Edgar Plant Metal/Non-Metal

EE was trying to get the handle to slide shut on the back door of the container. It was not closing so EE was hitting the handle with right hand. After a few times, EE's hand missed the handle and hit the container.

An over the road truck driver dropping off a load was struck by a golf cart after they had exited their vehicle. The driver indicated that they were not injured but later reported pain and went to a doctor. Medication was prescribed with two days out from work from the doctor.

While pumping product out of a lined container, the friction from the product flowing through the hose, shocked our employee, knocking EE to the ground. EE never lost consciousness.

EE was prepping containers, when EE grabbed a liner bag off of a stack of liner bags to pull the bag to forks of the forklift, the wooden part of the liner caught the side of the door frame and pulled EE back causing a pain in EE's right shoulder.

The employee was gouging out old weld, EE dropped the air arc lead and the button actuated when it fell to the floor. The blowing material went under EE's safety glasses and irritated EE's eye. Particles on the floor and dropping the air arc lead were contributing factors, the employee was using correct PPE.

Employee was working on 11A paper bagger when bag became jammed at discharge of bag flattener. Employee attempted to pull bag free. Employee suffered strained muscle in upper back/neck area.

No contributing factors, no damage to equipment and no damage to property.

Employee was attempting to get slide gate to activate. Slide gate opened striking employee on right forearm producing cut that needed 4 sutures to close. Employee returned to work same day on restricted duty.

There was an incident where a driver was driving truck when they met IE driving IE's truck. EE swerved to EE's right causing EE's arm of EE's tailgate to strike IE's side mirror, which made the mirror break IE's side glass. It caused a small cut to IE's face. All involved were checked out at BASF nurse & had a drug test at the Urgent Care.

Brick layer was assisting to remove refractory debris from the kiln. They reached for a piece of debris and a second piece of debris shifted onto the 5th finger, pinching the tip. Employee was wearing full face respirator, hard hat, steel toe shoes and leather gloves.

Employee tripped and fell on same level. Reported bruising to right rib cage area on back. Received first aid treatment. Several days later seen by physician. X-rays of area were negative. Returned to normal duty that day. No lost work days, No restricted work days. Prescription muscle relaxer was prescribed to assist with pain.

Installing 11 gage stainless steel plate on 11G spray driver. While lowering the plate through the scaffolds, plate hung up on the 2nd or 3rd scaffold, plate shifted and hit employee.

Packaging Operator was struck on palm of right hand by B4 bulk bagger arm when the bolts holding the bulk bagger arm broke allowing bagger arm to move in downward motion. Operator received a puncture wound to palm of right hand requiring 6 stitches. Employee reported back to work without lost time on restricted duty.

Mechanic received a crush injury to right thumb resulting in amputation of right thumb nail bed to tip of thumb. Mechanic was lowering a 350 hp electric motor to motor base utilizing an electric crane hoist and had thumb positioned in the "line of fire." Electric crane performed as designed.

The employee was working on the catwalk on top of a silo. He states that he caught his foot causing him to fall forward and hit his knee on the mid-rail of the catwalk. No one on the crew witnessed or heard anything.

While walking up an embankment, employee slipped and fell backwards, hitting himself in the face with surveying equipment - causing 8 stitches to repair a 3 cm gash in lower lip/chin.

Employee was cutting and removing straps from a container he was preparing to load. During the process of cutting a strap, the knife made the cut and continued towards the employee's face, striking him below his safety glasses and right eye.

A Mechanic suffered a sprained right knee after slipping and falling. While performing an equipment inspection, the mechanic stepped over a 12" high concrete retaining wall. The area behind the retaining wall was very slippery due to heavy rain combined with kaolin dust. As the mechanic stepped over the retaining wall, he lost his footing and slipped resulting in a fall.

Employee pumped liquid kaolin into a tanker trailer without venting the trailer. The trailer consequently pressurized itself. When he attempted to vent the trailer while unloading, he unscrewed a lid on the top of the trailer and the pressure inside the trailer caused the lid to pop off and hit him in the nose. Sustained a laceration to the nose.

Employee alleges right wrist strain while tying big bags. He denies performing job differently or outside the norm.

Employee experienced low back pain while bending to retrieve extension unit used with bulk loading.

Electrician was performing maintenance tasks on a 3-phase 480 volt motor starter when an electric arc (blast) occurred resulting in burns to the Electrician's hands, fingers, arms and face.

Employee was standing in an awkward position and did not have complete control of grinder. The grinder kicked back and cut his right knee 3 cm.

Employee was using a car stop as a hammer to move a rail car door slide back onto the slide rail. When the employee struck the door slide, the car stop ricocheted and hit the employee's safety glasses, resulting in a laceration under right eye on right cheek, which required 5 stitches.

