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EE WAS USING A FORKLIFT TO DUMP MUD ON SHALE PILE. EE HIT CUT WHILE IN REVERSE AND LOST CONTROL. EE PUT MACHINE IN FORWARD GEAR AND SLAMMED INTO SHALE PILE, STRIKING HEAD AGAINST STEERING WHEE L.
EE STATES HE WAS USING CROWBAR TO REMOVE CLINKER BALLS FROM KILN COOLER. CROWBAR SLIPPED CAUSING THE EE TO LOSE HIS BALANCE AND FALL BACKWARD OVER MATERIAL. THE EE STRUCK HIS SHOULDER ON THE G ROUND EE SAID IT WAS BOTHERING HIM 15 DYAS LATERAND HE WAS REFERRED TO THE CLINIC ON 9-7-95.
EMPLOYEE SHOOK VENDING MACHINE AND GOT HIS LEFT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN THE WALL AND THE MACHINE. THE EMPLOYEE THEN PULLED HIS FINGER OUT AND HE RECEIVED A LACERATION TO HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER.
EE WAS WALKING DOWN A HILL & LOST BALANCE ON AN ICY SPOT DURING A SNOW STORM.
EE BENT OVER TO PICK UP A BOLT. EE STATES HE FELT A PAIN IN THE SAME AREA FROM A PREVIOUS INJURY ON 2-7-94. EE SENT TO CLINIC. DR. STATES THAT IT WAS AN AGGRAVATION TO AN EXISTING INJURY.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING SCREENS THAT WEIGHED APPROX 50 LBS EMPLOYEE STRAINED R SHOULDER WHILE TRYING TO POSITION THESE SCREENS.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS WORKING ON UNPLUGGING A LIME SUPPLY LINE. EMPLOYEE SHUT OFF 1 BLOWER OF MULTIPLE BLOWER SYSTEM. 2ND BLOWER WAS STILL RUNNING THROUGH A COMMON LINE. EMPLOYEE DISCONNECTED THE LINE & LIME BLEW BACK INTO HIS FACE.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE TWISTED HIS BACK WHILE EXITING THE WATER TRUCK. THE EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE DIDN'T SLIP OR FALL.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A STEAM NOZZLE TO CLEAN STAINLESS STEEL THE EMPLOYEE SPRAYED HIS BOOT CAUSING BOOT TO BURN TOP OF TOES THE EMPLOYEE WAS TREATED BUT DID NOT FOLLOW UP HIS INJURY OF HEED ADVI SE THE EMPLOYEE WAS TOLD T O KEEP FOOT CLEAN & DRY BUT DID NOT COME BACK FOR FELLOW UP VISIT UNTIL 5 DAYS LATER EMPLOYEE STILL FAILED TO KEEP INJURY DRY & BLISTERS DEVELOPED EMPLOYEE WAS SENT
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS WORKING ON A CHUTE NEAR THE KILN WHICH WAS ADEQUATELY GUARDED. THE EMPLOYEE CLIMBED AWAY FROM THE GUARDED PLATFORM ON THE TOP OF THE CHUTE TO GET A BREAK FROM THE H EAT. THE EMPLOYEE DID NOT HAVE THE BELT LOCKED OUT. THE EMPLOYEE LOST IS BALANCE AND REACHED INTO THE MOVING MACHINERY. EMPLOYEE DID NOT FOLLOW PROCEDURES. EMPLOYEE WAS IN NON-ROUTINE WORK AR
EE STATES HE WAS WALKING IN THE PLANT, WHEN HIS LEGS GAVE OUT. EE STATES HE HAS BACK PROBLEMS IN THE PAST. SENT EE TO COMPANY PHYSICIAN AND DR NOTED IT AS DEGENATIVE DISC DISEASE.
EE STATES HE WAS PUTTING BRICK ON KILN 1. STAFFOLDING THAT WAS HOLDING THE BRICK GAVE WAY CAUSING THE BRICKS TO FALL ON EE HAD.
EE STATES THAT HE OPENED KILN 2 DOOR AND THE FLAME WENT OUT CAUSING HOT GASSES TO SPRAY BACK ON HIS FACE.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT AT 7:25AM HE FELT A PULL IN HIS BACK ON THE LOWER RT SIDE HE CONTINUED TO WORK & AT 8:45AM WHILE LIFTING A WHEELBARROW WEIGHING APPROX 65POUNDS HE FELT A SHARP STABBING PA IN IN HIS BACK ON THE RT SIDE EE WENT DOWN ON HIS KNEES & CALLED FOR ASSISTANCE EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE HAS HAD THIS HAPPEN BEFORE
BRAND EE APPEARED TO EXPEREANCE SOME TYPE OF SEIZURE PRIOR TO COMMULEMENT OF WORK.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS JAC HAMMERING BRICK INSIDE KILN #2. FALLING BRICK LANDED ON HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER CAUSING A CUT AND A CONTUSION.
