Mining Incidents

Hutchinson Salt Company Metal/Non-Metal

Hutchinson Salt Company · Underground
Controlled by Instar Holdings LP
Topeka, Reno County, KS  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1400412

Hutchinson Salt Company has $1.5M in proposed MSHA penalties and $18K outstanding across 69 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
200
Years on record
1991–2025
Latest incident
Oct 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
1,324
citations
336
significant & substantial
$1,516,807
proposed penalties
$939,486
paid to date
62% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $577,321 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
218
inspections on record
9,514
inspection hours
13.9
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
1,324 citations across 9,514 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Hutchinson Salt Company has $1.5M in proposed MSHA penalties and $18K outstanding across 69 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$1.5M
proposed penalties
$957K
current assessed
$939K
paid to date
$18K
outstanding
1,294 assessments are final orders; 69 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-06.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 31,308 39 9 1245.7
2025 Q3 28,584 21 7 734.7
2025 Q2 25,984 5 0 192.4
2025 Q1 27,916 10 2 358.2
2024 Q4 23,954 10 2 417.5
2024 Q3 25,123 9 2 358.2
2024 Q2 24,047 8 0 332.7
2024 Q1 25,549 6 2 234.8
Show 96 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 25,549 4 1 156.6
2023 Q3 24,639 5 1 202.9
2023 Q2 23,361 4 1 171.2
2023 Q1 24,777 13 2 524.7
2022 Q4 24,897 8 1 321.3
2022 Q3 20,777 8 0 385.0
2022 Q2 22,580 3 0 132.9
2022 Q1 24,686 4 0 162.0
2021 Q4 23,660 7 0 295.9
2021 Q3 23,921 7 1 292.6
2021 Q2 23,169 10 0 431.6
2021 Q1 26,461 7 1 264.5
2020 Q4 23,663 7 1 295.8
2020 Q3 24,688 8 1 324.0
2020 Q2 22,681 22 3 970.0
2020 Q1 27,826 19 7 682.8
2019 Q4 33,056 15 4 453.8
2019 Q3 32,590 7 0 214.8
2019 Q2 24,040 8 0 332.8
2019 Q1 31,916 9 2 282.0
2018 Q4 31,393 7 0 223.0
2018 Q3 24,615 5 0 203.1
2018 Q2 25,403 11 4 433.0
2018 Q1 28,194 9 1 319.2
2017 Q4 16,875 8 1 474.1
2017 Q3 24,993 6 0 240.1
2017 Q2 24,569 5 0 203.5
2017 Q1 26,231 3 0 114.4
2016 Q4 27,694 6 1 216.7
2016 Q3 25,745 7 1 271.9
2016 Q2 27,819 9 2 323.5
2016 Q1 26,399 3 1 113.6
2015 Q4 32,914 28 9 850.7
2015 Q3 28,976 17 1 586.7
2015 Q2 26,953 35 11 1298.6
2015 Q1 25,418 26 5 1022.9
2014 Q4 27,252 28 2 1027.4
2014 Q3 26,194 44 6 1679.8
2014 Q2 24,725 19 3 768.5
2014 Q1 29,094 22 7 756.2
2013 Q4 30,994 44 17 1419.6
2013 Q3 29,045 12 5 413.2
2013 Q2 23,440 9 3 384.0
2013 Q1 23,063 19 4 823.8
2012 Q4 23,165 16 7 690.7
2012 Q3 23,577 7 4 296.9
2012 Q2 24,191 6 3 248.0
2012 Q1 25,565 10 4 391.2
2011 Q4 29,368 25 7 851.3
2011 Q3 25,870 38 15 1468.9
2011 Q2 26,600 27 17 1015.0
2011 Q1 27,759 20 7 720.5
2010 Q4 28,351 28 9 987.6
2010 Q3 26,143 9 4 344.3
2010 Q2 25,738 3 0 116.6
2010 Q1 28,038 12 2 428.0
2009 Q4 28,313 13 3 459.2
2009 Q3 25,418 9 1 354.1
2009 Q2 23,324 15 3 643.1
2009 Q1 26,050 11 0 422.3
2008 Q4 29,309 17 9 580.0
2008 Q3 24,872 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 24,484 25 6 1021.1
2008 Q1 28,734 14 3 487.2
2007 Q4 24,843 4 1 161.0
2007 Q3 18,190 4 1 219.9
2007 Q2 20,557 5 0 243.2
2007 Q1 26,118 13 7 497.7
2006 Q4 21,033 6 0 285.3
2006 Q3 19,250 36 10 1870.1
2006 Q2 20,088 7 0 348.5
2006 Q1 22,739 8 5 351.8
2005 Q4 21,484 5 0 232.7
2005 Q3 19,995 11 1 550.1
2005 Q2 17,661 15 2 849.3
2005 Q1 20,604 4 0 194.1
2004 Q4 21,077 16 4 759.1
2004 Q3 18,319 14 10 764.2
2004 Q2 18,344 3 1 163.5
2004 Q1 25,166 24 8 953.7
2003 Q4 18,872 7 1 370.9
2003 Q3 18,883 6 0 317.7
2003 Q2 16,774 12 5 715.4
2003 Q1 20,456 17 5 831.1
2002 Q4 17,231 3 3 174.1
2002 Q3 16,285 5 1 307.0
2002 Q2 15,080 7 4 464.2
2002 Q1 18,009 1 0 55.5
2001 Q4 30,952 5 0 161.5
2001 Q3 30,139 12 3 398.2
2001 Q2 25,263 6 1 237.5
2001 Q1 36,835 7 1 190.0
2000 Q4 31,145 16 5 513.7
2000 Q3 30,588 6 2 196.2
2000 Q2 40,268 3 0 74.5
2000 Q1 30,983 14 3 451.9
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

200 on file

2025 · 5 incidents

October 3, 2025 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by falling object

EE was building a stand for the new Cage Paktor. Weld broke on stand and struck EE in head causing laceration.

September 9, 2025 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against stationary object

EE moved rail loading chute to close lid on rail car. When moving the chute EE cut right wrist. EE was taken to ER for stitches.

August 4, 2025 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE was shoveling up a pile of salt by the crusher toward end of shift. EE's back started hurting and became worse over the next few days. EE went to DR 08/08/25 was given pain meds and placed on light duty. EE returns to DR in 1 week for revaluation.

March 22, 2025 KS · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE slipped on a salt rock while pulling power cables to face panel. EE hyper extended left knee. EE was taken to ER for x-rays and full evaluation. EE was diagnosed with knee sprain. Given topical cream for pain and swelling. EE returned to full duty Monday 3/24/25.

March 10, 2025 KS · Metal/Non-Metal rock driller STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against stationary object

EE stepped on a chunk of salt and slipped, strained left knee. Went to DR 3/21/25 and 3/28/25 no work restrictions. Returned to DR 4/7/25 for MRI. Torn meniscus identified 4/9/25 after MRI was reviewed by DR. EE will be sent to Ortho Knee Specialist.

2024 · 3 incidents

November 8, 2024 KS · Metal/Non-Metal crusher attendant/operator, pan feeder operator/worker DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE strained right shoulder while flat racking salt. EE was already under care of DR for left shoulder. No treatment was given or recommended by DR during November or December. EE returned to Dr for left shoulder appointment told Dr right shoulder was getting worse. DR gave steroid injection and prescribed Meloxicam.

April 18, 2024 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE accidently hit start button on car puller. EE's hand was caught between car puller and rope, pinching crushing injury. EE was taken to ER for treatment. EE had surgery 4/19/2024 to repair broken fingers, damaged ligaments, and amputation of tip of finger.

January 10, 2024 KS · Metal/Non-Metal crusher attendant/operator, pan feeder operator/worker SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE slipped in parking lot after work during snow storm. Parking lot had been treated/ cleared but remained snow packed/ ice due to below 0 temps. EE told supervisor EE was okay. EE contacted supervisor next day was sore. EE sent to DR, one week no shoveling. EE returned to DR one more week no shoveling.

2022 · 4 incidents

September 6, 2022 KS · Metal/Non-Metal silo operator, bin puller, truck loader SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE stated EE's foot popped when walking down steps. EE did not report injury until 9/15/2022.

