Decatur County Metal/Non-Metal

ON JUNE 6, 1998, THE MIDSOUTH DIV SAFETY & HEALTH DEPT RECEIVED CORRESPONDENCE FROM AN ATTORNEY STATING THAT EE WAS INJURED ON OUR JOB ON MAY 1, 1998. THIS IS THE FIRST NOTICE OF ANY INJURY.

THE EE WAS LOOSENING HAMMERS IN A HAMMER MILL. WHEN THE SLEDGE HAMMER HE WAS USING SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HAND AND STRUCK HIS ANKLE ON RIGHT FOOT.

THE INJURED EE WAS WALKING THRU THE SHOP. ANOTHER EE WAS HAMMERING ON A CRUSHER LID. A PIECE OF METAL BROKE OFF AND HIT HIM ON THE UPPER RIGHT LEG.

LOADING STEEL (SHEET METAL) INTO SCOOUT TRUCK PUTTING LAST PIECE INTO TRUCK LEG HIT THE HITCH ON TRUCK, LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL BACKWARD. PIECE OF STEEL FELL ON TOP OF HIS LOWER LEGS AND FE ET.

QUARRY TRUCK DRIVER STOP ON ROADWAY TO PICK-UP LARGE LIMESTONE ROCK THAT HA DFALLEN OFF THE TRUCK AHEAD OF HIM ON HIS LOAD. ROCK DIDN'T LOOK THAT BIG OR HEAVY. ABOUT 1/2 WAY THRU PUSHING, LI FTING AND ROLLING IT OUT OF NEED HE BURT OR PULL MUSCLE IN BACK.

HAD PUT IN A NEW FUSE. WHEN TURN FUSE BOX ON FUSE BOX BLEW UP.

BRAKE LINE ON QUARRY TRUCK MESSED UP. BROUGHT TOTHE SHOP TO GET FIXED. STEPPING DOWN OFF TRUCK FELT SOMETHING PULL A MUSCLE IN BACK. SAYS HE DIDN'T SLIP, FALL OR ANYTHING.

USING A BENCH GRINDER TO GRIND DOWN A PIECE OF STEEL. HAND SLIP & CAUGHT INDEX SIDE OF FINGER INTO GRINDER.

EMPLOYEES WERE STRIPPING ABOVE QUARRY.INJURED DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO NEXT.HE PULLED UP NEXT TO OTHER EMPLOYEE OR NEAR FOR HAND SIGNAL STEP OUT ON DOZER BLADE ARM AND LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL TO GROUND.LANDING ON HIS ELBOW AND JAMMED HIS SHOULDER(LEFT).

WAS ATTEMPTING TO REPLACE A V BELT ON 2 SCREEN AND GOT FINGER CAUGHT IN V BELT ON LEFT HAND MIDDLE FINGER CUT HALF UP ABOUT 1/2 OF FINGER NAIL, AND TIP END OF FINGER.

WALKING FROM OFFICE TO SHOP AREA, STEP ON LARGE ROCK & IT CAUSE HER TO FALL ON HER RIGHT LEG, ANKLE SWELLED UP.

OTHER AND EE WERE UNLOADING SCREENS USED AT PLANT FOR CRUSHING ROCK TOEHR SAYS CLEAR HANDS SAW ONE HAND CLEAR AND OTHER ONE MORNING CLEAR LET SCREEN DOWN WITH TOW MTOOR AND HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FI NGER AND RING WERE CAUGHT BETWEEN 2 PIECE OF STEEL BROKE BOTH FINGER AND CRUSHED SOME.

WORKING ON DRILL THAT HE OPERATES PUTTING BATTERY ON WHEN HE SQUAT DOWN TO PICK UP BATTERY HE COULDNT PICK UP REAL GOOD & GOT EE TO HELP HIM HE THINKS THAT WHEN HE PULLED HIS LOWER BACK MUSCLE TOOK OFF WORK WORK ON UES THE 13TH WENT TO DOC CAME BACK ON MON 4-19-93 WORK UN TIL 04-23-93 OFF AGAIN CALLED ME MON 4-26-93 GOING TO NASHVILLE SEE DOC

CUTTING A PIECE OF 3' BELT OFF A ROLL OF BELTING TO PUT IN PLANT USING A UTILITY KNIFE TO CUT RUBBER BELT KNIFE SLIP ABOUT HALF WAY THREE & HE CUT HIS KNEE MADE A SMALL CUT IN LEFT KNEE USING A STANLEY UTILITY KNIFE.

