Lime Plant: 24 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

EE WAS REMOVING A PIECE OF METAL & BELT THAT HAD LOCKED WAL ELEVATOR. AFTER REMOVING METAL/BELT, EE WEDGED PIECE OF PIPE TO HOLD ELEVATOR FROM ROLLING BACK. SUPPORT PIPE SLIPPED CAUSING ELEVAT OR TO ROLL BACKWARDS CATCHING EE'S HAND AGAINST MATERIAL BUILD-UP UNDER BUCKETS.

EE WAS MAKING A CHARGE @ THE RAW FEED SILE CLAIMED FUMES WERE COMING INTO THE CAB, MADE HIM NAUSEAOS & CAUSED HEADACHE

EE WAS SHOVELING ASH BUILDUP FROM KILN ONTO COOLER GRATES, LIME DUST TO LEFT EYE

WHILE MAKING SAFETY ROUND, EE WS CLIMBING DOWN THE LADDER AT RAW FEED SILO/ SUSTAINED INJURY TO BACK.

EE WAS CLIMBING A LADDER TO THE STONEBIN CONVEYER CATWALK, WHEN HE HEARD RT KNEE POP.

WORKER, UNAWARE OF THE CONFINE AREA HE WAS LOWERING TO EMPLOYEE MADE HASLE DECISION TO LOWER HIMSELF OT AREA, NOT ALLOWING OTHER EMPLOYEE TO MOVE WHICH WOULD HAVE GIVEN MORE ROOM. WHEN EMLOYEE LOWERED HIMSELF OT AREA HE BUMPED AGAINST OTHER EMPLOYEE WHICH CAUSED HIS LEFT KNEE TO COME IN CONTACT WITH FRAME EDGE.

CLEANING BUILDUP AT FEEDING HOOD WITH 1"X12' BARCAUSHT FINGER BETWEEN BAR AND METAL DOOR

WALKING UNDER SCALE SECTION & SLIPPED, TWISTING RIGHT ANKLE OUTWARD\

LOOSENING CABLE WITH COME-A-LONG. LEFT THUMB CAUGHT BETWEEN SPROCKET TOOTH AND HANDLE.

CLEANING TOP OF SILO & AIR SLIDE CAME OFF. LIME DUST BLEW ALL OVER EE.

WHILE CLOSING GATE TO SILO, LIME BLEW INTO RT EYE.

CLEANING UNDER COOLER CONVERYOR, DUST BLOWING & WINDY, LIME EMBEDDED IN RIGHT UPPER EYELID

CO-WORKER LOST CONTROL OF JACKHAMMER & HIT RIGHT KNEE. BEGAN LOSING TIME 12/31/96.

CLEANING TOP OF FIRING HOOD IN KILN SECTION AND HOT MATERIAL FELL ON HARD HAT. BURNS WERE TO EXPOSED AREA AROUND SAFETY GOGGLES AND RESPIRATOR. MEDICAL TREATMENT/MEDICATION PRESCRIBED.

REPAIRING FAN AND LIME BLEW INTO RIGHT EYE. MEDICATION/LIGHT DUTY.

LOADING TRUCK WITH QUICK LIME AND CHUTE HIT TOP OF LEFT WRIST. MEDICAL TREATMENT RECEIVED.

INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS COMPLETING CLOSING DOME LIDS ON TOP OF TRAILER WHEN HIGH WINDS BLEW EMPLOYEE OFF TRAILER. INJURED EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A BROKEN LEFT HUMOROUS (ARM) AND A BROKEN TIBIA (LEG).

EE WAS INSTALLING A SCREW AUGER. CUT RIGHT THUMB ON FLITE HOUSING. SUTURES FRACTURE.

SHOOTING ASH RING & FELT PAIN TO LOWBACK AFTER RAKING BUILDUP LIGHT DUTY BEGAN 01-04-95

PUSHING LEVER DOWN AT FLOP GATE AND FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN LEVER HANDLE AND METAL FRAME. SUTURES PLACED.

RAKING ASH WHILE SHOOTING ASH RING. FELT "POP" RIGHT SHOULDER.

EE WAS GETTING READY TO UNLOAD SCREW CONVEYOR AND LIME DUST BLEW INTO BOTH EYES. PRESCRIPTION GIVEN.

