BASF Corporation-ATTAPULGUS Metal/Non-Metal

EE was assigned to assist BASF maintenance in rebuilding pumps. The ee was carrying part of the pump housing, lost traction and slipped down into a seated position; the pump housing fell across the ee left leg causing a laceration that requited sutures. EE returned to light duty work the next day.

A Mechanic suffered a strain to his left shoulder while he, along with another employee, supported a gas valve assembly that was being removed for replacement during a Calciner outage. The physican diagnosed a muscle strain. The Mechanic continued to have pain in his shoulder. The employee had a MRI which revealed a small tear in the rotator cuff.

The employee suffered a hairline fracture to his left foot while descending a three foot fixed ladder. He was examined by an orthopedic specialist where an x-ray revealed the fracture. The Operator returned to work with a removable cast and is scheduled for a follow-up appointment in three weeks. This incident is currently classified as a Recordable Injury- RDC.

I-Tech was helping electricians pull new wire in MCC 1. The rope that was attached to the wire came loose and the I-Tech fell to the floor and felt a sharp pain in his right knee.

#4 Silicate Concentrator area sump pump not pumping material. While investigating, pump discharged liquid & struck ee in face; knocked off safety glasses, liquid went into eyes. Flushed eyes at eye wash station. Examined by site nurse before being transported to see local opthamologist who prescribed antibiotic ointment, pain medication & released employee.

A Mechanic was lifting a pipe from the ground floor to intermediate level of Building. As the lift began, he began to move on the ground level to access stairs to the intermediate level. He tripped over a 3" drain pipe running at floor level and fell, striking his right knee. He was sent to an orthopedic specialist who diagnosed a fractured patella.

Employee was pulling a bottle cart when the wheels on the cart got stuck between two motor bases. As he pulled the cart, the cart came loose causing him to lose his balance and fall backwards. As he fell, he grabbed onto a structure to catch himself. When he did this, he felt a pain in his left bicep.

While tightening bottom of condenser on #4 Concentrator, he felt a sharp pain in his left shoulder. Accident was reported as a first aid until employee started experiencing extreme pain.

Employee was stepping down & stepped on a motor base. This caused him to stumble and wrench or strain his lower back. When he mis-stepped, he lost his balance. Felt pain in lower back (left side).

Employee was unhooking water line on stopped-up pump. Water pressure was turned off - he then went to release it from the pump. Liquid sprayed him in the face.

While working on a pump at the Pilot Plant, his right leg started hurting. He pulled his pants leg up and noticed a small hole in his leg and a knot under it. No biting sensation was felt before that.

Employee was lifting a valve for repair when he felt a sharp pain in his neck and thought that something snapped causing him to fall to the floor. Neck & arms had a burning feeling and had pain in his neck. Employee was working in the back of the Instrument Shop, in the pipe storage area.

Operator indicates that he slipped on top step when climbing to look into vacuum chamber. Operator complained of pain in right shoulder. Employee has been under doctor's care and it has been determined on 7/19/2006 that employee needs to be on restricted duty and therefore triggers recordability. Was not considered a recordable until this date.

EE was getting out of the backhoe He stepped on the backhoe track which had wet dirt on it and he lost his footing and fell. His hip/back hit the track causing contusion.

Mechanic was climbing down off scaffolding, he felt a pain in his lower back.

Shippers were installing Seabulk liner into a container which requires removal of two tie-off studs. The studs have to be removed partially with a grinding tool and then complete removal with hammer. When he struck the studs, the hammer bounced back, hitting employee in left corner of mouth and left side of face.

EE was driving off road truck and backed under the backhoe bucket to get loaded he did not stop when the bh operator blew the horn and the bh operator had to stop the truck with the bucket. He said this made his back hurt.

