Edwardsville Shop & Plant #4 Metal/Non-Metal

Employee was lifting pipe off a flat bed truck. The load swung to the side and tipped the machine he was using. He has a sprained ankle. It is his right foot.

Employee was walking across the shop area. He was wearing his safety glasses, however, they started to fall off and he reached up to push them back on (he had his welding gloves on and shavings fell from the gloves onto his eyelashes. Metal shavings got in his left eye.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING MOTOR ON A SHELF. IT STARTED TO FALL. HIT EMPLOYEE'S MIDDLE FINGER & CUT IT.

EMPLOYEE IS HAVING PROBLEMS WITH HIS ARM & WRIST. HE ALLEGES THAT IT IS DUE TO REPETIVE MOTION. HE TURNED IN THE CLAIM ON 2/5/03.

EE WAS MOVING ANGLE IRON FROM A ROCK HE FELT SOMETHING PULL HOWEVER, HE THOUGHT IT WAS A PULLED MUSCLE. HE NOTIFIED US ON 2/21/02. HE HAS A HERNIA

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING UP TO ENTER THE YARD CRANE. HIS FOOT SLIPPED & HE SWUNG AROUND & PULLED HIS LEFT SHOULDER & HIT HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS ATTACKED BY A DOG. HE WAS BITTEN ON HIS RIGHT HAND.

EE HIT A POT HOLE WHILE DRIVING COMPANY TRK SOMETIME IN JANUARY. HE IS NOT SURE OF EXACT DATE. LATER IN MONTH HE STARTED EXPERIENCING BURNING IN HIS NECK & NUMBNESS IN HIS FINGERS. HE IS SEEING A CHIRPRACTOR

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING CARDBOARD WITH A BOX KNIFE.HIS HAND SLIPPED AND HE CUT THE PALM OF HIS LEFTHAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS THROWING STEEL. HE HURT HIS LEFT SHOULDER.

2 EES WERE LOADING WATER TANK ON TRUCK. 1 EE WAS GUIDING & 1 EE WAS RUNNING THE CRANE. THE CRANE GOT INTO THE POWER LINE & THE EE GUIDING THE TANK WAS ELECTROCUTED.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING RESTROOM AND HE MIXED TOILET BOWL CLEANER AND CHLOROX. THIS CAUSED FUMES THAT MADE HIM SICK.

EE WAS GRINDIG. GRINDER KICKED BACK & HIT HAND OF EE. HE HAD TO HAVE 30 SUTURES.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO LOOSEN A BOLT. HIS HAND SLIPPED AND HIT THE CARRIAGE ON LATHE. TOP OF HAND WAS CUT AND REQUIRED 6 STITCHES.

ON FEB 1ST & 2ND, EE WAS PAINTING. ON FEB 3, 97 HE COLLAPSED AT HOME & WAS TAKEN TO LEES SUMMIT HOSPITAL BY AMBULANCE. THE DOCTORS DIAGNOSIS WAS THAT HE HAD BEEN OVEREXPOSED BY PAINT FUMES. HE WAS WEARING A NIOSH APPROVED REPIRATOR.

EE STEPPED DOWN FROM UNILOADER AND HURT HIS BACK

EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN PAINTING SHAKER AND HOPPER PAINT GUN BECAME CLOGGED, EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO UNCLOG IT, AND AS HE TURNED NOZZLE (OR TIP) PAINT SPRAYED IN HIS EYES. AFTER FLUSHING EYES WI TH WATER FOR 15 MINUTES, AND BEING TREATED BY PARAMEDICS AND HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM, EMPLOYEE HAD NO LASTING EFFECTS.

EE WAS WALKING ALONG TOP OF CONTAINMENT DIKE AROUND OIL STORAGE TANKS WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED OR HE TURNED HIS ANKLE AND FELL AND ROLLED DOWN OUTSIDE SLOPE OF DIKE. HE SPRAINED HIS LEFT KNEE AND INJURED HIS LEF THSOULDER WHICH IS RESTRICTING THE MOVEMENT OF HIS LEFT ARM.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE INJURED HIS BACK CLIMBING IN AND OUT OF FLATBED TRUCK. INJURY CONSISTS OF PAIN IN LOWER BACK. EMPLOYEE WENT TO CHIROPRACTOR AND HAD MANIPULATION OF LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING UP A SMALL AMOUNT OF OIL FROM SHOP FLOOR. MIXING SOLVENT WITH OIL AND THEN COVERING AREA WITH OIL-DRI. WHILE USING BROOM IN CIRCULAR MOTION TO MIS COLVENT WITH OIL THE BACK OF HIS HAND RUBBED SHARP EDGE OF 9 GA FLATTENED EXPANDED METAL THAT WAS ON HORIZONTAL SHELF. CUT ON BACK OF HARD REQUIRED 4 STITCHES.

EE WAS USING A CUTTING TORCH TO REMOVE OLD USHINGS FROM LOADER ARMS, WHEN HOT METAL POPPED OFF THE BUSHING AND INTO HIS LEFT EAR. THIS CAUSED AN INFECTION AND PERFORATED THE EARDRUM-THE ANTIBI OTICS CURED THE INFECTION AND THE EARDRUM HAS HEALED BACK.

HE WAS HANGING UPSIDE DOWN THROUGH HOLE IN FLOOR OF LOADER CAB INSTALLING CAB MOUNTS ON FRONT-END LOADER DURING SCHELUED WINTER OVERHAUL AND TWISTED HIS BACK WHILE PULLING ON A WRENCH.

COMPRESSED AIR FROM AIR ARC STINGER BLEW MOLTEN METAL STEEL ONTO WELDERS SCALP. SECOND DEGREE BURN TO CENTRAL REGION OF SCALP.

FOREIGN OBJECT LODGED IN LEFT EYE, PROBABLY BLOWN BY AIR HOSE.

BUFFING SHARP E8GES ON 11/2IN SQU.TUBING AIR SANDERS ABRASIVE DISC BROKE & FLEW APART HITTING EMPLOYEE IN MIDDLE OF FOREARM & CUTTING ARM

CUTTING PIECE O0 METAL,IF FLIPPED UP AND HIT ARM.

EMPLOYEE STATED3THAT GREASE TRUCK BOUNCES SO MUCH THAT DRIVING IT FOR (4-1/2 MONTHS) HAS INJURED EMPLOYEE'S BACK AND NECK.

OUTRIGGER OF STINGER TRUCK WAS LOWERED ONTO TOP OF EMPLOYEES FOOT

LIFTING AN IRON SAWHORSE.