Employee was attempting to catch a sample on top of a silo when his left middle finger contacted a screw conveyor resulting in an avulsion which required sutures.

Employee sustained a right eye injury which he believes occurred while working in the vicinity of an employee who was welding. However, employee was diagnosed with a corneal foreign body and thinks he may have encountered some trash that blew into his right eye while working around calciners.

Ee was repairing a broken cable on bulk loading chute. When he went to lower the chute, he hit the wrong button and raised the chute instead. His right hand was caught in the cable resulting in laceration and fracture to the right index finger. He received treatment at ER.

A LAB OPERATOR WAS OPERATING A MIXER IN THE LAB. WHEN HE WENT TO REMOVE THE CUP FROM THE MIXER, THE MIXER CAUGHT HIS RUBBER GLOVE AND CUT HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER.

STEPPED ON UNEVEN SURFACE IN KILN AND TWISTED LEFT ANKLE.

EE WAS WALKING IN LOADING ROOM AND FELL ON HIS LEFT SHOULDER. HE RECEIVED TREATMENT AT MD OFFICE AND ER. X-RAYS REVEALED DISLOCATED SHOULDER AND FRACTURED HUMERUS.

MECHANIC WAS HELPING REMOVE INPELLAR FROM PUMP. A 48 INCH PIPE WRENCH WAS HELPING TO HALF SHAFT . CHAIN HOIST WAS HOOKED TO IMPELLAR, TO REMOVE IT. PIPE WRENCH BROKE AND PART OF WRENCH HIT EE ON RIGHT SIDE OF FACE.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO EXIT PULVERIZER ROOM AT LAB WHEN THE DOOR HANDLE JAMMED. HE STATES THE ROOM BECAME VERY HOT SO HE USED A PULVERIZER METAL/STEEL CUP TO BREAK THE DOOR WINDOW AND SUST AINED MULTIPLE LACERATIONS AND CUTS TO HIS RIGHT HAND.

EE WAS STRUCK IN THE MOUTH BY A DUST COLLECTOR BAG CAGE WHILE ASSISTING WITH THE POSITIONING & INSTALLATION OF CAGES INTO A SPRAY DRYER. EE SUFFERED A LACERATION TO HIS UPPER LIP WHICH REQUIRE D SUTURES.

EE RECEIVED CHEMCIAL BURNS ON FACE, CHEST AND ARMS WHEN HE DISCONNECT A HOSE THAT WAS UNDER PRESSURE AND THE CHEMICAL SODIUM SILICATE SPLASHED ON HIM. THE SDS PUMP ON THE CUSTOMERS TANK WAS HU NG UP AND NOT ALLOWING THE PRODUCT TO MOVE FROM THE TRUCK/TRAILER INTO THE SDS TANK SO DRIVER DISCONNECTED HOSES NOT REALIZING PRODUCT WAS STILL IN HOSE.

EE WAS OPERATING A PORTABLE LIFT AND WHILE BACKING UP THE LIFT HE GOT HIS RT. THUMB PINCHED BETWEEN THE LIFT HANDLE AND A PALLET. HE RECEIVED FIRST AID BY THE COMP. NURSE FOR SWELLING & BRUISI NG OF THE HAND AND RETURNED TO RESTRICTED DUTY.

EE WAS PULLING GRATING & MOVED AWKWARD POSITION.

MAINTENANCE MECHANIC WAS IN PROCESS OF MOVING A FURNACE INTO FIRING POSITION. AS HE WAS INSTALLING BOLTS, HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL 18' FROM THE FURNACE PLATFORM TO THE GROUND. HE WAS TRANS PORTED TO E.R. BY AMBULANCE. HE SUSTAINED MULTIPULE FRACTURES AND IS STILL HOSPITALIZED, AWAITING SURGERY.

EE WAS INSPECTING COOLER COLLECTORS. A LARGE GUST OF WIND BLEW THE DOOR OF THE COLLECTOR CLOSED THEY HAD BEEN HELD OPEN BY DOOR STOPS. THE DOOR STRUCK EE LEFT ARM AS IT SWUNG CLOSED. INITIALLY DIAGNOSED AS BRUISED WRIST FOREARM BUT LATER X RAY SHOWED FRACTURE OF ULNA. EE PLACED ON LIGHT DUTY.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CHECK THE PUMP AT THE BOTTOM OF 102 TANK. AS A RESULT OF THE RAINY WEATHER THE ENVIRONMENT WAS WET AND SLIPPERY. WHEN THE WORKER STEPPED INTO THE PIT AREA SHE SLIPPE D, FELL AND SPRAINED HER ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON AN AUTOMATIC BAGGER ATTEMPTING TO CORRECT A BAG THAT WAS OUT OF POSITION WHEN HIS RIGHT WAS CAUGHT AND PINNED BY THE BAG PUSHER.