WALKING TO MAIL DROP, TRIPPED ON CARPET & FELL TO FLOOR. TRIED TO BREAK FALL BY PUTTING HANDS OUT, HITTING CABINET & COUNTER. STRUCK HER FACE ON THE COUNTER. HANDS WERE BRUISED & BOTH KNEES HIT CABINET DOORS & KNOBS. ONE KNEE STRUCK THE DOOR KNOB & THE OTHER THE CABINET. CONTINUED TO HAVE COMPLICATIONS WITH KNEE. MRI: TORN MENISCUS IN LEFT KNEE; SURGERY SCHEDULED 1/18/06.

MECHANIC WAS WELDING STEAM COILS IN BOTTOM OF RT-77 TANK FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME. WHEN HE STOOD, HIS RIGHT LEG POPPED AND HE WAS UNABLE TO STAND ON HIS RIGHT LEG DUE TO PAIN.

CALCINER PRODUCT ACCUMULATED IN DUCT LEADING TO BAGHOUSE & PLUGGED IT. A 20' LONG AIR LANCE HAD BEEN FABRICATED TO BLOW BLOCKAGE FREE. HE PLANNED TO INSERT AIR LANCE INTO DUCT & SIGNAL FOR AIR TO BE TURNED ON. OTHER EE THOUGHT HE SIGNALED FOR HIM TO TURN VALVE BUT BEFORE HE COULD MOVE, WAS SPRAYED WITH HOT GAS & PRODUCT FROM CONVEYING DUCT. BURNED ON BOTH FOREARMS & LEFT FOOT.

OPERATOR WAS REMOVING 6" HOSE FROM #2 VACUUM SEPTUM. THE HOSE WAS NOT ON STRAIGHT SO HE NEEDED TO PULL ON IT MORE THAN USUAL. THE HOSE CAME OFF FASTER THAN HE EXPECTED AND HIT HIM IN THE MOUTH KNOCKING TWO FRONT TEETH LOOSE.

OPERATOR TRIPPED ON UNLOADING HOSE & LOST HIS BALANCE. HE STRUCK OUT HIS LEFT HAND TO BREAK HIS FALL & STRUCK THE METAL HOSE SUPPORT CAUSING THE LACERATION OF HIS RING FINGER.

OPERATOR WAS CUTTING OPEN OXIDE BAGS CREATING SOME DUST, CAUSING HIM TO SNEEZE. WHEN SNEEZED, HE FELT SOMETHING (PAIN) ON HIS LEFT SIDE OF LOWER BACK.

HE WAS CALLED TO PLANT 4 BECAUSE OF A PROBLEM WITH A DIVERTER VALVE TO E3. THE VALVE WAS PLUGGED WITH PRODUCT. EMPLOYEE, WITH ASSISTANCE FROM OPERATOR, WAS TRYING TO PRY VALVE AROUND WHEN BAR SLIPPED CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO HIT ELBOW ON NEARBY PIPING.

EE WAS WALKING (WITH NO OTHER EE'S) NEAR PILOT PLANT CLARIFICATION EQUIPMENT AND DRAIN SYSTEM, WHEN HE SLIPPED ON A PATCH OF POLYMER NEAR THE PILOT PLANT BELT PRESS AND PLANT DITCH. HE EXPERIE NCED SOME PAIN, RESTED FOR A MINUTE AFTER SLIPPING, THEN PROCEEDED BACK TO HIS VEHICLE TO LEAVE PLANT. AFTER ARRIVING HOME, EE WENT TO E.R. FOR TREATMENT.