August 13, 2022 KS · Metal/Non-Metal utility man, errand boy, service truck operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE twisted left knee 8/13/22, did not report injury until 9/21/22. EE went to DR 9/22/22, no lost time still performing regular duty. EE reported continued pain went to DR 10/7/22 placed on restricted duty for 2 weeks. DR believes PT will resolve but recommended Ortho consult.

July 21, 2022 KS · Metal/Non-Metal scoop tram operator, load/haul/dump operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall down stairs

EE walking down headframe stairs, right knee gave out. EE bruised knee, minor scrapes. EE did not report until 7/22/2022. EE worked 2 more shifts before requesting DR visit. DR prescribed meds for swelling, no work restrictions. EE scheduled for follow up appointment.

April 9, 2022 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE tripped on forklift fork, fell on right shoulder. Pain went away, pain came back. EE went to DR 5-9-22 no medical treatment no work restrictions. EE referred to Orthopedic DR for evaluation. EE evaluated by Orthopedic DR, surgery recommended on 6-20-22. EE has no work restrictions or lost work days as of 6-20-22. Date of surgery has not been scheduled as of 6-20-22.

2021 · 3 incidents

December 1, 2021 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against stationary object

EE scrapped left leg on railcar 12/1/2021 worked remainder of week with no issues. EE called 1 am Sunday 12/6/2021 said leg was swollen. EE taken to ER no broken bones or infection just swelling.

October 12, 2021 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall down stairs

EE slipped when going down steps, bruised left hip.

June 16, 2021 KS · Metal/Non-Metal utility man, shift tech, service/dump truck operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Bulk loader closing railcar gate with bar. Gate gear skipped track, right hand was smashed between the bar and the bottom of railcar. Bulk loader was taken to ER, diagnosed with hand contusion. Given a hand brace to wear, released to return to work 6/17/2021.

2020 · 6 incidents

December 15, 2020 KS · Metal/Non-Metal utility man, errand boy, service truck operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Operator changing broken bolt on undercutter auger. Operator pinched right ring finger when auger moved.

August 13, 2020 KS · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Miner felt pop in right shoulder when opening forklift engine compartment door. Also had a small sliver of metal get in right hand when cleaning tramp iron from magnet. Shoulder and hand were bothering miner, went to Dr 8/19/2020.

June 14, 2020 KS · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor MACHINERY
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Maintenance Leadman using a grinder with cutting wheel to cut piece of stainless steel for a chute. Grinder kicked back and cut right hand behind thumb. Taken to ER for glue and stitches. Guard was in place on grinder, loss of control of grinder caused injury.

April 14, 2020 KS · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall from machine

Bulk B loader missed rail car rung with foot when dismounting rail car ladder. Fell to ground and broke left heel.

February 18, 2020 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by powered moving object

Impact with Mini Excavator bucket while operating, X-ray negative, bruised shoulder.

January 17, 2020 KS · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Ice storm hit mine and surrounding areas in state. The miners were first to arrive on day shift all areas had not yet been treated with salt. Miner slipped on ice broke rib 6&7 left side.

2019 · 3 incidents

November 3, 2019 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, faceman, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against a moving object

LHD Operator ran over chunk of salt, LHD travel was disrupted. Seat came off mounting brackets operators hit right knee on operator compartment under dash.

April 22, 2019 KS · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Pull in right lower abdomen while lifting a 50LBS bag of ANFO. Kept working, went to doctor on 4/25/19, Dr referral to surgeon. Surgery 5/13/19 return to work 5/14/19 restricted duty.

April 2, 2019 KS · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

Starter on maintenance truck would not disengage. Wiring melted causing smoke. The miner inhaled smoke, started coughing, became nauseated, and fainted momentarily. Evaluated by EMT and given Phenothiazine for nausea. Taken to ER for doctor evaluation, checked out fine. Sent home for two days to rest told to follow up with primary care doctor.

2018 · 2 incidents

May 27, 2018 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Injury 5/27 changing roller. No lost time/medical treatment/restricted duty. 6/15 aggravated injury using hammer. Reported 6/18 sent to DR no lost time/medical treatment. Restricted job duties. 6/27 DR apt restricted job duties. Medical treatment 7/9 physical therapy.

January 8, 2018 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by falling object

EE was retrieving square steel tube from surface maintenance shop storage rack. The tube fell, struck EE's left foot causing left first metatarsal fracture, transverse, acute, non-displaced injury. EE returned to work, light duty in office. Follow up appointments are scheduled Jan 9th & 11th.

2017 · 4 incidents

July 22, 2017 KS · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Changing hoist rope and lost control. Fiber rope attached to the end of the hoist rope. EE left hand was injured when the rope gave way and ee fell to the ground, injuring left shoulder and knee.

April 18, 2017 KS · Metal/Non-Metal dry screening plant operator, screen house operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE was walking to screen room floor from truck side. Another employee was opening the door from 3rd floor and ee tripped and broke fall with left hand, cutting middle finger on a broken hinge. EE was given stitches.

March 13, 2017 KS · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman OTHER
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by flying object

EE dropped a screw because it was cold out and fingers were cold. In looking for screw on ground, a gust of wind occurred and EE felt something hit EE in the right eye. It was determined EE had a corneal abrasion and conjunctivitis.

February 17, 2017 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE was installing a guide in the north shaft. EE helped lift a guide out of position and install a new one. Next morning had pain in left upper chest. Went to Dr., Dr. said ee had a muscle strain. Prescribed steroid.

2016 · 2 incidents

November 19, 2016 KS · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

EE was cutting timber shaft guides. The saw used would not cut the depth of the guide. EE used a sledge hammer to break off the end. EE reported that they felt a pull in right lower back, while doing this.

September 20, 2016 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

Employee was driving a forklift into the shed to dump a hopper of salt. When employee raised the hopper to dump it, a hydraulic line blew spraying employee in the right eye.

2015 · 7 incidents

December 22, 2015 KS · Metal/Non-Metal apprentice, trainee HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Brushing metal grindings & shavings off work bench and a piece of metal flicked and got in his right eye.

December 20, 2015 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was in the bathroom and did not lock the door. An employee opened door quickly and door struck left shoulder and pushed employee into the wall.

September 14, 2015 KS · Metal/Non-Metal utility man, errand boy, service truck operator FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by flying object

He was scaling shale with a loader. He drug the teeth of the bucket on the back of the shale. A small piece of shale hit the frame of loader sending dust and debris into the cab and into his eye.

July 30, 2015 KS · Metal/Non-Metal utility man, shift tech, service/dump truck operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

Working on fire hydrant platform when the connections for the platform gave out. The platform side that gave away was foamed and wasn't able to see any bad connections.

June 22, 2015 KS · Metal/Non-Metal bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Scaling the roof by hand with a scaling bar. As he was scaling a loose rock fell and struck the bar causing intense pain in right arm.

January 6, 2015 KS · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Scaling the roof by hand with a scaling rod. Pain in elbow became intense.

January 3, 2015 KS · Metal/Non-Metal dry screening plant operator, screen house operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall from ladders

Climbing a ladder, and when he was coming down his hand slipped. He lost his grip and fell and hit the wall and then hit the floor.

2014 · 6 incidents

November 13, 2014 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Lifting plate in cagpaktor which weighs approx. 70lbs. Knee popped.

September 18, 2014 KS · Metal/Non-Metal utility man, shift tech, service/dump truck operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall from machine

Employee was bringing down rail cars. Said he applied the brakes and they did not work. Jumped off railcar and struck the ground. Had sudden pain in legs.

August 13, 2014 KS · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Truck driver on our property to get a load of salt. He was loaded and pulled off scale. he got out of his truck. He collapsed and fell and hit his head on the gravel. Ambulance came and took him to hospital. They air-lifted him to Wesley Medical in Wichita. Last report was head trauma.

April 10, 2014 KS · Metal/Non-Metal dry screening plant operator, screen house operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was shoveling salt from under the cage paktor belt and experienced a sharp pain in lower back.

January 18, 2014 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE lifted shaft guide out of skip to put on lump room floor. This caused a hernia.

January 7, 2014 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Was walking and slipped on cut slope. Fell on left hip.

2013 · 7 incidents

December 4, 2013 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

He was removing a guide by cutting it into manageable pieces and his hand got caught between two pieces of timber which cut his finger.

October 24, 2013 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Rubbed or abraded

He was on his knees working on equipment. Was not wearing available knee pads. Said his knee started hurting and swelling.

