PIERCE: 1 recorded fatality Metal/Non-Metal

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS USING SLEDGE HAMMER TO REOMOVE ROLLER BEARING AND GOT FINGER CAUGHT UNDER SLIDE.

EE STATES THAT WHEN WALKING BY TOOL RACK, HIS HAND STRUCK DRILL BIT THAT WAS PROTRUDING OFF SHELF, CAUSING LACERATION TO MIDDLE FINGER ON RT. HAND. RECEIVED 11 SUTURES & ISSUED PRESCRIPT ION MEDICINE.

EE STATES HE WAS PLACING STEEL BAND ON A HAMMERMILL FLIGHT AND DROPPED STEEL BAND (~15 POUNDS). BAND STRUCK FINGER. FINGER WAS FRACTURED.

EE STATES THAT WHILE LOADING JACK STAND INTO TRUCK, THE CENTER POST ON THE JACK DROPPED AND SMASHED THE END OF HIS LEFT FINGER CAUSING LACERATION AND FRACTURE.

EE STATES HE WAS LIFTING A BOX AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK. HE WAS GIVEN PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION. ACCIDENT HAS BEEN UNDER INVESTIGATION.

EE STATES THAT HE MASHED MIDDLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND WHILE HAMMERING COUPLING ONTO SHAFT. LATE REPORT. WENT TO CLINIC 2+ WEEKS AFTER ALLEGED INJURY. FINGER WAS INFECTED. REMOVED NAIL. HAS BEEN UNDER INVESTIGATION.

EE STATES HE HAD REMOVED SPOT WELDS FROM PLATES HE WAS WORKING ON. HE DROPPED PLATES ON TABLE TO SEPARATE THEM. PLATES SLIPPED & SMASHED FINGER BETWEEN PLATES & EDGE OF TABLE. (FX & SUTURES).

EMPLOYEE STATES HE BENT OVER TO REACH FOR A CABLE AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EE STATES THAT HE WAS USING FORK LIFT TO UNLOAD TRUCK BUMPER HE STEPPED OFF FORK LIFT & TWISTED RIGHT LEG & HIP WHEN HE SLIPPED & FELL. RESTRICTED DUTY Y

EE WEARING GLOVES AND USING EMORY CLOTH TO CLEAN PIECE OF SHAFTING THAT WAS ROTATING IN LATHER. EMORY CLOTH SNAGGED, CAUSING THUMB OF GLOVE TO GET CAUGHT AROUND PIECE OF SHAFTING. GLOVE WAS TO RN IN TWO AND FINGERS WERE BENT BACKWARD AROUND SHAFT.

PICKING UP A PUMP SHAFT & FELT PAIN LOWER & LEFT GROIN.

GPF-EMPLOYEE, A MOBILE EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE MECHANIC NOTED A NUMBNESS AND TINGLING IN RIGHT AND THEN LEFT HANDS. THE ONSET WAS GRADUAL AND FIRST NOTED WHEN HE WAS DRIVING. DUE TO INCREASED SY MPTONS AND JOB FUNCTION EMPLOYEE WAS SENT TO NEUROLOGIST ON 12-29-97.

EMPLOYEE WAS REBUILDING A DIFFERENTIAL ON A LARGE TRUCK- WHILE TIGHTENING A BOLT HIS LEFT FOREARM STRUCK SHARP INNER SURFACE OF THE DIFFERENTIAL HOUSING.

EE WAS HELPING OTHER EE REPAIR FRONT END ON LARGE TRUCK AND PICKED UP SPINDLE WEIGHTING 70 #. FELT TWINGE IN RIGHT LEG.

STEPPED OFF C-FRAME AND TWISTED HIS BACK.

EE WAS PUSHING A DOLLY ACROSS PARKING AREA WHILE IT WAS RAINING. HE WALKED INTO A PARKED VEHICLE STRIKING HIS RIGHT SHOULDER VECHILES SIDE MIRROR AND FALLING ONTO PAVEMENT. HE DID NOT REPORT I NCLUDENT UNTIL 5-30-97. FOLLOWING EVALUATION ANDMRI IT WAS DECIDED SURGERY WAS NEEDED.

