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SLIDING PUMP FROM WORK BOAT TO DREDGE, HE HAD SEVERE PAIN IN SIDE AND BACK. HAD HARD TIME BREATHING. BROKEN RIB.
WORK BOAT WAS PULLED ON TO ONE SAND BAR BY CABLE FLIPPING THE BOAT, EE JUMPED FROM BOAT STRIKINGHIS HEAD ON EDGE OF BOAT DOCK, THIGH ON SIDE OF BOAT.
WHILE CLEANING MATERIAL FROM INSIDE LOG WASHER, EE STEPPED ON SHAFT TO CLIMB OVER SIDE WHEN HE SLIPPED ON SHAFT FALLING ON SHANKS OF LOG WASHER. L-CHEST WALL CONTUSION.
EE WAS DOING MAINTENANCE IN A SQUATTING POSITION WHEN HE WENT TO STAND UP HE STRUCK HIS HEAD (WHILE WEARING HARD HAT.) THIS ACCIDENT WAS NOT REPORTED UNTIL 1/21/02 AT THAT TIME HE SAID HE HAD RUPTURED A DISC.
THERE IS A 5/8" STEEL CABLE ATTACHED TO A WENCH ON EACH SIDE OF THE FRONT OF THE DREDGE. THESE CABLES ARE ANCHORED ON SHORE. THEY ARE USED TO MOVE/POSITION THE DREDGE. THE CABLES ARE SUPPORTED ON A FLAT AT A POINT ABOUT MIDWAY BETWEEN DREDGE AND THE SHORE. THE FLATS ARE MADE OF TWO 500 GALLON PROPANE TANKS FASTENED TOGETHER WITH METAL BRACES. ONE OF THE CABLES WAS TIGHTEN TO FACILI
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CUT AND FASTEN 3 SECTIONS OF 2 PLY BELTING TO A 72' LONG PIECE OF ANGLE IRON. THE TWO EMPLOYEES CARRIED THE BELTING AND ANGLE IRON UP THE PLANT. FIRST EMPLOYEE PROCEEDED INJURED UP THE STAIRS. INJURED THEN WENT TO THE PLANT OFFICE AND STATED THAT HE HAD HURT HIS BACK.