TWO MECHANICS WERE INSPECTING THE TUBULATOR AT 11F HIGH BULK PLANT DURING DOWN TIME PERIOD. AS PANT OF THE INSPECTION, ONE MECHANIC, INJURED EE SPUN THE TURBULATOR TO MAKE SURE THE BLADES WERE NOT CONTACTING THE HOUSING IT ROTATED WHEN HIS LEFT THUMB WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE HOUSING AND ONE OF THE BLADES AND PARTIALLY ALVUSED IT.

EE WAS DRIVING FORKLIFT IN LOADING ROOM WHEN A FOREIGN PARTICLE ENTERED HIS EYE RIGHT ALTHOUGH HE THOROUGHLY FLUSHED HIS EYE WITH WATER, THE EYE WAS STILL IRRITATED THE NEXT DAY. HE WAS SENT T O THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH DEBRIIN THE EYE AND SCLERAL ABRASION. ANTIBIOTIC OINTMENT WAS PRESCRIBED TO PREVENT INFECTION.

MAINTENANCE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF REPLACING BOTH PADDLE MIXERS SHAFTS AND PLANT 17. A HYDM LIFT WAS BEING USED TO LIFT ONE OF THE NEW SHAFTS INTO PLACE. WHEN THE LOAD SHIFTED A MECHANIC, WHO W AS HELPING TO GUIDE IT INTO PLACE, FELT A PULL IN HIS LEFT FOREARM.

TWO EMPLOYEES WERE ENGAGED IN DROPPING AN EMPTY HOPPER DOWN TRACK 5. AS TACKMOBILE APPROACHED, THE BULK LOADER REMOVED THE RAIL AND RELEASED THE BRAKES ON THE RAIL CAR. THE RAIL CAR COLLIDED W ITH THE TRACKMOBILE SOME 35 PACES DOWNGRADE FROMITS ORIGINAL POSITION. AT IMPACT THE OPERATOR'S LEFT LEG STRUCK THE TRACKMOBILE STEERING COLUMN.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING DISCHARGE BOOT ON SWECO SCREEN, WHILE INSTALLING NEW BOOT, HIS HAND SLIPPED OFF THE BOOT AND THE BOTTOM EDGE OF THE DISCHARGE CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE TOP OF HIS RIGHT F INGER, CUTTING A PORTION OF SKIN AWAY. EMPLOYEE RECEIVED STITCHES. 2 DAYS LATER INJURY BECAME INFECTED AND EMPLOYEE WAS PLACED ON RESTRICTED DUTY.

ON 6-8-99, EE WAS THROWING THE RAIL SWITCH ON F TRACK A MAINTENANCE SHOP WHEN THE SWITCH HUNG UP CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN HIS LOWER BACK. INJURY GOT BETTER UNTIL 6-18-99, WHEN EE PICKED UP A CAR STOP APPROX. 15 AND SET IT ON THE PLATFORM AT THE FRONT OF THE RAILBAR-TURNING HIS BODY CLOCKWISE TORSO ROTATION CAUSING AGGRAVATION TO HIS PREVIOUS INJURY. DATE OF 1ST TX WAS 7-6-99.

CONTRACTORS WERE CALLED IN TO DO ROAD MAINTENANCE ON THE EDGAR PLANT ENTRANCE ROAD, NEAR THE MACHINE SHOP. THE EXISTING ASPHALT HAD BEEN REMOVED ON SAT. IN PREPARATION FOR POURING THE NEW ASPH ALT. HOWEVER, SAT. NIGHT/SUN. MORNING JUST PRIORTO THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT, EE DROVE INTO THE AREA OF THE MAINTENANCE, WHILE COMING TO WORK, LOST CONTROL OF HIS VEHICLE AND ENDED UP IN A DITCH. HE

EE STATED THAT HE USED HIS FORLIFT TO POSITION 42"X42" WOODEN PALLETS FOR BIG BAG STAGING. HE DISMOUNTED THE FORKLIFT TO RE POSITION A WOODEN PALLET BY HAND. WHEN HE REACHED DOWNWARD TO STRAIG HTER THE PALLET, HE STATED THAT HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. DATE OF FIRST TREATMENT WAS 7-4-98.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A HAMMER TO BEND A BRACKET TO ITS CORRECT ANGLE FOR MOUNTING A GUARD OVER AN EXISTING SPEED SWITCH WHEN THE BRACKET SLIPPED AND THE HAMMER STRUCK AND SEVERELY LACERATED HIS LEFT RING FINGER.