September 23, 2013 KS · Metal/Non-Metal scoop car/scooptram operator, load/haul/dump (lhd) operator, teletram operator FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by falling object

Employee was leaving for Dr. appt. when he was struck by rock salt that was loosened by a piece of scroll that came off the hoist and traveled down the shaft.

July 19, 2013 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

While putting rope on car puller to advance rail car, EE was wrapping rope around puller. He noticed the rope was climbing so he reached down to guide rope. He also noticed slack in the loop and rail car was not moving. While adjusting rope, finger got pinched between layers of rope and he smashed his finger. He broke the tip of his pinky finger.

July 17, 2013 KS · Metal/Non-Metal scoop car/scooptram operator, load/haul/dump (lhd) operator, teletram operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EE unplugged cable which was corroded. He strained his lower back by wiggling and pulling the plug harder than normal.

May 2, 2013 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall from machine

Ladder slipped as he was climbing down from 1600G. He jumped to the ground from second or third step. When he landed he sprained his right knee.

February 21, 2013 KS · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Walking across the parking lot. The parking lot was snow packed and icy. He slipped and fell twice, injuring his right shoulder.

2012 · 3 incidents

December 11, 2012 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was carrying a 50 pound bag up a flight of stairs when he experienced back pain.

August 23, 2012 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Maintenance employee was working and strained a muscle in his back

August 10, 2012 KS · Metal/Non-Metal discontinued 1/31/2014. several other codes cover scoop car operator DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Hutchinson Salt Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

During the annual hearing test it was determined that Employee sustained a standard Threshold Shift in his hearing.

2011 · 2 incidents

September 19, 2011 KS · Metal/Non-Metal HOISTING
Hutchinson Salt Company · Accident type, without injuries

One of the switches on the hoist electrical side fell apart and had to be repaired.

August 7, 2011 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was standing on pipe lifting pipe to others. The employee twisted knee. Employee waited 1 week to report accident to company. Didn't want medical help at this time. Waited 2 weeks and was still having pain so was sent to doctor and was diagnosed with "water on the knee" and received a shot.

2010 · 2 incidents

February 19, 2010 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The EE lifted the top portion of the freight elevator door with his left hand and used his foot to push down on the bottom portion. The door became un-wedged quickly and resulted in his left index finger getting caught in the door mechanism. He was given Loratab and released to work.

January 25, 2010 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by flying object

Buffing a weld and a particle went into the left eye.

2009 · 1 incident

March 9, 2009 KS · Metal/Non-Metal scoop car/scooptram operator, load/haul/dump (lhd) operator, teletram operator POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against a moving object

The LHD operator was driving when he ran over a rock. This action caused the LHD to bounce. The operator bounced up and hit his head on the canopy. Straining the muscles of his neck.

2008 · 2 incidents

June 23, 2008 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Hutchinson Salt Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

There was a threshold shift in this persons hearing.

June 3, 2008 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was dislodging material from an open gate in the bin when the gate struck him in the chin.

2007 · 2 incidents

September 27, 2007 KS · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man MACHINERY
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee claims to have awoken one morning with a sore arm that he attributed to using a jackhammer sometime in the previous 30 days but he was not sure of the exact time or date.

2006 · 4 incidents

November 14, 2006 KS · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by falling object

Miner was replacing a bugduster auger that had fallen out of machine and lacerated his left middle and ring fingers at the second knuckle.

November 7, 2006 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator OTHER
Hutchinson Salt Company · Unclassified, insufficient data

Employee got up one morning and his shoulder hurt.

November 7, 2006 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by powered moving object

After just entering the mine road he pulled over to the side of road. He waited in front of his truck to the left side. A customer's truck approached the intersect and instead of slowing for the corner the customer cut the corner clipping the back of the employee's truck with the rear duals of his trailer. This pushed the truck into him knocking him to the ground.

May 20, 2006 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Hutchinson Salt Company · Rubbed or abraded

The individual was kneeling on his left knee for an extended period of time. Later that day his knee swelled up.

2005 · 1 incident

May 25, 2005 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee used a bar to lift an object. The bar slid out pinching his right pinky finger. Received 3 stitches.

2004 · 1 incident

December 30, 2004 KS · Metal/Non-Metal cutting machine operator, ripper, universal operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against stationary object

Employee was inserting bits into the undercutter when his hand slipped and he recieved a puncture wound to the left thumb.

2002 · 2 incidents

February 7, 2002 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech NONPOWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS PUSHING A WHEEL BARROW FULL OF CEMENT, WHEN HE HIT A SOFT SPOT CAUSING THE WHEELBARROW TO STOP IMMEDIATELY & JAR HIS BACK. AFTER THE INCIDENT HE HAD A VERY SORE BACK.

January 29, 2002 KS · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

THE EE WAS WALKING TO HIS WORK STATION & TRIPPEDON A GRATE ON A DRAW BRIDGE WHICH CONNECTS 2 BUILDINGS. THE EE FELL FORWARD LANDING ON HIS LEFT SIDE

2001 · 10 incidents

November 30, 2001 KS · Metal/Non-Metal scoop car/scooptram operator, load/haul/dump (lhd) operator, teletram operator POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against a moving object

EE ALLEGAS NO INJURY OF BACK RUNNING SCOOP LOADER.

August 25, 2001 KS · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS PULLING A CAR UP TO FILL WHEN THE ROPE HEWAS USING SUDDENLY CAUGHT & TRAPPED HIS FINGER THE ONLY DAMAGE WAS A PULLED KNUCKLE

May 25, 2001 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE STANDING ON A SALT PILE MIXING CONCRETE, EE STRAINED HIS LEFT GROIN MUSCLE.

March 15, 2001 KS · Metal/Non-Metal scoop car/scooptram operator, load/haul/dump (lhd) operator, teletram operator STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against stationary object

EE WAS STEPPING DOWN FROM THE STALER WHEN HE STEPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED HIS FOOT.

February 21, 2001 KS · Metal/Non-Metal scoop car/scooptram operator, load/haul/dump (lhd) operator, teletram operator POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against a moving object

EE WAS HAULING SALT WHIT THE #5 EIMCO WHEN HE WENT OVER SOME CUTS IN THE FLOOR AND HE HURT HIS BACK.

February 14, 2001 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS LOADING THE EIMCO DUMP CYLINDER COVER INTO THE BED OF THE MAINTENANCE TRUCK WHEN IT ROLLED OVER, PINCHING HIS FINGERS BETWEEN IT & THE BED OF THE TRUCK.

February 4, 2001 KS · Metal/Non-Metal cutting machine operator, ripper, universal operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING THE UNDERCUTTER CABLE TO THE NEXT PANEL, AFTER PLUGGING IT IN, HE TURNED AND HIS KNEE POPPED, HE COULDN'T PUT ANY WEIGHT ON HIS LEFT LEG.

January 17, 2001 KS · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING ALONG BAYS IN HIGHTOP AREASAROUND 14-5. HE WENT OVER 3 CUTS AT AN IDLE WHEN HE CAME OFF 3RD CUT HE GOT A SHOOTING PAIN IN HIS BACK.

January 4, 2001 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by flying object

EE WAS GRINDING W/OUT PPE AND A PIECE OF STEEL GOT INTO HIS EYE.

2000 · 5 incidents

December 12, 2000 KS · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING A BOX FROM A SHELF ON THE FLOOR, WHEN HE WENT TO STAND UP HE WAS NOT CLEAR OF THE SHELF ABOVE THE ONE HE WAS WORKING ON, HE HIT HIS HEAD AND INJURED HIS NECK.

December 2, 2000 KS · Metal/Non-Metal drill helper HOISTING
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS SHOVELING SALT OFF OF THE FLOOR INTO A CHUTE ATTACHED TO A PRODUCT ELEVATOR. THEN THE CHUTE FELL OFF THE ELEVATOR EE WENT TO LOCK IT OUT AT THE SAME TIME EE PICKED UP A PRYBAR & BEGAN POKING AT THE BUILTUP SALT EE POKED BAR IN TOO FAR THE ELEVATOR CAUGHT BAR, PULLED IT UP THE MOMENTUM SWING THE BAR INTO EE'S FOOT

October 6, 2000 KS · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator, crane operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against stationary object

EE WAS CLIMBING A LADDER WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED & HE HIT HIS RIGHT KNEE ON THE RAIL CAR

June 9, 2000 KS · Metal/Non-Metal scoop car/scooptram operator, load/haul/dump (lhd) operator, teletram operator POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall from machine

HE WAS CLEANING A ROOM WITH THE BLADE OF THE BUCKET FLAT ON THE FLOOR. THE BUCKET HIT A CUT IN THE FLOOR WHICH EJECTED HIM FROM THE MACHINE. THIS CAUSED A DISLOCATED FINGER AND SOME SCRAPES.

