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Packing 25 lb bags all day/went home with left wrist hurting.Then middle of palm started hurting & could not bend the middle finger on L. hand. Diagnosis is trigger hands tendonitis. EE was given injections & work restrictions of no lifting more 20 lbs with L hand. She did not notify EP until 6/08/06. She was able to work their regular job until the dr put her on rest.

While filling a 50 lb bag of diatomaceous earth, the top seam of the bag ripped open and caused product to get into the employee's right eye. Object was removed by medical staff but employee was diagnosed with Keratitis of the right eys

While exiting a 988 Caterpillar front end loader, the employee had his hand on the door frame and a gust of wind blew the door closed on the employee's left hand.

Injured employee was filling 50 pound bags of diatomaceous earth powder then lifting & stacking onto a pallet for storage. While lifting employee felt shoulder muscle pull/strain. Reportable due to modified duty restrictions given.

Injured employee was checking the tension on the film feed belt of the Hamer automated packaging system while it was running. His left middle finger was caught in the tensioner pulley thus causing the injury. This was a violation of company policy/procedure.

Worker was gringing a piece of metal to make room for another piece to fit when a piece of metal or gringing material entered under the face shield. (Bounced off chest).

Miner was repetitively twisting to lift 50 lb. bags to refeed into kiln.

While excavator operator was mining in open pit south curtis wright area he noticed diatomaceous ore movement from his right side he quickly tried to back up machine and get out of way. Classic wedge failure in wall occurred which caused the safety catch bench above excavtor and highwall above it to fail brining down debris and partially covering/trapping excavator.

"Horseplay" Employee was arm wrestling with another employee and he fractured his right humerus bone. Doctor put his right arm in a hard cast.

Right foot slipped off the bottom rung of ladder on 966 Cat Loader and employee twisted his right hip. Employee was diagnosed with a sprained/strained right hip and was given 4 days of restricted work duties.

EE loced out a belt feeder, opened the guard to remove large chunks of ore that had collected there. The guard is hunged and lsipped from his grasp and struck him in the head. was wearing hard hat. this injured his back.

EMPLOYEE WAS SWEEPING FLOORS AND BUMPED KNEE INTO A SHELF

While on break in the lunchroom, the employee had a panic attack and was taken to the ER. The doctor's diagnosis was anxiety and hyperventilation triggered by wearing a half mask respirator.

Employee was moving an empty wood pallet to stack boxes on. She jerked the pallet with one arm injuring her shoulder.

Employee was clearing out the chute feeding the soda ash hammermill when his middle finger came in contact with a hammer and amputated 3/8" off of the tip of his middle finger on his right hand

EE DESCENDING STAIRS IN THE STRUCTURE DURING A POWER OUTAGE. MISJUDGED THE STEP AND FELL INTO THE HAND RAIL BREAKING LEFT ARM.

Employee was driving a sit-down lift truck and when he turned the steering wheel to the right, he heard and felt his left elbow pop. Diagnosis is an elbow sprain. Work restriction of no lifting with left arm of more than 10-15 lbs.

Lifting a five gallon bucket of oil. up into the back of the service truck lost footing. causing him to slip and twisted his lower back.

While refueling the level of fuel spilled out over the tank. Climbed down and stepped across to the top of tool box and lost footing, cause of fuel on bottom of boots and fell to ground landing on feet.

Employee strained his right shoulder when he lifted a 45 lb from the floor to a chest high pallet. Doctor released him on 12-27-04 w/o restrictions or medical treatment. Went to another doctor on 5-19-04 and was given an injection to relieve pain in his shoulder

Packing and stacking powder bags of diatomaceous earth onto pallet. went to lift a empty pallet and position it for use. when temporary employee bent over at waist he could not easily raise himself into upright position.

Employee experienced pain in left foot which he feels is caused by running from wet end of mill to the control room several times. Did not report until 12-20-04.

NO SPECIFIC DAT & TIME OF ANY PARTICULAR INCIDENT CAUSED THIS LEFT WRIST STRAIN. CUMULATIVE REPTITIVE MOTION STRAIN. MEDICAL TREATMENT GIVEN ON 11/11/2004 HAS GENERATED THIS TO BECOME REPORTABLE. EE NORMAL TASK IS TO PACKAGE POWDERED DIATOMACEOUS EARTH IN BAGS AND LIFT AND STACK ONTO PALLETS.

Employee was standing in her office and blacked out due to a personal illness. She fell to the floor and hit her head on a piece of furniture and cut the back of her head and received six stitches.