EMPLOYEE WAS BLOWING OFF FIRING FLOOR WITH AIR HOSE. HOT CINDER BLEW INTO HIS RIGHT LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING AND HIT HIS RIGHT ELBOW ONA NAIL. NO PUNCTURE. MEDICAL TREATMENT.

EMPLOYEE HIT HIS RIGHT KNEE ON METAL HOUSING IN PRE-HEATER.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING COUPLER WITH A CO-WORKER AND THE CO-WORKER HIT LEFT 5TH FINGER WITH PIPE. FRACTURE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING LIME BUILDUP OFF GIANT FLANGE ON DUCAN FAN & HE HIT HIS RT KNEE WITH HAMMER

CLEANING HYDRATE LIME PIT AND CO-WORKER TURNED ON WATER PUMP. SPLASHED LIME WATER INTO HIS LEFT EYE.

HE WAS LIFTING A 5 GALLON CAN OF MUD AND SHOVELING GRAVEL. HE FELT PAIN TO LOW BACK. STRAIN TO LOW BACK. LIGHT DUTY.

STEPPED ON CHUNK OF COAL AND STRAINED HIS RIGHT FOOT. REPORTED INJURY ON OCTOBER 16, 1992.

61329NG DOWN THE CATWALK STAIRS NEAR THE HYDRATOR, HE SLIPPED ON THE TOP STAIR AND FELL DOWN ALL FOUR STAIRS. HE HIT HIS LEFT ELBOW ON A METAL GRATE. SUTURES PLACED.

WHILE MOVING BRUICKS INSIDE THE BOILER A BRUICK SLIPPED HITTING HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER.

EMPL HAD RETURNED FROM A LONG HAUL.CLIMBED OUT FO CAB,FELT STIFFNESS & PAIN TO RIGHT KNEE.STARTED LOSING TIME 2-22-91.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING BUILD-UP FROM GRATES AND NOTICED PAIN IN HIS ABDOMEN. (DID NOT START LOSING TIME UNTIL 10-1-90).

EMPLOYEE WAS DESCENDING METAL STAIRS WHEN HE SLIPPED FALLING DOWN SIX STAIRS.

EMPLOYEE CRAWLED UNDER HIS TANK TRANSPORT TRUCK TO CHECK THE BUTTERFLY AND IN DOING SO LAID IN QUICK LIME.

USING TANKER TO TRANSFER OXIDE FROM ONE SILO TO ANOTHER. DEV LIME BURN WHERE BOOT RUBBED LEG WHICH HE SAW LATER

DURING COURSE OF NORMAL WORK DUTIES EMPL STATES HE STARTED HAVING LOW BACK PAIN. DENIES ANY SPECIFIC INJURY

OPENING DOOR OF SCALE ROOM,PULLED HARD ON IT HITTING LOWER LIP.

EE WAS WALKING ON BOTTOM OF AIR SLIDE ON A RAINY DAY. THE SLIDE WAS SLIPPERY AND THE EE LOST FOOTING AND FELL.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS WORKING IN CASTABLE MATERIAL TO RELINE THE KILN (ALUMINUM AND CLAY LIKE MATERIAL). FIRE BONDED RFRACTORY. DEVELOPED A COUGH AND DISCOMFORT IN THE CHEST. THIS WAS A TEMPORARY MAINTENANCE JOB THAT IS COMPLETED. EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING NIOSH/MSHA APPROVED RESPIRATOR AT THE TIME OF EXPOSURE.

EMPLOYEE WAS RAKING MATERIAL FROM KILN & HIT HIS LEFT LONG FINGER ON THE SAFETY GUARD PIPE AROUND OPENING LOST TIME BEGAN 053189

EMPL STATES THE LIME GETS ON HIS BOOTS AND BURNS THE DORSUM OF BOTH FEET HAS RASH LIKE APPEARANCE NOT LOST TIME BEGAN 5/1/89

WHILE GRINDING STAINLESS STEEL ROD PIECE BROKE OUT OF DISK AND STRUCK FOREARM.

EMP WA> COMING DOWN STAIRS MAKING R. TURN SLIPPED A(D FELL JON WET CONCRETE FLOOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER ON SILO AND SLIPPED CATCHING HIMSELF WITH HANDLE USING HIS LET HAND.

