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HAD RAISED PIECE OF PIPE WITH FORKLIFT TO ATTACH TO CHAIN HOIST.INJ GOING TO CLIMB BACK DOWN FORKLIFT RACK WHEN FORKS DROPPED CATCHING FINGERS.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING BOBCAT LOADER AND STRUCK METAL PLATE COVERING DITCH FORCED HIM FORWARD AND BCKWARD RESULTING IN INJURY TO BACK
PLANT WAS SHUT DOWN INJURED WAS WORKING AS SECURITY GUARD MAKING ROUNDS WIND WAS BLOWING AND BLEW FOREIGN OBJECT INTO L EYE
EMPL WAS MOVING CANE ROCK BY HAND DUE TO MOTOR BEING OFF OPERATOR LOWERED BUCKET CAUSING ROCK TO MOVE. EMPL WAS STRUCK BY BEAM IN BUILDING ROOF KNOCKING HIM O VER HANDRAIL RESULTING IN INJU RY TO RIGHT ANKLE.
EMPL WAS USING IRON PIPE HIT R 5TH FINGER ON CHUTE RESULTING IN BROKEN FINGER
INJURED HURT HIS BACK WHILE OPERATING MACHINE POSSIBLY BOUNCING UP AND DOWN ON EQUIPMENT.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN BACK OF PICK-UP TRUCK; FELL OUT RESULTING IN BACK INJURY.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING COAL REJECTS ON DUMP TRUCK FOREIGN OBJECT BLEW INTO LEFT EYE
ROPE BROKE ON CONTAINER USED TO CLEAN OUT PUMP HOLE & CONTAINER TRUCK EMPL'S FINGER.
EMPL WAS CUTTING ON BOTTOM OF MUD RING SIDE PART FELL HE TRIPPED ON AIR HOSE & COULD NOT GET OUT OF WAY. RESULTS RIGHT LOWER BACK.
INJURED WAS GRINDING PIECE OF ANGLE INRON WITH HAND GRINDER WHEN SOMETHING GOT INTO EYE.
INJURED WAS WALKING TO ALLEY BETWEEN KILN BUILDING, STEPPED UP ONTO CURB AND SLIPPED DOWN, CAUSING INJURY TO RIGHT KNEE.
EMPL CUTTING HEDGES IN FRONT OF BLDG AND GOT INTO POISON OAK.
INJ PLACING HYDRAULIC JACKS UNDER 1ST SET OF ROLLS ON #1 KILN.HURT BACK.INJURED DIDNT GO TO DR UNTIL 7-19-88.
INJURED WAS PUTTING A FAN INTO A PAYLOADER BUCKET WHEN FAN SLID AND CAUGHT FINGER ON BUCKET.
INJURED WAS BURNING OUT DISCHARGVE SCREEN PLATES FOR 301 MILL WHEN PIECE OF HOT SLAG WENT DOWN IN SHOE & BURNED FOOT. INJURED DID NOT GO TO DR. UNTIL 6/24/8,.
HAD JUST TURNED MILL OVER. INJURED WENT IN MILL FROM BOTTOM MANHEAD AND WAS LOOKING AT WORK TO BE DONE ON LINERS IN BOTTOM WHEN A LOOSE LINER PLATE FELL FROM THE TOP OF MILL STRIKING INJURED ON HEAD AND BACK.
INJURED WAS PICKING UP A PIECE OF STEEL BAR AND FELT PAIN IN BACK.
WHILE OPERATING LOADER,INJURED HIT HOLE IN ROAD BOUNCING HIM IN SEAT JAMMING BACK.
INJURED WAS HAULING DUST IN DUST DUMP TRUCK CLUTCH STUCK ON TRUCK AND WHEN IT RELEASED INJURED S FOOT WAS ON PEDAL AND IMPACT DROVE FOOT AND LEG IN UPWARD MOTION CAUSING INJURY TO BACK.
INJURED JUMPED DOWN INTO H OLE BESIDE DRAG CHAIN TO GET HIS SAFETY GLASSES WHICH HAD FALLEN THERE HEHIT HIS ARM ON PIECE OF METAL.
INJURED WAS USI3G AIR LANCE TO BLOW DUST CHUTE OUT. BLOW BACK IN FACE CAUSED INJURY.
INJURED WAS WEL8ING ON CRANE BUCKET ARM AND EVINDENTLY INHALED SOME FUMES FROM ELECTRODE INJURE WENT TO DR FOR COLD SYMPTOMS AND DR ADVISED HE HAD SOME CHEMICAL BURNS IN HIS THROAT
INJURED WAS ATT9MPTING TO HOOK HEADACHE BALL TO CABLE ON CHERRY PICKER CRANE. CRANE OPERATOR MOVED BOOM OVER TOWARD BALL. INJURED TURNED AROUND AND BOOM HIT HIM IN HEAD.
INJURED STEPPED3ON STEEL GRINDING BALL AND TURNED LEFT ANKLE.
INJURED WAS REM2VING A PIECE OF COMPACTED GYPSUM APPROX 100 LBS FROM SOUTH COAL FEEDER IN CRANE BLDG WHILE PULLING GYPSUM OFF IT CAME OVER AND FELL ON LEFT FOOT
WHILE CLIMBING 8OWN ONTO OVERHEAD CRANE, INJURED'S FOOT SLIPPED ON A BRACE AND HIS KNEE GAVE WAY.
INJURED WAS UNC2OKING COAL CHUTE USING BAR. BAR SLIPPED AND LEFT THUMB HIT EDGE OF OPENING CAUSING INJURY.
INJURED WAS ATT9MPTING TO PUT ELEVATOR CHAIN TOGETHER CAUGHT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN CHAIN WHEN IT FOLDED TOGETHER.
