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EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING DISCHARGE SHOOT ON PROTABLE SCREENING PLANT WITH A SHOVEL, WHEN THE SHOVEL SLIPPED ON METAL SURFACE CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE TO STRIKE HIS HAND ON MTAL SURFACE RESULTING IN A LACERATON TO HIS FINGER.
EE WAS IN PROCESS OF OPERATING A CO TRUCK ON A ROADWAY WHICH PARALELLS A BELT CONVEYOR. HE NOTICED THE BELT WAS TEARING. IN GETTING OUT OF THE CAB IN ORDER TO PULL SAFETY LINE ON CONVEYOR (STO P) HE LOST HIS BALANCE, AND UPON FALLING HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE ACT OF WALKING ON A SLOTTED METAL CATWALK. IN THE PLANT. SUDDENLY HE SLIPPED AND FELL, LANDING ON HIS KNEE. HE WAS WEARING RUBBERIZED SOLES ON HIS SHOES, WHICH WERE WET AT THE TIME.
ELMPLOYEE WAS IN THE ACT OF HELPING MECHANIC REMOVE THE HUB HOUSING & AXIL FROM DRIVE OF A PAYLOADER, WHEN IT LEFT DOSE IT PINNED HIS FINGERS BETWEEN HOUSING AND AXIL DRIVE.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE ACT OF ATTENDING THE FEED HOPPER, HE TOLD PLANT OPERATOR. HE WAS GOING HOME HE DIDNT FEEL GOOD. HE FELT HE HAD GAS. IT TURNED OUT. HE WAS ADMITTED TO LOCAL HOSPITAL, DIAGNO SED, AS A HEART ATTACK.
DRIVER WAS IN THE ACT OF CHANGING A FLAT TIRE ON HIS TRAILER. THE RIM WAS SLIGHTLY RUSTED AND FROZE TO THE HUB. WHEN IT DID BREAK LOOSE UNEXPECTEDLY, IT THREW THE DRIVER BACKWARDS ON HIS TAIL BONE AND BACK. THUS THE TIRE AND RIM LANDED ON TOP OF HIM.
EMPLOYEE RECEIVED FIRST AID AT THE HOSPITAL AND ALLOWED TO RETURN TO WORK. KNEE STARTED TO PAIN HIM RETURNED TO HOSPITAL AND WAS TOLD TO SEE A KNEE SPECIALIST. HE TOLD EMPLOYEE HE HAD TORN CO RTLAGE AND WOULD HAVE TO HAVE SURGERY. OEPRATIONWAS DONE ON 3-19-91.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE ACT OF ASCENDING A LADDER, DUE TO HEAVY FROST THAT MORNING. EMPLOYEE'S FOOT SLIPPED ON THE RUNG AND HIS LEG WENT BETWEEN THE RUNGS. IN DOING SO HE TWISTED HIS KNEE. HIS KNEE STARTED TO SWELL. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT AND X-RAY.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN PROCESS OF WELDING AND REPLACING PIPE. STOPPED WHAT HE WAS DOING. TO HAVE LUNCH IN WALKING ON CATWALK TO HIS LUNCH BUCKET. HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE. CAUSING SOME SWELLING AND P AIN. HE WAS ADVISED TO HAVE IT X-RAYED.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING T & T NORTH ON STATE RTE. 437 WHEN A DEER JUMPED OUT OF WOODS AND INTO THE TRACTOR. THIS CAUSED THE OPERATOR TO APPLY BRAKES, THUS THE T & T JACKKNIFED ACROSS THE HI-WAY . (PA RTE 437 IS LOCATED IN LUZERNE COUNTY)
EMPLOYEE AND FELLOW EMPLOYEE WERE IN THE ACT OF CARRYING A HOSE UP TO THE FOURTH LEVEL OF THE PLANT SUDDENLY EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF CHEST PAINS. ALSO NUMBNESS IN LEFT ARM SHORT OF BREATH, FACE WAS FLUSHED AND CLAMMY. ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL BY PARAMEDICS AND AMBULANCE.
CUTTING PC OF SHEET SAW KICKED BACK CUTTING THUMB REQ MINOR SURGERY
EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE ACT OF CUTTING AND TRIMMING A WORN PUMP CAUSING HE WAS IN AN AWKWARD POSITION (LEANING DYER). SLAG FROM TORCH BURNING FLEW UP & GOT BEHIND HIS SAFETY GLASSES, HITTING HIM I N THE EYE.
DRIVER OF TRUCK, COLLIDED WITH SLOW MOVING LOCOMOTIVE AT PENN AND FRONT STREET. CHESTER PAR.R. RUNS IN THE CENTER OF FRONT ST. DRIVER EXAMINED AT HOSPITAL AND DISCHARGED.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A COMPANY OWNED TRUCK HE NOTICED MOTOR WAS RUNNING HOT HE STOPPED AND LEFT RADIATOR COOL DOWN THINKING IT WAS COOL ENOUGH HE TOOK A RAG AND RELEASED PRESSURE CAP WHEN LI QUID STOPPED COMING OUT HE TOOK CAP OFF COMPLETLY THUS HOT ANTIFREEZE SOLUTION SHOT UP AND SOADKED HIS SHIRT SLEEVE
EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE ACT OF CLEANING UP PLANT GROUND FLOOR OF MUD & SCRAPE METAL IN TRYING TO PICK UP A PIECE OF SCRAPE METEAL HE EXPERIENCED A SHARP PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA SUPERVISOR ADVISED HIM TO GO TO A DOC.OR SEE HIS OWN PHYSICIAN AS SEEON AS POSSIBLE
EMPLOYEE WAS BE3T OVER IN THE PROCESS OF SHOVELING NEAR A GROUND LEVEL BELT CONVEYOR WHEN SUDDENLY STRUCK WITH A PIECE OF ROCK OR COAL WHICH ROLLED OFF AN OVERHEAD BELT CONVEYOR WHICH FEEDS T HE PLANT EMPLOY9E WAS WEARING A HELMET AT THE TIME
MECHANIC HEARD 5 POUNDING NOISE IN PUMP HE LOCKED OUT THE PUMPS SO THAT HE ALONE WOULD CONTROL START AND STOP BUTTON INSTEAD OF PLANT OPERATOR HE REMOVED GUARD FROM THE DRIVE UNIT AND STARTED TO WALK TO THE3STOP BUTTON WHEN HE SLIPPED ON STEEL GRATING AND GRABBED THE SHEAVE WHEEL WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE THUS CAUSING LACERATIONS OF FINGER ON RT HAND