EE STATES THAT HE WAS LEANING OVER TO CLEAR A CHUTE WITH A CROWBAR WHEN HE PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS BACK. THE EE STATES THAT HE WAS IN A TWISTED POSTURE. EE HAS NOT RETURNED TO WORK AS OF THIS DATE.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS PRYING CLINKER BALLS FROM THE COOLED GRATE. A PIECE BROKE APART AND THE EMPLOYEE STEPPED BACK ON ANOTHER PIECE OF MATERIAL CAUSING HIM TO FALL BACKWARDS.
EMPLOYEES WERE DISMANTLING SHED WHEN INJURED ENTERED THE AREA TO REMOVE EQUIPMENT. A FORKLIFT THAT WAS USED TO REMOVE THE EQUIPMENT BRUSHED AGAINST THE SUPPORT LEG & IT COLLAPSED. THERE WAS AN ACCUMULATION OF SNOW ON THE ROOF AT THE TIME. THIS INDIVIDUAL WAS AN OUTSIDE CONTRACTOR.
EE WALKED ACROSS REAR END OF LOADER AND SLIPPED OFF. EE SUFFERED A LACERATION TO HER SCALP AND COMPRESSION FRACTURES TO HER 6TH, 7TH, AND 9TH THORACIC VERTEBRAE.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT WHILE LOOKING INTO WINDOW FO A COOLER, A DIRT PARTICLE WAS BLOWN INTO HIS EYE. SAFETY GLASSES WERE BEING WORN AT THE TIME.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS INSPECTING APLUGGED ROTARY VALVE BECAUSE IT WA SNOT MOVING. THE ENPLOYEE THEN STATED THAT IN AN ATTEMPT TO DISLODGE THE VALVE, HE STUCK HIS THUMB INSIDE THE PADDL ES CAUSIGN A CUT ON HIS THUMB.
EE STATED HE WAS CHECKING THE WORK PERFORMED ON A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT WHEN A FOREIGN PARTICLE FELL THROUGH THE TOP OF HIS SAFETY GLASSES.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS MAKING SAFETY INSPECTION, WHEN THE WIND BLEW A FOREIGN PARTICLE INTO HIS RIGHT EYE - CORNEAL ABRASION.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS CHANGING BAGS IN THE BAGHOUSE. AFTERWARD HE NOTICED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK, HOWEVER, HE WAS UNSURE OF THE CAUSE. HE WENT TO THE MEN'S ROOM TO HAVE A BOWEL MOVEMENT AND NOTICED PAIN WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO STAND UP.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING AN IMPELLER ON A FUEL PUMPWHILE LOOSENING IMPELLER, IT SLIPPED & EMPL TRIED TO CATCH IT. EMPL RECEIVED A LACERATION TO HISRIGHT RING FINGER WHICH REQUIRED SUTURES.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED OUT OF VEHICLE AND SLIPPED AND FELL, SRIKING IS HEAD ON THE ICE.
EMPLOYEE WAS HOLIDNG A TAIL PULLEY WHILE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS HAMMERING ON IT. THE HAMMER SLIPPED AND HTI THE 1ST EMPLOYEE ON THE 5TH FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND CAUSING A CONTUSION.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS PULLING A CONVEYOR BELT THROUGH A REEL TO FEED IT INTO THE CONVEYOR WHEN THE STEEL ROD HOLDING THE BELT CAME LOOSE AND THE BELT FELL OUT OF THE HOLDER STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE'S HARD HAT AND SAFETY GLASSES WHICH RESULTED IN A FRACTURE OF THE NOSE.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS CHECKING THE ADJUSTMENT ON FLAPPER VALVE ARMS WHEN HIS GLOVE WAS CAUGHT AND HIS LEFT HAND WAS PULLED BETWEEN THE ACTUATING CAM AND FLAPPER VALVE ARM. THIS CAUSED A CONTUSION TO THE HAND. THE EMPLOYEE DEVELOPED TENDONITIS IN THE HAND WHICH REQUIRED A PRESCRIPTION OF ANTI-INFLAMMATORY MEDICATION.
EMPL DISCONNECTING A HOSE ON THE MULTICONE. THE HOSE SLIPPED AND HOT MATERIAL FELL INTO LEFT GLOVE CAUSING A 2ND DEGREE BURN TO LEFT FOREARM.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS LOOSENING BOLTS ON A H-D41 DOZER THE BOLTS WERE DIFFICULT TO REACH WRENCH SLIPPED OFF OF A BOLT & HE LOST HIS BALANCE & FELL TO THE GROUND
OIL ON CONCRETE TRUNNION PILING. EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO STEP UP AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED. EMPLOYEE RECEIVED A 1" LACERATION TO HIS LEFT SHIN.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED OFF A LADDER LOCATED ON A LOADER AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE ON UNEVEN FROZEN GROUND.