EMPLOYEES ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE DEBRIS FROM AREA AROUND DREDGE BY TYING ROPE TO TREE ON BANK. ROPE APPARENTLY GOT BENEATH BOAT AND WHEN THE ROPE BECAME TENSE, TURNED THE BOAT OVER. TWO EMPLOYEE S FELL INTO WATER AND ONE WAS NOT RECOVERED.
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Showing all 28EE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE DEBRIS FROM AREA AROUND DREDGE BY TYPING ROPE TO TREE ON BANK. ROPE APPARENTLY GOT BENEATH BOAT AND WHEN THE ROPE BECAME TENSE, TURNED THE BOAT OVER. TWO EE, EE AND OTH ER EE FELL INTO WATER AND ONE WAS NOT RECOVERED.EE WAS RECOVERED, OTHER DROWNED.
EE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE DEBRIS FROM AREA AROUND DREDGE BY TYPING ROPE TO TREE ON BANK. ROPE APPARENTLY GOT BENEATH BOAT AND WHEN THE ROPE BECAME TENSE, TURNED THE BOAT OVER. TWO EE FELL INTO W ATER AND ONE WAS NOT RECOVERED.
WORKING ON AN ENGINE IN ENGINE ROOM EMPLOYEE FELT STING ON LOWER RIGHT ARM.
INJURIES TO THE TOP OF THE LEFT HAND RECEIVED WHEN OPERATING WENCHES ON A TOW BOAT. WHEEL HIT WINCH ON LEFT HAND.
EE WAS GETTING DOWN OF SHAKER BOX AND STRAINED LEFT ANKLE.
EE WAS PULLING A TIRE OFF THE LOADER AND STRAINED A CHEST MUSCLE.
EE WAS PICKING UP A LANDING MAT AND STRAINED BACK DUE TO ITS HEAVY WEIGHT.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING BETWEEN ROPE & IRON STRUCTURE ROPE WAS BEING PULLED USING FRONTEND LOADER ROPE CAME LOOSE & BACKLASHED STRIKING EMPLOYEES LEG & BROKE LEFT LEG BELOW KNEE
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON CABLE IN AN ATTEMPT TO MOVE IT AND PULLED SHOULDER MUSCLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AND STEPPED ON A PIECE OF IRON AND IT FLEW UP AND HIT LEFT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS UNTYING A ROPE ATTACHED TO CRANE BARGE WHEN ROPE SLIPPED AND SNATCHED ARM INTO THE TIMBERHEAD OF THE BARGE. FRACTURED LEFT WRIST.
EMPL WORKING WITH ROPES HOLDING BARGE ROPE BROKE HITTING EMPL ON SIDE OF HEAD. EMPL NOT SERIOUSLY INJ KNOCKED GLASSES OVERBOARD DID NOT HAVE TO GO TO MEDICAL DR.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UPHILL;TRIPPED AND FELL AND STRAINED BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A HAMMER TO HIT CHISEL AND A PIECE OF CHISEL BROKE OFF AND ENTERED LEFT INDEX FINGER CUTTING IT.
WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF RAISING THE SPUD ON THE DREDGE A PIECE FELL OF THE SPUD STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON HIS LEFT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING THE BLUEGILL BOAT FROM ONE POSITION TO ANOTHER WHEN BACKWASH FROM THE TOWBOAT CAUSED SMALL BOAT AND DREDGE TO BE THROWN INTO ONE ANOTHER WITH EMPLOYEE CAUGHT INBETWEEN.
EMPLOYEE WAS CRANKING AN ENGINE WITH A HAND CRANK & STRAINED SOMETHING IN LEFT SIDE OF HIS BODY
STEPPED DOWN IN DREDGE WALKED IN METAL OBJECT SCRATCHED EYE
EMPL WAS WALKING FROM ONE COMPARTMENT OF DREDGE TO ANOTHER SLIPPED IN DIESEL FUEL THAT HAD BEEN SPILLED & FELL TO FLOOR BRUISING LEFT RIB & PULLED MUSCLE IN LEFT ARM TRYING TO BRACE HIMSELF AG AINST FALL.
EMPL WAS USING A HAND GRINDER AND A SLIVER OF METAL FLEW IN HIS EYE
EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING GARBAGE INTO FIRE AND AN AEROSOL CAN BLEW UP CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO BE BURNED IN THE FACE.
EMPL WAS HELPING MOVE WELDING MACHINE DOOR OF WELDING MACHINE FELL & HIT EMPL ON HEAD.
I WAS ONLY AWARE OF ACCIDENT ON 2-10-89 I CONTACTED GRAVEL COMPANY FOREMAN AND HE WAS NOT AWARE THAT THIS FORMER EMPL HAD ANY SORT OF ACCIDENT I WAS BOUGHT A NOTE FROM THE DR BY I NAME ON 2-10 -89 WHEN WE FINALLY RECEIVED THE MEDICAL REPORT FOR THE DR IT STATED THAT I NAME HAD AN ACCIDENT ON 7-10-88 WHEN A METAL BEAM THAT HE WAS STANDING UNDER FELL STRIKING HIM ON HIS SHOULDER CAUS
WAS WELDING ON DREDGE AND A PC. OF FLEX FLE W IN MY EYE.
CHAIN TIED AROU3D H-BEAM CHAIN SLIPPED AND SWUNG DOWN AND HIT I.NAME IN THE GROIN AREA
SEVERAL MEN PUS2ING ON TIMBER AND FOOT SOMEHOW GOT UNDER IT.THE TIMBER WAS RELEASED AND FOOT WAS INJURED.
THE INJURED WAS3WELDING IN SOME BARGES SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND THERE WAS NO VENTILAITION. RECENT DIAGNOSIS BY A LOCAL DOCTOR SHOWS HIM TO HAVE VERY SERIOUS RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS AS A RESULT OF TH IS. HE HAS ALSO3SEEN A SPECIALIST IN MEMPHIS. I DO NOT KNOW THE EXACT DATE OF THIS WELDING THEREFORE,I CANNOT GOVE YOU AN ACCIDENT DATE. THE PROBLEM SEEMS TO HAVE DEVELOPED OVE APERIOD OF TIM