TROUP PLANT Metal/Non-Metal

While treating mine water at Outfall 2, hydrated lime in the hopper escaped through a gap at the flow adjustment plate and hit the employee in the eyes. Employee immediately began flushing eyes with bottled water. Due to severe irritation, the employee was taken in for medical evaluation.

Wet Slick clay on boot when contacting the step, slipped, and hit shin on step.

Employee walking across parking lot and tripped straining ligament in left calf.

While repairing shredder tire, a sliver of metal stabbed employee in the left thumb. Employee removed the metal but a small piece remained embedded in the thumb causing infection and swelling.

While attempting to remove a machine guard to tighten drive belts employee experienced "pop" and tingling sensation in left shoulder.

While removing a damaged bearing with a shop hammer, a fragment of the housing struck the employee in the right forearm, causing a laceration.

Employee strained lower back while attempting to lift a four-inch rubber discharge hose that was partially filled with water.

EE was traveling from the shredded clay storage shed to the BC control room along a travel and fell onto concrete floor. Fall caused a laceration to EE right eyebrow, fracture of his cheek bone, and a contusion to his right shoulder. He also scratched his right hand while attempting to arrest the fall. After Med evaluation 11/15/13 EE needs surgery

The employee was adjusting the ball clay rail spur switch when his finger was pinched between two pieces of metal causing a laceration.

EE was attempting to reinstall a bucket tooth pin on an excavator. He was using a shop hammer to reinstall the pin and inadvertantly struck the tip of his left index finger, causing crushing injuries to the finger tip.

While using a sledge hammer to dislodge material during railcar unloading, the employee felt a pain in his lower abdomen/groin. Employee reported the injury on 10/14/08 at approximately 7:00am. The employee was taken to the doctor & was diagnosed with a hernia.

Employee was replacing the bolts on the cutting edge of the dozer blade. The round, flush mount bolt rotated as it was engaged by the pneumatic impact wrench causing a laceration to the employees left index finger.

EE WAS ABOUT TO SCRAPE AN OLD REGISTRATION STICKER OFF THE WINDSHIELD OF THE WATER TRUCK WHEN HE DROPPED THE RAZOR-TIPPED SCRAPER WHICH CUT HIS WRIST.

A HOME-MADE HOSE REEL THAT HAS BEEN USED FIFTEEN YEARS WITHOUT INCIDENT SHIFTED WHILE IN USE.

A 35" X 35" X 56" SUPERSACK FILLED WITH 1 TON OF POWDERED CLAY BEGAN TO FALL OVER. EE ATTEMPTED TO CATCH IT AND WAS PUSHED AND TRIPPED, FELL, AND SHATTERED HIS RIGHT ELBOW WHEN HE STRUCK THE C ONCRETE FLOOR.

EE WAS DRAGGING HOSE. FELT PAIN IN RIGHT SHOULDER.

EE WAS LIFTING FIBER BARREL OF SAMPLES & PLACING IT ON A PALLET UNDER STORAGE TRAILER.

EE ATTEMPTED TO LIFT CORE BARREL WITH BACK INSTEAD OF LEGS.

EE WAS DIRECTING THE OPERATOR OF THE DOZER WHILE CLEARING RIGHT OF WAYS FOR DRILLING RIG. A PINE SNAPING WAS PUSHED OVER AND STRUCK THE EE ON THE HEAD CAUSING NECK AND BACK PAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING BLADES ON CLAY SAMPLE CRUSHER. THE SCREWDRIVER SLIPPED AND PENETRATED HIS HAND, MAKING A PUNCTURE WOUND.

PULLING ON VACCUM HOSE/PIPE FELT A PAIN LOWER BACK.

EE WAS DREFORMING MAINTENANCE ON EQUIPMENT AND SLIPPED FALLING APPROX. 4' TO THE GROUND. EE HAD PAIN TO THE GROIN AND KNEE.

