Tascosa Plant Metal/Non-Metal

WHILE DRIVING HAUL TRUCK IT BAGAN TO BOUNCE GOING UP AN INCLINE AND HURT HIS BACK.

TRYING TO LIFT A ROCK THAT WAS TOO LARGE.

LIFTING A MOTOR AND FELT A STRAIN IN GROIN.

KNEELING ON GROUND, GRINDING, STTOD UP TO REPOSITION HIS BODY AND WHEN HE TURNED HEARD SOMETHING POP AND HIS BACK STARTED HURTING.

STEPPED ON A ROCK, ROCK ROLLED AND MADE HIM TWIST HIS KNEE AND ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEARING ROCK OFF A CONVEYER BELT. HE STARTED TO WALK BACK DOWN ON THE CATWALK AND SLIPPED ON SOME LOOSE GRAVEL. HE FELL, BRUISING HIS LOWER BACK AND BUTTOCKS. HE INITIALLY DECLIN ED MEDICAL HELP BUT THE NEXT DAY INFORMED HIS SUPERVISOR THAT HE FELT HE NEEDED TO BE SEEN BY A PHYSICIAN.

EE WAS STANDING ON THE CATWALK BY THE CONE CRUSHER. HE STEPPED ONTO THE LEDGE OF THE CRUSHER AND WHEN HE JUMPED BACK DOWN, HE MISSTEPPED AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE. EE STATES HE MIGHT HAVE HAD GREA SE ON HIS BOOT WHICH CAUSED HIM TO LOOSE HIS FOOTING. HE REFUSED MEDICAL TREATMENT BUT WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM LATER THAT NIGHT. HE RECEIVED A SPRAINED ANKLE FROM THIS INJURY/ACCIDENT.

EE WAS CLEANING A SCREEN BY USING A SMALL HAMMERTO BEAT ON SCREEN TO REMOVE EXCESS BUILDUP HE COMPLAINED OF PAIN IN RIGHT SHOULDER A FEW HRS LATER HE INFORMED SUPERVISOR THAT HIS SHOULDER HURT & WAS TAKEN T CONCENTRA MEDICAL CENTERS WHERE HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A STRAIN TO THE RIGHT SHOULDER

EE WAS RELINING CHUTES AT THE PLANT. HE LIFTED ONE TO MOVE IT OUT OF THE WAY & LOST HIS GRIP CUASING IT TO FALL ON HIS FOOT. THIS CAUSED A CONTUSION TO HIS LEFT FOOT, RIGHT ABOVE THE STEEL TOE LINING OF BOOT

EE WAS BACKDRAGGING WITH HIS LOADER AND WAS TURNED AROUND WHEN THE LOADER HIT A BUMP AND EE STATES THAT THE JARRING CAUSED NECK AND BACK PAIN.

ROCK FELL FROM HOPPER AS EE WAS DISLODGING ROCKS WEDGED IN HOPPER GRIZZLY. EE DID NOT REQUEST TO VISIT A PHYSICIAN UNTIL 6-18-99.

EE WAS WALKING DOWN THE HOPPER RAMP WHEN HE SLIPPED IN SOME LOOSE GRAVEL AND HURT HIS ANKLE.

EE WAS PICKING UP ROCKS AND TOSSING THEN OUT OF THE HOPPER AREA. HE WENT TO TOSS A ROCK AND AS HE TURNED TO THE LEFT HE HEARD HIS KNEE POP.

EE WAS TRYING TO GET PULL PIN IN L190 LOADER. THE PIN WOULD NOT FIT IN THE HOLE AND HE WAS TRYING TO GET THE PIN BACK OUT WHEN THE PIN CAME LOOSE AND MASHED HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN THE P IN AND THE COUNTER WEIGHT.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OFF LOADER, HAD A JUG OF WATER SITTING ON TOP OF FUEL TANK. HE WAS STANDING ON BOTOM STEP HOLDING TOP STEP WITH RIGHT HAND. GRABBED WATER JUG IN LEFT HAND AND LOST BALANCE , FALLING AROUND TO THE RIGHT. HIS WEIGHT PULLEDHAND AGAINST RAIL AND INJURED HAND. EMPLOYEE WAS TOO SHORT TO REACH JUG FROM GROUND SO HE CLIMBED LOADER STEPS. HE FRACTURED ULNA/USING SPLINT.

EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING BY AUTOMATIC WELDER, BUILDING UP ROLL CRUSHER. HE WAS WEARING WELDING HELMET AT THE TIME BUT WAS NOT WEARING GLASSES UNDER THE HELMET HOOD TO PROTECT HIS EYES FROM THE BRIGHT FLASH OF NIGHT.