WAS DOING SOME WELDING AT IMPACT WANTED TO CUT A PIECE OF STEEL INTO AFTER CUTTING ROLLED STEEL OVER TO SEE IF CUT THRU IT DIDNT SO HE STRADDLE THE PIECES OF STEEL CUT LOOSE THE PLACE THAT DIN T CUT THRU WHEN IT BROKE LOOSE & FELL OVER KNOCKING HIM OFF BALANCE & HE FELL & BROKE SMALL BONE IN LEFT LEG

HAD JUST BEEN GETTING READY TO GO TO WORK ALL EQUIP RUNNING STEP UP ON DRILL TO GET ON LOADER HE OPERATION WHEN STEP UP ON NEXT STEP HIT TOP OF HEAD ON RIGHT SIDE WITH PIECE OF STEEL THAT A CA BLE RUNS THREW CUT TOP OF HEAD ABOUT 1 1/2

PUTTING DOZER TRACKS BACK TOGETHER DRIVING PIN INTO TRACK WITH SHELD HAMMER PIECE OF PIN CHIP OFF & FLEW INTO RT UPPER ARM

USING UTILITY KNIFE TO CUT A #6 SCREEN CONVEYOR BELT WAS IN A BEND OVER POSITION WHEN FINISHED CUTTING THRU BELT, LOST BALANCE AND CAUGHT ON THE HAND RAIL WITH KNIFE IN HAND AND FELL AGAINST K NIFE AND CUT UPPER SIDE OF RIGHT LEG.

PUTTING ROLLER UNDER SHORT BELT AT PLANT HOLDING ROLLER IN LAP LEANED BACK TO PICK BUP ROLLER. ROLLER MOVE UP WHEN PICK UPROLLER TO PUT UNDER SHORT BELT CAUSING HIM TO LEAN BACK FURTHER HAD TO CATCH HIMSELF TO KEEP FROM FALLING.

REPLACING OR CHANGING OUT PART OF #2 BELT ON PLANT KNIFE OR UTILITY BLADE HE WAS USING SLIP & CUT THROUGH HIS PANTS BOOT ONTO LEG. CUT LEG LEG JUST BELOW BOOT TOOK 5 STITCHES TO SEW UP.

FROM 4 TO 6 PM,INJURED RUNS HAMMER MILL IMPACT CRUSHER THAT FEEDS THE PLANT LIMESTONE ROCK TO MAKE 14 OTHER MATERIALS.WHILE RUNNING IMPACT HE FELT A STING SLAP AT HIS PANTS AND TOOK HOLD OF PA NTS AND OUT FELL SPIDER AND BIT HIM ON SIDE OF UPPER RIGHT LEG.

I.NAME RUNS DRILTEX DRILL INTO LIMESTONE ROCK AND WHILE CHANGING DRILL STEM WHICH IS ALSO ATTACHED WHEN AIR HIT CHANGED STEEL IT THREW SMALL PIECE OF ROCK INTO LEFT EYE.WAS WEARING SAFETY GLAS SES AT ALL TIME BUT WHEN AIR HIT STEEL BLOWED DUST,VERY FINE ROCK OUT AND 1 PIECE SOMEHOW WHEN UNDER SAFETY GLASSES INTO EYE.

EMPL WENT OUT TO PLANT TO GET ANOTHER EMPL TO GO TO LUNCH. PLANT HAD CHOCK OFF ANOTHER EMPL TOLD INJURED TO HELP THEM START PLANT BACK UP. INJURED TOOK HOLD OF BELT & WHEN PLANT WAS TURNED ON BELT CUT END OF FINGER FINGER IN RIGHT HAND. HE THOUGHT HE HAD HOLD OF BELT THAT DOESN'T MOVE. WHEN PLANT IS STARTED EMPL SAID NOT THINKING HE DIDN'T LOOK TO BE SURE WHICH HE MIGHT HAVE HOLD O