While crushing ore samples with a 35 lb. rolling pin, the employee tried to lift the pin up while she was bent over at the waist, which caused her to feel a sharp pain in her lower back. Doctor prescribed light duty, moist heat, physical therapy, and muscle relaxers

While removing the JLG manlift from a tight area of which the boom of the manlift was caught under a pipe flange, when the basket was moved sideways it slipped from under the flange and caused the basket to lift up and pushed the employee's upper left back into the corner of an I-Beam. The employee sufered a puncture wound to his latissimus dorsi muscle in his upper left back.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING OUT OF THE BOBCAT. TWISTED HIS KNEE WHILE CLIMBING OUT.

HIT BY & BACKED OVER WITH A PICKUP TRUCK. SETTING UP TO SERVICE D9R CAT. WASHING D9R WITH WATER TRUCK, WHICH WAS GOING TO DRIVE AROUND TO WASH OTHER SIDE. I WALKED ONTO ROAD TO MOVE OUT OF D9R & WATER TRUCK'S PATHS. THEN I FELT THE PICKUP TRUCK HIT ME.

EE accidently backed pickup truck into and over coworker. Post traumatic stress syndrome.

ee was driving a forklift, felt dizzy, s topped and passed out. ee did not report this and went home. later called and reported that testing showed that he suffered a slight heart attack.

WHILE WALKING UNDER MILL #1 ORE PAN FEEDERS, A GUST OF WIND CAME UP AND BLEW DUST UNDER THE EMPLOYEE'S SAFETY GLASSES AND INTO HIS LEFT EYE. THE EMPLOYEE FLUSHED HIS EYE WITH SALINE SOLUTION A ND WENT HOME FOR THE DAY. THE NEXT MORNING, HIS EYE WAS RED & IRRITATED SO WE FLUSHED IT OUT & TOOK HIM TO THE ER. THE DR COULD NOT FIND ANY FOREIGN OBJECTS BUT HE DID HAVE CONJUNCTIVITIS CAU

EE NEEDED TO SHUT DOWN THE PALLETIZER QUIKLY, BUT WHEN SHE TYRNED TO GO TO SHUT DOWN THE SWITCH,SHE SLIPPED ON THE METAL GRATING AND THEN TRIPPED AND FELL ONTO THE GRATING. SHE HAS A CONTUSION ON THE LOWER LIP, LEFT KNEE, AND HER RING FINGERON RIGHT HAND.

WHILE THE EE WAS WORKING AT THE REFEED STATION, BREAKING 50# BAGS OF PRODUCT INTO THE BIN FOR THE REPROCESSING, HE WAS MOVING A BAG FROM THE PALLET TO PUT ONTO THE GRATING FOR THE REFEED BIN BUT HE DID NOT LIFT THE BAG HIGH ENOUGH AND HE STRUCK THE BACK OF HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE EDGE OF THE REFEED STATION BIN. EE IS ON RESTRICTED DUTY AT THIS TIME.

WHILE DRIVING A DOZER OVER ROUGH TERRAIN TO RIP THE SOIL, THE EE WAS IN AN AWKWARD POSITION WHILE LOOKING OUT THE BACK WINDOW TO SEE WHERE HE WAS GOING. HE RECEIVED A STRAIN/SPASM TO HIS RIGHT MID UPPER BACK. TREATING DR. GAVE EE SOME MUSCLE RELAXERS AND PAIN MEDICATION AND REFERRED HIM TO A CHIROPRACTOR THE SAME DAY. THE CHIROPRACTOR MANIPULATED HIS BACK & RELEASED HIM TO FULL DUT

EE WAS ADJUSTING SIDE FORMERS ON PACKAGING EQUIPMENT. EE STEPPED OVER ROW PUSHER AND STEPPED ON THE GUARD THAT HE HAD REMOVED. EE SUFFERED SLIP AND FALL BREAKING HIS LEFT ANKLE. RESTRICTED DUT Y

AFTER PUTTING A NEW CHAIN ON THE #2P-101A SCREW SPROCKET, EE WAS INSTALLING THE GUARD OVER THE CHAIN & SPROCKET & HE WAS BENT OVER SLIGHTLY BECAUSE THERE IS AN I BEAM 12" ABOVE THE GUARD & WH ILE HE WAS TIGHTENING THE BOLTS ON THE GUARD HE WAS IN AN AWKWARD POSITION WHICH CAUSED HIM TO STRAIN HIS LOWER BACK

