SWILLEY PIT & PLANT Metal/Non-Metal

Worker was welding on pontoon of dredge. He used flammable aerosols to clean the surface where he was welding. When he lit his torch, the flammable aerosols flashed. The worker sustained burns on his face, arms, and hands

driver from Eagle Lake plant was climbing ladder to gain access to safe area/platform to open hatch, approx. 10 foot from the ground his foot slipped and he fell on his right foot and side

Employee was cleaning screen and stepped back. Foot slipped on wet grading and he fell on his right side.

Employee hurt his foot getting off the forklift. Stepping down on uneven ground he hurt his foot.

EE feels the particulate may have entered his eye when he was shoveling slag the previous night.

Getting out of the truck, he set his foot on the fueling containment wall and slipped off the containment wall and he struck the dike wall when he fell.

Employee was using the grinder to cut and grind bolt heads when splicing conveyor belt when a metal shaving entered his left eye from underneath his safety glasses.

Driver for our company, came to me on 9/20/05 and said he had injured his back while decsending a ladder after loading his truck on 9/15/05. He did not report the injury till 9/20/05 around 4:30 pm. I sent him to the doctor right after he told me of his injury, he did not miss any work, as he returned to work the next day. The doctor gave him light duty work.

EE CAME INTO MY OFFICE THIS MORNING & TOLD ME HE HAD STRAINED HIS BACK YESTERDAY (7/14/05) WHILE STACKING PALLETS. EE WAS SENT TO THE DOCTOR FOR AN EXAMINATION IMMEDIATELY & DOCTOR HAS RESTRICTED HIS ACTIVITY TO NO KNEELING, SQUATING, BENDING, STOOPING, PUSHING, PULLING OR PICKING UP MORE THAN 10 LBS. THE DOCTOR WILL RE-EVALUATE HIM ON MONDAY (7/18/05).

IMPROPER USE OF FRONT END LOADER BUCKET BEING USED AS A LIFT LED TO THE ACCIDENT. FOREMAN FELL FROM THE LOADER BUCKET 6 TO 7 FT DOWN. HE LANDED ON HIS KNEE AND LOWER LEG. THE FALL BROKE THE BO NES IN HIS LOWER LEG.