EE WAS STEPPING DOWN FROM GRADER, USING A GRAB HAND RAIL WHEN HE FELT HIS RIGHT ARM BECOMMING NUMB.
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Showing all 35HE WAS PRYING OUT AN OIL SEAL WITH AN 18" PRYBAR THE SEAL POPPED LOOSE AND HIS LEFT ELBOW BUMPED THE YOKE ON AN OIL TANK WAGON.
EMPLOYEE BENT OVER AND WAS ATTEMPTING TO PICK UPA TOGGLE SEAT RESULTING IN INJURY TO LOWER BACK.TOGGLE SEAT WEIGHT APPROX. 50 LBS.
WHILE CHANGING OIL IN HYD. TANK OF THE RT 65 GROVE CARNE, THE EMPLOYEE UNSCREWED THE 2 IN. DRAIN PLUG. THE OIL SPRAYED OUT LIKE UNDER PRESSURE AND SOME SPRAYED ON EMPLOYEE. SOME OIL SPRAYED IN TO HIS RIGHT EYE.
WHILE TRAINING #2 UNDER CRUSH TAIL PULLEY A WRENCH BECAME STUCK ON ADJUSTING BOLT AND EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO DISLODGE WRENCH FROM BOLT WITH ANOTHER WRENCH. THAT WRENCH GOT CAUGHT IN TAIL PULLEY AND FLIPPED UP STRIKING EMPLOYEE UNDER CHIN. EMPLOYEE RESULTED WITH A BITTEN TONGUE.
IN PREPARATION FOR A BELT SPLICE EMPLOYEE WAS TRIMMING THE TOP COVER FROM A PIECE OF CONVEYOR BELT WHEN RAZOR KNIFE SLIPPED & CUT EMPLOYEE IN RT KNEE APPROX 2 INCHES LONG REQUIRED EIGHT STITCH ES
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CUT SKIRT RUBBER WHILE SITTING ON CONVEYOR BELT UNILITY KNIFE SLIPPED & MADE A 1/2" LONG CUT (INCISION) IN CALF OF LEFT LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING APPROX. 6' FROM FELLOW EMPLOYEE WHO WAS CUTTING OUT OF A CAR DOOR. SLAG BLEW BACK INTO INJURED EMPLOYEE'S EYE. INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS NOT WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.
WHILE RUNNING THE CASE LOAD HE STATED HE LEFT IT GET AWAY FROM HIM AND IT THREW HIM FORWARD AND THE SEAT BELT CAUGHT HIM AND THREW HIM BACK AGAINST THE SEAT REAL HARD WE SAID HE DID NOT HAVE S EAT BELT TIGHT ENOUGH.
VICTIM WAS STANDING BEHIND FELLOW EE WHO WAS REMOVING MANTLE NUT FROM CONE CRUSHER WITH SLEDGE HAMMER WHEN HAMMER HEAD HIT WRENCH HEAD JARRED LOOSE, STRIKING VICTIM IN CHEST.
ON FRIDAY 10/25/91 EMPL WORKED ON EIGHT HOUR SHIFT BUILDING UP PULLY SHAFT ON PRI CRUHER. SHAFT WAS BUILT UP WITH WELD & RESURFACED BY USE OF SIDE GRINDER. EMPL EXPRERIENCED IRRITATION TO LEFT EYE LATER THAT DAME NIGHT WENT TO LOCAL DR ON SAT. WHER PIECE OF RUST WAS REMOVED FROM LEFT EYE. EMPL WAS REFERED TO DR IN POPLAR BLUFF FOR SCOOPING. TWO MORE PIECES F RUST WERE REMOVED.
EMPLOYEE COLLASPED OF AN APPARENT HEART ATTACK WHILE AT WORK. EMPLOYEE HAD HISTORY OF HEART PROBLEMS AND NO OUT OF THE ORIDNARY WORK WAS PERFORMED PRIOR TO THE COLLAPSE. EMPLOYEE DIED IN THE E MERGENCY ROOM AT DOCTORS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER IN POPLAR BLUFF.
LOADING HAY IN COMPANY VEHICLE TO BE USED FOR ERROSION PURPOSES ON SEDIMENT POND UNDER CONSTRUCTION. DISTURBED WRASP NEST IN A FELLOW EMPLOYEE BARN WHEN BECAME STING ON LEFT WRIST.
USING LOADER SOME DIRT OBJECTS FELL OFF TOP OF CAB AND BLEW IN EYES SM PC OF METAL
CLEANING WINDOWS ON CRANE, WHILE DISMOUNTING CRANE TWISTED LOWER BACK. PULLED TENDONS IN LOWER BACK.