March 14, 2000 KS · Metal/Non-Metal weighman, scale person HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

PULLING BOXES OFF OF SHELF, STRAINED RIGHT SHOULDER ON 3/14. PAIN PERSISTED AND EE REPORTED THE INCIDENT ON APRIL 6, 2000.

1999 · 9 incidents

October 18, 1999 KS · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

WHILE LIFTING A BOX, EE HEARD A POP IN HIS BACK SHORTLY AFTER THIS HE LEG FELT NUMB

July 2, 1999 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A HEATER HOSE FROM THE MAINTENANCE TRUCK WHEN HIS SCREW DRIVER SLIPPED AND HE HIT HIS FINGER AGAINST THE HOSE CLAMP. WAS TAKEN TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM WHERE HE RECEIVE D SOME STITCHES.

May 26, 1999 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall onto or against objects

THE EE WAS HANGING CONDUIT, WHEN HE TRIPPED & FELL ON A BRACKET. HE HAD APPROX 7 STITCHES IN THELEFT HAND

May 13, 1999 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING LADDER FOR CO-WORKER WHO WAS DRIVING A WEDGE INTO CEILING TO OPEN A GAP IN A SALT LAYER TO BE SCALED DOWN. THE WEDGE SLIPPED, RICOCHETED OFF THE CEILING AND HIT EMPLOYEE O N THE LEFT INDEX FINGER.

April 9, 1999 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by powered moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS SHELVING SKIDS. HE WAS STANDING BETWEEN FORKLIFT AND ANOTHER SKID. DRIVER OF THE FORKLIFT WAS NOT OBSERVING EMPLOYEE PROPERLY. THE EMPLOYEE GAVE VOICE DIRECTIONS TO FORKLIFT DRIVE R BUT HE THOUGHT HE HAD MORE ROOM. FORKLIFT DRIVER PROCEEDED FORWARD, NOT SEEING EMPLOYEE AND HIT EMPLOYEE'S LEG WITH FORKLIFT. POSITION OF EMPLOYEE WAS NOT IN THE SIGHT OF FORKLIFT DRIVER.

February 25, 1999 KS · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HAS TENNIS ELBOW.

February 17, 1999 KS · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

WHILE HANGING CHECK CURTAINS & SHOOTIN GBOLTS INTO THE SALT WALLS, DUST FROM THE SALT WALLS WAS EMITTED. INHALATION OF THE SALT DUST & FOREIGN PARTICLES, AS WELL AS DIRECT CONTACT WITH RESIDU RESULTED IN ALLERGIC REACTION. A SKIN RASH/HIVES. EE WAS TREATED WITH STEOID SHOT AND ORAL MEDICATION TO COUNTERACT THE ALLERGIC REACTION.

1998 · 4 incidents

August 28, 1998 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS SHOVELING SALT, AND NOTCIED A BULGE IN HIS GROIN.

June 25, 1998 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against a moving object

EE WAS CLEANING A ROOM WHEN THE BLAD HIT A CUT IN THE FLOOR AND CAUSED EE'S ARM TO HIT AGAINST THE INSIDE OF THE OPERATOR'S COMPARTMENT.

January 28, 1998 KS · Metal/Non-Metal SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO LOAD A 55 GAL DRUM OF HYDRAULIC OIL ON TO THE EIMCO BUCKET, SOMEHOW WHEN HE TIPPED THE BARRL HIS FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM PINNIN HIM UNDER THE BARREL OF OIL FOR A BOUT 10-15 MINUTES. CAUSED SOME BRUISING AND SORENESS IN LOWER PORTION OF BODY ABDOMEN, RIGHT L EG AND PELVIC AREA.

1997 · 8 incidents

December 8, 1997 KS · Metal/Non-Metal scoop car/scooptram operator, load/haul/dump (lhd) operator, teletram operator POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against a moving object

EE CAME IN TO ME ON 1/26/98 ABOUT AN INSURANCE MATTER THAT WAS NOT BEING PAID & I STARTED TO QUESTION HIM ABOUT IT, BECAUSE IT WAS DENIED DUE TO OTHER COVERAGE. HE WAS REACEIVING TREATMENT FOR A W/C INJURY THAT HAD NOT BEEN REPORTED TO THE CO. HE IS COMPLAINING OF HIP & NECK PAIN DUE TO THE JARRING OF THE MACHINE. NOTHING HAS REALLY SHOWED UP, HE HAS JUST BEEN RECEIVING CHIROPRACTI

November 30, 1997 KS · Metal/Non-Metal underground transportation trainee POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS HAULING SALT OUT OF A ROOM AT 2 NORTH AT 52 S. FACE. HE ENTERED THE ROOM FROM THE NORTH AND THE CANOPY HIT THE CORNER OF THE RIB AND KNOCKED A COUPLE OF LARGE PIECES FROM THE RIB HITTING EMPLOYEE ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE HEAD AND NECK & LEFT SIDE OF FACE & HEAD. HE WAS KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS FOR A SHORT TIME (5 MIN.) THEN SEEMED TO HAVE PAIN IN NECK & HEAD. CONCUSSION

November 17, 1997 KS · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman ELECTRICAL
Hutchinson Salt Company · Flash burns (electric)

EE HAD HOOKED UP THE FAN AT 69, THE FAN WAS RUNNING BACKWARDS. EE SHUT THE PANEL OFF TO REVERSE THE ROTATION OF THE FAN, BY SWITCHING THE LEADS AROUND. HE OPENED THE PANEL AND WENT TO THE HOT SIDE OF THE PANEL WITHOUT THINKING. AS HE REALIZED WHAT HE HAD DONE, HE TRIED TO MOVE THE WIRE BACK SLOWLY, WHEN HIS SCREWDRIVER HIT THE HOT LEADS AND FLASHED BURNED HIS LEFT HAND FROM THUMB

July 14, 1997 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

ALLEDGEDLY EMPLOYEE WAS ON TOP OF A RAILCAR, PUSHING THE BULK SLINGER INTO THE RAILCAR TO LOAD THE CAR. WHILE PUSHING HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION BETWEEN HIS SHOULDER BLADES. ON 7-14-97 HE CON TACTED MYSELF TO SAY HE WAS HURTING REALLY BAD AND WANTED TO SEE DR. WE SENT HIM TO DR. & DR. SAID MAYBE HE PULLED A MUSCLE OR STRAINED BACK. NOTHING SERIOUS. LIFTING RESTRICTIONS 1-2 WEEKS.

May 29, 1997 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

EE WAS DOWN IN THE RP09 BIN TRYING TO KNOCK DOWN SALT, TO FILL A WAITING TRUCK. A BANK OF FRESHLY RUN RP09 CAME DOWN ON TOP OF HIM AND BURIED HIM TO HIS THIGHS. BY THE TIME WITNESS HAD GOT HIM DUG OUT, THE SALT HAD BURNED HIS LEGS. RIGHT MORE THAN LEFT. WITH 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS.

May 14, 1997 KS · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by falling object

EE AND EMPLOYEE WERE REHANGING LOOSE POWER LINE BRACKETS, WHILE DRIVING ALONG AN DLOOKING TO LINE UP WITH ANOTHER MOUNTING BRACKET. FRONT TIRE ON THE VEHICLE DROPPED INTO A BIG HOLE IN FLOOR. STOPPING THE VEHICLE SUDDENLY, THIS CAUSING ANOTHER BRACKET TO SLIDE FORWARD AND HIT HIM IN THE MOUNTH CAUSING IT TO BREAK HIS LEFT FRONT TOOTH.

May 8, 1997 KS · Metal/Non-Metal scoop car operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall from machine

EE WAS STANDING ON THE STAMLER, TRYING TO CLEAR A BOULDER OUT THAT WAS JAMMING THE STABLER. HE TRIPPED OVER HIS SHOESTRING AND FELL OFF THE STAMLER. HE FELL ON HIS RIGHT ARM BROKE AND DISLOCAT ED HIS WRIST/ARM.