WHILE STANDING AT DESK SORTING MAPS AND TALKING ON THE PHONE AT THE SAME TIME. EE FINISHED THE PHONE CONVERSATION AND SAT DOWN CATCHING THE DESK CHAIR AT AN ANGLE. THE CHAIR ROLLED AWAY AND TI PPED CAUSING THE EE TO FALL STRIKING THE BACK OF HIS HEAD ON THE SHARP EDGE OF THE CREDENZA.

WHILE CLEANIG A SHAFT WITH AN AIR HOSE A PIECE OF FOREIGN MATERIAL (METAL CHIP/SAND) WAS BLOWN INTO EYE. EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING SAFETY EYE WEAR WITH SIDE SHEILDS.

TAKING BRAKE OFF TANK CAR, CHAIN CAUGHT FINGERS.

STANDING ON MACHINE CHECKING OIL & WATER FOOT SLIPPED FELL HIT LOWER BACK

AFTER CUTTING DRYWALL FOR DOOR OPENING A PIECE OF DRYWALL FROM OVERHEAD STRIKIGN FINGER WITH MEATAL CLIP, CAUSIN GLACERATION.

EMPLOYEE WAS TOSSING A BLOCK OF WOOD ON BED OF TRUCK & HE SCRATCHED HIS LEFT FOREARM ON A METAL BURR ON PLATE. [DR. 1-27-94]

EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING ALONG SIDE OF HAUL ROAD CARS WHEN HE TRIPPED AND FELL TOWARDS INTO RAILCAR.

MECHANIC WAS PUTTING RAIL TOGETHER ON BACKHOE. THE CHAIN SLIPPED OFF BUCKET KNOCKING OUT WINDSHIELD AND HITTING OPERATOR ON LEFT LEG RIGHT RIB CAGE AND RIGHT SHOULDER.

BACKED DOZER ACROSS OPEN CUT OF ABOUT 2 FEET DEEP.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED OFF BUMPER OF MAINTENANCE TRUCK ONTO A LARGE ROCK CAUSING HIM TO SPRAIN HIS LEFT ANKLE.

39635D ROLL OF GUY WIRE 30IN DIAMETER 67# LIFTED PROPERLY RESTED ROLL ON TRUCK BUMPER REPOSITIONED BODY RELIFTED WHILE ROTATING SLIGHTLY TO R FELT SLIGHT PAIN LOWER BACK FINISHED PLACING WIRE 65039UCK

WHILE HITTING A DRILL BIT WITH HAMMER BIT FLEW OFDF AND HIT TOOTH.

CUTTING CARS FROM LOCO CUT AIR IN FORCE OF AIR SWUNG HOSE H ITTING ON L HAND

WHILE FEEDING 1X3X29 BOARD THRU THE FEED END OF THE TABLE SAW EE WENT TO RETRIEVE LUMBER UPON COMPLETION OF CUT AND IN THE PROCESS HIS LEFT HAND CAME ACROSS SAW BLADE AMPUTATING LEFT MIDDLE FI NGER TO 2ND JOINT.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING LARGE LOCOMOTIVE CRANE TO MOVE A SET OF DUAL WHEELS.LIFTER MOVING WHEELS EMPLOYEE UNHOOKED THE SLING AT FLOOR LEVEL.WHENHE RAISED UP HE STRUCK THE TOP OF HIS HARD HAT AGAINS T CRANE HOOK.

EE WAS REMOVING A 10FT PIECE OF CONDUIT FROM NECK WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE CONDUCT AND PUMP PEDESTAL.

MVOING HEAD ON BUCKET LAYING ON SIDE STEPPED OF FF BUCKET ON METAL IT BROKE LOOSE FELL TO GROUND

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A PIECE OF CARD BOARD WITH A POCKET KNIFE & CUT THUMB ON L HAND.

WHILE RIDING ON A LOCOMOTIVE SOMETHING FLEW INTO HIS R EYE.

EE WAS HELPING TO REMOVE A 68 & 24 PIPE. PIPE WA SON THE GROUND, NECESSARY TO REHOOK PIPE, WHEN LOAD WAS SHITTED PIPE SHITTED TOWARDS CRANE APPROX. 2 FT, ENTRAPPING LEFT LEG AGAINST RIGHT REAR OUT RIGGER.