THE RAREEARTH MAKEDOWN SUMP USES A SAND PIPER PUMP AS A TEMPORARY PUMP. THE SUMP IS IN A RECESSED AREA UNDERNEATH THE MAKEDOWN REACTOR BUT THE TEMP PUMP IS POSITIONED ON THE BAG FLOOR ABOVE. T

WHILE ASSISTING OTHER MECHANICS MOVE 3" PINCH VALVE FROM BEHIND E-1 REACTOR TANK, USING A DOLLY TO MOVE THE VALVE, THE VALVE SHIFTED BECAUSE A 3" OFFSET ON FLOOR. HE GRABBED THE VALVE AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

TRIPPED OVER A PIECE OF GRATING - ATTEMPTED TO MOVE GRATING BACK INTO PLACE WITH HAND BUT WAS UNSUCESSFUL. USED FOOT TO KICK BACK IN PLACE- GRATING FELL AND CAUGHT TIP OF RIGHT INDEX FINGE R - SEVERED 1/2 " UNDER FINGER NAIL

CONTRACTOR WAS REMOVING PLYWOOD WALLS FROM EACH SIDE OF CEMENT RETAINER WALL AROUND RARE EARTH RECOVERY SYSTEM. WHILE THIS WORK WAS IN PROGRESSANOTHER CONTRACTOR WAS REMOVING TEMP PIPE BRACES FROM INSIDE RETAINER WALLS AND REMOVING THEM TO OUTSIDE, THE METAL BRACE FELL OFF ON ONE END AND STRUCK MAN ON RIGHT SHOULDER AND BACK AREA.

MECHANIC WAS ATTEMPTING TO POSITION IMPELLER ON BACK OF SHOP BUGGY SO IT WOULD NOT FALL OFF. THE OUTSIDE EDGE OF IMPELLER WAS SHARP AND AS HE MOVED IT HE CUT HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER ABOVE THE KNUCKLE.

WAS HOOKING UP DUMP BOX UNDER MBC EXTRUDER TO MOVE IT AND REPLACE WITH EMPTY ONE. WHILE HOOKING UP THE BOX TO A LARGE CHAIN W/SLOTTED FLAT RECTANGULAR PIECE OF IRON ON END WHICH MUST BE PLACED OVER LIFTING RODS ON SIDES OF DUMP BOX. HOOKED ONE SIDE WITH NO PROBLEM BUT WHEN FLAT PIECE OF IRON SWUNG INTO PLACE ON OTHER SIDE, RT. PINKY FINGER WAS CAUGHT IN PINCH POINT. STITCHES.

EE WAS TAKING FLANGE LOOSE ON RT6 STEAM TRAP, WHEN A CLUMP OF HOT SALTED NITRATE FELL ON EE'S LEFT FOREARM.

EE WAS WASHING BEACH HORSE FLOOR WITH PRESSURE WATER HOSE. THE HOSE LINE CAUGHT ONT HE DUMP TRACK AND WAS PULLED OUT OF EE HAND. THE END OF THE HOSE HIT EE IN THE LEFT TEMPLE AND KNOCKED HIM T O THE GROUND. EE WAS TAKEN TO THE BAINBRIDGE MEMEROILA HOSPITAL AND TREATED FOR SMALL ABRASION ON TEMPLE WITH SUPER GLUE AND ANTIBOTIC OINTMENT. EE WAS RELEASE AND RETURN TO HIS SHIFT ONE.

EE REC'D 2ND DEG CHEMICAL BURNS ON TOP OF BOTH FOREARMS AS A RESULT OF CONTACT WITH CAUSTIC-LDADEN CLAY. HE WAS CLEANING CLAY OUT OF THE VACUUMCANISER ON THE MBC EXTRUDER VACUUM LINE. THE CLA Y GOT ON HIS ARMS WHILE CLEANING IT OUT BUT HE WASHED HIS ARMS WITH WATER AFTER COMPLETING THEJOB. LATER THAT EVENING HE NOTICED WATER BLISTERSFORMING ON BOTH FOREARMS WHERE HE HAD CONTACTED

TWO EMPLOYEES WERE MOVING A 15 HP 3600 RPM FRAMEMOTOR. THEY LOWERED THE OLD MOTOR FROM FAN BASE TO THE GROUND WITH A TWO MAN LIFTING BAR. THEY WENT OUTSIDE TO LOWER NEW MOTOR OFF TRUCK ONTO PU LL CART AND MOVED MOTOR INSIDE THE BUILDING AND ONTO BASE WHICH IS ABOUT 12 TO 14 INCHES HIGH. THEY MOVED OLD MOTOR ONTO HAND CART. THEN VICTIM'S BACK STARTED HURTING & IT WAS HARD TO WALK.

