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STEPPED FROM LOADER TO GROUND AND TURNED ANKLE
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AROUND A PARKED LOADER CAME TO CLOSE AND BUMPED HIS KNEE. HE DID NOT THINK HE WAS HURT AND WENT ON HOME. OVER THE WEEKEND, THE KNEE BECAME SWOLLEN ON MONDAY EE TOOK EE T O NEWTON CO HOSPITAL TO HAVE HIM CHECKED OUT. IT WAS A MINOR INJURY, THEY GAVE HIM A KNEE BRACK TO WEAR AND SAID HE COULD RETURN TO WORK.
EE WAS STANDING TOO CLOSE TO AN 8" PLASTIC PIPELINE WHILE IT WAS BEING MOVED. PIPE SLID DOWN LOWER FRONT OF LEG AND MADE A SMALL SCRAPE ON SHIN. EE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AS A PERCAUTION. HE WA S X RAYED, GIVEN ADVIL, AND RELEASED.
STEPPING FROM LOADER PLATFORM TO FINDER OF LOADER FOOT SLIPPED & CHEST HIT LIGHT BAR THEN SLID TO GROUND
IT WAS BEGINNING TO RAIN EMPLOYEE GOT OFF THE DREDGE AND WAS WALKING UP A HILL TO THE OFFICE.HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THE GROUND AND HE FELL CAUSING HIS ABCK TO TWIST OR SPRAIN.