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EE WAS WORKING WITH, EXCAVATING TO LOCATE BURIED TELEPHONE CABEL, ENCOUNTERED A BOULDER WHICH THEY DECIDED TO MOVE BY PUSHING. OVER EXERTED AND HURT LOWER BACK, RT LOWER ABDOMEN AREA AND LEFT TESTICLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON EQUIPMENT [PORTABLE CRUSHER], SLIPPED & FELL TO GROUND [APPROX 4 TO 6' HEIGHT OF FALL]. STEPPED ON PART OF EQUIPMENT THAT HAD LIMEROCK DEBRIS.
EMPLOYEE GETTING OFF EQUIPMENT, STEPPED ON ROCK [SMALL], OFF-BALANCED-TRIED TO CORRECT TWISTING R LEG, HURT R-KNEE-SWELLING, PAIN. NOTE: THIS REPORT WILL BE SUBMITTED A LITTLE LAT ER THAN USUAL DUE TO INVESTIGATION ON "WORK RELATED" CLAIM SINCE EMPLOYEE HAD PRIOR INJURY/OPERATIONS ON R-KNEE.
OVER A PERIOD OF TIME EMPLOYEE OBSERVED PAIN [SHARP] GRADUALLY GOT WORSE RUNNING FROM BACK R-HIP DOWN R-THIGH-USUALLY AFTER EXTENDED PERIORDS SITTING IN OR OUT OF DRAGLINE EQUIPMENT THAT HE HA S OPERATED MANY YEARS. REPORT BEING SUBMITTED LATER THAN USUAL DUE TO INVESTIGATION ON "WORK RELATED" CLAIM & TIME LOSS STARTED ONLY 1/3/95.
EMPL WAS ON A LOADER TRYING TO PUT A RUBBER BUNGEE CORD ON CAB DR TO KEEP DR OPEN. CORD SNAPPED CAUSING EMPL TO FALL OFF LOADER. AS HE FELL, ONEFOOT GOT CAUGHT ON LADDER TIPPING EMPL TO MADE EMPL FALL UPPER BODY 1ST.SUSTAINED BROKEN NOSE, SHATTERED WRIST, HEAD BUMP & SEVERAL SCRATCHES ON ARMS & FACE.
DRAGLINE WAS BEING SERVICED BY EMPLOYEE (GREASED LUBRICATED ADD OIL ETC) EQUIPMENT WAS PARKED EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AS HE WAS GETTING OFF LEFT LEG TWISTED PAIN IN LOWER CALFF OF LEFT LEG CAUSING E3 MPLOYEE TO LIMP
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING HARDENED LIMEROCK OFF CRUSHER BELT WHEN SOME DEBRIS GOT INTO TOPSIDE OF PRTECTIVE EYEWEAR AND INTO RIGHT EYE. EYES WERE WASHED IMMEDIATELY BUT GOT WROSE OVER THE WEEKEDN .
WHILE EE WAS WORKING ON A DRAGLINE A PIPE CLAMP BROKE CAUSING HIM TO SLAM HIS RIGHT SMALL FINGER TO AN ADJACENT PIPE CUTTING THE RIGHT SMALL FINGER DOWN TO BONE. STITCHES AND TETANUS SHOPS PRO VIDED BY LOCAL MEDICAL FACILITY.
WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING DRAGLINE WITH RIGHT FOOT DEPRESSING DRAGLINE CABLE BRAKE PEDAL, THE PEDAL JERKED UP CATCHING HIS RIGHT CALF BETWEEN THE PEDAL AND THE BOTTOM OF HIS SEAT. HE WAS DI AGNOSED BY PHYSICIAN- NO PRESSURE ON RIGHT LEG FOR A FEW DAYS PENDING RE-EXAM.
EE WAS OPERATING PAYLOADER TO LOAD TRUCKS. AS EQUIPMENT BOUNCED AROUND WHILE MOVING ABOUT, EE FELT PINCHING PAIN IN RIGHT LEG PAIN INCREASED WHEN FOOT OF LEG PRESSURE ON PEDALS.
WHILE WORKING WITH LOADER LIFTING PUMP,EMPLOYEE WAS ADJUSTING CHAIN WHEN FOREIGN OBJECT GOT INTO HIS LEFT EYE.
