Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

An employee was using an airline to blow condenser tubes out. An obstruction was dislodged from a tube and struck the employee in the hand and chin.

An employee was on a stepladder cleaning a bathroom ventilation unit. He lost his balance and fell off the ladder, hitting his head on the wall and then landing on his shoulder on the vinyl-covered concrete floor. He was hospitalized.

An employee was attempting to remove a piece of cardboard from a conveyor when one of his left-hand fingers was pinched between the bars and the cross member.

An employee was unjamming corrugated sheets from a pre-feeder machine when his right arm was caught in the self-closing gate.

An employee went to drive his golf cart after a safety meeting, but it would not start. While working on the golf cart, the engine started and the employee’s finger was caught in the running belt between the belt and pulley. The employee’s right index finger was damaged in the nail area.

An employee was cleaning cotton in a press pit when the press ramrod pinched his right forearm.

A dock employee suffered back pain and a muscle spasm after picking up a box of plastic shopping bags. He was hospitalized.

An employee was driving a golf cart with an attached trailer, delivering packages in a residential neighborhood. The golf cart flipped and the employee sustained a right eye injury and a scalp laceration.

An employee caught her foot on a chair and fell to the floor, landing on the right knee.

An employee was on the safety platform on top of a tank car tightening up the bolts on a hatch with a ratchet. While turning the ratchet, the socket came off the bolt causing the employee to fall backwards approximately 15 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized for a back injury.