEGS.
EMPLOYEE FAILED TO REMOVE CHOCK FROM WHEEL OF HAUL TRUCK BEFORE OPERATING SAME SEH SUBSEQUENTLY RAN OVER THE CHOCK EMPLOYEE DISMOUNTED AND REMOVED THE CHOCK FROM THE REAR OF THE TRUCK WHILE D RAGGING THE CHOCK AND IN THE PROCESS OF PICKING UP THE CHOCK EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HER BACK
EMPLOYEE STATED TAKING APART A PIPE LINE FOR RELOCATION UNBOLTING AND GUIDING LIFT. EMPLOYEE STRAINED LOWER BACK OR WAS CAUGHT OFF BALANCE BY PIPE AS BOOM TRUCK LIFTED.
EMPLOYEE WAS SCREEDING CONCRETE, FOOT GOT CAUGHT IN REBAR COVERED BY CONCRETE WHEN HE TRIED TO PULL HIS FOOT LOOSE, HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING UP WALL, FORM CONCRETE WAS BEING PLACED ABOVE, CONCRETE FELL AND STRUCK HIM IN THE EYES.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING IN PARKING LOT AT QUITTING TIME WHEN HIT BY A PICK UP TRUCK OWNED AND OPERATED BY ANOTHER EMPLOYEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING EQUIPMENT, HE HIT A BUMP IN ROAD WHICH CAUSED PAIN IN HIS LOWER RIGHT ABDOMINAL AREA.
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING THE PRILL HOSE FROM A BLAST HOLE HE STARTED TO TURN AND WALK THE HOSE FROM THE HOLE WHEN THE HOSE JAMMED IN THE HOLE CUAISNG THE EMPLOYEE TO COME TO AN ABRUPT HALT EMPLOYE E EXPERIENCED PAIN IN THE LOWER PART OF HIS NECK AREA
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OUT UNDERSIZE CHUTE OF THE SECONDARY CRUSHER.THE EMPLOYEE WAS EQUIPTED WITHA SAFETY BALT AND LINE DURING THE CLEAN OUT.THE EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING REPOSITION ED BY AN ATTENDANT WHEN A PORTION OF THE MUCK BUILT UP BROKE LOOSE.THE ATTENDANTS ON THE SAFETY LINE COULD NOT HOLD THE EMPLOYEE AND HE DROPPED APPROXIMATELY 8 FT. STRAINING LIGAMENTS IN FOOT
EMPLOYEE WAS MOUNTING HIS WATER TRUCK VIA A MOUNTING LADDER THE EMPLOYEE WAS USING ONE HAND TO CLIMB THE LADDER AND HOLDING HIS LUNCH BOX WITH THE OTHER AS THE EMPLOYEE ASCENDED THE LADDER HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK
EMPL. WAS SITTING IN HAUL TRUCK WAITING FOR SHOVEL TO LOAD SAME. AS SHOVEL OPERATOR DIRECTED BUCKET TOWARD TRUCK FOR LOADING HE FAILED TO HAVE IT ELEVATED ENOUGH TO CLEAR REAR OF TURKC BED. THE BUCKET SUBSEQUENTLY STRUCK REAR OF TRUCK BED JARRING TRUCK & ITS OPERATOR.