EE WAS ASSISTING ANOTHER MECHANICE IN CHANGING BELT ON 2 SIFTER FAN AT 15B CINCER MOTOR WERE ADJUSTED TO ACHIEVE PROPER BELT TENSION WHICH DONE BY HAND. WHEN THE EE GRABBED THE BELT WITH LEFT HAND TO TURN IT AND START IT BACK CORRECTELY OVER THE SHEAVE. WHILE ROLLING THE BELTS, HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE BELTS AN DSHEAVE.

EMPLOYEE WAS SSITING A COWORKER REMOVE AND UNLOAD OFFICE FURNITURE FROM THE BACK OF A STOREROOM PICKUP TRUCK AND PLACING IT IN A SMALL STORAGE BUILDING. WHILE PLACING ON ETABLE ON TOP OF ANOTH ER.

GPF-PNEUMOCONIOSIS.

A PIECE OF STEEL CUT INTO EMP RIGHT INDEX FINGERWHIEL HE WAS REMOVING BEARINGS FROM A SCRUBBER FAN SHAFT. METAL CUT THROUGH HIS LEATHER GLOVES.

ASSISTANT DCS OPERATOR STEPPED FROM A PORTABLE PLATFORM ONTO A LOOSE ROCK. ROCK ROLLED UNDER HISFOOT AND HIS ANKLE TURNED OVER RESULTING IN A RIGHT ANKLE SPRAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS COVERED BY KAOLIN SLURRY UNDER PRESSURE WHEN A QUICK-CONNECT COUPLING CAME LOOSE IN THE AREA WHERE HE WAS WORKING. THE KAOLIN SLURRY STRUCK HIM IN THE FACE AND EYES. HE WAS DIAGNO SED WITH CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS.

THE TWO PLANT ELECTRICIANS WERE INJURED WHEN AN ARC OCCURRED IN A BREAKING BOX THEY WERE INSTALLING IN AN 11-F CALCINER MCC SECTION EE SUSTAINED FLASH & THERMAL BURNS TO HIS RT HAND & FACE OTH ER EMPLOYEE EE ONLY RECEIVED MINOR FLASH BURNS

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CORRECT A PROBLEM WITH BAG JAMMING ON THE BAG MACHINE OF THE 11-B AUTOMATED BAGGER WHEN HIS RT FINGER WAS CAUGHT AT PINCH POINT & AMPUTATED THE TIP OF HIS RT IND3EX FINGER

EE ALLEGES SLIPPING, FALLING & INJURING HIS LOWER BACK WHILE WALKING ON GRAVAL TO THE SILOS. DIDNOT GET TREATMENT UNTIL 5/15/95 & KEPT HIMSELF OUT OF WORK WITHOUT NOTIFYING HIS SUPERVISOR OR I T BEING WORK RELATED.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS CHANGING A BARGE PUMP AT 11-F IMPOUND POND WHEN HE EXPERIENCED WATERING OF HIS LEFT EYE AND PAIN AFTER GETTING HOME.

A CONTRACTOR HAD LEFT AN OPEN DITCH WITH NO BARRICADE TAPE AROUND DITCH. EMPLOYEE LOOKED UP TO CHECK OVERHEAD DANGER, DID NOT SEE OPEN DITCH & FELL INTO DITCH INJURING HIS SHOULDER & LOWER BAC K.

EMPLOYEE TRIPPED OVER HIS FOOT & FELL AS HE WAS WALKING BEHIND THE MAINTENANCE SHOP HE SUSTAINED A LACERATION ABOVE HIS LEFT EYE & BRUISED HIS CHEEK (LEFTSIDE) & ALOVADED HIS RT HAND

EE STATES FOREIGN PARTCLES BLEW INTO HIS LEFT EYE WHILE WORKING ON THE DRIVE PIER OF 11-D CALCINER. IT WAS A VERY WINDY DAY AND EE WAS WEARING HIS SAFETY EYE WEAR.

THE MACHINST HAD MACHINED THE IMPELLER THREADS ON A NEW 8IN MORRIS DUMP SHAFT HE BEGAN TO CHASE THE THREADS WITH A NUT DIE THE DIE STALLED AS HE R ESTARTED THE DIE HIS FINGER CONTACTED A SHARP EDGE OF THE STEEL & LACERATED HIS RT MIDDLE FINGER THE EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN WEARING GLOVES WITH FABRICATING THE SHAFT

EMPLOYEE WAS GRIDNING ON THE #2 PIER TIRE AT 15 A CALCINER WHEN A FOREIGN. BODY BLEW INTO HSI EYE. EMPLOYEE STATES HE WASHED HTE FOREIGN BODY OUT BU COMPLAINE DON EYE IRRITATION AND REDDNESS T HE FOLLOWING DAY. EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED A CORNEAL ABRASION OF HIS LEFT EYE. HEW AS WEARING SAFETY GOGGLES OVER HIS REGULAR SAFETY GLASSES.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTIN GTO TIE THE SPOUT ON THE BIG BAGGER AT B-1 BAGGER WHEN HIS RIGHT HAN DLSIPPED AS HE PULLED THE TIE CORD. TIGHT AND STRUCK THE EDGE OF THE METAL THAT HOLDS. ONE OF THE BAGGER HOOKS IN PLACE. HE SUSTAINED A LARGE BRUISE ON THE BACK OF HIS RIGHT HAND.