March 22, 1997 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall down stairs

EE WAS COMING DOWN THE STAIRS FROM 2ND FLOOR TO THE BREAKROOM FRO BREAK, WHILE COMING DOWN THE STEPS HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS KNEE. WENT TO THE ER AT THE HOSPITAL ON 3-23 AND TREATED HIM FOR A SPRAIN. HIS KNEE IS STILL GIVING HIM PROBLEMS AND HE IS GOING BACK FOR ADDITIONAL TREAMTEN OF OF 5-97.

1996 · 24 incidents

December 19, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EE WAS CLEANING UNDERNEATH A MUCKER WITH BRAKE CLEAN SPRAY. GOT SOME BRAKE CLEAN AEROSOL SPRAY IN HIS LEFT EYE. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSAES BUT THEY WERE NOT GOGGLES. HE WAS HIS EYE OUT WIT H WATER BUT THE NEXT DAY IT WAS SWOLLEN, RED, AND MATTED SHUT. DR. WASHED HIS EYE OUT WITH SOLUTION AND PRESCRIBED DROPS. FOLLOWUP ONLY IF NEEDED.

December 18, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS GRINDING ON A PIECE OF METAL WITH A GRINDER. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES BUT NOT GOGGLES AND A SMALL PIECE OF METAL GOT IN HIS RIGHT EYE. HE ATTEMPTED TO WASH IT OUT WITH SOLUTION, BU T STILL COULD NOT GET IT REMOVED. DR. PUT DROPS IN HIS EYE AND GAVE HIM A PRESCRIPTION. HIS EYE WAS SCRATCHED, RED, AND IRRITATED.

December 17, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE AND COWORKER WERE SLIDING A CHUTE DOWN A RAMP ON THE SCREEN FLOOR, WHEN THE CHUTE GOT AWAY FROM THEM AND CAUGHT EES LEFT HAND BETWEEN IT AND THE BELT FRAME, IT RIPPED THE MIDDLE FINGER ON H IS LEFT HAND OPEN, ALTHOUGH HE WAS WEARING GLOVES. HE HAD TO HAVE 5 STITCHES TO CLOSE WOUND AND ANTIBIOTICS FOR INFECTION.

November 6, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal POISONING (TOXIC MATERIALS)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EE ALLEDGEDLY STATED THAT WHILE WORKING UG LAYING OUT RED IRON FOR NEW BELTLINE STRUCTURE, HE DEVELOPED A SEVERE HEADACHE & ILL FROM THE HIGH COUG. HE WENT TO HIS PERSONAL PHYSICIAN ON THUR 11 /7/96 & HE TOOK HIM OFF WORK FOR 2 DAYS, SAID HEHAD A SLIGHTLY ELEVATED CO IN HIS SYSTEM [HE IS A HEAVY SMOKER] AFTER COMING TO SEE ME I SENT HIM TO OUR CO DR FOR THEIR OPINION. OUR DR WASN'T

October 30, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

SHOVELING SALT TO FILL FORMS AND FELT A MUSCLE PULL IN THE LOWER RIGHT BACK.

October 21, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal scoop car operator FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by falling object

EE HAD JUST CLEANED THE ROOF OF A ROOM AND THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GO INTO 4 SOUTH. HE PROCEEDED TO CLEAN ON THE NORTH EDGE OF THE ROOM. OTHER FOUND EE IN HIS EIMCO, WITH HIS HEAD LAYING ON THE DASH, HE WAS KNOCKED OUT BRIEFLY FROM THE PILLOW SIZE, APPROX. 100 LB PIECE OF ROCK SALT HAS A SMALL SCRAPE TO THE SIDE OF THE HEAD AND A HEADACHE.

September 11, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

HE WAS PUTTING UP POWER LINES, MANUALLY PULLING THEM AND STRAINED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

August 23, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal scoop tram operator, load/haul/dump operator POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by falling object

EE WAS GOING TO KNOCK DOWN CEILING AT ENTRY 78S 10E WHERE THERE WAS A GAP IN THE ROOF. JUST AS HE RAISED THE BUCKET TO START SCRAPING THE CEILING, A LARGE SECTION OF THE ROOF FELL UNEXPECTEDLY ON TOP OF THE EIMCO AND COVERING EE. HE WAS TRAPPED FOR A FEW MINUTES, TILL EE MOVED THE LARGE SLAB OF SALT THAT WAS COVERING HIM.

August 13, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS LOOSENING A NUT ON THE LID OF THE EIMCO WITH A LARGE PIPE WRENCH, WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED AND SMASHED HIS RING FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE WRENCH AND STEEL PLATE, CAUSING A FRAC TURE AND BRUISING OF THE NAIL. DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT IMMEDIATELY. IT WAS A FEW DAYS LATER.

August 7, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CLOSE THE SLIDING DOORS ON THE BOTTOM OF THE HOPPER RAIL CAR, WITH A PRY BAR. HE STUCK THE BAR IN THE HOLE FOR THIS PURPOSE AS INSTRUCTED, BUT THE BAR SLIPPED OUT WHEN HE APPLIED PRESSURE, CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE, PULL AND STRAIN HIS RT SHOULDER AND RT SIDE OF HIS NECK. EE WAS GIVEN PRESCRIPTIONS OF PAIN RELIEVER AND MUSCLE RELAXER.

July 30, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

PRIOR TO THE BEGINNING OF HER SCHEDULED SHIFT,SHE WAS GOING INTO THE LADIES BATHROOM. WHILE CLOSING THE DOOR,SHE SHUT HER MIDDLE FINGER ON HER LEFT HAND IN THE DOOR. EMP SMASHED AND BRUISED TH E TIP OF HER FINGER, REQUIRING 4 STITCHES. DR PRESCRIBED MEDICINE FOR PAIN.

July 4, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall from machine

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF A VAN, HE GOT HIS FOOT TANGLED UP IN THE SEATBELT AND FELL ON IT.

June 20, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS FEEDING AN AIR HOSE THROUGH PALLET RACKS, WHEN THE COUPLING SPLIT, ALLOWING AIR TO DISCHARGE AND FLOP THE HOSE AROUND, STRIKING HIM IN THE BOTTOM, CAUSING A LIP. SMALL CUT REQUIRING STI TCHES.

June 18, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal scoop car operator FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by falling object

HE WAS GOING INTO A ROOM AND A SLAB OF SALT FELL FROM THE ROOF AND HIT HIM IN THE BACK OF THE NECK, HARD HAT AND UPPER BACK AREA. BRUISED & SCRAPED BACK OF HEAD, WENT TO DR FOR FIRST AID ONLY. ON ABOVE DATE AFTER CONTINUOUS PAAIN AND NUMBNESS WENT BACK TO DR. FOR FURTHER TREATMENT. HAS APPT. FOR SPECIALIST.

June 17, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal scoop tram operator, load/haul/dump operator OTHER
Hutchinson Salt Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE CAME TO WORK NOT FEELING WELL AND COMLAINING OF HIS ARM HURTING. AS SOON AS HIS FOREMAN BECAME AWARE OF THIS, HE WENT AND TALKED EE INTO GOING TO THE DR. THERE WAS A POSSIBILITY OF SIGNS OF A HEART ATTACK.

April 24, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

UNKNOWN FOR SURE. AFTER HE BROKE HIS HAND, 11-1-96 HE STARTED HAVING PROBLEMS WITH HIS RIGHT HAND GOING TO SLEEP AND PAIN. ABOUT 2 MONTHS LATER THE LEFT HAND WAS DOING SAME. DR RECOMMENDED SUR GERY IMMEDIATELY ON BOTH HANDS. DR FEELS INJURY IS FROM HAMMERING AND REPETITIVE MOTION.

April 12, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE INDICATES THAT HE JUMPED OFF DOCK TO GET DOWN INSTEAD OF USING STAIRS. SEE ATTACHEMENTS

March 27, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

SHE CAME IN TO SEE ME ON THE 27TH STATING THAT ALLEGEDLY HER JOB HAS CAUSED HER SEVERE CARPAL TUNNEL IN BOTH HANDS AND WANTED AN APPOINTMENT TO THE COMPANY DOCTOR.