EMPLOYEE ALLEDGES THAT WHILE PULLING HIMSELF UP BETWEEN TAIL PULLEY GUARDS TO GET TO SAMPLE AREA AT THE C-PLANT NEW WASHER HE LATER FELT PAIN IN THE UPPER BACK AND LOWER NECK PAIN IN UPPERBACK WENT AWAY BUT PAIN IN LOWER NECK PERSISTS

EMPLOYEE WAS WLEDING PLATE ON PRE-JEATER DRIVE WHEN METAL PARTICLES FLEW INTO LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING A FLOOR GRATE AND FELT SHARP PAIN IN BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN LIME AREA AND DEVELOPED LIME BURNS ON NECK, LOW BACK AND LEFT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON WALKWAY OF SILO WHEN HE STEPPED ON NARROW PIPE AND TWISTED RT LEG

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING SOME SEALS WITH CO-WORKER AND LATER FELT PAIN TO LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN HYDRATE LIME PLANT AND DEVELOPED A RASH ON BOTH LEGS

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING WITH A MECHANIC WELDER FOR A FULL SHIFT, UPON COMPLETION OF THE SHIFT HE EXPEREIENCED PAIN TO HIS EYES AND TOLD THE CO NURSE THAT HE LOOKED AT THE ARC A COUPLE OF TIMES.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING LOADER 9 920. AS EMPLOYEE WAS REFUELING LOADER, HE NOTICED THAT A HYDRAULIC HOSE HAD COME LOOSE AND WAS LEAKING PROFUSLY. INSTEAD OF NOTIFYING THE SHOP HE ATTEMPTED TO D RIVE THE LOADER TO THE LIME PLANT AND AS HE TRUCNED A CORNER, HE RAN INTO A CONCRETE FOUNDATION.

EMPLOYEE IS WEL8ING IN LIME PLANT ALL DAY, WIPING EYES CONSTANTLY UNDER WELDERS HELMET. NOTICED BLISTER IN LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CH9CKING CONVEYOR THAT WAS CLOGGED, ELEVATOR TURNED OFF, AND AS HE STARTED CLEANING CHUTE WITH RE-BAR A CO-WORKER STARTED ELEVATOR, PINCHING HIS HAND BETWEEN REBAR AND HOUSING.

EMPLOYEE WAS WE5DING ON GROUND WITH PLATE SITTING ON WELDER,WHEN VIBRATION SHOOK PLATE OFF,HITTING GROUND AND LEFT LEG.

EMPLOYEE PICKED3UP A 100 LB. BOX OF MATERIALS WITHOUT ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPED LOWER BACK PAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING LOAD TRAILER WHEN A HEAVY PIPE DROPPED ON RIGHT LONG FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG AIR CHIPPING HAMMER TO FREE BUILDUP ON SIDE OF DYCON AND WAS WORKING OVERHEAD WHENWET MATERIAL FELL DOWN ON WET LEDGE AND EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL DOWN ACROSS BOARD.

THE EMPLOYEE REMOBED COVER FROM TOP OF HYDRATE LIME SILO TO CHECK FOR ANY EXCESS ROOM BEFORE SWITCHING SILOS. AS HE REMOVED THE COVER LIME DUST BLEW BACK INTO EMPLOYEES EYES. THE INJURED EMP LOYEE WAS WEARING WRAP AROUND SAFETY GLASSES BUT WAS NOT WEARING GOGGLES.

WALKING THROUGH AREA WHERE OTHER EMPL REMOVING WOODEN FORMS FROM NEWLY POURED CONCRETE SLAB ,STEPPED ON NAIL PROTRUDING FROM FORM.

THE INJURED EMPLOYEE AND A CO WORKER WERE CUTTING PIECES OF RAILROAD TRACK INTO 48IN LENGTHS WITH A BURNING TORCH WHILE ATTEMPTING TO MOVE ONE OF THE PIECES THAT HAD BEEN SECTIONED THE IRON SL IPPED FROM THE INJURED EMPLOYEES GRASP AND AS HE WENT TO REGRASP IT HIS FINGERS ON THE LEFT HAND WHERE PINCHED BETWEEN THE IRON AND THE CONCRETE FLOOR

EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN USING A PICK AND SHOVEL FOR SEVERAL DAYS PRIOR TO THE INJURY AT THE TIME OF THE INJURY THE EMPLOYEE WAS USING A CROW BAR TO LIFT A RAILROAD TRAKC SUPPORT PLATE WHEN HE NOTIC ED INCREASED PAIN IN HIS LOWER HIP AND BACK EMPLOYEE WORKED LIGHT DUTY UNTIL 011283