Zonolite Mine Mill And Bagging Plant Metal/Non-Metal

EMPLOYEE FILED WORKER'S COM 8-26-91 CLAIMING CARPAL TUNNEL PROBLEMS FROM CUMULATIVE YEARS OF HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATION.

EMPLOYEE USING EXTENSION LADDER IN CUTTING OUT 4" PIPE. WHEN PIPE FELL, IT WAS STILL ATTACHED TO A FLEX-HOSE AND IT SWING BACK, KNOCKING LADDER OUT FROM UNDER EMPLOYEE. EMPLOYEE FELL 8-10 FEET LANDING ON HIS HANDS, SIDE, AND HEAD. FALL RESULTED IN FRACTURES OF BOTH WRISTS AND LACERATION ABOVE RIGHT EYE.

SHORTLY AFTER LUNCH BREAK, EMPLOYEE CAME IN AND ASKED TO BE TAKEN TO DOCTOR BECAUSE OF SEVER MUSCLE SPASM IN LEFT FOREARM. HE HAD BEEN LOADING SMALL PIECES OF PIPE AND 4X4 ENDS BEFORE LUNCH B UT HAD NOT BEEN STRUCK BY ANYTHING, FALLEN, OR IN ANYOTHER WAY RECEIVED ANY NOTABLE DIRECT INJUYR. SPONTANEOUS SPASM WAS NOT CONSIDERED ACCIDENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING WITH OXY/ACE TORCH. TORCH POPPED AND A PIECE OF HOT SLAG OR METAL WENT INTO HIS LEFT EAR.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING COVER ON A CUT-OFF SAW AFTER DISCONNECTING FROM POWER SOURCE AND REPORTED HE HEARD AN FELT SOMETHING "POP" IN HIS RIGHT THUMB. X-RAYS SHOWED THAT A TENDON IN THE THUMB H AD SEPARATED OR BROKEN. INVESTIGATION OF THIS ACCIDENT PRODUCED NO EVIDENCE OF ANY UNSAFE CONDITION IN THE WORK AREA NOR OF ANY UNSAFE ACT BY THE EMPLOYEE.

EMPL CLOSED DOOR OF CRANE CAB ON LITTLE FINGER RESULTING IN CRUSHING & LACERATION. STITCHES WERE RQUIRED TO CLOSE WOUND.

ACCORDING TO EMPLOYEE HE TRIPPED AND FELL ON A STAIRWAY AND LATER STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE TORQUEING BOLTS ON A MOTOR MECHANISM.INCIDENT WAS NOT REPORTED BY EMPLOYEE DURING THE SHIFT.HE CALLED IN THE NEXT DAY AND MADE SUBSEQUENT VISITS TO A CHIROPRACTOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING METAL DRAWER. DRAWER STUCK. EMPLOYEE GRABBED DRAWER BY LIP AND JERKED. DRAWER DID NOT GIVE AND HIS FINGERS WERE CUT ON THE METAL EDGE AS THEY SLIPPED OFF. A METAL BURR CON TRIBUTED TO THE DAMAGE.

EMPL PERFORMING REGULAR DUTY CLEANING SPILLED ORE PILES IN OS&B USING DUST TRUCK -VACUUM TRUCK WITH HOSE EXTENSION ASSEMBLY.WORKERS COMP CLAIMS PINCHED NERVE IN NECK FROM THIS ACTIVITY.

REMOVING CYCLONE SECTION,IT SLIPPED AND EMPL SMASHED FINGER BETWEEN IT AND COLLECTION BOX TRYING TO CATCH IT.1ST AID ADMINISTERED AT PLANT.NO DR SEEN.4 MOS AFTER INCIDENT NODULAR GROWTH OCCURR ED ON KNUCKLE OF SMASHED FINGER.DR SEEN 8-9,X-RAY TAKEN,GROWTH EXCISED 8-13-90.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING LOWER A LOADER BELLCRANK ONTO THE FORKS OF A FORKLIFT BELLCRANK CAUGHT & EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO FREE IT WHEN IT SLIPPED CATCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE BELLCRANK & THE FORK TEARING THE TIP OFF OF HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING FROM SHOP AREA TO WAREHOUSE SLIPPED DUE TO SNOW/ICE CONDITIONS & WRENCHED BACK WHILE TRYING TO KEEP FROM FALLING THIS APPARENTLY AGGRAVATETD A PREVIOUS BACK WRENCH WHICH H AD OCCURED UNDER SIMILAR CONDITIONS TWO WEEKS EARLIER

