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Right thumb was pinched between square hub bolt head and access removal slot wall in the cage mill housing, resulting in a laceration that required stiches.

Employee was hydroblasting a scrubber and material fell from the wall hitting employee in the back of the head. This resulted in the employee receiving 8 staples in the head. Employee was wearing a hardhat and material knocked hardhat off.

While operating bagging machine, contract employee inadvertently pinched right thumb while adjusting the saddle of the bagging station.

Grinder angle was incorrect, causing it to bind up on a narrow area on angle iron. Grinder bounced at employee causing lacerations on chin and neck.

While blowing lime dust from the lime cooler access door with air lance, EE got lime in eyes.

EE using pneumatic torque gun. Positioned tool on lug in the 6 o'clock position. EE is right hand dominant & was holding grip with right hand & used left hand to set socket on lug. Then placed left hand under barrel of gun. Squeezed trigger with right hand before moving left hand off of barrel. Resulted in distal end of left index finger amputation.

IW was working on cleaning soft lime from under belt using vacuum hose. Vacuum hose pulled IW and IW felt pop from upper back. IW was initially diagnosed with thoracic strain on 8/1/23. Upon follow up on 8/17/23, IW was diagnosed and treated for rib subluxation.

EE was unplugging the 1651 DC, when material blew back striking EE in the left eye. EE was using air lance above the rotary valve slightly cracking the valve when fine material blew back striking EE's left eye. EE radioed for assistance to nearest eye wash. Following the initial flush EE was taken to the plumbed eye wash where additional material was removed.

EE was using an pneumatic air hammer to chip lime scale away from the truck side loading scale. The EE reached out over head while lying on the ground and over extended, causing an acute pain in the right shoulder and numbness in the right hand.

The employee was installing a discharge cover on a water pump. Once in position, the employee began to push the housing toward the pump. The pushing movement caused one of the chain hooks to twist allowing the hook to disengage. The housing dropped approximately 2 feet and struck the employee's right foot above the safety toe

Employee was removing/installing a motor base for 3B screen. When employee bent over to grind a weld employee felt back pop with an onset of pain.

A maintenance employee was injured while using a portable side grinder to cut a piece of channel. The cut-off wheel lodged in the cut and kicked back into the inside of left leg just above the knee. The laceration was deep enough to require stitches. The grinder had a guard installed and the employee had on all required PPE.

EE got debris on right eye while standing next to another miner who was power washing.

Employee was air lancing around a lime silo when lime came in contact with eyes. EE immediately flushed eyes for 10 minutes at an eye wash station, they used 2 bottles of saline solution. Eyes felt better however they wanted medical treatment. Employee was sent to urgent care this morning. EE received 3 prescriptions, one of which was tylenol with codeine.

Injured employee was in a boom lift using a cutting torch. The worker turned the torch off and draped it over the handrail. The acetylene valve knob bumped against the mid-rail of the basket opening the valve which allowed acetylene gas to penetrate the employee's pant leg. A spark from the grinder ignited the gas causing a flash fire and burn to the worker's left leg.

left hand pinky finger entangle with hammer drill bit, finger bruise and swelling. employee went to Dr. and return to work with restriction of wearing finger splint for a week, back to full duty at on 10-20-2020

Operator and rigger were replacing steel covers using a loader and chain rigging. The rigger removed the chain from one side of cover and signaled the operator to back up. Rigger did not signal the operator to stop and as they backed up the other rigging pulled across the riggers right foot. Fracture of the 5th metatarsal. Fracture boot for 6 weeks.

Employee was sweating due to humid environment and while using a grinder EE attempted to wipe sweat out of EE's eye and the grinder wheel cut EE's hand. Employee was taken to Shelby Baptist Medical center and received 8 stitches. EE returned to work the following day.

Employees began to lift up a block of refractory with a hoist & choker. The load was not centered below the hoist & it began to swing. One of the employees was in the path of the block. EE attempted to get out of the way. The block struck a crossbeam and continued to swing into lower left leg. EE was diagnosed with a hair line fracture in left leg.

The employee attempted to adjust a strap on a hook as the winch was taking up slack in the line. The line became taut and the employee's fingertip was pinched momentarily between the strap and hook saddle.

Employee was gouging anchor in the pre-heater. The air coming out of the gouger hit a small pocket of material dust, which caused the dust to rise up under EE's welding hood and safety glasses. Employee was wearing all of the proper PPE for the task.

EE (injured Miner) and another Miner were hanging curtains in the 8WFWSWM area. EE was holding the curtain while the other Miner was using a hand held drill to drill a small hole in the curtain, so they could pin it to the wall. The drill caught the curtain and ee glove, spinning the glove and hand up in the curtain. ee right thumb was fractured.

Employee was chipping concrete with jackhammer and sledge hammer; lime dust was also present; dust got in employee's eye causing to scratch right eye.