March 12, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall onto or against objects

EE WAS WALKING FROM THE TANKS TO M-7 AREA AND TRIPPED OVER A 2X4 BOARD TAHT WAS HOLDING THE BOTTOM OF THE DOOR ON THE TANK CLOSED. CAUSING HIM TO FALL FACE FORWARD. HE WS LACERATIONS ON FACE FROM FALLING INTO ROCK SALT PILE AND STRAINED HIS BACK WHEN FALLING ONTO ROCK PILE.

March 11, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS SHOVELING AND SWEEPING SALT FROM UNDER THE FINE BELT (TAIL PULLEY) IN HIS WORK AREA. HE WAS WORKING IN A STOOPED POSITION AND POSSIBLY TWISTED WRONG WHILE SHOVELING OR SWEEPING. HAS HAD PAIN IN LOW BACK AREA. WENT TO CHIROPRACTOR FOR BACK MANIPULATIONS.

March 1, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE ASKED TO GO BACK TO THE DR. ABOUT A PRIOR TENDONITIS INJURY THAT WAS BOTHERING HIM ON 2-22-96. HE WAS REFERRED TO AN ORTHO SURGEON WHO RECOMMENDED SURGERY. SURGERY IS SCHEDULED FOR 3-4-96 O N LEFT ELBOW.

February 7, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE CALLED ME ON 2-7-96 COMPLAINING OF BACK PAIN AND WANTED TO GO TO THE COMPANY DOCTOR TO BE CHECKED OVER. DR TOOK HIM OFF WORK, SENDING HIM TO ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON. PRIOR BACK INJURIES. THIS O NE IS DOWN RIGHT LEG AND RIGHT BUTTOCK.

January 29, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by flying object

EE WAS LOADING TRUCKS WITH THE FRONT END LOADER ABOUT 700 PM CAME INTO THE DOCK OFFICE COMPLAINING OF GETTING ROCK SALT DUST IN HIS RIGHT EYE. HE WASHED HIS EYE OUT WITH EYE WASH SOLUTION AND CONTINUED TO WORK HIS SHIFT. HE CALLED IN ON 1-30-96 SAYING HIS EYE WAS RED, SWOLLEN AND HURTING.

January 7, 1996 KS · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE HAD GONE TO HIS FOREMAN COMPALINING OF PAIN IN HIS LOWER RIGHT GROIN AREA ON 1-7-96 DOES NOT KNOW HOW OR WHEN HE HURT HIMSELF HE HAS BEEN EXAMINED AND THE DR FELT IT WAS ONLY A SPRAIN TO TH AT AREA.

1995 · 11 incidents

October 11, 1995 KS · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

WHEN LIFTING BAR ON FIRE DOOR, PUT PRESSURE ON DOOR WITH SHOULDER AND SHOULDER STARTED TO BURN.

September 18, 1995 KS · Metal/Non-Metal HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE CLAIMS HE HURT HIS LOWER BACK WHILE SHOVELING SALT THAT HAD SPILLED WHILE LOADING A RAIL CAR CLAIMS HE DID NOT KNOW WHEN EXACTLY DURING THE SHIFT BUT GOT UP TUESDAY MORNING & IT WAS HURTING WENT TO THE COMPANY DOCTOR & THEY SAID IT IS A PULLED MUSCLE

September 11, 1995 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

OTHER AND EE WERE TRYING TO REINSTALL THE TORQUE ARM ON THE GEAR BOX WHEN THEY ROLLED THE GEAR BOX AROUND TO ATTACH THE ARM, THE SALT IN THE ELEVATOR ROLLED THE GEAR BOX AROUND AND CAUGHT EE S RIGHT HAND. BETWEEN THUMB AND FOREFINGER, BETWEEN IT AND THE OLD TORQUE ARM, CAUSING A CUT AND BROKEN BONE.

September 7, 1995 KS · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

PICKING UP BOXES TO PUT BACK ON SHELF. EXPERIENCED SHARP PAIN TO THE LEFT OF SPINE IN LOWER BACKMOVEMENT CAUSES INTERMITTENT SHOOTING PAIN DOWN LEFT LEG.

August 17, 1995 KS · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall down stairs

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN STEPS LEAVING MISSED STEP & FELL ON LEFT KNEE (EMPLOYEE REPORTED & FILLED OUT REPORT OF ACCIDENT ON 09-13-95)

July 19, 1995 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING RAILCAR DOWN 2 FEET SO THE HATCH LID WOULD CLEAR THE LOADING SPOUT. ROPE APPARENTLY WAS HOOKED TO RAILCAR. WHEN ROPE CAME UNDER TENSION, IT CAME LOOSE. IT TRAVELED APPROX. 40 TO 45 FEET AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN THE LEFT UPPER THIGH CAUSING A 1 1/2" DEEP WOUND. EMPLOYEE MAY HAVE FAILED TO TO HAVE RAILCAR BRAKE SET OUT ENOUGH TO KEEP IT FROM ROLLING.

June 14, 1995 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS TRYING TO CLOSE THE SLIDE DOOR ON THE BOTTOM OF A HOPPER CAR WITH A PRYBAR. HE INSERTED THE BAR IN THE HOLE OF THE SHAFT AND WHEN HE STARTED TO RAISE THE PRYBAR TO TURN THE SHAFT IT TUR NED IT ALL AT ONCE. THE END OF THE PRYBAR SMASHEED EE'S FINGER AGAINST THE RAILCAR. HE SMASHED HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON HIS RIGHT HAND, BROKE AND TORE FINGERTIP INCLUDING NAIL.

May 18, 1995 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against stationary object

HIT ELBOW ON SHELVING WHILE REFILING RECORDS. HIT "CRAZY BONE"--RIGHT ELBOW SWELLED.

February 17, 1995 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall onto or against objects

EE SLIPPED ON FLOOR AND FELL, STRIKING BACK OF HEAD ON THE TAIL PULLEY FRAME. HE HAD GOTTEN DOWN OFF TAIL PULLEY STRUCTURE AND SLIPPED.

February 3, 1995 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

SLIDING PALLET JACK OFF OF FORKLIFT ONTO RAILCARAND HURT LOWER BACK.

January 16, 1995 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator STRIKING OR BUMPING
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against stationary object

EE WAS ON TOP OF RAILCAR BENT OVER AND WHEN HE STRAIGHTENED UP HE HIT HIS HARD HAT INTO THE BELT GUARD CAUSING SEVERE PAIN IN HIS NECK.

1994 · 13 incidents

October 13, 1994 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

ERIC WAS WORKING OVER ON RAIL SIDE BY THE RAIL SCALES AND STEPPED ON THE EDGE OF A MANHOLE COVER AND IT TIPPED UP WHEN HE STEPPED ON IT, ALLOWING HIS LEG TO FALL INTO THE HOLE, BRUISING HIS SH INN. HIS CHEST STRUCK THE EDGE OF THE PLATE WHEN HIS LEG WENT THROUGH THE HOLE. HE BRUISED HIS CHEST AND SHIN.

September 17, 1994 KS · Metal/Non-Metal drill helper OTHER
Hutchinson Salt Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

YINJURED WA SNOT FEELING TO WEEL, SO HE WEN TTO SIT DOWN IN THE MAINTENANC EOFFICE AND DRINK A EPSI, HE THEN WAS COMPLAINING OF PAINS IN HIS CHEST AND DOWN HIS ARMS.

August 20, 1994 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE WAS ON RAILSIDE LOADING CARS WHILE HOOKING UP CAR PULLING ROPE TO CAR HE SLIPPED ON THE SCALE FELL & LANDED ON HIS RT LEG & ANKLE HE FRACTURED HIS RT ANKLE

August 16, 1994 KS · Metal/Non-Metal INUNDATION
Hutchinson Salt Company · Accident type, without injuries

HUTCHINSON SALT COMPNAY SHOT DOWN ROOF IN THEIR FRESH AIR INTAKE OF OUR FACILITY. THE BLAST BLEW DOWN A STOPPING AND AIR CURTAIN NO2 GAS SHORT CIRCUITED TO THE IMMEDIATE EXHAUST AIRWAY. NO2 LE VELS REACH 6.5 PPM UV&S PERSONEL LEFT THE MINE AT 12:30AM.WHEN THE YELLOWED CLOUD WAS DETECTED COMING UP THE EXHAUST AIRWAY EAST OF OUR FACILITY TO THE SHAFT.