EMPL SLIPPED ON PATCH OF ICE WHEN LEAVING SKIP TRACK AREA & WALKING TOWARD MACHINE SHOP. HE DID NOT FALL DOWN BUT WRENCH ED BACK IN PROCESS OF CATCHING HIMSELF FROM FALL. INCIDENT WAS REPORTED BUT NO ACTION WAS TAKEN AT TIME. EMPL WENT TO CHIROPRACTOR ON 1/25/90 FOR TREATMENT FOR CONTINUING SORE BACK MUSCLES PURSUANT TO SLIP.

PULLER BOLT STRIPPED OUT WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A PROCESS PUMP CASE. THIS CAUSED EMPLOYEES WRENCH TO SLIP AND HIS ARM STRUCK SHARP EDGE OF PUMP CASE.

EMPL SLIPPED AND FELL ON ICE NEAR TRUCK PARKING AREA AT SCREEN PLANT.LANDED ON ARM IN FALL.

ATTEMPTING TO FREE FROZEN DISCHARGE DOOR. SLIPPED ON ICE NEXT TO TRAKC FALLING ON BACK . 5 FT BAR LAND ED ON MIDSECTION.

EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING STEAM CLEANER WAND PREPARING TO WASH BACK OF A PICKUP BED THERE WAS A RESTRICTION IN THE HOSE WHICH BLEW LOOSE SUDDENLY CAUSING THE HOSE TO WHIP & HIT THE EMPLOYEES ARM H AND & NECK

EMPL HELPING ANOTHER MECHANIC PUT TIRES ON DRILL.MECHANIC OPERATING AND EMPL GUIDING TINE WHEN IT SHIFTED CAUSING EMPL TO MOVE TO SIDE AWAY FROM TIRE.TRIPPED OVER FORK 4'' OFF GROUND AND FELL TO GROUND STRIKING EMPL LEFT SHOULDER AGAINST ROCK.

EMP WAS ON 5TH FL OF MILL, AS HE SIDESTEPPED AROUND A DERRICK WORK PLATFORM THAT HAD BEEN LOWERED THE EMP STRUCK HIS HEAD HARDHAT ON AN ACTUATOR OF A KNIFE GATE VALVE BENDING HIS NECK BACK EMP REPORTED THE INCIDENT TO MILLWRIGHT FOREMAN WHO INFORMED SUPERVISOR. HE REPORTEDLY HAD A STIFF NECK FOR COUPLE OF DAYS SUMMER HE STARTED GETTING FREQUENT, PROLONGED HEADACHES, AND AT THIS POI

EMPLOYEE WAS GR3NDING A FLAT PIECE OF STEEL ON GRINDING WHEEL, STEEL SLIPPED OFF WHEEL AND HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER HIT CORNER OF GRINDING WHEEL, CUTTING SECFON KNUCKLE TO BONE.

WAS HELPING TO 6NLOAD 1/4" X 10" FLAT BAR STOCK FROM A PICKUP TO THE STEEL RACK WHEN THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON THE ICE AND TWISTED HIS BACK.

EMP WAS CLEANIN1 ROCK CIRCUT SCREEN WITH HIGH PRESSURE HOSE AND CAUGHT PANT CUFF ON ANGLE IRON AND FELL 24 IN TO FLOOR STRIKING RT SHOULDER

EMPLOYEE WAS ST5NDING ON A STEP LADDER WORKING ABOUT 20 MINUTES AND DECIDED TO COME DOWN THE LADDER COLLAPSED ON HIM AND THE EMPLOYEE GRABBED A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON WITH A SHARP EDGE AND HAD H IS WEIGHT ON IT3TRYING TO HOLD HIMSELF UP ANGLE IRON CUT FROM POINTER TO LITTLE FINGER

EE WAS STACKING3100# BAGS ON PALLET 11 HIGH IN A BOXCAR. PULLED OR STRAINED STOMACH MUSCLES. POOSIBLE HERNIA.

