Lone Star Quarry And Mill Metal/Non-Metal

CONTUSION TO R HAND PINCHED BETWEEN CONVEY BELT AND IDLER. TRYING TO KNOCK CLINKER BUIKDUP OFF FROZE U IDLER WITH BRICK HAMMER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEARING TREES WITH A BULLDOZER WHEN A TREE TRUNK APPROX. 8" DIAMETER FELL INTO RIGHT SIDE CAB WINDOW SHATTERING GLASS. FLYING GLASS CUT EMPLOYEE'S LEFT WRIST, REQUIRING 5 STITCHE S.

EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED MUSCULAR BACK STRAIN WHILE DRIVING QUARRY FRONT END LOADER OVER LARGE BOULDER.NOTE:EMPLOYEE HAS HISTORY OF CHRONIC BACK PROBLEMS.FORM 88 ON FILE IN TOPEKA.

EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED ABDOMINAL HERNIA WHILE HELPING LIFT AIR CONDITIONING UNIT INTO WINDOW.SURGERY PERFORMED 11-01-89.NOTE: THIS EMPLOYEE HAS HAD AN HEREDITARY CONGENITAL POTENTIAL FOR ABDOMIANL HERNIA SINCE BIRTH.HERNIA SURGERY WAS ALSO PERFORMED ON HIM MARCH 1987.

EMPL STRAINED LOWER BACK WHEN HE TURNED WRONG WAY AFTER TAKING EMPTY OIL BARREL OFF DOLLY.2 RX.

FOREIGN BODY BLEW INTO EMPLS EYE AFTER LIFTING WELDING HOOD. SLIGHTLY EMBEDDED. DR EXTRACTED RX EYE DROPS.

L KNEE INFLAMED SWOLLEN ARTHRALGIA OF R KNEE ARTHRITIS OF BOTH KNEES. R KNE EFFUSED 8-11-89 IRRITSTED KNEE WHILE CRAWLING ON BALLS IN RAW BALL MILL 8-11-89 REF TO DR

STRAINED R SHOULDER WHILE PAINTING

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON LOOSE CLINKER BALL WHILE DESCENDING STEPS TO OFFICE BASEMENT WITH LAB SAMPLES. SPRAINED LEFT ANKLE AND KNEE.

EMPL SLIPPED WHILE STANDING IN LOADER BUCKET.CAUGHT BACK OF LEFT KNEE ON EDGE OF BUCKET.TORN CARTILAGE IN KNEE.THIS IS A SUPV.WENT TO DR 7-25.SURGERY PERFORMED ON KNEE 7-31-89.

EE SUSTAINED LUMBAR STRAIN TO LOWER BACK WHILE TRYING TO LIFT BALL MILL PLATES ONTO DOLLY. PRESCRIBED FLEXORIL AND NAPROSYN ANTI INFLAMMATORIES. PHYSICAL THERAPY.

DIRT BLEW INTO R EYE WHILE MEPL WAS WORKING ON CLINKER COOLER HE WAS WEARING CUTTING GOGGLES AT THE TIME BUT ONE OF THE RUBBER VENTILATIONPORTS WAS MISSING FROM THE GOGGLES AND DIRT BLEW IN TH ROUGH OPENING DR PRESCRIBED VASOCON A OPTHALMIC SOLUTION 15 ML

SMASHED LEFT FINGER BETWEEN PIPE WRENCH AND CONCRETE PIER. WRENCH SLIPPED OFF PIPE CAUSING FINGER TO HIT PIER. COTUSION TO FINGER.

BUMPED TOP OF RIGHT HAND ON CORNER OF LOADER UCKET WHILE WELDING. TOP OF HAND SWELLED UP FOR 3 DAYS CONTUSION.

I.NAME HOOKING ONTO MATERIALS TO BE LOADED ON R&O TRUCK CRANE.OPERATOR WAS EXTENDING OUTRIGGERS WHEN LEFT OUTRIGGER STRUCK I.NAME TOP PART OF FOOT.BOTH OPERATOR & I.NAME UNAWARE ANY DANGER EXI STED.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING MUD OUT OF A SLURRY TANK WHEN HE SUSTAINED A PUNCTURE WOUND TO THE LOWER PORTION OF HIS RIGHT LEG. HE RAN INTO A SHARP PIECE OF METAL THAT WAS JUST BELOW THE SURFACE OF T HE MUD. DR. PRESCRIBED VELOSEF PRESCRIPTION. NO SUTURES REQUIRED.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING COOLER LIFTER FROM COOLER WHEN DUST FELL INTO EYES. DOCTOR REMOVED EMBEDDED PARTICLE FROM LEFT EYE.