August 10, 1994 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS SHOVELING UP SALT FROM UNDER THE BELT ON THE SLIDELL WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER LEFT GROIN PULLED GROIN MUSCLE ON LEFT SIDE

June 9, 1994 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INJURED WAS COMPLAINING O FSEVERE WATERING AND REDNESS OF HIS RIGHT EYE ON 6-10-94, HE WAS TAKEN TO THE COMPANY DR AND AFTER EXAMINATION WAS FOUND TO HAVE A VERY SMALL PIECE O FMETAL IN HIS EY E.

June 7, 1994 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS CLOSING THE OUTER DOOR ON THE FREIGHT ELEVATOR, THE VERTICALLY CLOSING DOORS CAUGHT HIS INDEX FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND CAUSING A CUT FROM THE TIP BACK PAST HIS SECOND JOINT. IT DID NOT F RACTURE OR BREAK ANY BONES, BUT DID REQUIRE SEVERAL STITCHES.

May 8, 1994 KS · Metal/Non-Metal HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

STRAINED LOWER BACK WHILE SWINGING A HAMMER IN A CRAMPED POSITION, WHILE TRYING TO GET SALT TO FLOW FROM THE JUMMER SCREENS.

April 29, 1994 KS · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS REACHING ABOVE THE HEAD TO SLOT 3480 CARTRIDGE TAPES IN THE TAPE RACKS WHICH ASRE TALL AND THE STEP STOOL WAS NOT HIGH ENOUGH AND SHE STRAINED HE LEFT SHOULDER.

April 22, 1994 KS · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING A BOX WEIGHING APPROXIMATELY 30 LBS. OFF OF A SHELF AND CARRYING THE BOX TO THE STAGING AREA INSIDE THE FACILITY AND FELT SOMETHING POP IN HER RIGHT FOREARM WHEN RIGHT RI NG FINGER BENT BACK. * PLEASE NOTE: EMPLOYEE DID NOT REPORT ACCIDENT NOR SEE A DOCTOR UNTIL 5/3/94.

February 23, 1994 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A HAMMER TO TAP AN INSERT IN SHOOT STRUCK HIS THUMB.

February 20, 1994 KS · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS RETURNING TO THE FACE AREA AFTER 2:00 BREAK. WHEN GOING THRU CURTAIN AT 99 S 2E ON THE 1510 FORD TRACTOR. HE PUT HIS LEFT HAND UP TO DEFLECT THE CURTAIN AND HIS ARM PASSED THRU TH E CURTAIN, BACK TO THE ARMPIT/ SHOULDER AREA, PULLING BACK ON HIS ARM AS PASSED THRU THE CURTIAN. ALTHOUGH HE HAD SLOWED DOWN SOME HE COULDN'T STOP BEFORE BEING PULLED OFF OF THE TRACTOR.

February 19, 1994 KS · Metal/Non-Metal OTHER
Hutchinson Salt Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

AUTOPSY SHOULD BE PERFORMED ON TUESDAY FEB 22, TO DETERMINE CAUSE OF DEATH.

1993 · 20 incidents

December 29, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS SCALING CEILING & A PIECE OF SALT FELL & HIT HIM IN THE BACK OF NECK

November 24, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against stationary object

EE WAS PLACING A SLIP SHEET ON THE PALLETIZER, WHEN HE RAISED UP HE HIT HIS HEAD ON THE METAL. THAN COMPLAINED HIS BACK HURT, AND WAS UNABLE TO PICK UP 50 LBS.

November 23, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

BOXES STACKED ON FLOOR OF TRUCK. SHOUDLER HIGH. STQACKS KEP FALLING FORWARD. HAD TO PUSH AGAINS TSTACK WHILE PULLING BOXES DOWN. RESULTING IN LOWER MIDDLE BACK MUSCLE STRAINED.

September 1, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal HOISTING
Hutchinson Salt Company · Accident type, without injuries

HOIST OVERTRAVEL, LODGED SKIP IN DUMP BREAKING TOP AND BACK OUT OF MANCAGE. ALSO PUSHED AN EMPTY ROLLER PALLET INTO THE WEST SIDE FIBERGLASS TO BREAK AWAY. ROLLER PALLET WAS PUT ON THE NORTH MANCAGE, AT THE LOWER LANDING, AND U.V.S. BELLED THE SKIP OFF. NEXT THING EMPLOYEE REMEBERS WAS THE SWITCH GEAR KICKING OUT FROM THE OVERTRAVEL LIMIT SWITCHES BEING TRIPPED AND THE SIGNAL BEL

August 30, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

UNLOADING A TRUCK RAN OVER RT FOOT WITH A PALLET JACK

August 6, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE BACKING UP STOCKCHASER ACCELERATOR PEDAL STUCK EMPLOYEE HAD HAND ON BACK RESST INDUSTRIAL STAPLE ON BACKREST ABBED INTO HER HAND WHEN STOOK CHASER HIT TOW MOTOR

July 7, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS SHELVING BOX WALKING ALONG WALKWAY STEPPED OVER TOOFAR & ROLLED ANKLE WHEN SLIPPING OFF LEDGE CAUSING A SPRAIN TO LEFT ANKLE

June 21, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal HOISTING
Hutchinson Salt Company · Accident type, without injuries

NORTH MAN CAGE BACK- CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE TIMBRES IN THE SHAFT.

June 21, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HOISTING
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE RIDING THE LEEVATOR UP TO THE SURFACE AFTER COMPLETION OF WORK, EE WAS STRUCK IN THE LOWER BACK BY A PORTION OF THE ELEVATOR'S HINGED BACKBOARD CAUSING BRUISES AND MUSCLE SPASM IN LOWER BACK.

June 4, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler OTHER
Hutchinson Salt Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE HAS ALLEDGED INJURIES TO WRISTS, ARMS, SHOULDERS, BACK AND GENERAL BODY. SPECIFIC DAMAGE IS UNKNOWN OR EXTENT OF DAMAGE IS UNKNOW, SINCE THIS IS OUR FIRST KNOWLEDGED OF THESE INJURIES .

March 30, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS IN CARGO VAN, BENDING OVER & PICKING UP BOXES TO PLACE ON ROLLER RAMP TO PUSH BOXES ONTO DOCK. FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

March 22, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS SHELVING MOVIE FILM BOXES WHEN HE TWISTED & LIFTED HE FELT PAIN IN MIDDLE OF BACK BETWEEN SHOULDER BLADES

March 15, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal supply man, nipper HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE WAS UNLOADING VAN HE LIFTED AND TWISTED HIS BODY TO MOVE A CARTON WEIGHING APPROX. 35 LBS LATER EE EXPERIENCED PAIN WHILE WALKING AND WHEN TURNING HIS UPPER BODY TO L.

March 10, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING BOXES TO RETURN TO CLIENT. PICKED UP 30# BOX AND TWISTED WHILE LIFTING CAUSING PAIN IN LOWER (L) SIDE OF BACK. EXPERIENCED SHARP PAIN.

March 1, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by falling object

EE SAID A PIECE OF SALT (40 LBS OR SO) STRUCK HIS RIGHT FOREARM & HAND, KNOCKING OFF HIS HARD HAT & RIPPED HIS POCKET. EE SAID HE HAD CHECKED FOR LOOSE GROUND & DIDN'T NOTICE ANY. CONTINUED PO WDERING A FEW HOLES AND THAN NOTICED HIS WRIST & ARM BEGINNING TO SWELL. HIS RIGHT HAND WAS ON THE CONTROLLER WHEN STRUCK. LACERATIONS, BRUISING & SWELLING TO RIGHT HAND, WRIST AND ARM. ALSO

March 1, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman OTHER
Hutchinson Salt Company · Unclassified, insufficient data

LEFT HAND WAS SWELLING UP & HURTING, NO KNOWLEDGE OF HURTING IT. DR. SAYS TENDONITIS PUT BRACE ON FOR EMPLOYEE TO WEAR WHILE WORKING.

February 28, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal driller operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS HANGING CURTAINS WITH I.NAME ON THE S-10, SOON AFTERWARD, A ROOM WAS READY TO DRILL AND HE WENT TO HIS DRILL. WHILE DRILLING HIS RIGHT LEG KEPT HURTING HIM. DOCTOR STATED IT WAS A PINCH ED NERVE. MAY HAVE HAPPENED WHILE CLIMBING OFF THE S-10 TRUCK BED.