EMPLOYEE CARRIE8 IN A PIECE OF 3/4"OF R APPROX. 19 1/2" IN DIAMETER AND PUT IT ON THE PANA GRAPHTORCH.WHILE CUTTING OUT A FLANGE FROM THIS PIECE THE EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO SEE HOW THE SLAG WAS WAS BLOWING AWA2 FROM THE CERF.THUS PUTTING OUT HIS BACK,.

BENDING THE SID9S OF A HI-PROB IN THE BREAK. 3 MEN WERE HANDLING ONE OF THE SIDES AND IT SLIPPED OUT OF THE HANDS OF ONE OF THE MEN. I.NAME AND ANOTHER MAN TRIED TO STOP IT FORM GOING TO THE FLOOR AND HITTI3G SOMEONES FOOT. THE SUDDEN JAR STRAINED I.NAMES BACK

SHOVELLING OUT 6NDER BELT AT OS&B ON HANDS AND KNEES.WHILE SCRAPING OUT UNDER BELT,CAME ACROSS CHUNK OF ICE AND PULLED HER BACK.

EE WAS REMOVING A 3\ SECTION OF COVERING ON A SCREW CONVEYOR TROUGH TO I NSTALL NEW AGSKETS ON THE COVER. AS HE WAS LIFTING THE COVER HE SUFFERED AN I NJURY TO HIS BACK THAT SUBSEQUENTLY BECAME SO PAINFULL THAT HE COULD NO LONGER WORK.

ASBESTOSIS. EMPLOYEE RESPIRATORY DIEASE DUE TO EXPOSURE OVER THE PERIOD HIS EMPLOYEEMENT.

AFTER REMOVING ROCK AND OTHER MATERIAL FROM AN OVERLOADED BELT, THE EMPLOYEE WAS LEAVING THE BELT GALLERY ON THE WOODEN PLANK WALKWAYS IN THE GALLERY. BECAUSE THE ATTACHMENTS FOR ONE SECTION O THE WOODEN PLANKING HAD WORKED LOOSE, A SECTION OF THIS WALKWAY FELL OUT OF THE GALLERY AS THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON IT. THIS CAUSED THE EMPLOYEE TO FALL OUT OF THE GALLEY TO THE GROUND 26

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON SPRINKLER SYSTEM IN CLOSE QUARTERS WHEN THE PIPE WRENCH HE WAS USING SLIPPED. HE STRUCK HIS ELBOW ON THE SHELF BEHIND HIM, INJURING HIMSELF

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO SHUT-OFF A VALVE OVER A SUMP TO PREVENT IR FROM OVERFLOWING & WAS LEANING ON A PIPE TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE VALVE. WEIGHT OF BODY ON THE PIPE BRUISED HIS RIBS FORCING HIM TO MISS 2 WORKING DAYS TO RECOVER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING A CIRCUIT FOR PUMPING A CAUSTIC REAGENT TO WHAT WAS WAS REPRESSURIZED LINE RUPTURE AT A CONNECTION.SPRAYING THE CAUSTIC REAGENT ON HIM.INJURES TOOK THE FORM OF MODERATE F FACIAL BURNS AND EYE IRRITATION.

EMPL DESCENDING 40\\ PARAPET WALLL TO ROOF BELOW.TRYING TO GET FOOTING ,STOOD ON RIDGE ON ROOF OF BLDG.FOOT SLIPPED FROM THIS RIDGE CAUSING HIM TO TURN AND SPRAIN HIS ANKL

EMPLOYEE HAS A HISTORY OF BACK RELATED INJURIES, AND IS CURRENTLY UNDERGOING TREATMENT FOR THESE INJURIES. WHILE WORKING AS AN ELECTRICIAN HE HANDED AN ELECTRICK MOTOR TO A MAN BELOW. ALTHOUGH HIS LIFTING POSITION WAS PROPER AND THE LOAD WAS NOT EXCESSIVE, THE STRAIN WAS SUFFICIENT TO AGGRAVATE HIS PREVIOUS INJURY.

