A PIPE WAS PUT 6NDERNEATH AIR COMPRESSOR TO USE AS A CATAPULT TO SHIFT THE AIR COMPRESSOR WHEN PRESSURE FROM LIFTING AIR COMPRESSOR CREATED STRAIN ALONG LEFT SIDE
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Showing all 19EMPLOYEE WAS TR2ING TO PULL A PUMP HOSE OUT FROM UNDER A STORAGE TANK AT THE TANK FARM. DUE TO A WET FOOTING SURFACE AND SLIGHT ANGLE OF DIKING WALL, EMPLOYEE FEET SLID OUT FROM UNDER HIM HITT ING LOWER BACK 2N CONSCRETE.
EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING LIFT A TRUCK HOOD. A COME ALONG WAS UNDER THE HOOD WHILE MOVING HOOD EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON COME A LONG PULLING MUSCLE IN BACK AND LEG AT TIME OF INJURY EMPLOYEE GAVE NO INDI CATION OF PULLE8 MUSCLE THERE FOREDTREATED ONLY AS FIRST AID. ON 2-31-87 EMPLOYEE STATED HIS LEFT LEG HAD RECENTLY STARTED BOTHERING HIM AN APPT WASS MADE ON 9-1-87 TO S.
EMPLOYEE WAS LO5DING 55 GAL DRUMS ONTO TRUCK BY USING A FORKLIFT. EMPLOYEE ACCIDENTALLY KNOCKED A DRUM OVER, HE GOT OFF HIS FORKLIFT AND TRIED TO PHYSICALLY LIFT THE DRUM WHEN HE APPARENTLY S TRINED A MUSCLE3IN HIS BACK. PROCEDURE IS THAT W ANY FALLEN DRUM SHOULD BE PUT IN UPRIGHT POSITION WITH AID OF FORKLIFT.
EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING AROUND EQUIR BY EDGE OF WOODS AND CAME IN CONTACT WITH PSION AOK. AT DATE OF INJURY ONLY FIRST AID OINTMENT APPLIED. AT 7-2087 EMPLOYEE WENT TO DRS CAR FOR INJECTION, ALSO TREATED AS FIR8T AID. AT 8-4-87 RETURNED TO DRS. CARE AND RECEIVED A VARIETY OF PRESCRIBED MEDICATION. AT NO TIME DID EMPLOYEE LOSE ANY TIME FROM WORK.
LIFTING HAND CR5NKED GRASS SEEDER WITH LEFT HAND SO AS TO ADJUST SHOULDER STRAP WHEN INJURED PARTY EXPERIENCED A SNAPPING SENSATION IN HIS LEFT WRIST.
EMPLOYEE WAS DI9ECTING THE UNLOADING OF CLAY PICKING UP ROOTS ON LANDFILL 2-C.A LUMP OF CLAY ROLLED OFF THE PILE STRICKING EMPLOYEE ON THE INSIDE OF HIS LEFT KNEE.
EMPL PUSHING 553GALLON DRUMS ON CONVEYOR AFTER BEING FILLED WITH SOLIDIFICATION MATERIAL.EMPL STRAINED LOWER BACK.
AS EMPLOYEE WAS3REMOVING LINE UNDER PRESSURE GREASE,DIRT AND SAND BLEW OUT OF LINE,KNOCKED OFF SAFETY GLASSES.FOREIGN MATERIAL IN EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WO9KING IN LANDFILL OPENING LATCH ON A ROLL OFF TRUCK AND PULLED SHOULDER MUSCLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CO3DUTING ROUTINE DUTIES OF HIS JOB AND SUFFERED AN MASSSURE HEART ATTACK AND DEED DURING TRANSPORTATION TO THE HOSPITAL.
EE LIT OXYACETY5ENE CUTTING TORCH & FLAME EXTENDED DOWN BEYOND CHECK VALVE CAUSING GAS IN HOS TO IGNITE & BURNING EE.
EE WAS UNLOADIN1 BILD LOAD OF WASTE IN T HE LANDFILL FROM A COMPACTOR ROLL OFF TRUCK WHEN OPENING LATCH DOOR SWUNG OUT & HANDLE OF DOOR LATCH STRUCK EE I N NOSE KNOCKING HIM DOWN.
EMP COULD NOT R9 CALL EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS DOING AT THE TIME OF THE ALLEDGED ACCIDENT, ALLEGED SPRAIN/STRAIN OF RIGHT SHOULDER WHILE UNLOADING BULK LOADS OF WASTE IN LANDFILL
EMPLOYEES WERE 1OSITIONING BLADE OF PAN AND AN EMPLOYEE SMASHED FINGER BETWEEN WALL OF PAN AND BLADE WHEN THE BOOM ON BOOM TRUCK WAS MOVED IN THE WRONG DIRECTION
EMP ACCIDENTLY 8TRCK AN ARC WHEN WELDING BEFORE HE LOWERED HIS WELDING SHIELD CAUSING A FLASH BURN TO HIS EYES
EMPLOYEE ALLEGE8 THAT HE STEPPED ONTO RUNNING BOARD OF TRUCK TRACTOR AND SLIPPED WHICH INJURED HIS LOWER ABDOMEN THE INJURY REQUIRED SURGERY TO REPAIR. EMPLOYEE WILL BE OUT FOR 6 WEEKS.
TWISTED ANKLE W3TH SUSPECTED SIMPLE FRACTURE OF LEFT FOOT WHILE WALKING ACROSS GRAVEL
EMPLOYEE JUMPED OFF BACK OF TRAILER (APPROX. 40") TO GROUND. PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS SHOULDER.