WHILE EE WAS DRIVING HIS FORKLIFT IN FRONT OF THE MAINTENANCE SHOP, A STRONG GUST OF WIND CAME UP AND BLEW DUST FROM THE #1 MILL AREA INTO HIS LEFT EYE. HE FLUSHED HIS EYE WITH SALINE SOLUTION & WENT TO THE DOCTOR ON 10/30/03. DIAGNOSIS WAS SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE OS & TREATMENT WAS EYE MOISTURIZING GTTS. EE WAS RELEASED TO FULL DUTY & CAME BACK TO WORK ON HIS NEXT SCHEDULED WOR

EE STATED HER LEFT FOOT SLIPPED ON THE GRATING WHILE SHE WAS PLACING AN EMPTY PAPER BAG ON THE LEFT HAND PACKER SPOUT IN #1 PACKAGING AREA. WHEN SHE TRIED TO CATCH HERSELF FROM FALLING, SHE TWISTED HER LEFT HIP AND LOWER BACK. EE SHOWED UP FOR WORK THE NEXT DAY AND WAS TOLD TO GO TO THE DOCTOR.

EE WAS LIFTING AND CARRYING 50 LB. BAGS OF FINISHED PRODUCT FROM THE STAGING AREA TO THE BAG CONVEYOR WHICH IS LOCATED 6-10' FROM THE CONVEYOR. EE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HER LEFT WRIST AND DISCO NTINUED THE TASK.

EMPLOYEE WAS REBUILDING F16 MILL. WHILE REMOVING BELT BY CUTTING WITH UTILITY KNIFE, KNIFE SLIPPED AND HIS REACTION CAUSED HIM TO CUT HIMSELF IN THE LEFT INSIDE KNEE AREA OF LEG. THREE SUTURES

EE WAS TAKING COVER OFF P4 TO CHECK WATER LEVEL AND HOT WATER COVERED BOTH ARMS.

EE STATES THAT SHE HAS PAIN & NUMBNESS WITH SWELLING IN HER HANDS WHEN SHE PACKS AND LIFTS #50 BAGS ONTO CONVEYOR BELTS.

EE WAS BENDING CONDUIT WITH A HYDRAULIC CONDUIT BENDER. EE LIFTED AND CARRIED BENDER TO RETURN IT TO ITS STORAGE AREA. DURING THIS PROCESS HE HURT HIS BACK.

EE PACKIKNG POWDER DIATOMACEOUS EARTH PRODUCT IN45# BAGS AND STACKING ON PALLET. IMPROPER LIFTING TECHNIQUE USED CAUSING TWISTING STRAIN TO OCCUR IN LEFT FOREARM. NOT LOST TIME INJURY*RESTRICT ED DUTY ONLY* FIRST AID ONLY INJURY* SUSPICIOUS REPORT OF INJURY. EE DID NOT REPORT INJURY TO SUPERVISOR OR MANAGEMENT UNTIL 8 DAYS AFTER THE FACT. EE EVEN REQUESTED OVERTIME HOURS.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PLACE THE VENTILATION HOSE FROM THE HANGER TO THE HATCH ON THE BULK HOPPER CAR. AS HE TURNED HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, STRAINING HIS KN EE. RESTRICTED DUTY.

MINE OPERATOR NOTIFIED OF INJURY 6/22/03 BY EMPLOYEE SEEKING MEDICAL EVALUATION WITH HIS PERSONAL PHYSICIAN. ONCE ADVISED BY EMPLOYEE, SENT TO COMPANY CONTRACTED CLINIC. DIAGNOSIS MADE 8/19/03 OF EPICONDYLITIS, HAD NOW MADE THIS REPORTRABLE WITH MSHA. INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS TARPING A TRUCK WHEN WIND BLEW AND PULLED ARM CAUSING PAIN.

EE-CDL TRUCK DRIVER WAS CONDUCTING HIS PRE-SHIFT MOBILE EQUIPMENT INSPECTION ON #28 PETERBILT TRACTOR WHEN HE TRIED TO OPEN HOOD TO CHECK ENGINE ELEMENTS HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF BUMPER CAUSING HI M TO FALL & LAND ON THE GROUND WITH HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. DIAGNOSIS-TORN ROTATOR CUFF-SURGERY (OUTPATIENT) NO LOST TIME, RESTRICTED DUTY INJURY ONLY *MEDICAL TREATMENT*

EE WAS CUTTING OPEN A BOX OF BAGS, PULLING KNIFE TOWARDS HIMSELF. THE KNIFE SLIPPED AND HE CUT HIS LEG JUST BELOW THE KNEE.

PALLET IN PALLET DISPENSER WAS AT AN ANGLE, PUT HAND IN TO STRAIGHTEN, PALLET MOVED AND CAUGHT EE'S HAND. HE PULLED HIS HAND OUT AND STRUCK IT ON A METAL FRAME CAUSING A CUT AND BRUISING ON RI GHT HAND.