THE WORK PLATFORM/BASKET THAT WAS ATTACHED TO THE END OF THE BOOM OF A GROVE CRANE FELL APPROX. 3 FT WHILE EE WAS IN IT, WORKING A WELD BROKE, CAUSING THE BASKET TO FALL A SAFETY A SAFETY CHAI N KEPT IT FROM FALLING FURTHER HE SCRATCHED AND BRUISE HIS RIGHT LEG.
HE WAS HELPING ANOTHER MAN LIFT A WINDOW TYPE AIR-CONDITIONER INTO AN OPENING IN THE WALL OF THE CONTROL TRAILER, WHEN HE TWISTED AND HURT HIS BACK.
ATTEMPTING TO LOOSEN 2 FITTINGS, EMPLOYEE HAD 12" CRESCENT WRENCH AGAINST CHEST PULLING ON 12" PIPE WRENCH TRYING TO LOOSEN FITTINGS.
WAS WORKING ON CAT TRUCK AND LOST BALANCE AND FELL FROM CAT WALK TO CONCRETE FLOOR OF SHOP APPROX 10 FT. , HIT LEFT KNEE AND LEFT ELBOWJ
A FELLOW WORKER HIT HTE BACK OF HIS HAND WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER BY ACCIDENT.
WHILE OPERATING A WALDON FRONT END LOADER,CLEANING UP DIRT IN SCREENING PLANT,THE WIND BLEW SOME DIRT OFF OF THE FRAME OF THE SCRENING MACHINE HE WAS GOING UNDER,DIRT WENT IN AROUND THE SAFETY GLASSES HE WAS WEARING AND INTO HIS LEFT EYE HE WASHED OUT HIS EYE RIGHT THEN,IT STARTED HURTING THE NEXT DAY AND HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR AFTERNOON JUNE 15,1988.
WHILE USING A CUTTING TORCH A SMALL PIECE OF LAG WAS BLOWN INTO THE RIGHT EYE. THE EMPLOYEE WENT TO THE DOCTOR THE FOLLOWING DAY WHERE HIS EYE BEGAN TO HURT.
WHILE LOADING E0UIPMENT PARTS ON TO A TRUCK USING A TRUCK BOOM (CRANE) A PIECE OF METAL OR DIRT GOT INTO HIS RT.EYE
HE WAS OPERATIN1 A CRANE, LIFTING A 500 LB JAW PLATE WHEN THE INNER SLEW RING BOLTS BROKE, THE BOOM AND CAB BECAME DISMEMBERED FROM THE FRAME AND ROLLED OFF THE SIDE TO THE GROUND, WITH THE OPERATOR STILL 3N THE CAB
WHILE LIFTING A3LARGE PIECE OF METAL, (3" THICK X 12" X 12") HE HURT HIS BACK.
HE WAS ATTEMPTI3G TO CLOSE RAIL ROAD CAR DOORS WITH A 5 FOOT LONG STEEL BAR.THE BAR SLIPPED AND THE END OF THE BAR STRUCK HIM JUST BELOW THE RIGHT EYE, CAUSING A CONTUSION WITH LACERATION.
PULLED MUSCLE I3 LEFT HIP WHILE WORKING.
HE WAS TRYING T2 REHOOK 2 SCREENS. HE HAD 2(EA) 2-1/4" SCREENS LEANING AGAINST THE SIDE OF THE CRANE WHEN THEY BECAME OFF BALANCED AND FELL ON HIM AS HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET CLEAR.
TWISTED HIS BAC5 WHILE PUTTING BARREL UNDER TRUCK TO DRAIN WASTE OIL INTO.NOT ABLE TO WORK 4-1 & 4-2-87.
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 LIFTING AN ACCOUMULATOR TANK AND TWISTED HIS LOWER BACK, CAUSING PAIN.
THE EE WAS CLEA3ING UP AROUND THE CRUSHERS/SCREENS WITH A WALDON #5000 FRONT END LOADER 3/4 YARD BUCKET.THE WIND WAS BLOWING & HE GOT SOME AIR-BORNE DUST/SAND IN HIS LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CL3MBING A DIRT BANK STEPED ON A LOOSE ROCK AND TWISTED HIS LEG,INJURING HIS LEFT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS LI0TING A PIECE OF METAL(1/2'X14'X60')IN TO A LOADER BUCKET AND HURT HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CA9RYING HYD PUMP APPROX (60LBS) BY HIMSELF FROM OUR #1 SEC CRUSHER TO OUR #2 SEC CRUSHER APPROX 20FT HE TWISTED HIS BACK & DEVELOPED PAIN IN HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ABOUT 6TO8FT FROM RUNNING ROCK CRUSHER WEARING SAFETY GLASSES ROCK THE SIZE OF GOLF BALL HIT HIS SAFETY GLASSES IN RT LENS BREAKING LENS &PART OF GLASS FROM INSIDE THE LE NS WENT INTO HIS EYHE