EMPL WAS LIFTING LOADER BUCKET SCRAPER PLATES OFF PALLET ONTO DOLLY WHEN ONE PLATE SLIPPED OUT OF GRASP. IN TRYING TO CATCH PLATE EMPL STRAINEBACK & RIGHT SHOULDER PLATE WEIGHS 175# XRAAYS N EGATIVE DR PRESCRIBED NAPROSYN 300 MG AS MUSCLE RELAXER.

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING COATING OUT OF A KILN WHEN HE SLIPPED ON THE FALLEN COATING FALLING JAMMING HIS WRIST ON THE FALLEN COATING X-RAYS NEGATIVE SPRAINED RT WRIST DR PRESCRIBED NAPROSYN 300 MG AND OTHER RX EMPLOYEE DID NOT TURN IN RX RECEIPTS UNTIL LAST WEEK AND DID NOT MISS ANY TIME UNTIL 1-25-89

EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED A MUSCULAR BACK STRAIN WHILE SHOVELING CLINKER ONTO A CONVEYOR BELT EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHILE TURNING TO SHOVEL CLINKER ONTO BELT SAW CO DR ON 12-15-88 PRESCRIBED MUSCLE RELAZE RS AND ANTI-INFLAMATORY MEDICINE

EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED A CERVICAL STRAIN WHILE PAINTING HE DID NOT REQUEST TO SEE A DR UNTIL A FEW DAYS PRIOR TO HIS RT VISIT DR PRESCRIBED MUSCLE RELAXERS AND ANTI-INFLAMATORY MEDICINE DR VISIT WAS 12-15-88

TWISTED R ANKLE DR ADVISED TO STAY OFF OF FOR 1 DAY EMPL WAS USING HANDRAIL TO ELEVATE HIMSELT FOR OVERHEAD JOB SLIPPED OFF RAIL TWISTING ANKLE

EMPLOYEE LACERATED THE MIDDLE KNUCKLE OF HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER WHEN THE WRENCH HE WAS USING TO LOOSEN A FITTING ON THE D9L BULLDOZER SLIPPED OFF THE FITTING. CAUSING HIS HAND TO STRIKE THE WI RE MESH RADIATOR GUARD 6 STITCHES WERE TAKEN IN THE FINGER AND MOTRIN 600 MG WAS PRESCRIBED FOR PAIN.

CORNEAL ABRASION TO RIGHT EYE. EMPLOYEE WAS PACKING CEMENT WHEN THE BAG HE WAS FILLING BLEW OFF THE PACKER SPOUT. CEMENT BLEW INTO HIS FACE. PERSRIPTION MEDICATION PRESCRIBED FOR EYE IRRITATIO N.

EMPL HAS WHAT DRS CAL A SUBLUXATION OF THE L WRIST EMPL INITIALLY SUFFERED THIS INJURY IN AUG 1984 AND HAD SUBSEQUENT SURGERY ON IT IN 1986 HE REINJURED IT WHILE OPERATING THE LEVERS OF OUT OV ERHEAD CRANE WRIST IS IMMOBILIZED IN AN ELBOW LENGTH CAST ADDITIONAL SURGERY MAY NE NECESSARY

SLIPPED OFF STEPPED OFF QUARRY WATER TRUCK TWISTING BACK WENT TO CO DR. 8-13-88 DR. PRESCRIBED IBUPROFIN 800 MG AND NORFLEX

EMPLOYEE GOT RIGHT INDEX FINGER PINCHED BETWEEN KILN DRIVE COUPLER GEARS,AUXIULLAARY MOTOR DRIVE.LACERATED END OF FINGER.LOST SMALL BONE AND FINGER NAIL.CLEANED AND SUTURED END OF FINGER.

SLIPPED OFF MOBILE EQUIPMENT WHILE GREASING. IRRITATED PRE-EXISTING CYST ON BUTTOCK- BECAME INFECTED.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE WORKING IN A COOLER BASKET FALLING ON RT SHOULDER EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED STRAIN TO SHOULDER AND ROTOATOR CUFF X-RAYS WERE NEGATIVE

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING DRIED SLURRY OFF THE SIDE OF A CONCRETE SLURRY TANK WHEN A CHUNK OF SLURRY FELL, STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON TOP OF LEFT FOOT X RAYS NEGATIVE SMALL CONTUSION AND SLIGHT SPRAIN S USTAINED.