EE GTOT OFF HIS VEHCILE ONTO BOARDWALK LEADING TO TIME CLOCK EE STEPPED ON A WEAK BOARD AT ONE END OF BOARD WHICH GAVE WAY CAUSING EE TO FALL IN BETWEEN BOARDS LEG FIRST BACK WAS HURT.
EMPL USED 55 GAL DRUM TO GAIN HEIGHT & REACH TO GET TO OVERHEAD POINT. EMPL SLIPPED FELL ON TOP OF DRUM W/CHEST AREA FIRST TO HIT DRUM.
EMPL WORKING NEAR CUTTING TORCH BEING USED BY WELDER. SOME SLAG BECAME AIRBOURNE & LODGED IN EMPLS LEFT EYE.
EE WAS HELPING TO PUT A SHEET OF ALUMINUM ON A STORAGE BUILDING. THE WIND BLEW UP CAUSING THE ALUMINUM SHEET TO BANG AGAINST THE FRAME AND PARTICLES OF DUST AND METAL FLEW AROUND. A PARTICLE O F METAL WENT INTO THE EE S EYE.
EMPL SAWING WOOD.IT WAS BREEZY AND SAWDUST BLEW IN HIS LEFT EYE CAUSING EYE TO BECOME IRRITATED.
EMPLOYEE WAS GATHERING ROCKS TO SET HALF TRACK ON MISSOURI ROGERS CRUSHER FOR THE AFTERNOON.HE GRABBED AND AS HE WENT TO THROW IT OFF THE PILE HE TWISTED HIS ABCK.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON THE GROUND AND TRIED TO PLACE LADDER ON 2400 DRAGLINE IN POSITION TO USE.DISCOVERED HE WAS NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO CONTROL THE WEIGHT OF LADDER.HE LOST CONTROL AND FELL T O THE GROUND,FRACTURING HIS HIP.
EMPL CLIMBING UP DRILL RIG LADDER.BOOTS WERE MUDDY AND HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED LEFT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON NORTHWEST 95 DRAGLINE.HE PULLED DOWN DRAG LEVER AND DRAG PEDAL CAME UP FAST AND AJMMED HIS RIGHT LEG UP TOWARD HIS SHOULDER CAUSING SEVERE PAIN IN HIS RIGHT HIP AND ANK
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING FROM LADDER CHECKING WATER IN RADIATOR OF CLARK 2400 DRAGLINE.HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE WET LADDER BAR CAUSING HIS ONE HAND TO RELEASE ITS HOLD AND HIS BODY TWISTED INJURI NG HIS BACK.
EMPL REMOVING SMALL BOULDERS FROM CRUSHER HAMMER AND PICKED UP ON ONE AND ROLLED IT OUT.IN DOING SO EMPL HURT HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THAT OPERATING A FRONT END LOADER HAS RESULTED IN HIS HAVING SEVERE BACK AND KNEE PAIN.
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PICK UP A BUCKET LOAD OF LIMEROCK WITH HIS FRONT END LOADER,EMPLOYEE PULLED THE HOIST LEVER AND TURNED THE STEERING WHEEL AT THE SAME TIME AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN THE RIB CA GE AREA OF HIS LEFT SIDE.
AFTER WORKING W3TH DRILLING CREW ON THURS.011488 EMPLOYEE WENT HOME & DURING THE NIGHT STARTED FELLING PAIN IN H IS BACK BY THE TIME TO GET UP TO GO TO WORK HE WAS UNABLE TO DO SO HE FEELS TH AT HE INJURED H3S BACK WHILE SHOVELING LIMEROCK INTO THE HOLES OR WHILE HANDLING DYNAMIT E
WHILE LIFTING B5TTERIES OUT OF DOZER, EMP PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK
WHILE ATTEMPTIN1 TO SEPERATE TWO PIECES OF PVC PIPE,WHICH WAS BEING USED IN BLASTING OPERATIONS,ONE EMPLOYEE WAS TAPPING A PIPE WRENCH THAT WAS SECURED TO THE PIPE,AND THE HEAD OF THE HAMMER H E WAS USING CAM9 OFF THE HANDLE AND THE HAMMER HEAD HIT THE EMPLOYEE'S LEFT LEG JUST BELOW THE KNEE.