INJURED WAS INSTALLING SCREW CONVEYOR ON GRAVEL BED DUST COLLECTOR. HAD SCREW IN HEAD AND SLIPPED CAUSING PAIN IN STOMACH.
INJURED CLIMBIN1 LADDER TO COAL CRUSHER AND FELT PAIN IN GROIN LIKE PULLED MUSLCE.
INJURED WAS REMOVING 8" PIPE FROM CEILING OF MILL ROOM WHEN PIPE SLIPPED STRIKING INJURED ON KNEE.
INJURED WAS HURRYING ACROSS THE ROOM, TURNED ANKLE AND FELL AGAINST THE DOOR FRAME, STRIKING NOSE, MOUTH, AND HAND AGAINST DOOR FRAME.
INJURED WAS INS7ALLING RADIATOR GRILL ON 977 LOADER HE WAS HOLDING THE GRILL WITH HIS FINGERS STUCK THROUGH A HOLE THE GRILL SLIPPED CATCHING HIS FINGER.
LOWER BACK STRA3N WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY BAD SEAT ON EQUIPMENT.
INJURED WAS TRYING TO STOP DUST LEAK AT MULTICLONE ELEVATOR DOOR. DUST GOT INSIDE HIS GLOVE BURNING A SMALL BLISTER ON HIS HAND.
INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO BURN OUT T-BOLT WHICH WAS HOLDING COOLER GRATE PLATE. PUNCH WAS DRIVEN THROUGH FROM TOP TO KNOCK OUT BOLT. INJURED HIT PUNCH TO DRIVE BACK OUT OF HOLE AND PIECE BROKE OFF HITTING INJURED BESIDE RIGHT EYE AND LODGING.
INJURED WAS HOL8ING BOLT WITH HIS RIGHT HAND WHENIMPACT WRENCH WAS APPLIED TO THE NUT SPINNING THE BOLT WITH HIS RIGHT HAND.
A HIGH PRESSURE3LIME SLURRY LINE WAS PLUGGED. INJURED WAS TRYING TO OPEN PUMP AND FLUSH OUT LINE. THERE WAS PRESSURE BUILT-UP AND IT BLEW HOT LIME SLURRY ON HIM.
TURNING CEMENT PUMP BEARING BARREL OVER CAUSING BARREL TO STRIKE LITTLE TOE ON RT FOOT BARREL HIT HIS FOOT BEHIND SAFETY TOE OF SHOE
MECHANIC WAS CLEANING SLOTS AN AIR COMPRESSOR BY BLOWING OUT SLOTS WITH AIR HOSE WHEN INJURIED WALKED BY. A PARTICLE BLEW INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING FROM A SCAFFOLD APPROX. 8 FT OFF GROUND LEVEL. SCAFFOLD BOARD EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON BROKE AND EMPLOYEE FELL TO GROUND LEVEL HITTING KNEE.
INJURED WAS USING A PIECE OF 1 1/4" PIPE FOR A HEEL PRYING OFF BEARING RACE OFF OF CRANE AXLE, PIPE FELL AND HAD A BURR ON IT. CUT BACK SIDE OF HAND
INJURED WAS TEARING DOWN MUD RING IN BACK OF KILN WHEN LARGE SECTION OF MUD CAME DOWN HITTING INJURED ON HARD HAT CAUSING FRONT OF HARD HAT TO HIT NOSE. SHARPLY AND HARD.
INJ WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER AND HIS FEET SLIPPED CAUSING RT ANKLE TO HANG OR TITWIST ON LADDER RUNG EMP WAS DOING NORMAL CLEAN UP ROUTINE
INJURED WAS OPERATING A SMALL JD 90 LOADER. HE PARKED THE LOADER BY THE WASH-OFF STATION AND ATTEMPTED TO GET OFF THE LOADER TO WASH OUT BUCKET. HOWEVER, HE LEFT THE LOADER RUNNING AND THE BUC KET IN THE RAISED POSITION. WHEN HE STEPPED OFF THE FRONT OF LOADER HIS RIGHT FOOT GOT HUNG UP ON THE BUCKET LEVER. HE FELL INNFRONT OF THE LOADER AND THE BUCKET HAD HIM DOWN ON THE GROUND. I
INJURED SAW OTHER EMPLOYEE IN TROUBLE ON SMALL JD LOODER. LOODER HAD OTHER EMPLOYEE CAUGHT UNDER BUCKET. INJURED TRIED TO POSITION HIMSELF UNDER BUCKET FRAME TO LIFT BUCKET ON LOODER SO TH THAT OTHER EMPLOYEE COULD GET OUT FROM UNDER BUCKET. HOWEVER BUCKET GOT ON TOP INJURED BOTH MANAGED TO GET OTY BY PUSHING BUCKET WITH FOOT.
INJURED WELDER AND ANOTHER WELDER WERE MOVING THEIR SCAFFOLDING WHICH THEY HAD BEEN STANDING ON TO WELD. THEY MOVED IT ABOUT 10 FT. AND INJURED STEPPED A PIECE OF METAL PLATE CAUSING FEET TO S LIP-CHANGING POSTION OF LOAD-CAUSING PAIN IN BACK. THIS CAUSED AN ACUTE STRAIN TO BACK. INJURED WILL PROBABLY BE OFF WORK SEVERAL DAYS.
INJURED WAS CLEANING ELEVATOR BUCKETS WITH A BAR THE BAR SLIPPED AND MASHED HIS RIGHT FOREFINGER
INJURED RUBBED HIS EYE WITH GLOVE THAT HAD CREOSETE ON IT.
SMAHSED LEFT THUMB WHILE WORKING ON A BALL MILL ELEVATOR