STRAINED MUSCLE IN LEFT ARM AND SHOULDER WHILE CLEANING SLURRY TANK DR PRESCRIBVED A MUSCLE RELAXER

EMP WAS CARRYING ELECTRONIC EQUIP DOWN FLLIGHT OF STAIRS WHEN HE MISJUDGED WHERE HE WAS AT AN DMISSED LAST STEP. HE FELL ON LEFT KNEE, COMPLAINING OF PAIN. HE WAS SENT TO CO DR WHERE HIS LEFT KNEE WAS EXAMINED X RAYS WERE NEGATIVE. HE THEN COMPLAINED OF SORE BACK AND NECK. MOTRIN AND FLESERIL WERE PRESCRIBED FOR PAIN AND MUSCLE RELAXOR DISABLED FOR K DAYS

EMP WAS USING A CHIPPING HAMMER TO CHIP OUT COATING ON #3 KILN. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL ON LEFT HAND. PINCHING HAND BETWEEN CHIPPING HAMMER AND COATING LYING ON THE BOTTOM OF THE KILN. EMP SUSTAINED FRACTURED OF SMALL BONE IN TIP OF RING FINGER. FINGER WAS SPLINTED AND PAIN PILLS PRESCRBED.EMP WAS SENT BACK TO WORK BUT HE REFUSED A NUMBER OF LIGHT DUTY JOBS

TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE WHEN STEPPED ON PROTRUDING BOLT THRU CONCRETE.DR PRESCRIBED PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION AND LEF SPLINT.

TRIPPED OVER AIR HOSE, FALLING ON RIGHT SHOULDER- SHOULDER SORE.

EMPLOYEE WAS HO5DING A PIECE OF STEEL WITH A PARI OF PLIERS WHILE ANOTHER EMPLOYE WAS USING A CUTTING TORCH TO CUT THIS PARTICULAR PIECE OF STEEL THE WELDER PULLED ON THE TORCH HOSE TO RELEASE MORE SLACK AND3INADVERTANTLY DIRECTED THE TORCH FLAMES AT THE INJURED EMPLOYEES RT HAND CAUSING 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS ON TOP OF HIS HAND

STRAINED BACK AFTER SLIPPING ON LOOSE CLINKER.EMPLOYEE DID NOT GO TO CO DR WENT TO FAMILY DOCTOR ON HIS OWN.DR PRESCRIBED PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION OXPHENADOHN FORTE.

BUMPED ELBOW ON ELEVATOR DOOR WHILE SHOVELING CLINKER.DID NOT GO TO DR UNTIL 08-88.DR PRESCRIBED PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION FOR INJURY.

WHILE KNEELING 2N A 45 DEGREE ANGLED SHEET STEEL FLOOR INSIDE A CLINKER CHAMBER, I,NAME BEGAN TO SLIDE BACKWARDS TOWARDS AN OPENING IN THE SIDE OF A SCREW CONVEYOR HOUSING. THE SCREW WAS IN OP ERATION AND HIS3RIGHT FOOT ENGAGED THE SCREW. HIS RIGHT LEG WAS AMPUTATED AT MID THIGH.

EMPLOYEE BUMPED3KNEE ON SCREW CONVEYOR HOUSING INTIAL DIGNOSIOS WAS PREPETTALAR BURSITIS. EMPLOYEE WENT FOR DISABILITY. DOCTOR DETERMINED ARTHROSOPIC SURGERY.

SEVERED EXTENSO9 TENDON RIGHT INDEX FINGER. LACERATION TOP OF SAME FINGER. EMPLOYEE GOT FINGER PINCHED BETWEEN WHIZZER BLADE AND WHIZZER LINER OF 18 FT MECHANICAL SEPARATOR.

STEPPED ON WELD3NG CABLE. TURNED TO WALK AWAY AND TWISTED LEFT KNEE. KNEE SWELLED UP. X-RAYS NEGATIVE. SPRAINED LEFT KNEE. NOTE: EMPLOYEE HAS HAD PREVIOUS PROBLEMS WITH BOTH KNEES.

1ST AND 2ND DEG9EE BURNS TO NECK,FOREARMS,FOREHEAD.EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING DUST UP UNDER #2 BURNER PIPE.HE HIT BOTTOM OF PIPE WITH HEAD AND PART OF SHOVEL.HOT DUST FELL OFF OF PIPE ONTO EMPLOY EE. 3

DUST BLEW INTO 9IGHT EYE WHILE CLEANING IN FRONT OF SHAKER COOLER.TAKEN TO COMPANY DR FOR REMOVAL OF FOREIGN OBJECT.ANTI-BACTERIAL MEDICINE PRESCRIBED FOR INFECTION.