TRUCK GAUGE SHOW HOT SO BEFORE EATING LUNCH WAS GOING TO LOOSEN CAP & LET STEAM OFF WHEN CAP CAME OFF & HOT WATER SPRAYED OUT OF RADIATOR & BURNED FACE UPPER & UNDER RT ARM UPPER PART OF CHEST ON RT SIDE

DIGGING OUT FROM UNDER IMPACT WITH SHOVEL & TRYING TO MOVE SOME PACK ROCK IT HAD RAIN-& WHEN PUSH DOWN ON SHOVEL BACK STARTED HURTING DOC SAYS PULLED LIGMENT

EMPLS WERE CHANGING HAMMERS IN HAMMER MILL. EMPL DIDN'T MOVE BACK FAR ENOUGH ONE OF HAMMERS FELL OFF & HIT LEFT FOOT JUST ABOVE LITTLE TOE & BROKE LITTLE TOE BONE.

I,NAME & OTHER EMPLOYEE WERE PUTTING BELT ON BIG CRUSHER, TRYING TO PULL BELT TOGETHER WITH HAND, DECIDE TO CUT HOLE IN BELT & PUT A CHAIN IT IN & PULL TOGETHER I,NAME GOT HIS POCKET KNIFE TO CUT HOLE, KNIFE CLOSED UP ON RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

PUTTING UP WALKWAY RAIL AROUND TRAILER OFFICE AND SCALES PULLED UP WELDING HOOD TO SEE AND WAS USING HAMMER TO HIT EDGE OF PIPE RAIL AND PIECE OF METAL FLEW OFF AND HIT HIM IN LEFT EYE OR SOME WELDING SLAG.

EMPLS WERE CHANGING SCREEN ON ROCK CRUSHER WAS PULLING DOWN WRENCH RIGHT ELBOW HIT RIGHT SIDE & BROKE 2 RIBS.

W NAME AND I NAME WERE LOADING A ROLLER INTO SWINGER CAT LOADER IW NAME LET BRAKE OFF AND BUCKET HIT I NAME ON R KNEE AFTER LUNCH AND UP INTO EVENING KNEE STARTED SWELLING SO HE WENT TO DR

HAMMERING TEETH ON LOADER BUCKET PIECE OF AHMMER CHIP OFF HAMMER AND WENT INTO RIGHT EYEBROW.HAD CUT ON UPPER RIGHT FOREHEAD NEAR EYEBROW.

THIS EMPLOYEE HAD RETURN BACK TO WORK HERE AFTER BEING EMPLOYED WITH HIS FATHER PAST 2 YRS. AND HADN'T USED A SHOVEL IN A WHILE WAS WORKING ON PUG MILL AND HAD TO REMOVE SOME LOOSE ROCK FROM A ROUND MILL AND PULLED MUSCLE IN RIGHT ARM. WENT TO DR. TOLD HIM TO KEEP WRAP ON ARM FOR FEW DAYS.

WORKING ON DRILLL STEM TAKING DRILL APART AND AIR PRESSURE AHD BUILT UP AND HO;T GREASE SHOT OUT AND GREAE FLEW ON IN CHEST NO OBJECT HIT HIM JUST HOT GREASE FORM DRILL STEM.

WAS DRILLING LIMESTON WITH DRILLTECH MACHINE ROCK PIN DIDNT COME DOWN WENT TO CHECK WHAT HAPPENED WHEN ROCK PIN POP DOWN ON FINGER AND MASHED SIDE OF L INDEX FINGER WHEN PIN POP I NAME JERK HA ND PUT END OF FINGER GOT CAUGHT

RAISING ONE END OF IMPACT MACHINE WITH JACK.JACK SL SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER IMPACT AND HIT LEFT SHOUDLER BLADE.

EMPLS WERE TAKING PIECE OF STEEL UP STAIR TO SCREEN. HE TWISTED HIS KNEE & IT SWELL HE HAD TO H AVE FLUID DRAINED OFF IT MONDAY 9/19/88. HE HAD SURGURY ON THIS KNEE WHEN HE WAS 24 YRS OLD & HE HAS TO HAVE FLUID DRAINED OFF IT EVER SO OFTEN.