Employee was talking to the employees working at Sacker #1 at the Pool Warehouse. As the lift table lowered, the employee's foot was caught below the motor housing, crushing the employee's foot. Employee was diagnosed with a broken bone in right foot.

Employee was welding inside a steel chute and a hot piece of welding slag burnt through EE's pant leg and rolled down in EE's left boot and burned the top of EE's left foot in two places.

Right angle grinder was used to dress-up the edge of a steel plate roof repair when the wheel wedged between the plate and the supporting channel iron kicking back into the workers face resulting in ten stitches in cheek and six damaged teeth.

Employee strained lower back while performing a sample size distribution analysis with the sample shaker.

Employee was clearing rocks from the south haul road at the 480 Bench entrance road with a motor-grader. LHoist employee was traveling on same haul road and when turning right onto the 480 Bench road struck the motor-grader.

EE was operating the East Side Crusher. Several rocks had come to rest on the jaw of the Crusher. EE was attempting to remove them by hand when a rock had come loose from the feeder/shaker (crusher was not operating) and struck his right index finger.

Employee was using a hand grinder to grind welds on the screen of the Old Side Silo, when he stated he felt something in his right eye. He was wearing safety glasses and a face shield. Employee did not report the injury on Friday 7/24 as required, and reported it to supervision Sunday 7/26.

EE was cleaning the windows on a haul truck with equipment wash solution. As he was shutting the pump off the pre-clamped hose separated from the wand and hose end struck him in the face knocking his safety glasses off his face, hitting him in the eye.

EE holding one side of a suspended roll for conveyor belt, that was being held by an overhead crane with a bar running through the middle. Another EE was prying nails out and the bar in the middle failed and the EE's hands were caught between the hook and the bar.

When doing welding work, a spark from the torch came into contact with employee's watch, thus heating the watch up. From the hot watch surface a burn developed on employee's left wrist

The employee was tack welding two pieces of metal with a wire welder. The employee had a lapse in concentration and stabbed himself in the fire with the hot wire.

Employee was demoing an old bullnose setion inside preheater. As the piece was cut it fell, and one of the anchors caught his left knee and gouged/cut him. Employee thought that bullnose section still had one gusset attached when he torched the bullnose piece.

Employee was using the welding machine to air arc/source a large dump truck bed and while leaning to one side a hot spark/slag piece hit his ear.

while using a rivet buster to break refractory brick, the brick broke loose, allowing the rivet buster to swing freely. This motion caused the rivet buster to smash employee finger against a scaffold pole

Employee was lifting hydraulic wrench on to pier when left pinky finger was pinched between timber and wrench when resting tool. Finger was lacerate at tip requiring three sutures to close wound.

Employee was operating an industrial vacuum cleaner when an actuator failed, causing his index and middle finger to be smashed between the vacuum and the collection hopper. His index and middle finger on his right hand were broken between the fingernail and knuckle. He was treated at the ER and released the same day.

Employee was completing a welding/grinding operation when he noticed an irritation to his right eye.

Employee was attempting to clear a bridged pre-heater ram using a high pressure water jet. When employee started clearing the bridged material, dust and steam blew out of the access port

Employee washing out preheaters and he took off his PPE while moving between preheaters. When the job was set up and ready to start it was the employee's turn to wash and he did not his PPE on. As a result when he injected water into the preheater which had hot debris inside, hot steam and dust blew out of the preheater causing burns to the employee's exposed hand.

EE was grinding metal with an electrical grinder, when a piece of metal lodged in his right eye. He was using PPE. We were informed on 9/19/11 that the metal was removed with a tool by the MD.

EE went to the doctor on his own time with back pain. The diagnosis was a bulging disk in his lower back. EE was off work on doctors orders from 6/22/2011 to 8/28/2011. On 9/7/2011 the doctor deemed EE's condition as work related. The doctor attributed the condition to vibrations from operating a dozer.

A piece of metal fell on EE's upper left arm. He was scratched and bruised on his left wrist.

Employee was attempting to take off bolt from allen wrench attached to a 1/2" IR air impact wrench. He was holding the impact wrench with right hand and his left hand was pulling on the bolt. His right hand slipped and made contact with trigger on impact wrench, causing the bolt to rotate in his left hand, causing lacerations to his left hand palm area.

During the clean out of a mixing machine, access door to machine was open to allow mortar to flow out. Paddle was positioned to prevent the flow of mortar. While one person instructed the oper ator to jog the machine the injured reached into door to remove rock. Injury resulted in fracture and laceration ultimately leading to an amputation of the finger above the large knuckle.

Employee was using a jackhammer to clean scale from a kiln, got dust in his eyes resulting in burning.

Laborer smashed his finger between a jackhammer and support structure. Causing contusion of the left index finger.

Employee was inside the framework of #2 surge conveyor preparing to cut an roller bracket off with a oxygen/acetylene torch. When employee lit the torch, he heard a gurgling sound. Employee attempted to the gas and air off. before he could get it off, the oxygen hose blew into causing 1st degree burn to the employee.