WHILE REMOVING FEED TUBE AND FRAME FROM #1 CALCINER, EE S MIDDLE AND INDEX FINGER ON LEFT HAND WERE CRUSHED BETWEEN THE MAST OF THE LULL FORKLIFT AND THE DIVERTER VALVE INSTALLED ON THE FEED P IPE OF THE CALCINER.

WHILE CLIMBING UP ON DOZER, LEFT FOOT SLIPPED IN BETWEEN TRAC.

OPERATOR ENTERED EAST DOOR OF BOEX CONTROL ROOM, TURNED TO GO TOWARD COMPUTER DESK, WHILE ROUNDING PLATFORM, OPERATOR SLIPPED, STRIKING LEFT LOWER BACK ON CONCRETE FLOOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING A NEW COMPUTER TO BE INSTALLED IN THE PLANT. HE GRASPED THE COMPUTER BY AN EXPOSED METAL STAMPING INSIDE CASE TO MOVE IT. HE CUT HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER ON THE STAMPED EDGE REQUIRING STICHES.

WHILE ENTERING EQUIPMENT, HE SLIPPED AND FELL ONTRACKS INJURING RIBS.

FREIGHT ELEVATOR IN DENNING BLDG NOT WORKING PROPERLY - STOPPED ABOUT HALF WAY UP ON 1ST FLOOR. EE TRIED TO OPEN DOOR BUT IT WOULD NOT WORK PROPERLY. HE OPENED THE DOOR ON OPPOSITE SIDE & CLIM BED OUT OVER A BEAM THAT WAS ABOUT 10 FEET OFF BOTTOM FLOOR. WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN HE CUT HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER & ALSO HIS RIGHT ARM.

EE WAS TRYING TO INSERT PIPET INTO PIPET PUMP. AS 5ML KIMAX PIPET TUBE WAS BEING INSERTED INTO PUMP, IT BROKE. WHEN TUBE BROKE, BROKEN TUBE IN THE PUMP JAMMED INTO HIS LEFT HAND. INDEX FINGER BETWEEN KNUCKLE AND HAND FINER JOINT AND MIDDLE FINGER AT KNUCKLE WERE CUT. STITCHES WERE REQUIRED.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO UNSTOP A SEEDS LINE. AFTER UNBOLTING THE FLANGE ON A VERTICLE SECTION, NO LIQUID CAME OUT. HE THEN PROCEEDED TO SHAKE THE LINE. THE SLOUTION THEN SPLASHED INTO HIS FACE AN D LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING DIE PLATE ON EXTRUDER WHEN HE USED A WRENCH TO LOOSEN THE NUTS THAT HOLD THE DIE PLATE. AS HE PULLED UPWARD ON THE WRENCH,HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE WAS T AKEN TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM FOR EXAMINATION.

A DRAIN LINE WAS PLUGGED THAT IT USED TO DRAIN THE LEG FROM A SCREENING TANK TO A TRANSFER PUMP THAT PUMPS RESULURRY BACK TO THE #2 HT. WHEN VALVE WAS OPENED, PRODUCT CAM EOUT WITH A FORCE. HE TURNED HIS HEAD AND BACK TO MISS HITTING HIM IN THE FACE BUT THE SLURRY HIT HIM BEHIND THE HEAD AND WENT BETWEEN HIS SAFETY SIDE SHIELDS PACKING HIS EYES AND GLASSES WITH SLURRY. HE WAS TA

TAKING APART VALVE - PRESSURE RELIEF VALVE SLIPPED FROM ROPE AND DROPPED ON RIGHT WRIST.

STRAINED BACK LIFTING 5 GALLONS OF DIESEL.