February 23, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING TROUGH IDLERS TO SEND UNDERGROUND. THE STACK LOOKED UNSTABLE SO HE HELD ONTO TO IDLER. THE STACK SHIFTED AND CAUGHT HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER RIGHT ABOVE KNUCKLE AND CAUSED LA CERATION.

January 13, 1993 KS · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS SHELVING BOXES WHEN FINGERS ON L HAND GOT PINCHED BETWEEN LACERATIONS ON BASE OF MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS OF L HAND REQUIRING SUTURES.

1992 · 22 incidents

November 11, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING BOXES OF TAPE TO REMOVE FROM SHELF AND CARRYING ON L SHOULDER. STRAIN TO RIGHT CERVICAL PORTION OF TRAPEZIUS.

October 21, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

OPERATING FORKLIFT LOADING SEMITRAILER IN CLOSED DOCK AREA. DID NOT OPEN DOCK DOORS OR TURN ON VENTILATION FAN FOR EXHAUSTING FUMES. WAS OVERCOME BY FUMES POSSIBLE CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING. I NCREASED HEART RATE, DIZZY, SEVERE HEADACHE, SKIN WARM AND RED AND DRY, UPPER EXTREMITIES WERE WARM BLUISH RED AND DRY (HANDS).

October 20, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS LOADING AN EMPTY DRUM ON THE SCOOP HER RIGHT THUMB GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE DRUM AND A LIFT EYE ON ONE OF THE TANKS. SMASHED AND SPLIT OPEN THE END OF HER THUMB.

October 7, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE SHELVING BOX WHILE STANDING ON LADDER. TWISTED & LIFTED BOX TO TOP SHELF. FELT SHARP TWINGE IN LOWER BACK WHICH PROGRESSED DOWN (L) LEGWHEN BENDING & LIFTING.

October 6, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

REMOVING A 40# BOX FROM A SKID STACKED APPROX. SHOULDER HEIGHT ON VICTIM. STRAINED UPPER BACK UNDER LEFT SHOULDER BLADE.

September 29, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall from machine

EE AND OTHER WERE ASSIGNED TO REPLACE BAD RETURN ROLLERS ON THE BELT LINE WHILE WAITING FOR THE BIG ELEVATOR TO BE REAPRIED. HE STEPPED UP ON THE BELT STRUCTURE AND STEPPED ACROSS THE BELT WHE N HE STEPPED DOWN FROM THE STRUCTURE, HIS RIGHT FOOT WAS EITHER ON A CHUNK OF SALT OR AN UNEVEN CUT BLOOR. AS HE PUT HIS WEIGHT ON THE FOOT HIS ANKLE TWISTED CAUSING HIM TO FALL.

September 25, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against stationary object

INJURED HIT HIS NOSE ON EDGE OF I BEAM UNDER THE NEW DRYER WHILE INSTALLING BOLT IN FLANGE.

September 4, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal ELECTRICAL
Hutchinson Salt Company · Accident type, without injuries

POWER SURGE BURNT OUT POWER COMPANY DISCONNECTS AND CAUSED HOIST MOTOR WINDINGS TO GO TO GROUND. HOIST MOTOR WAS REPLACED WITH A REBUILT MOTOR THAT WAS ON HAND.

September 2, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CLIMBING ON AND OFF FORKLIFT AND LATER REACHING AND BENDING TO REMOVE AND REPLACE CARTONS OF PAPER RECORDS WEIGHING 30 & 35 POUNDS ON SHELVING.

August 12, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

55013LEDGED HE WAS INJURED WHILE SHOVELING SALT ON 8-12-92, BUT FAILED TO REPORT THE ALLEDGED INJURY TO ANYONE AT THAT TIME FOR UNKNOWN REASONS. AT 9:00AM HE ADVISED HIM OF HIS INJURIES (ALLDG 54?03HAT HAPPENED AT WORK. WAS SENT HIM TO THE COMPANY DR. AND HE INFORMED US THAT EE HAD A HERNIA AND NEEDED AN OPERATION. SAID HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA AS HE WAS SHOVELING.

July 28, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HOLDING DOOR JAMB APART JACK POPPED OUT STRUCK IN CHEST

July 24, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech OTHER
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by flying object

I.NAME INSTALLING PIECE OF ROOFING,GUST OF WIND BLEW IT OUT OF CONTROL THEREBY CUTTING HAND.

July 18, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall from machine

WENT TO GET OUT OF S & S STEPPING IN GROOVE BY RAIL WHEN SHE TURNED AND TWISTED HER ANKLE.

July 8, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

REMOVING BOX OF MOVIE FILM FROM SHELVING. BOX SLIPPED AND PINNED RIGHT WRIST BETWEEN BOX AND PARTICLE BOARD SHELF LACERATING IT. REQ 4 STITCHES TO CLOSE.

May 8, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator RESPIRATORY CONDITIONS (TOXIC AGENTS)
Hutchinson Salt Company · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

ON 05-11-92 WE RECEIVED A CALL FROM EE STATING THAT HE WOULD NOT BE IN TO WORK THAT EVENING & THAT HE NEEDED TO SEE A DR THAT HE WAS HAVING TROUBLE BREATHING & THAT HIS THROAT & BRONCHIAL TUBE S FELT SWOLLEN HE SAID HE FELT THAT THIS WAS FROM LOALDING THE DRIED FINE SALT & WORKING AROUND IT HE WENT TO VARIOUS DRS & SPECIALISTS & IT WAS FINALLY DETERMINED ON 05-29-92 IT WAS A WORK R

May 5, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck against stationary object

EE REACHED DOWN TO PICK A CHIP HAMMER UP FROM FLOOR. WHEN HE LIFTED UP HIS RIGHT FOREARM STRUCK A JAGGED EDGE ON A PLYWOOD WELDING SCREEN. A PSLINTER 4" IN LENGTH WAS PUSHED UNDER HIS SKIN. TH E SPLINTER BROKE OFF LEAVING A PIECE UNDER HIS SKIN.

April 22, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal hoistman, hoist operator HOISTING
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

SITTING IN CHAIR FOR 4 HOURS STRAIN IN BACK MUSCLES

April 11, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Struck by falling object

ROLLER & SHAFT WERE BEING BOLTED IN PLACE. OTHER EMPLOYEE AND EE WERE HOLDING ROLLER, OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING BOLTS IN MOUNTING (1) BOLT WAS IN PLACE, EE WAS HOLDING BEARING HOUSING ALIGNED , OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING SECOND BOLT WHEN HIS END SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HAND. HIS END DROPPED DOWN PINNING DOWN HIS SMALL FINGER BETWEEN BEARING HOUSING AND SHAFT.

February 13, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal HOISTING
Hutchinson Salt Company · Accident type, without injuries

SOLENOID COIL THAT HOLDS THE DEAD MAN SAFETY VALVE CLOSED.SHORTED TO GROUND AND BURNT THE WINDINGS,WITH OUT THE SOLENOID BEING ABLE TO PULL THE DEAD MAN LINKAGE UP THE BRAKE ON THE HOIST DRUM COULD NOT BE RELEASED.HOIST WAS DOWN FROM 12:01 AM UNTIL 11:30AM WHILE COIL WAS BEING REWOUND BY A LOCAL REWIND SHOP.

January 23, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall from ladders

MISSED RUNG WHILE CLIMBING DOWN 6FT LADDER LANDED N FEET CHIPPED BONE ON LEFT ANKLE

January 20, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal cutting machine operator, ripper, universal operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hutchinson Salt Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

PICKED UP A CHUNK OF SALT AND THREW/ROLLED IT OVER BAR OF CUTTER TO KEEP FROM TEARING UP BUG DUSTER.

January 8, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hutchinson Salt Company · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

SCALING CEILING- LOST BLANCE AND FELL OFF OF 30" HIGH SCAFFOLDING. LANDED ON EFT ARM AND SHOULDER. BRUISED ARM.

1991 · 2 incidents

November 21, 1991 KS · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man OTHER
Hutchinson Salt Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

FEELING LIGHTHEADED NAUSIOUS WENT TIN CONTROL CENTER SET DOWN LOST CONSCIOUSNESS FRO 30 MIN

November 18, 1991 KS · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Hutchinson Salt Company · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

BECAME DIZZY AND DISORIENTED

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