Graves County Mines: 22 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

INSTALLING FALL PROTECTION SYSTEM WHEN EE SLIPPED AND FELL INTO A SKYLIGHT. FELL APPROXIMATELY 16 TO 18 FEET.

EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING 50 LB BAGS OF CLAY WHEN A COUPLE OF BAGS GOT TURNED SIDEWAYS ON THE BELT. EMPLOYEE PUT HIS RIGHT ARM OUT AND WAS HOLDING THE BAGS BACK. HE REACHED OVER WITH HIS LEFT HAND TO TURN OFF THE BELT, WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HISRIGHT ARM.

EE WAS LETTING RAIL CARS DOWN AT THE DRYER. WHEN HE STARTED TO TIGHTEN THE BRAKES ON ONE OF THE CARS HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN. HE STRAINED HIS LOWER LEFT ABDOMEN.

EE WAS PICKING UP SMALL CROSS TIES AND PLACING THEM ON A PALLET EE FOOT SLIPPED AND WHEN EE CAUGHT HIS BALANCE HE STRAINED HIS BACK. EE DID NOT FALL. IT HAD BEEN RAINING.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON LOADER 1527. HE WAS FIXING THE PARKING BRAKE. WHEN HE GOT SOMETHING IN HIS LEFT EYE. EE WAS TAKEN TO DR TO GET IT REMOVED.

EE WAS HELPING PUT 55 GAL BARRELS OF ANTIFREEZE INTO THE CONTAINMENT. THE CHAIN SLIPPED & THE BARREL THAT EE WAS GUIDING INTO PLACE, SHIFTED & SWUNG INTO ANOTHER BARREL & CAUGHT HIS FINGER BET WEEN THE BARRELS.

EE WAS CHANGING OUT A BEARING ON THE MILL. WHILECLEANING THE MILL SHAFT WITH A SAND SCREEN, HIS HAND SLIPPED AND HE CUT HIS LEFT RING FINGER. HEHAD TO HAVE 3 STITCHES.

EE WAS GOING TO EMPTY THE DUMPSTER AT THE DRYER. HE WAS LOOKING UP AT THE BELT AND WATCHING THE POLES THAT HOLD THE BELT UP. WHEN THE SLIDE SHIFT OF THE FORKLIFT HIT A POLE HIS RIGHT THUMB GOT HUNG IN THE STEERING WHEEL. HIS BODY WENT FORWARD & IT PUSHED HIS SHOULDER BACK. HE WENT TO DR.& 1ST AID ONLY 5-5-01 AFTER WORK. BECAME REPORTABLE 7/27 WENT HE TOOK OF FOR SURGERY. EST 6-8 WE

EE WAS CHANGING THE TRANSMISSION ON A DUMP TRUCK. GOT SOMETH8ING IN HIS RIGHT EYE. EE HAD WASHED OFF THE TRUCK & TRANSMISSION. HE WAS WEARING HIS SAFETY GLASSES. WE DID FIRT AID AT THE PLANT. TOOK HIM TO THE DR. TO HAVE IT CHECKED OUT. THE DR. GAVE HIM A PRESCRIPTION FOR HIS EYE.

GPF-EMPLOYEE'S JOB EXPOSED HIM TO MINIMAL AMOUNTS OF DUST ON THE JOB. EMPLOYEE IS HEAVY SMOKER. CHEST X-RAY REVEALS 1/0.

GPF-EMPLOYEE HAD HEARING LOSS UPON BASELINE TESTING IN 1990.ADDITIONALLY EMPLOYEE WAS NEVER OVEREXPOSED TO NOISE ON THE JOB. ACCORDING TO MSHA PELS. EMPLOYEE'S HEARING CONTINUES TO DETERIORATE , APPARENTLY FROM NON-WORK RELATED CONDITION. NATURAL OCCURRING?

A PALLET WAS HUNG IN THE PALLETIZER. THE MILL OPER WAS TRYING TO GET THE PALLET TO FALL. HE WAS USING A BAR AND HIS HAND SLIPPED. HE GOT HIS THUMB ON HIS LEFT HAND PINCHED INBETWEEN THE PALLET IZER AND THE JAWS THAT HOLD THE PALLET.

INSIDE HOPPER CAR REMOVING MOIST LUMPS OF SEMI-DRIED CLAY USING SHOVEL. FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK. THE FOLLOWING MORNING PAIN WAS MORE INTENSE.

EMPLOYEE SAID THAT HE WAS WALKING AFTER HE GOT OFF THE BAGGER WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK. HE SAID THAT HE DID NOT BEND OVER OR LIFT ANYTHING THAT IT JUST HIT HIM ALL OF THE SUDDEN.