EE WAS OPERATING ASP 400 501 BAGS ON L3B BAGGER WHEN HE REACHED TO GET AN EMPTY BAG FROM THE STACK HE EXPERIENCED A SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AORUND A SPARGER CAR AT #11 BULK LOADING WHEN SLIPPED FELL ON SOME GRAVELS AND BRUISED HIS LEFT HAND. ELMPLOYEE USED HIS HANDS TO BREAK HIS FALL.

EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED A "POPPING" SENSATION IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND ARM WHILE STACKING 55-LB KALIN BAGS.

EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LEFT ANKLE WHILE STACKING KAOLIN BAG. 9-7-93, EMPLOYEE UNDERWENT A LATERAL LIGAMENTOUS RECONSTRUCTION OF HIS ELFT ANKLE SURGERY. 1ST DAY EMPLOYEE BEGAN LOOSING TIME AWAY FROM WORK WAS 9-7-93.

EMPLOYEE WAS SLIDING A MOTOR FROM THE LIFT GATE OF A TRUCK ONTO THE BED OF THE TRCUK WHEN HE MASHED AND CAUGHT IT BETWEEN THE MOTOR AND STATIONARY OBJECT ON THE BED OF THE TRUCK. HE SUSTAINED LACERATIONS TO HIS RIGHT RING FINGER AND WAS WEARING GLOVES AT THE TIME OF HIS INJURY.

EMPLOYEE STATES WORKING IN 15-B SPRAY DRYER AND BEING EXPOSED TO SDS IN KAOLID WHILE WORKING WITH DUST COLELCTOR BAGS ADN NOTED HIS HANDS TIGHTENING AND LATER DEVELOPED DERMATITIS TO BOTH HAND S. SUPERVISOR'S RECORDS DOES NOT REVEAL EMPLOYEE COMPING IN CONTACT WITHA N KING OF CHEMICAL DURING THE MOUTH OF OCTOBER 1992.

EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED LOW BACK PAIN AFTER REMOVING BAGS OF KAOLIN FROM A FILL SPOUT AT L5-B BAGGER. EMPLOYEE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A LOW BACK STRAIN AT THIS TIME.

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING A CO-WORKER UNPACK A FULLER PUMP AND TURNED ON A COMPRESSOR THAT BLEW FOREIGN PARTICLES INTO HIS LEFT EYE AND IRRITATED IT. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.

EE EXPERIENCED LOW BACK PAIN WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO PUSH A LOADING HOOD OVER TO ITS PROPERLY FITTING POSITION DATE OF FIRST TREATMENT WAS 2-24-92.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING A HEAT EXHANGER WHEN A FOREIGN APRTICLE BLEW INTO HIS LEFT EYE. EMPLOYE EWAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.

EMPLOYEE WAS ASCENDING A TRUCK LADDER WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING, SLIPPED, FELL AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.

EMPL STACKING BAGGED KAOLIN AT L 11 A BAGGER.STOPPED A BAG THAT WAS COMING OFF THE SKATES WITH HAND AND EXPERIENCED A POPPING IN HIS BACK.SUSTAINED LOW BACK STRAIN WITH MUSCLE SPASMS.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING AN 1 1/2 INCH WATER HOSE, WALKING BACKWARD. HE FELL BACKWARD APPROXIMATELY 5 FEET TO A LOWER LEVEL AND SUSTAINED 2 RIB FRACTURES.

EMPLOYEE REQUESTED A SPECIAL TYPE OF DUST RESPIRATOR DUE TO PREVIOUS BREATHING DIFFICULTIES. HE WAS REFERRED TO THE COMPANY DOCTOR FOR AN EVALUATION AND RECOMMENDATION FOR PROPER DUST MASK. HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH PNUEMOCONIOSIS (DUST ON LUNGS).

EMPLOYEE AND SUPERVISOR WERE WORKING ON A PNEUMATIC CYLINDER, THE AIR TO THE CYLINDER WAS TURNED ON AND THE BUTTON RELEASED BUT THE VALVE FAILED TO OPERATE UNTIL EMPLOYEE ACCIDENTIALLY TOUCHED THE CYLINDER SHAFT WHICH CAUGHT AND LACERATED HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER.

