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SLIPPED AND FELL ON SOME GRAVEL OUTSIDE OF ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.
WORKER WAS STANDING ON A STEP LADDER TAKING DOWN A PIECE OF ELECT CONDUIT IT FELL & KNOCKED HIM OFF THE LADDER BREAKING HIS LEFT ARM WHEN HE HIT THE FLOOR
EE WAS WORKING WITH AMMONIA HYDROXIDE AND SULFURIC ACID, HE WAS WEARING A FULL FACE RESPIRATOR WITH THE PROPER FILTERS BUT SAYS HIS THROAT IS SORE.
A TRUCK LOAD OF AMMONIA HYDROXIDE ARRIVED ON SITE AT ABOUT 2:00PM, ATH THIS TIME SOME LAB PERSONNEL WERE TAKING SAMPLES FROM THE TRUCK TO TEST FOR PUTITY. I WAS UP WIND BUT THE DIRECTION OF THE WIND CHANGED & I INHALED A LARGE AMOUNT OF FUMES FROM THE SAMPLE. I DID SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION DUE TO THE PRODUCT I INHALED.
SHE SAYS SHE SLIPPED ON A STAIRWAY ON HER WAY INTO WORK. IT WAS NOT BOTHERING HER UNTIL RECENTLY AND THEN SHE WENT TO THE DOCTOR. HE SAYS SHE HAS AN INFLAMED TENDON.
ON 03-24-94 EE FELT SOME LOWER BACK PAIN HE WENT TO HIS DOC SAYING THAT THE PAIN HE FELT WAS FROM A PREVIOUS INJURY THE DOC PERSCRIBED SOME MEDICATION & TOLD HIM TO TAKE 03-25-94 OFF WHICH HE DID ON SAT 03-26-94 HE RETURNED TO WORK DURING HIS SHIFT HE FAINTED & WAS BROUGHT TO ST JAMES HOSPITAL THE PERSONNEL AT THE HOSPITAL BELIEVE THAT EE MAY HAVE HAD AN EPILLETIC SEIZURE
THE EE WAS BUILDING A CEMENT FORM HE LIFTED A WOODEN POST TO PLACE INTO THE FORM FOR SUPPORT WHEN HE FELT A TWIST IN HIS LOWER BACK.
WHILE WELDING HANDRAILS, EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK IN HIS LEFT EYE BY A WELDING SPARK. THE EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING HIS WELDING HOOD AT THE AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT. AS A RESULT OF THE SPARK HITTIN GHIS EYE HE DID NOT TO GO TO THE DR AND HAVE IT REMOVED.