INJURY OF 04-24-91, WASREOPENED DUE TO THE FACT THAT HIS HERNIA,WHICH WAS REPAIRED, HAS BROKEN OPEN.

EE HAD BEEN BAGGING HE WENT TO THE RESTROOM. HE CAME OUT AND WAS WALKING OUT TO STRETCH WRAP PALLETS WHEN HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDERNEATH HIM CAUSING HIM TO FALL.

HE WAS STANDING INSIDE THE HOPPER CAR CLEANING IT WHEN HE SAID HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS LEFT KNEE.

AN EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN A LADDER AND DROP PED HIS KEYS, INJURED BENT OVER TO PICK THE KEYSUP AND HIS BACK POPPED.

EMPLOYEE WAS ON LOADER, CROSSING RR TRACKS & SAW SHOW TRUCK COMING, HE CLAIMED HE TRIED TO STOP BUT ALLEGEDLY HAD NO BRAKES. HE DROPPED THE BUCKET WHICH THREW HIM INTO THE WINDSHIELD. HE STATE D BRAKES WORKED BEFORE THE ACCIDENT, IT WAS CHECJED AFTER ACCIDENT, FULL OF FLUID & BRAKES WORKED, SEAT BELT NOT BEING WORN PROPERLY. HE WAS TAKEN TO ER, RECEIVED 1ST AID ONLY, RELEASED.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING POWER STEERING FLUID IN HIS TRUCK, HE SLIPPED & SCRAPED HIS LEG AGAINST TRUCK FRAME.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING INSIDE OF HOPPER CAR: DUE TO MOISTURE IN CAR AND SEMI-DRY CLAY FROM PREV- IOUS LOADING. THE SURFACE WAS SLIPPERY CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO SLIP AND HIT HIS KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS RESTACKING USED PALLETS WHEN HE HIT HIS ELBOW ON ANOTHER STACK OF PALLETS.

EMPLOYEE WAS GOING TO BREAKROOM. ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A PICKUP TRUCK TRUCK AND DECIDED TO SCARE (HORSEPLAY) I.NAME. HE WAS CLOSER TO HIM THAN HE THOUGHT AND HIT HIM WITH THE TRUCK CAUS ING HIM TO HIT THE BUILDING AND FALL. EMPLOYEE DID NOT SEE DOCTOR UNTIL DOCTOR UNTIL MONDAY, NOV 2 (DAY MISSED WORK).

EMPLOYEE WAS BUILDING A WATER TREATMENT BOX HE WAS INSTALLING THE BARRELL INTO THE BOX & BENDING OVER IN AN AWKWARD POSITION

EMPLOYEE REPORTED TOHIS SUPERVISOR ON 7-23-92 THAT WHILE STACKING CLAY, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS WRIST. HE DID NOT GOT TO DOCTOR UNTIL 9-11-92.

EE PULLED LOADER UP TO SWEEP OUT BOXCAR, STEPPED OUT OF CAB ONTO TIRE TO CROSS LOADER BUCKET TO GET INTO BOXCAR, SLIPPED AND FELL INTO BUCKET HITTING HIS ARM.

GETTING OFF MACHINE JACKET CAUGHT ON LEVER PULLED IN CAB INJ BACK

IT HAD BEEN RAINING & AS EMPL STEPPED ACROSS RAILROAD TRACK HE SLIPPED & TWISTED HIP.

TWISTED ANKLE STEPPING DOWN AT DRYER LOADING HOPPER FEW MIN STEP GAVE WAY CROSSING AT DRYER AND BREAKROOM

EMPLOYEE PICKED UP A TRUCK TIRE.

PULLED MUSCLE,RELEASING DUMP LEVER ON HIS TRUCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING D25C ARTICULATED DUMP TRUCK AND WAS WEARING SEAT BELT RATHER LOOSELY.TRUCK HIT A BUMP IN RAOD CAUSING JOLT RESULTING IN BRUISING.

EMPLOYEE WAS GOING TO WATER THE ROAD, WHEN HE STEPPED ON THE STEP OF WATER TRUCK AND GRABBED HAND BAR AND PULLED A MUSCLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS DIGGING OUT KNOTS IN CLAG AND HURT HIS SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS GREASING BACKHOE AND STEPPED UP ON ANOTHER STEOP AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED, TWISTING KNEE, HITTING KNEE ON NEXT STEP.

EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED NECK AND SHOULDER PAIN AFTER PULLING ON TAIL GATE ON TRUCK BED.

WHILE PUNCHING A KNOT THROUGH SHREDDER WITH A STEEL BAR ARM STARTED HURTING.