EMPLOYEE REPLACED SOME HEATER COILS IN THE BREAKER BOX AT L11H BULK LOADING. AFTER CHECKING A MOTOR LEAD WITH HIS APM METER, HE REMOVED HIS HAND WHEN THE STARTER PULLED INWARD AND EXPLODED BRU NING HIS RIGHT INNER FOREARM. HE SUSTAINED FIRST AND SECOND DEGREE BURNS.

EMPLOYEE KNELT DOWN TO REMOVE A DRAIN PLUG FROM A DRIVE MOTOR AND EXPERIENCED LOW BACK PAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING OVERHEAD STRUCTURE WORK, WHEN RUST FELL INTO LEFT EYE CAUSING IRRITATION. PRESCRIPTION LIGHT DUTY.

HAMMERING TRASH BLEW IN EYE

UNLOADING CROSS TIES BAND BROKE FELL ON LEGS

EMPLOYEE RECEIVED FLASHING BURNS TO BOTH OF HIS EYES WHILE CUTTING A FLANGE OFF A FURNACE IN A WORK AREA OF CO-WORKERS WHO WERE WELDING ON A NOSE RING. HE WAS WEARING HIS SAFETY GLASSES.

KNEELED POSITION WASHING THE FLOOR OF FEED BIN. WEARING HARD HADEQUIPPED WITH BRACKET THAT COVERED THE BRIM OF HAT MADE AN ATTEMPT TO STAND UP BRIM STRUCK A CROSS BRACE AND FORCED THE SHARP EN D OF BRACKET ACROSS EYEBROW LACERATED IT.

EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING END-OF-THE-SHIFT SILO CHECKS WHEN THE CABLE FROM THE WINCH TYPE SILO CHECKER AT PS1 GOT CAUGHT IN THE SILO DISCHARGE SCREW AND FRACTURED HIS RIGHT WRIST.

INITIAL INVESTIGATION INDICATES THAT EMPLOYEE DISCONNECTED A HOSE UNDER PRESSURE AND WAS STRUCK BY THE COUPLER EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED A DEEP LACERATION AND TORN MUSCLES OF HIS LEFT THIGH

EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING BAGGER AND HIS LEFT KNEE POPPED OUT OF JOINT.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING 50 POUND BAGS OF KAOLIN WHEN HE EXPERINCED PAIN IN HIS CHEST.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A 50LB BAG OF CLAY IN AN ATTEMPT TO PLACE IT ONTO SKATE WHEN HE SUSTAINED A HAIRLINE FRACTURE.

EMPL STATED HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN CROSS BRACING OF STEEL COLUMNS WHEN HIS LEFT FOOT STRUCK MOUNTING BRACKET, BALL OF FOOT. EMPL DID NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT FOOT UNTIL 8/25 AT WHICH TIME EMPL SCHE DULED APPT WITH DR FOR EVALUATION ON 8/26/88.

EMPL STATED HE WAS HANDLING SOME NEW BOLTS & BURR FROM ONE OF THEM STUCK HIM IN SIDE OF LEFT THUMB. IT WAS NOT TREATED & BECAME INFECTED ON 8/26/88.

EMPL HOLDING ON OUTSIDE BASKET RAIL WITH LEFT HAND WHILE BENDING OVER TO PICK UP GLOVES.JLG OPER RAISED MANLIFT BASKET CAUSING LEFT HAND TO GET CAUGHT BETWEEN BASKET RAIL AND STEEL BEAM OF HIG HLINE PIPE RACK.

EMPLOYEE INSERTED A SHEET METAL SHELF ON ITS SUPPORT STRUCTURE WHEN HIS RT INDEX FINGER CONTACTED THE SHARP EDGE OF THE SHEET METAL STRUCTURE AND LACERATED IT

CONTAMINATION OF TOP OF CIRCUIT BREAKER LED TO SHORT BETWEEN PHASES CAUSING A FLASH AND FIRST DEGREE BURNS TO HIS LEFT AND R T FOREARMS

EMPLOYEE AND A CO-WORKER BUILT A WALL (STUDS ONLY) 8 FEET HIGH AND 10 FEET LONG ON THE GROUND. THE WALL HAD TO BE RAISED FROM ONE END AND SLID IN PLACE TO ITS PROPER POSITION. WHILE RAISING THE WALL, THE EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED MILD PAIN, IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER AND LATER SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT ON 7-11-88.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS SITTING IN A CABLE TRAY AND TRIED TO REPOSITION HIMSELF USING THE SIDE OF HIS RIGHT LOWER LEG.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS SITTING A STRIDE STEEL BEAM, LEANED TO LEFT TO INSERT BOLT, FELT PAIN IN BACK AS HE SAT BACK UP. WHEN EMPLOYEE STATED IT HAD HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES IN THE LAST FEW YEARS , HE WAS SENT TO HIS PERSONAL PHYSICIAN WHO BEGAN A SERIES OF DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND REFERRED TO A SPECIALIST.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO FIT AN ANGLE EMBED IN PLACE BY HAMMERING WITH A 6 POUND HAMMER EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING EMBED DOWN WITH LEFT HAND WHILE HAMMERING THE HANDLE CAUGHT HIS STOMAC H AND DEFLECTED THE HAMMER ONTO HIS HAND