EE WAS BREAKING A LARGE PARTICLE OF GRAVEL THAT GOT STUCK IN GRIZZLE OVER HOPPER AND A PIECE OF GRAVEL FLEW UP AND HIT LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING A 1/4" X 24" X 36" STEEL PLATE IN PLACE ON TOP DECK AT 6" X 16' HEWITT-ROBBINS SCREEN. STEEL PLATE'S PURPOSE IS TO PROTECT TOP DECK FROM AGGREATE FLOWING ON IT FROM CONVEY OR BELT.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF TRUCK LEFT FOOT SLIPPED OFF STEPS OF TRUCK & HE INJURED LEFT KNEE

EMPLOYEE WAS HAMMERING SCREENCLAMP BAR IN PLACE AND HUNG RIGHT HAND THUMB NAIL ON ANGLE IRON.

EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING IMPELLER OF PUMP HIS WRENCH SLIPPED EMPLOYEE LOST BALANCE AND HE HIT HIS HEAD ON MOTOR OF PUMP.

55061S ASSISTING PLANT OPERATOR REPAIR A CONVEYOR BELT. EE SPRAINED HIS BACK WHEN HE P ICKED UP A PIECE OF STEEL.,

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING A BOLT FROM REAR OF PICK-UP. HE WAS LEANING AGAINST TAILGATE, LOST FOOTING AND HIT LEFT SIDE OF PICK-UP, HURTING HIS RIBS.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING SCREENS ON 5 X 16 EL-JAY SCREEN AND HE LOST HIS FOOTING. WHEN EMPLOYEE LOST HIS BALANCE ALL OF HIS WEIGHT CAME DOWN ON HIS LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO PICK UP ROOTS AND CLAYBALLS OFF GRIZZLY OVER HOPPER AND SPRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPL REPORTED TO SUPERVISOR THAT HE HAD PAIN IN LEFT SHOULDER & NECK AREA. EMPL HAD OPEN HEART SURGERY IN 4UNE, 1988. EMPL WAS CONCERNED SO HE WENT TO SEE DOCTOR. DR STATED THAT COULD BE CA USED BY BLEEDING OR MUSCLE PUYLL. EMPL STATED HIS DR STATED THAT DISCOMFORT WAS NOT JOB RELATED.

EMPLOYEE WASON TOP OF SCREEN TO REMOVE A ROCK, HE TRIPPED AND FELL BETWEEN BRACE OF MOTOR AND BELT GUARD WITH ALL HIS WEIGHT LANDING ON RIGHT ELBOW (EQUIPMENT WASNOT IN OPERATION).

EMPLOYEE WAS PO6RING OPEN GEAR GREASE ON BULL GEAR AT SAND SCREW EMPLOYEE LOST RIGHT EAR THUMB & INDEX FINGER OF RT.HAND BROKEN COLLAR BONE ON RT.SIDE SOME BROKEN RIBS ON RT.SIDE AMPUTATION OF LEFT FOOT APPRO3.6 INCH.BELOW KNEE

EMPLOYEE WAS IN8TALLING AND LACING NEW CONVEYOR BELT.

EMP CLAIMS ACCI8ENT OCCURED 05 28 87 HE DID NOT REPORT ACCIDENT TO SUPERVISOR UNTIL 6 6 87. EMP CLAINED THAT HE INJURED HIMSELF WHILE PERFORMING DUTY AS HOPPERMAN

EMPLOYEE PULLED3MUSCLE IN RT SHOULDER WHILE DRIVING END DUMP STOCKPILE TRUCK EMPLOYEE STATD THAT HE HURT HIS SHOULDER 5-8-86 BUT DID NOT REPORT TO HIS SUPERVISOR UNTIL 6-9-86

EMP WAS USING A3 ELECTRIC GRINDER AND WAS GRINDING ON LOG WASHER TIP WHILE USING THE GRINDER THE EMP GOT METAL PARTICLE IN HIS EYE

EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG A SLEDGE HAMMER TO BREAK UP OVERSIZE ON HOPPER & INJURED HIS BACK

EMP WAS REPLACI3G BELTS THAT HAD COME OFF DRIVE SHEAVE, ONE BELT WAS TWISTED AND HE WAS TRYING TO STRAIGHTEN IT WHEN HIS GLOVE GOT CAUGT AND PULLED HIS RIGHT HAND INTO SHEAVE

EMPL END-DUMP D9IVER OF STOCKPILE TRUCK.HIS RESP.IS TO DRIVER TRUCK UNDER BINS AND PULL LEVER TO OPEN GATE OF BIN.EMPL SPRAINED LEFT ELBOW WHEN HE PULLED LEVER.