WHILE CLEARING 1ROUND FOR A NEW PIT, DOZER BECAME ENTANGLED IN VINES. NOT REALIZING THEY WERE POION IVY, EMPLOYEE PULLED THE VINES FROM AND AROUND THE MACHINE.
EMPLOYEE WAS U8ING A PICK TO REMOVE HARDENED LIMEROCK FROM INSIDE A FRONT END LOADER AND GOT A SMALL PIECE OF METAL IN HIS LEFT EYE
EMPLOYEE WAS GE7TING OFF THE DRAGLINE TO GREASE THE TRACKS WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THE WET TRACK.WHEN HE HIT THE GROUND HIS LEFT FOOT CAME DOWN ON A ROCK AND HE TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.
EMPL HELPING MO5E LIMEROCK SEPARATOR .AFTER PLACING METAL STAND UNDER DOLLY,TOW VEHICLE DISCONNECTED AND MOVED AWAY.SEPARATOR ROLLED BACK 6'' AND DOLLY TURNED AND FELL OFF STAND STRIKING EMPL N RIGHT ARM AND3WRIST.
TING TO LOAD A 0ULL 55 GAL.DRUM OF OIL ONTO GREASE TRUCK UTILIZING AN OVERHEAD HOIST THAT IS MOUNTED ON THE TRUCK WHILE T RUINMG TO GUIDE DRUM OVER ONTO TRUCK HE INADVERTANTLY LET GO OF THE H ANDLE TO THE HO3ST & THE FULL WEIGHT OF THE DRUM CAUSE T HE HANDLE TO SPIN & STRIKING HIM ON HIS LEFT WRIST
EMP WAS ATTEMPT3NG TO CONNECT 2 ONE INCH AIR HOSES AND WAS IN A KNEELING POSITION USING HIS KNEES AS LEVERAGE TO HELP FORCE THE 2 HOSES TOGETHER TO LOCK COUPLING. EMP FELT A TWINGE IN THE G GROIN AREA ON 2314 87 WHILE HELPING DO ELECTRICAL WORK ON A LIMA 2400 DRAGLINE, HE AGAIN EXPERIENCED PAIN AFTER CLIMBING UP AND DOWN FROM THE MACHINE
EMPLOYEE WAS AT7EMPTING TO REMOVE A GREASY GASKET FROM A MANIFOLD BY SCRAPING I TWITH HIS POCKET KNIFE. HIS HAND SLIPPED AND HE CUT HIS LEFT THUMB, APPROX 1 INCH LONG AND 1 INCH DEEP.
WHILE STEAM CLE5NING A BULLDOZER EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING UP ONTO THE MACHINE AND SLIPPED AND FELL AGAINST THE CAB POST OF THE DOZER AND FRACTURED HIS LEFT WRIST
EMPLOYEE WAS CL3MBING ONTO DRAFLINE AND SLIPPED ON TRACK HE ATTEMPTED TO JUMP AND WHEN HE HIT THE GROUND HE BROKE HIS LEG
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING LIMEROCK FROM UNDER THE CRUSHER #2 BELT AND A ROCK ABOUT THE SIZE OF A BASEBALL FELL FROM THE SKIRT AREA AT THE TOP OF THE CRUSHER AND HIT HIM ON THE BNACK.
EMP WAS STANDING ON CRUSHER TIRE GREASING CRUSHER AND DUE TO OIL ON TIRE SLIPPED AND FELL TO THE GROUND ON RT KNEE CAUSING BRUISE
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN SET OF STEPS NEXT TO TRACK OF LIMA 2400 DRAGLINE AND STEPPED DOWN TO THE GROUND ON AN UNLEVEL AREA AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE CAUSING IT TO BE SPRAINED. EMPLOYEE REF USED MEDICAL TREATMENT AT TIME OF INJURY.
EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING DOWN FROM THE GREASE TRUCK AND SLIPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED HIS FOOT CAUSING HIS RIGHT ANKLE TO BE SPRAINED.