EE WAS REMOVING THE WHEEL FRO A 12.00 X 24.00 TIRE. HE REMOVED THE SNAP RING FROM THE RIM & PICKED UP THE TIRE & THE RIM. THE RIM SLID OUT OF T HE TIRE & HIT HIM ON THE RIGHT FOOT JUST IN BA CK OF THE STEEL TOE.

WHILE GOING DOWN A STAIRWAY FROM THE FOURTH FLOOR OF THE SCREENING PLANT THE EMPLOYEE MISSED A STAIR AND STARTED TO FALL FORWARD. TO RESTRAIN HIS FALL THE EMPLOYEE GRABBED A HANDRAIL ON THE S TAIRWAY AND THE FORCE OF HIS WEIGHT ON HIS ARM AND SHOULDER CAUSED HIM TO SUSTAIN A SHOULDER INJURY. THE INJURY LATER REQUIRED SURGERY

WHILE WORKING UNDER AN 85 TON HAUL TRUCK A CO-WORKER WAS LIFTING A PIECE OF DECKING TO THE TOP OF THE TRUCK TO PUT IT INTO PLACE, AS THE DECKING WAS BEING LIFTED, IT FELL TO THE GROUND BOUNCIN G AND STRIKING THE VICTIM ON THE RIGHT LEG JUST ABOVE THE ANKLE, BROKEN RIGHT LEG WAS SUFFERED AS A REULT OF THE ACCIDENT

CLEANING TAKE-UP BOLT (24"X5/8") ON A WIRE WHEEL WHEN THE WIRE WHEEL PULLED HIS HAND INTO THE BRUSH AND PULLED THE BOLT FROM HIS HAND. THE BOLT STRUCK HIM ABOVE THE RIGHT EYE, CUTT ING HIM. A BROKEN AND LACERATED LEFT INDEX FINGER WAS ALSO SUFFERED

WHILE LOADING SEVERAL PIECES OF EXPANDED METAL FOR TRANSPORT TO ANOTHER JOB SITE ONE OF THE PIECES OF METAL CAME OUT OF THE HOIST BEING USED TO MANIPULATE THE MATERIAL. THE METAL FELL ON THE E MPLOYEES FOOT ON EDGE, BREAKING HIS FIRST THREE TOES. RIGHT FOOT

WHILE CHECKING MILL, HIS FEET GOT TANGLED UP IN WELDING LEADS LEFT LYING ON FLOOR, TRIPPING HIM AND MAKING HIM FALL. WHEN HE F ELL HE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON AN ANGLE BRACE SUPPORTING ONE OF THE ORE STORAGE BINS, JAMMING HIS NECK

EMPLOYEE WAS CHIPPING ICE AWAY FROM THE SKIP TRACK WITH A PICK. THE POINT OF THE PICK STRUCK THE GROUND AND BOUNCED, STRIKING HIS LEFT FOOT AT THE INSTEP.

WORKING IN 6-8\\MUD.STEPPED INTO HOLE COVERED BY MUD AND TWISTED RIGHT LEG ,CAUSED IT TO BREAK.

OUR FLUID BED DRYER HAD JUST RECENTLY BEEN CONVERTED TO DUAL OIL/ PROPANE FUEL PROPANE IS THE NEW FUEL EMP WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE ICE CRYSTALS FROM Y STRAINER AHEAD OF VAPORIZER ON LIQUID PR PROPANE LINE A HOSE HAD BEEN HOOKED TO DISCHARGE OF STRAINER TO CONVAY PROPANE TO SAFE LOCATION FOR DISPERSION INTO AMBIENT AIR WHEN VALVE WAS OPENED TO BACK FLUSH STRAINER THE HOSE WHIPPED A

REPLACING ELECTRIC CABLE-115\ LONG AT 7#/\--WITH FOUR OTHER MEN. PULLED CABLE OVER SADDLE. WENT TO DOCTOR 4 DAYS LATER.