WAS WORKING ON TRANSMISSION IN SHOP USING A WRENCH DROPPED WRENCH INSIDE TRANSMIWSSION PUT RT HAND INSIDE TRANSMISSION WITH OTHER HAND TURNED TRANSMISSION OVER TO GET WRENCH GEAR ON INSIDE TRA NSMISSION MASHED RT INDEX FINGER GEAR INSIDE MASHED AND CRUSHED INDEX FINGER ON RT HAND

TAKING BOLTS OUT OF STEERING PUMP ON LIFT ON LOADER I.NAME HAD TYED AIR STEEM ON TIRE WALK AWAY AND LOADER TIRE EXPLODED PRESSURE FROM EXPLOSION PUSHED HIM TO HIS KNEES

HELPING HIM MOVE A ANGLE IRON AND PUT INTO SWINGER BUCKET WHEN PLACING PIECE OF MACHINE INTO BUKET OF LOADER RIGHT INDEX FINGER GOT CUT WHEN ANGLE IRON WAS LOWER INTO LOADER BUCKET. CUT FINGE R AND MASHED FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.

WHILE RUNNING T2E IMPACT PART OF PLANT ROCKS WERE BEING UNLOADED IN IMPACT AND HE WALKED OUT OF IMPACT BLDG TO WATCH ROCK FALLING INTO IMPACT. A SMALL ROCK HIT HIM IN CORNER OF RT EYE AND CAUS PAIN AND REDDNE8S WHEN HE GOT TO DR THERE WAS BLEEDING BEHIND EYE

WAS GREASING UP1ER PART OF LOADER STEP ONTO LOADER TIRE AND JUMPED TO GROUND.HE DIDN'T HIT THE GROUND WITH HIS BODY.JUST SPRANG UP FROM THE JUMP AND WALK ON TO OFFICE.LATER WHEN HE STARTED TO GET BACK ON LO5DER FELT A PINCH IN FOOT. LATER IN DAY FOOT SWELLED AND WAS HAVING A LITTLE TROUBLE WALKING. BROKE TOP TOE BONE ON RIGHT FOOT.

HE WAS PULLING 5ND PRYING A LARGE ROCK WHICH WAS LODGED IN ONE OF THE CRUSHERS WITH A PRY BAR.THE ROCK DISLODGED AND HE DID NOT MOVE HIS OTHER HAND QUICK ENOUGH TO KEEP THE ROCK FROM FALLING O N IT. SKINNED A3D FRACTURED MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT AND SECOND JOINT ALSO SKINNED LEFT FOREFINGER.

HAD WENT TO PLA3T TO GET MECHANIC TO WORK ON TRUCK.WALKING BACK FROM PLANT AND JUMP DITCH THAT HAD BEEN DUG OUT FOR WATER TO DRAIN.HUNG FOOT ON CABLE AND FELL TO GROUND ON RIGHT HAND (RING FIN GER).JAM FINGER3INTO HAND.CAUSED MUSCLES OR TENDONS IN HAND TO GET INFECTED.

WORKER WAS HELP3NG CHANGE HAMMERS IN HAMMERMILL AND DROPPED ONE HAMMER WHICH HIT GROUND AND BOUNCED ON HIS ANKLE CAUSING A FRACTURE

HE WAS PULLING 5N ELECT EXTENSION CORD AND JERKED IT BREAKING LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND.

PUTTING FUEL IN3LOADER; FEET SLIPPED AND HIS FOOT WENT INTO ENGINE.FAN CHIPPED BONE ON LEFT ANKLE.NO CUTS.PIECE OF BONE CHIPPED LOOSE FROM ANKLE-HAD TO WEAR CAST.LOADER HAD BROKE DOWN.THEY HA D JUST FINISHED3STARTING LOADER TO SEE IF IT RAN.HE CLIMBED OUT OF LOADER AND WAS WALKING AROUND EDGE OF CAB TO FUEL TANK TO FUEL UP.

HELPING WELDER 5ND USING GRINDING TOOL.WE ASSUME EYES WERE BURNED FROM FLASH OF WELDING.HE WOKE UP AT 2:00 AM WITH EYES BURNING.HIS WIFE TOOK HIM TO A DOCTOR AND THEY CLEANED HIS EYES.NO OBJEC T HURT HIM.WAS 4ORKING ON TRUCK HE DRIVES WITH WELDER; ONLY THING HE COULD HAVE BEEN DOING TO CAUSE FLASH TO EYES.