EMPL WAS STACKING BAGS OF CLAY IN DOORWAY OF CAR A FAN WAS BEING USED IN THE DOORWAY EMPL MOVED FAN AND IT FELL ON HIS BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON TRUCK DUMP BED,HE GOT A SLIVER OF METAL IN FINGER.

EMPL WAS GRINDING EDGE OFF PUNCH IT SLIPPED & LACERATED FINGER.

EMPL WORKED FRIDAY 1-6089 FROM 7AM TO 3PM BAGGING AND STACKING 50LB BAGS OF CLAY DURING THISTIME HE DID NOT REPORT ANY INJURY TO HIS SUPERVISOR NOR TO HIS FELLOW WORKERS HE LATER ALLEGED THAT ABOUT 11:30PM THAT NIGHT HIS BACK BEGAN TO HURT AND THAT BY SUNDAY 1-8-89 THE PAIN WAS SO SEVERE THAT HE WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL HE ALLEGED THAT THE EMERGENCY ROOM DR

EMPLOYEE WAS FUELING HIS LOADER & SLIPPED & FELL

REMOVING THE PLUNGER CYLINDER FROM PC400 BACKHOE WITH DOZER IT CAME OUT SUDDENLY & DROPPED ON E PLOYEES HAND

EMPLOYEE SAID HIS BACK WAS BOTHERING HIM LAST WEEK WHEN HE WAS WORKING ON THE MILL, IT WAS STILL HURTING ON 7-29-88, HE LEFT WORK TO SEE DOCTOR. HE WORKED ON 7-2988 HA HAD WORKED10 HOURS PER PER DAY 7-25-88 THRU 7-28-88. HE WORKED 8-1-88 THRU 8-4-88. HE HAS BEEN OFF WORK FROM 8-8-88 UNTIL 8-22-88.

EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING OFF A LOAD FROM HIS TRUCK AND HE WAS STANDING AT TAILGATE PUSHING LUMPS OF CLAY DOWN AND ONE FELL ON HIS THUMB.

EMPLOYEE WAS WASHING CLAY OFF BOOTS AT THE END OF SHIFT,WHEN HE FINISHED AND STARTED TO WALK AWAY,HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

EMPL WORKING ON DRILL TRUCK ALONE WHEN HE LIFTED AUGER PULLING MUSCLE IN ARM AND SHOULDER.

EMPL WORKING WI7H BY-PASS BELT WHICH WAS FROZEN,STEPPED DOWN AND WALKED INTO A PIPE.

EMPLOYEE PULLED3A PALLET OFF A PILE ABOUT 8 PALLETS HIGH.WHEN IT FELL IT JERKED HIS ARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING A PAYLOADDER WHEN HE HIT A HOLE INJURING HIS BACK.EMPLOYEE STATED HE HAS HAD PAIN IN LOWER BACK SINCE INJURY.HE WAS BAGGING CLAY FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND THE PAIN INCRE ASED.HE CALLED 8R. MERIWETHER AND THE DOCTOR SCHEDULED A MYELOGRAM FOR EMPLOYEE ON DEC.23.THE FIRST DAY MISSED WORK WAS DEC.22,1987.THE MYLELOGRAM SHOWED A RUPTURED DISC IN NECK CAUSING MUSCL

EMPLOYEE WAS ON3TOP OF HOPPER CAR GETTING SAMPLE,HIS FEET SLIPPED AND HE HIT HIS SIDE.

IT WAS RAINING,9MPLOYEE WAS ENTERING DOORWAY TO DRYER,THE WALKWAY WAS WET AND HE SLIPPED.RECENTLY,EMPLOYEE REPORTED THE AGGRAVATION OF THE INJURY AND THE ORIGINAL DOCTOR OPERATED ON HIS KNEE T O CORRECT THE I3JURY ON TUESDAY,JUNE 6,1987.

EMP WAS CHANGIN1 PAPER IN COMPUTER PRINTER, SHE BENT OVER AND FELT SOMETHING PULL IN LOWER BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS LO5DING A TRUCK & DEBRIS FLEW INTO HIS EYE

EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE UNLOAD PALLETS UNDER SHED HE STEPPED OUT OF LOADER AND SLIPPED ON WET SLIPPERY CLAY CAUSING HIM TO FALL ON CONCRETE FLOOR

EMPLOYEE ALLEGE8 THAT HE WENT TO BREAKROOM WHEN RETURNING FROM BREAK AREA HE SLIPPED ON WET CLAY UNDER THE SHED ON HIS WAY TO NEW MILL BAGGING AREA AND HIT RT SHOULDER AND BACK ON STEEL COLUMN ON RT SIDE OF 8HED ENTRANCE

EMPLOYEE STRAIN9D SHOULDER GETTING OUT OF HOPPER CAR AFTER CLEANING THE CAR.

