CF & I PIT Metal/Non-Metal

Injury was helping splice the pit conveyor belt. The clamp on the belt slipped off and hit him in the chin

EE WAS WALKING ACROSS THE STOCKPILE YARD AREA TO GET HELP STARTING THE WATER TRUCK. (DEAD BATTERIES) EE TRIPPED ON A ROCK AND FELL, STRIKING HER FACE AND LEFT ELBOW ON THE GROUND, DISLOCATING HER LEFT ELBOW AND DAMAGING HER LEFT SHOULDER.

I WAS WORING UNDER A TRUCK AT THE HARTVILLE QUARRY IN WYOMING. WHEN EXITING FROM UNDER THE TRUCK, I TWISTED MY BACK AND HIP.

EE WAS CLIMBING ONTO A FLATBED TRAILER TO HELP LOAD IT. AFTER GETTING UP ON THE BED, HE STOOD UP AND TURNED ALL AT ONE TIME WRENCHING HIS BACK. HE CONTINUED TO WORK, THINING IT WAS JUST A KINK IN HIS BACK.

EE WAS CUTTING WITH TORCH AND THE HOSE BLEW UP. HE WAS USING AN OXY/ACETYLENE TORCH SET. THE TORCH WAS LIGHTED AND THE OXYGEN HOSE IMMEDIATELY BURST AT THE REPAIR NEAR CONNECTION TO HAND SET. EE RECEIVED 3RD DEGREE BURNS TO HIS LEFT FOREARM AND STOMACH.

EE HAS AN EXTENSIVE HISTORY OF GASTROINTESTIANALPROBLEMS AND HAS SEEN SEVERAL SPECIALITS IN COLOFOR THESE PROBLEMS. HIS SYMPTONS INTENSIFIED AT WORK ON 9/16/98 TO WHERE HE WAS UNABLE TO FUNCTI ON. HIS DR SAW HIM ON 9/17/98 & STATED AFTER DISCUSSING HIS SITUATION WITH HIM, IT BECAME MY OPINION THAT THIS WAS SOMEWHAT WORK RELATED. EE WAS PUT ON MEDICAL LEAVE AT THAT TIME

EE AND OTHER WERE REPLACING 6 BELTS ON THE CONE CRUSHER. EE WAS PULLING ON THE LARGE PULLEY CONNECTED TO THE MAIN MOTOR WHILE OTHER PULLED ON THE BELTS. HE PULLED TOO HARD IN A BENT POSITION A ND FELT HIS LOWER BACK GIVE.

EQUIPMENT WAS SUSPENDED (HOPPER)-BY A 988 LOADER-THE HOPPER SLID ACROSS THE TRAILER AND SWEPT THE EMPLOYEE OFF HIS FEET.HE STRUCK THE GROUND HEAD FIRST.THIS RESULTED IN A CHEST CONTUSION.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO REMOVE A JAW CRUSHER FEEDER WING AND WAS REMOVING THE BOLTS HOLDING THE WING TO THE FEEDER. HE WAS INSIDE THE BUCKET OF 988B LOADER AND THE WING WAS NOT SECURED TO THE BUCKET. SEVERAL BOLTS WERE REMOVED AND THE REMAINING 2 BOLTS BROKE, ALLOWING THE WING TO FALL SEVERAL INCHES ONTO THE TOP OF THE BUCKET. THE EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK ON HIS HEAD BY THE WING. SAFETY

EE WAS PREPARING A SCREEN DECK FOR 9" SIDE GRINDER. THE GRINDER DISK MADE CONTACT IN A 90 DEGREECORNER & SKIPPED FROM THE MATERIAL'S SURFACE CAUSING THE EE'S WRIST TO BE TWISTED. THE GRINDER K DISK CAME IN CONTACT WITH EE'S WRIST. ABRASION REQUIRED SUTURES.

EE WAS WALKING ON SOME BOARDS NEAR THE SCALE. ONE OF THE BOARDS FLIPPED & THE EE TWISTED HER ANKLE.

EE WAS LOADING EQUIPMENT ON FLAT BED TRAILER - AS HE WAS CLIMBING UP HIS LEFT KNEE WAS DISLOCATED.

EMPLOYEE WAS FOLDING IN RADIAL STACKING CONVEYOR TO BE MOVED. USING A COME-ALONG TO ALIGN CONVEYOR IN IN BRACES. COME-ALONG HOOK SLIPPED OFF OF CONVEYOR STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN THE HEAD ABOVE RIG HT EYE CAUSING A 1 1/2" CUT.

PULLED LOWER BACK MUSCLES WHEN CLOSING PICKUP TAILGATE

RECLAM WORK WIND BLEW SEED IN EYE PROBE TO BET IT OUT AT HOSPIT.

CRAWLED UNDER TRAILER TO FIND THE HOLE TO RUN WIRES THROUGH. WHEN HE CAME OUT, THE BACK DOOR WAS ABOVE WHERE HE WAS WORKING AND WHEN HE RAISED HIS HEAD, THE BAR TO LATCH THE DOOR HIT HIM ABO VE THE EAR. RESULTED IN: SORE RIGHT EAR.