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS SPILTTING INSULATION ON 4-WIRE CABLE WITH POINT OF HIS BUCK KNIFE WHILE HOLDING CABLE WITH LEFT HAND SOME 2 FT BACK KNIFE CAME OUT OF INSULATION AND INTO BACK OF LEFT TH UMB.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CONNECT CHAIN ADJUST ROD THROUGH HOLE IN SIDE OFBOOM WHEN FEET SLIPPED BECAUSE OFHYDROLIC OIL ON SHOES. HE WAS MOMENTARILY SUSPENDED BY LEFT HAND IN HOLE.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE TRIPPED ON SCRAP PIECE OF UNISTRUT WHEN HE WAS CARRYING AWAY 2-10 FT PIECES NO COMPLAINTS WERE MADE ABOUT HEALING UNTIL 4-25 AT WHICH TIME IT WAS NOTED THAT THE SCRAPED KNE E HAD COMPLETELY HEALED BUT SOME SWELLING REMAINED EMPLOYEE WAS SENT TO DR ON 4-26 FOR EVALLATION.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS SKINNING THE INSULATION FROM A WELDING LEAD WITH HIS POCKET KNIFE CUTTINGTOWARDS HIMSELF WHEN THE KNIFE SLIPPED CUTTING HIS LEG

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON A WET SLIPPERY SURFACE WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE ATTEMPTING TO BREAK HIS FALL.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHIFTING BAG WEIGHTS USING HIS RIGHT KNEE WHICH AGGRAVATED A PREVIOUS RIGHT KNEE INJURY.

EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING A PIECE OF METAL FOR A CONDUIT BRACKET TO BE WELDED WHEN INSTRUCTED BY A MECAHIC TO LET GO OT IT AFTER A 2-3 MINUTE WAITING PERIOD HE LET GO OF IT WHEN IT BROKE LOOSE FELL BOUNCED STRUCK AND BRUISED HIS LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS PUSHING SHOVEL UNDER PIPE (BACKFILLING)-SHOVELING WOULDN'T MOVE, HANDS SLIPPED AND LEFT TESTICLE BUMPED END OF HANDLE, WHEN EMPLOYEE MOVE INTO IT.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A SMALL SWITCH BOX AT 15-B KILN WHEN IT SLIPPED FROM HIS HANDS CAUSING A STRENOUS PULL ON HIS BACK.HE SUSTAINED A LOW BACK STRAIN.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE REMOVED A SYMON FORM (2FTX4FT) FROM A CONCRETE POUR & TURNED TO PLACE ON THE SIDE OF THE 4FT EXCAVATION BY HIMSELF HE STATED HE GOT OFF BALANCE & FELT A SHARP PAIN IN RT.GR OIN

EMPLOYEE STATED3HE HAD BEEN GRINDING INSIDE KILN WITH SAFETY GLASSES AND FACE SHIELD. HE RAISED THE FACE SHIELD TO GET A CLOSER LOOK AT THE WORK SURFACE AND THE ACCUMULATED GRINDING DUST ON H IS HARD HAT AND3SHIELD DUMPED ACROSS HIS FACE, SOME BEHIND HIS GLASSES INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.

EMPL TOLD FOREMAN THAT ON 1-22 WRIST WAS HURTING.X-RAYS TAKEN & NEGATIVE AND DR RETURNED EMPL TO WORK WITH RESTR UNTIL 2-4-88.FLLLOWUP OK FOR 2-11-88.

EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED AN ABRASION AND CONTUSION TO HIS LOWER BACK WHEN A RAILCAR HE WAS DROPPING STRUCK A RAILROAD ACCESS BRIDGE CAUSING IT TO FALL AND STRIKE HIM IN THE LOWER BACK

HE WAS WORKING ALONE ON A WELDER ATTEMPTING TO INSTALL A WESTINHOUSE STARTER IN THE WHEELED PORTABLE WELDER WHE HE FELT HIS BACK SNAPPED WHILE BENT IN A LSIGHTLYU FORWARD POSTION.