EMPL CARRYING W5TER PUMP DOWN FLIGHT OF STAIRS WHEN HE SLIPPED AND PINNED LEFT HAND BETWEEN PUMP AND HANDRAIL.HE FX SMALL BONE IN BACK OF LEFT HAND.2 FINGER SPLINTS AND A CAST APPLIED TO HAND

EMPLOYEE WAS ST5RTING TO WALK UP A FLIGHT OF METAL STEPS WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELL ON HIS RIGHT KNEE. THE STEPS WERE WET FROM A RAINSTORM AND THE EMPLOYEE S BOOTS WERE MUDDY. HE SUSTAI NED TORN CARTIL5GE IN HIS RIGHT KNEE REQUIRING SURGERY SURGERY WAS PERFORMED ON 9-17-86.

EMPLOYEE WAS CH9CKING AN ANALYZER PROBE ON #4 KILN HE STEPPED UP ONTO SOME GRATING WHEN HIS LEFT LEG SLIPPED AND HE FELL ON HIS LEFT KNEE THE GRATING WAS WET WENT TO DR FOR X-RAYS X-RAYS NEGAT IVE PROBLEMS CO3TINUED WITH KNEE WENT TO ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON FOR EXAM ON 8-28-86 FOUND TORN CARTILAGE PERFORMED CORRECTIVE SURGERY 9-4-86

EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG A CUTTING TORCH WHEN HOT SLAG WHEN DOWN LEFT BOOT. VERY SMALL BURN RESULTED. FOUR DAYS LATER SIZE OF BURN GREW AND BECAME SECOND DEGREE BURN. TREATMENT FOR BURN INCLUDED SOA KING AND PARTIA5 DEBRIDEMENT. BURN IS LOCATED ON INSIDE OF LEFT ANKLE.

EMPL USING ELEC3GRINDER TO GRIND ON PIECE OF METAL.PARTICLE BECAME EMBEDDED INLEFT EYE.EMPL WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.TAKEN TO CO DR WHERE PARTICLE WAS REMOVED.MEDICINE PRESCRIBED.

EMPL CLEANING S5URRY OUT OF HOLDING TANK.SHOVEL WAS USING FELL INTO SLURRY CAUSING MUD TO SPLATTER INTO LEFT EYE.EMPL TAKEN TO COMPANY DR WHERE SLURRY WAS CLEANED OUT AND MEDICINE PRESCRIBED.

EMPLOYEE HAS WH5T DR CALLS A SUBLUXATION OF THE LEFT WRIST IN OTHER WORDS HE HAS A SEVERELY SPRAINED WRIST HE DID THIS WHILE LIFTING ELEVATOR CHAINS OFF A PALLET EMPLOYEE INITIALLY SUFFERED TH IS INJURY IN AU1 1984 IT IS AN INJURY THAT MAY REPEAT ITSELF FROM TIME TO TIME SURGERY IS PROBABLY THE ULTIMATE ANSWER TO THE PROBLEM BUT FOR NOW HIS WRIST IS IN AN IMMOBILIZING FIBERGLASS CA

INJ PARTY NOT A3 EMPL OF LONE STAR INDUSTRIES.INJ STANDING ON GRATING TYPE PLATFORM WHEN HE FELL 10' TO ANOTHER PLATFORM BELOW.PLATFORM HE WAS DSTANDING ON HAS AN OPENING IN FLOOR WHICH IS THE ACCESS TO LADD9R TO PLATFORM BELOW.HE SUSTAINED FRACTURE OF LEFT ANKLE.

EMPL HOLDING HA3DLE OF B-O PUNCH WHILE OTHER EMPL STRUCK HEAD OF PUNCH WITH SLEDGE HAMMER.NOTE-B-O PUNCH BRAND NEW.PIECE OF CORNER OF HEAD OF PUNCH FLEW OFF STRIKING EMPL HOLDING PUNCH THROUGH GLOVE,LODGING 6ELOW KNUCKLE OF MIDDLE FINGER LEFT HAND.EXTRACTED METAL TOOK TO DR FOR X-RAYS.3 STITCHES USED FOR SMALL LACERATION.