HAD A JACK WITH A PIECE OF SQUARE TUBING JACKINGPARTS DOWN. JACK SLIPPED & HIT EE IN RIGHT SHOULDER & RIGHT ARM WENT NUMB

THE EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING A 4" DISCHARGE HOSE UASED FOR PUMPING WATER WHEN HE HURT HIS BACK.

DRAGGING 4" DISCHARGE HOSE, PULLED SHOULDER & BACK MUSCLE STRAIN.

HE WAS PUTTING A ROLLER ON A MIXER,, HAND (RIGHT) SLIPPED OFF OF THE ROLELR AND BENT POINTER FINGER BACK. PARTIALLY TORE TENDONS.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING WEED EATER CUTTING GRASS AND EXPERIENCED BACK PAIN. POSSIBLE BACK STRAIN.

HAD SERVICED UNLOADING CONVEYOR WENT TO LEAVE THE AREA, WALKING UP THE INCLINE, SLIPPED, GRABBED THE HANDRAIL, TWISTED BACK.

BACK STRAIN--HE WAS WORKING ON A SCREW CONVEYOR WHEN HE NOTCIED HIS BACK HURTING.

EE WAS TAKING LID OFF ELEVATOR. IT SLIPPED AND FELL ONTO EE'S HAND, BREAKING LEFT HAND.

EMP WAS CLIMBING A LADDER. FEET WERE WET AND MUDDY. SLIPPED AND FELL. STRAINED BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING ON A SCREW CONVEYOR THAT WAS BEING LIFTED INTO PLACE BY A SMALL CRANE. EMPLOYEE STRAINED BACK GUIDING/PUSHING THE SCREW CONVEYOR.

EE WAS WALKING OUTSIDE NEAR MAINTENANCE SHOP WHEN WIND BLEW PIECE OF ROCK INTO RIGHT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING HANDRAIL OFF SILO 3 SLAG BLEW OUT INTO PANT LEGS AND DOWN INTO BOOT BURNIG RIGHT ANKLE.

DRIVING MANLIFT AND RAN INTO HOLE. THE IMPACT CAUSED EMP TO FALL ON KNEE ON FLOOER OF MANLIFT CAGE.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING HEAVY SPLIT CORE BARREL OF DRILLING RIG TO SET ON SAW HORSES. STRAIN LEFT LOWER BACK STRAP.

EE WAS UNLOADING RAILCAR OF SOAPSTONE, USING A 6 FT STEEL BAR TO OPEN BOTTOM HATCH. THE RATCHET/ RATCHET GEAR ON THE HATCH WAS NOT ENGAGED WELL. THE 6 FT STEEL BAR WAS PULLED BY EE INTO HIS RT COLLAR BONE.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING LOADING HEAVY ROLL OF ROAD BASE FABRIC STRAINED RT FRONT STOMACH DOC SAID THIS AGGREVATED AN OLD HERNIA WHICHTHEDOC THEN DID SURGERY TO REPAIR DAMAGE

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING TAIL PULLEY GUARD FROMSOPESTONE UNLOADING BELT IN PIT UNDER RR TRACK. THE GUARD WAS STUCK, HE PULLED ON GUARD & WHEN IT MOVED, THE GUARD CRUSHED HIS FINGER AGAINST THE CO NCRETE WALL CAUSING THE CUT ON HIS LEFT RING FINER.

HAND STRUCK REAR VIEW MIRROR OF FRONT END LOADER WHEN LOADER WAS SLIDING.

EE WAS CUTTING FLIGHTS OUT OF CLAY COOLER. ONE FLIGHT WAS ALMOST FREE. WHEN EE PULLED ON IT, IT CAME LOOSE AND FELL ON HIS RIGH TINSTEP. HE WAS WEARING STEEL TOED BOOTS BUT A SHARP PROJECTI ON ON THE FLIGHT STRUCK HIS BOOT ABOVE THE TOE, PUNCTURING THE BOOT & HIS FOOT.

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TAILGATE OF PICK-UP TO PULL A 72 LB BOX TOWARD HIM. STRAIN OCCURRED WHEN HE PULLED THE BOX.

INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK ON THE CHIN BY ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WIT WHOM HE WAS ARGUING. HE WAS STRUCK WITH A WRENCH.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A TRACKHOE TO CLEAR BRUSH ALONG A ROAD AND DISTURBED A HIVE OF BEES WHICH STUNG HIM.

THE INJURED WAS HOLDING A HAMMER UNDER HIS ARM WHILE HE TIED A RIBBON TO A TREE, HAMMER SLIPPED, REACH TO CATCH IT, CUT PALM OF LEFT HAND.

INJURED HAD FINISHED CLEANING SPILLAGE OFF THE TOP OF A BOX CAR. WHILE CLIMBING DOWN AN EXTEN- TION LADDER, HE ALLEGES THE TOP SECTION SLID DOWN CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE AND FALL TO THE GROUND. UPON INSPECTION OF THE LADDER WAS FOUND TO BE IN GOOD WORKING ORDER.

EMPL USING A PRY BAR TO CLOSE BOTTOM DOOR OF SOAPSTONE CAR STRAINING HIS BACK.

INJURED WAS OPENING THE BOTTOM DOOR ON A RAILCAR, USING A PRY BAR. THE PRY BAR HE WAS USING SLIPPED, CAUSING HIM TO STUMBLE AND TWIST HIS ANKLE.

INJURED STEPPED OFF THE MUD PIT AND STRAINED HIS LEFT KNEE.

INJURED WAS HANDLING A BAG FULL OF CLAY THE BAG HAD A PIECE OF HARDENED GLUE STICKING OUT OF THE CORNER WHEN HE LIFTED THE BAG HE WAS STRUCK ON H IS RT LEG

INJURED WAS STANDING ON THE GROUND OPERATING A HOIST CONTROL (PUSHING A BUTTON), WHEN HE SLIPPED, LOST HIS BALANCE, AND CAUGHT THE SUPPORT OF THE UNLOADING STATION TO PREVENT FALLING DOWN.

CLAY HAD BRIDGED IN SHREDDER INJ WAS USING STEEL BAR TO POKE CLAY RE REMOVE BRIDGE. BAR GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN SHREDDER TOOTH & WET BAR CAUSING INJ FINGERS TO BE PINCHED BETWEEN BAR & SHREDDER HOP PER.

INJ REMOVING PLUG FROM WATER PUMP WHICH HAD LOST ITS PRIME.HOT WATER ESCAPED BURNING EMPL ON EAR,HEAD & NECK.

HELPER WAS LEVELING HANDRAIL POST WHEN TACK WELD BROKE CAUSING HIM TO LOSE BALANCE & FALL OVER OUTSIDE EDGE OF STRUCTURE.

INJURED PULLED ON MUD PIT TO AJUST IT THUS STRAINING HIS BACK.

INJURED REACHED INTO PUMP HOUSING TO DIP OUT WATER AND CUT FINGER ON SOMETHING SHARP.

INURED WAS CHECKING LEVEL OF CLAY ON RR CAR WHEN DRYER SOCK DISCHARGED, MATERIAL CAME LOOSE AND HIT HIM ACROSS RIGHT SHOULDER KNOCKING HIM DOWN ON TOP OF CAR. INJURED FALLING ON HIS RIGHT LE G.

INJURED WAS PUT7ING SEALS ON HATCHES OF RR CAR.AS HE CLIMBED OFF LADDER,HIS ANKLE TWISTED.

INJURED WAS TAK3NG DISCHARGE HOSE OFF OF PUMP PRESSURE BUILT UP CAUSED IT TO BLOW HOT WATER ON INJURED'S RT ARM BELOW ELBOW LEAVING A BURN & BLISTERS.

INJURED WAS CHECKING LEVEL OF CLAY ON RR CAR WHEN DRYER SOCK DISCHARGES, MATERIAL CAME LOOSE AND HIT HIM ACROSS RIGHT SHOULDER KNOCKING HIM DOWN ON TOP OFCAR. INJURED FALLING ON HIS RIGHT LEG.