EMP STATED HE FIRST NOTICED AN IRRITATION ABOUT 6 PM 12 21 87 HE STATED THAT HE AND SEVERAL OTHER IRON WORKERS HAD BEEN UNLOADING A SECTION OF KILN FROM A FLAT BED, ATACHING AND REATTACHING WI WIRE ROPE CHOKERS. DR EASILY REMOVED PARTICLE BUT REFERRED TO A SPECIALIST TO REMOVE RUST RING 12 22 PM EYE WAS PATCHED 12 22 BUT REMOVED 12 23 OK

EMPLOYEE WAS RE1OSITIONING A 4" CHANNEL IRON RAFTER IN THE 8A BOILER ROOM WHEN HE LOST HIS BALAVANCE WHILE STANDING ON THE SECOND STEP OF A SIX FOOT STEP LADDER, FELL AGAINST THE CONCRETE BLOC K WALL, SPRAINE8 HIS FOREARM, SUSTAINED A LACERATION ABOVE HIS LEFT EYEBROW AND CHIPPED A TOOTH.

EMPLOYEE WAS WASHING UP CLAY ON THE BACK SIDEOF 400P-SILO WHEN THE 1 1/2" BALL VALVE HE WAS HOLDING, CAME FREE FROM THE WASH HOSE WHICH PUNCTURED AND LACERATED HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER.

I,NAME WAS AT T2E PUMP REPAIR AREA FILING DOWN A DAMAGE SHAFT REMOVING RUST AND BURRS WHEN THE FAN BLEW A FOREIGN PARTICLE INTO HIM RIGHT EYE THAT EMBEDDED, ABRADED AND BECAME INFLAMMED. I,NAM E WAS WEARING H3S PRESCRIPTION SAFETY GLASSES.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED OFF WET WALKWAY, FELL AND BRUISED HIS BACK.

I.NAME AND A CO4ORKER WENT TO INSPECT AND REPARI A RECEIVER AND ROTARY ON EF-3 SILO I.NAME WAS INSTRUCTED TO START THE ROTARY LOCK USING THE KNIFE SWITCH THIS PROCEDURE WAS PERFORMED A COUPLE OF TIMES I.NAM9 PLACED HIS LEFT HAND ON THE ROTARY LOCK AND THE SWITCH WAS TURNED ON LACERATING HIS INDEX FINGER AND AMPUTED THE DISTAL END OF HIS MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS

EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING BAGS 14 HIGH WHEN HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK.

I,NAME FRACTURE8 HIS ANKLE WHEN IT WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE GROUND AND THE GUIDE WHEELS OF THE SHUTTLE WAGON AS HE RELEASED THE HAND BRAKE OF A BOX CAR. THE SHUTTLE WAGON OPERATGOR HAD NOT BUILT UP THE BRAKES 2N THE BOX CAR BRAKES.

EMP WAS ASSISTI3G COWORKER LIFT A 160 LB BEARING HOUSING ONTO AN ELEVATOR FLOOR WHILE IN A SQUATTING POSITION EMP EXPERIENCED SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND COULD NOT STAND UP

A TEMPORARY TOTAL DOSABILITY INJURY INVOLVING A COMPOUND SINGLE FRACTURE AND SECERE LACERATIONS OF EMPLOYEE\S LEFT FORE ARM OCCURRED WHEN INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING OT ASCEND A STEEL RAMP WITH A F FORKLIFT TRUCK. THE TRUCK LOST TRACTION DUE TO WET DRIVE WHEELS AND THE STEERING WHEEL GOT OBSTRUCTED IN AN INDENTATION IN THE RAMP. AS EMPLOYEE BACKED DOWN HIS STEERING WHEELS WERE COCKED C

DISMOUNTING HOPPER RR CAR ...USING SAFETY BELT WITH 30\\ LANYARD AND LADDER SNAP HOOK SECURED.LEFT FOOT SLIPPED OFF BOTTOM RUNG OF FIXED LADDER, ...CAUSING LOSE BALANCE AND STRIKE GROIN ON ANG LAR END SECTION OF LADDER RUNG WHILE SUSPENDED FROM SAFETY BELT.

HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO START #1 SYSTEM DUST COLLECTOR EXHAUST FAN. HE PUSHED THE STARTER RESET BUTTON INITIALLY AND THEN MOVED THE BREAKER SWITCH LEVER UPWARD. WHEN THE BREAKER CLOST, THE CIRCUI T BREAKER EXPLODED ON THE PRIMARY SIDE PRODUCTING AN INTENSE ARC FLASH AND BLOWING THE PANEL DOOR OFF. A WESTINGHOUSE 100 AMPS CIRCUIT BREAKER, SIZE 4 CONTACTOR, ENCLOSURE, DOOR, SWITCH AND H