EMPLOYEE WAS MO5ING A SCREW CONVEYOR HOUSING USING A SET OF CHAIN FALLS THE HOUSING SWUNG AND BUMPED INTO EMPLOYEES LEFT KNEE. THE EMPLOYEE SAID HE THOUGH NOTHING OF IT. LATER THAT EVENING, KN EE BECAME SWOLL9N AND RED X RAYS WERE TAKEN AN HOSPTIAL NEGATIVE. KNEE HAS BECOME INFECTED. REASONS FOR INFECTION ARE UNKNOWN.

EMP WAS FILING 4ETAL SLEEVE FOR SPEED REDUCER ON MACHINE LATHE THE SLEEVE HAD A HOLE IN IT APPROX 4 IN LONG AND 1/2 IN WIDE LATHER WAS TURNING 200 RPM AS EMP WAS FILING END OF FILE APPARNETLY GOT CAUGHT IN H2LE AS IT TURNED ON LATHE PULLING FILE AND EMP RT MIDDLE FINGER INTO THE HOLE BREAKING THE FILE AND SEVERING EMPLOYEES FINGER AT FIRST JOINT

PARTICLE OF DUS7 BECAME ENBEDDED IN LEFT EYE.COULDNT REMOVE AT PLANT.TOOK TO EMERGENCY ROOM WHERE PARTICLE WAS REMOVED.WINDY DAY,DUST BLEW INTO EYES.

COAL FEEDER ON #4 COAL MILL WAS PLUGGED WITH WET COAL. EMPLOYEE USED A 20" WRENCH AS A POKER TO TRY TO FEED WET COAL THROUGH. THE WRENCH GOT CUAGHT IN THE FEEDER AND PINNED EMPLOYEE\S HAND BE TWEEN WRENCH AND COAL PIPE. HE TORE THE END OF T HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER WHEN TRYING TO PULL FREE. HE BROKE THE LITTLE BONE IN THE END OF THE HIS FINGER AS WE..

EMPL CLIMBING LADDER TO TOP OF INCLINE ROCK BELT.AT TOP OF LADDER AND TO HIS LEFT WAS SAFETY DROP-OVER BAR.EMPL MAD QUICK TURN TO LEFT HITTING NOSE ON THE BAR DIAGNOSIS-BROKEN NOSE.NOSE BROKEN 8-7 85 BUT EMPL DIDNT DECIDE TO HAVE IT FIXED UNTIL 9-9-85.COSMETIC SURGERY PERFORMED ON THIS DATE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN STAIRWAY HE CAUGHT HEEL OF LEFT BOOT UNDER LIP OF FIRST STEP CAUSING LEFT LEG TO TURN SUDDENLY WITH JERKING MOTION CAUSING LIGAMENT IN KNEE TO TEAR

EMPL PICKED UP CLINKER SAMPLE FROM #2 COOLER.STEPPING UP OUT OF SMALL PIT -1 STEP-AND SLIPPED ON LOOSE CLINKER RIGHT LEG SLIDDING OUT FROM UNDER HIM FALLING ON RIGHT KNEE.KNEE WAS SORE BUT DI DNT SWELL UP UNTIL 2 DAYS LATER.TOOK EMPL TO EMERG RM OF HOSP.REFERRED TO ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON-TORN LIGAMENT.

PARTICLE OF DUS7 EMBEDDED IN RIGHT EYE.COULDNT REMOVE PARTICLE AT PLANT.TAKEN TO DR.OFFICE WHERE IT WAS REMOVED.WINDY DAY DUST BLEW INTO EYES.

EMPLOYEE WAS DESCENDING A SMALL RAMPLIKE PILE OF IRON ORE, A PIECE OF GRATING WAS LYING ON THE SIDE OF THE PILE TO PROVIDE BETTER FOOTING WHEN WALKING ON THE PILE, AN ICY GLAZE HAD FORMED ON T HE GRATING CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO SLIP ON CONTACT EMPLOYEE FELL BACKWARDS, FALLING ON HANDS LEFT WEWRIST FRACTURED ON IMPACT

EMP RECEIVED A LACERATION ON TOP OF RT FOOT FROM A HIGH PRESSURE WATER BLASTER WATER BLASTER WATER SPRAY WENT THROUGH WORK BOOT AT FRONT OF SHOE DOWN TO STEEL TOE SPRAY CUT THROUGH LEATHER LA LACERATING EMP FOOT BEHIND THE STEEL TOE SURGERY WAS PERFORMED AT 6 PM TO REMOVE WATER AND DEBRIS FROM LACERATION