EMPLOYEE WAS MO5ING A TRACK THAT BAGS OF CLAY ARE MOVED ON AND IT STARTED TO FALL,HE TRIED TO CATCH THE TRACK.

EMPL ATTEMPTING TO START SMALL GAS ENGINE FUEL PUMP WHEN KNOT PULLED OUT OF STARTING ROPE.THIS CAUSED EMPL LEFT HAND TO FLY BACK AND CONTACT FRAMEWORK OF FUEL TRAILER.

TWISTED HIS KNEE WHILE PULLING ON A PIPE WRENCH

EMPLOYEE STATED HE PICKED UP A BAG OF CLAY IMPROPERLY

IT WAS RAINING EMPLOYEE WAS ENTERING DOORWAY TO DRYER THE WALKWAY WAS WET AND HE SLIPPED

EE WAS ENTERING DOOR TO BAGGING MACHINE AREA OF NEW MILL. HW SOMEHOW LOST HIS BALANCE & GRABBED METAL SLIDING DOOR & C UT HIS HAND ON A PIECE OF METAL PROTRUDING FROM THE DOOR.

EE WAS TAKING A3 AUGER OFF WHILE HE HAD ONE STACKED NEXT TO HIS DRILL TRUCK & IT FELL OFF STRIKING HIM ON HIS HEAD.

EMPLOYEE INJURED BACK ON BAGGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS MILL OPERATOR ON SECOND SHIFT AS THE DRYER HE WAS WEARING COVERALLS HE GOT TOO CLOSE TO THE TURN TABLE AND HIS CLOTHES GOT CAUGHT DRAGGING HIM INTO A BRACE POST

RUNNING ALONG R R TRACK TO CHECK ON DRIVER OF PO// PAYLOADER WHICH HAD OVERTURNED WHEN HE FELL.

EMPLOYEE WAS ENTERING BUILDING AND HIE ELBOW WENT THROUGH GLASS DOOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING PAYLOADER WHEN HE NOTICED ANOTHER OPERATOR WAS LOOSING OIL FROM HIS PAYLOADER. HE TRIED TO STOP HIM AND HIT A HOLE CAUSING HIM TO HURT HIS BACK OR HIP.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A AUGER BIT AND STRAINED WRIST.

EMPLOYEE WAS ON TOP OF WATER TRUCK, GETTING DOWN, FOOT MISSED FIRST STEP ON LADDER, HE SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL APPROX. 8\.

EMP MOUNTED TOP OF HOPPER RAILROAD CAR TO OPERATE BRAKE AS CAR WAS MOVED DOWN RAILROAD SPUR BY FRONT END LOADER USING CABLE HOOKED TO CAR. WHEN EMP TRIED TO STOP CAR, BRAKES FAILED AND SLAMMED INTO BOXCAR IN FRONT WHICH JOLTED EMPLOYEE SO THAT HIS RIGHT LEG HIT BRAKE LEVER AND HIS LEFT ARM HIT RACK ONTOP OF C AR

REBUILDING TRUCK BED ANOTHER EMP WAS WELDING JEFF RECEIVED FLASH BURNS TO EYES

EE WAS OPERATING DRILL RIGG & HANDLING AUGERS WHEN HE ACCIDENTLY HIT HIS LEFT HAND AGAINST SHARP EDGE OF ONE OF THE AUGERS THEREBY LACERATING HIS LEFT HAND JUST BELOW LEFT THUMB.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING BARRELS OF GGLUE TO STORAGE AREA WHEN LID CAME OFF ONE BARREL SPILLING GLUE ON PAVEMENT EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING IT UP BY USING A SHOVEL TO PUT CLAY ON SPILLED GLUE TO ABSORB IT SO THAT IT COULD BE SHOVELED INTO A BUCKET AND WHILE DOING THIS HE ACCIDENTLY SLIPPED AND FELL ON HANDLE OF SHOVEL BRUISING RIB

EMPLOYEE WAS ON TOP RAILROAD BOXCAR TRYING TO RELEASE BRAKE SO THAT BOXCAR WOULD ROLL FORWARD HIS HANDS SLIPPED OFF LEVER CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE AND FELL IN FRONT OF BOXCAR

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE WAS PULLING ON CABLE, HIS RIGHT LEG BEGAN TO HURT AND WAS SSWOLLEN BY THE TIME HE GOT HOME. NOTE THIS REPORT DELAYED PENDING DECISION WORKMAN\S COMP.