Andersonville Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Employee was cutting 3/4 inch rubber hose with pocket knife when knife slipped cutting thumb on right hand requiring 4 stitches.

A mechanic was removing a bearing from the ball mill discharge auger shaft with a hammer and a shard of metal stuck another mechanics right arm.

Employee was grinding on a pipe when some metal filings struck his eye. The employee was wearing safety glasses and a full face shield.

Employee was installing screens on screening tower and felt a pain in arm while pushing screen into position.

A Maintenance employee was walking down a stairway carrying a grease gun in his left hand and had his right hand on the handrail and mis-stepped placing his right foot in an awkward position and twisting his right knee.

The employee was removing angle iron framing and wood from a MCC building. The employee used methods of drilling and cutting during the task, and all work was above the employee's head. The employee was wearing a pair of safety glasses at the time of the incident. A piece of debris flew in-between the employee's safety glasses and forehead and lodged in his (R) eye.

Employee was moving moving railcars, when the bracket on the railcar that the cable is attached to broke and struck the employee in the face, causing a laceration on his right cheek.

EE was removing an air exhaust muffler from a compressed air dryer system.After releasing the residual air from the air tank and line the EE unscrewed the valve not realizing there was still some stored pressure inside the line which blew small desiccant beads out striking the back of both hands and the back of both legs.

EE CUT FOREARM WITH RAZOR OPENING A BOX OF PAPERBAGS.

WASS RETRIEVING SAMPLE BUCKET FROM WORK PLATFORM WHEN THE PLATFORM BROKE CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE TO FALL. EMPLOYEE SPRAINED BOTH ANKLES.

EE WAS CLEANING A DUST COLLECTION PIPE (BY HITTING PIPE WITH A HAMMER) WHEN FOR UNKNOWN REASONS THE EE REACHED INTO THE DOOR AND UP APPROX 8 INCHES WHERE HE CAUGHT HIS 3 FINGERS. (INDEX-ABOVE 1ST JOINT, MIDDLE-ABOVE 2ND JOINT, RING-ABOVE 1ST JOINT) EE DOES NOT REMEMBER MUCH OF THE EVENTS.

EE WALKED UP TO SECOND FLOOR STEPS PLANK. HE WENT AROUND OPEN DOOR AND HAD HOSE IN ARMS. DOOR CAUGHT HOSE. AS HE TURNED AROUND TO LOOSEN HOSE, THERE WAS A MISSING PLANK 2 X 4 HOLE. HE FELL THR OUGH, FALLING 8 FT TO GROUND.

INJURED HAD REMOVED THE FLOOR COVERINGS FROM TE FLOOR OPENINGS INT HE FEED BUILDING AND BARRICADED THE AREA AROUND THE HOLES IN ORDER TO CLEAN THE 3 FLOORS IN THIS BUILDING. HE CAM EDOWN FROM THE 3RD FLOOR TO TAKE A BREAK ON THE 1ST FLOOR HE STEPPED OVER THE ORANGE BARRICADE FLAGGING THTA HE HAD PLACED AROUND THE FLOOR HOLE. HE THEN TRIED TO STEP OVER THE OPEN HOLE IN THE FLOOR.

WAS ASSIGNED SHUTDOWN WORK OF CUTTING SKIRTING FOR A HOPPER. HE WAS GIVEN INSTRUCTION PRIOR TO STARTING WORK. HE WAS GIVEN A UTILIY KNIFE. CARPENTERS SQUARE AND ANGLE TO BE USED AS A CUTTING E DGE. INDIVIDUAL WAS SCORING THE BELTING BY USING THE CARPENTERS SQ. THE KNIFE SLIPPED AND RAN INTO THE LEFT THUMB.

MECHANIC WAS STRIKING SLIDE PLATE ON SHIPPING ELEVATOR WITH HAMMER AND LITTLE FINGER OF LEFT HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN HAMMER HANGER AND BEARING FRAME MECHANIC WAS NOT WEARING GLOVES AND MISJUDG ED AREA IN WHICH HE SWING HAMMER INJURY RESULTEDIN MECHANIC RECEIVEING 6 STITCHES AND RETURNED TO WORK.

EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING A BOLT WITH A WRENCH WHILE STANDING ON A FLAT CONCRETE FLOOR. THE BOLT BROKE AND HE WAS OFF BALANCE AND FELL. I CONSIDER THIS A FREAK ACCIDENT WHICH WAS UNAVOIDABLE.

AFTER COMPLETING MAINTENANCE WORK ON THE CALCINER COOLER, I,NAME DISENGAGED THE MANUAL CRANK HANDLE FROM THE DRIVE UNIT WHICH WAS LOCKED OUT. AT THAT TIME, I,NAME NOTICED THE CALCINER COOLER S TART TO ROTATE. IN AN ATTEMPT TO STOP THE ROTATION, HE RE-ENGAGED THE MANUAL CRANK HANDLE. THE FORCE OF THE ROTATION COOLER WAS TOO GREAT FOR HIM TO STOP, THEREFORE PULLING THE CRANK FROM HIS

EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING UP AN AIR POWERED STATIONARY GRINDER TO RESURFACE A COOLER TRUNNION ROLLER AFTER POSITIONING THE GRINDER HE ATTEMPTED TO SLIDE THE WIRE RING OVER THE SWITCH HANDLE FOR CON TINUOUS RUNNING IN DOING SO HIS RIGHT HAND SLIPPED AND CONTACTED THE BOTTOM OF THE GRINDING DISC IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO SECURE THE SWITCH BEFORE THE GRINDER WAS ENERGIZED