EMP STUMBLED ON ROCKS WHILE CARRYING JACK HAMMER. HE FELL AND JACKHAMMER LANDED ON HAND, BRUISING IT.
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Showing all 14EMPLOYEE NOTICED A SWELLED PLACE ON TOP SIDE OF HAND. DR. DIAGNOSED AS A CYST CAUSED FROM REPETITIVE MOTION.
EE WAS LIFTING A ROCK, FELT SOMETHING PULL IN LEFT FOREARM.
HE WAS UNTANGLING A TWISTED STEEL CABLE. CABLE BACKLASHED, WRAPPED AROUND LEFT ARM AND HAND.
QUARRY WAS TOO WET FOR OPERATIOSN THEREFORE THE MEN WERE CLEANING UP THE WORK AREA THEY DECIDED TO BURN SOME NEWSPAPER SINCE THE PAPER WAS WET IT DID NOT SEEM TO BE BURNING EE POURED ALCOHOL I N THE BARREL ON TOP OF THE PAPERS A FLASH OF FIRE OCCURRED BURNING THE UPPER LEFT PORTION OF HIS BODY
APPARELIT INJURY PRIOR TO EE NOTIFIED OF WORKERS COMP CLAIM 4-21-93.
HE STOPPED DRILLING TO GET A DRINK OF WATER AND STEPPED ON A ROCK, TWISTING HIS ANKLE. HE HAS A SPRAINED LEFT ANKLE.
AFTER 2 DAYS OF PULLING CABLE AND BARRING ROCK EE REPORTED THAT HE HAD PULLED HIS BACK THORACIC STRAIN WAS DIAGNOSED AS THE INJURY ADVISED TO GO ON LIGHT DUTY FOR 10 DAYS.
WHILE PULLING A CABLE, HE SLIPPED AND PULLED HIS BACK MUSCLES.
NOTICED BACK PAIN ON 10-20.TOOK OFF WORK 22ND AND 23RD TO TAKE DAUGHTER TO OKLA CITY.WORKED 1 HR ON 23RD.AM 10-24 WOKE UP WITH BACK PAIN BUT WORKED THROUGH 10-27 WITHOUT MENTIONING PAIN TO SUP V.ON 10-28 EMPL WAS GOING FISHING-NO MENTION OF BACK PAIN.NOTIFIED SUPV 10-29 OF DR APPT.10-30 HAD ADD'L APPTS.DIDNT KNOW IF BACK PAIN CAUSED BY WORK.
A S HE WAS WALKING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN SLOPE HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE THE DOC HAS DIAGNOSED THIS AS A FIRST DEGREE SPRAIN
WHILE DRILLING HE GOT DUST IN HIS EYE HE WASHED THE EYE OUT AT THAT TIME AS THE WEEK WENT BY HIS LEFT EYE BECAME INCREASINGLY IRRITATED RESULTING IN AN EYE INFECTION
WHILE USING A SLEDGE HAMMER TO BREAK UP GRANITE ROCK, HE PULLED (STRAINED) A BACK MUSCLE.
WHILE TORCHING GRANITE, A TINY FRAGMENT FLEW UNDER EDGE OF SAFTEY GLASSES AND SCRATCHED HIS EYEBALL ON A VERY WINDY DAY.