WHILE DECONDING ON AN EXTENSION LADDER, THE LADDER SHIFTED AT THE TOP PART AND I CAME DOWN SLOWLY MY HEAD MADE CONTACT WITH HAND RAIL.

ALLEGEDLY LIFTED A 16 INCH FLANGE FROM THE GROUND, TO THE END OF THE PIPE WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN GROIN AREA.

EMP WAS LAYING ON HIS SIDE WHILE USING A CUTTING TORCH THE AREA WAS CRAMPED SLAG BLEW BACK ENTERING LEFTEAR (DID NOT HAVE PROTECTIVE EAR COVERING ON )

A BUCKET PIN SLIPPED THRU THE CABELS AND CAME DOWN ON FINGER.

REMOVING FAN LEAD PIN WT 119 LB. FROM DRAGLINE LINE TUB, SET END DOWN ON HIS LITTLE FIN GER

I NAME WAS PULLING CHIPS FROM A TUBE HE WAS BORING HE WAS USING PLIERS WHEN THE CHIPS GRABBED SPUN CAUSING LACERTIONS TO TWO FINGERS ON L HAND

FOOT SLIPPED BETWEEN SCAFFOLD-BIN WALL.

INSTALLING COUPLING WHEN LEFT ANKLE TWISTED.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON THE INSIDE OF THE OUTSIDE OF A LOG WASHER. EMPLOYEE WAS CHIPPING AWAY RUST OFF OF THE SIDE OF THE TANK TO CUT OUT A BAD PIECE OF METAL AND REPLACE IT WITH A NEW ONE. A FOREIGN PIECE OF MATERIAL WENT BEHIND EMPLOYEE'S GLASSES INTO LEFT EYE.

WHILE HELPING TO LOAD A REBAR FRAME ON TRUCK, I WALKED AROUND TRUCK AND RAN INTO A PIECE OF REBAR STICKING OUT THAT I DID NOT SEE.

FLAGPERSON WAS STEPPING DOWN OFF LOCOMOTIVE AND TWISTED ANKLE ON TRACK BALLAST.

HE WAS MOVING 55 GAL DRUMS AND SOME DAYS LATER HIS BACK STARTED TO BOTHER HIM. HE EVENTUALLY HAD AN OPERATION FOR A HERNIATED DISC.

MINER WAS CRSOO3NG FROM ONE SIDE OF RR TRACK TO THE OTHER AFTER JUST COMPLETING DUMPING ROCK THERE WAS SOME LOOSE PHOSPHATE ROCK ON TRACK AND THE MINER SLIPPED AND FELL

MINER WAS REMOV3NG ENGINE COWLING FROM A BULLDOZER IN ATTEMPTING TO TAKE BOLTS OUT HE USED AN AIR IMPACT WRENCH ON BOLT HEAD AND HELD NUT (STEEL PLATE) WITH FINGERS STEEL PLATE TURNED AND CUT HIS FINGER 3

MINER WAS BITTE3 ON LEG BY SPIDER WHILE WORKING IN WELDING SHOP

MINER WAS OPERA7ING A LINE VREW BOOM TRUCK WHILE HAND WAS ON OPERATING CONTROLS THE BOOM WAS MOVED TOO CLOSE TO CONTROL PANEL AND PINCHED HIS FINGER

MINER WAS MAINT SUPERVISOR WORKING ON DRAGLINE TURN AROUND HE CLIMBED UP 6 FT STEP LADDER TO INSPECT WORK AREA COMING DOWN LADDER LADDER SHIFTED IN SOFT DIRT MINER LOST BALANCE AND FELL TO GRO UND

MINER GOT THUMB CAUGHT IN BOTTOM DOOR OF R.R. CAR WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE COME-A-LONG THAT WAS HOLDING DOOR CLOSE BECAUSE LATCH WAS BROKEN.

MINER WAS MOVING PIECE OF STEEL PLATE (2\X4\X1") PLATE SLIPPED AND CAUGHT FINGER IN PINCH POINT.

MINER CLIMBED ON TOP OF HYDROSIZER TO HOOK UP RIGGING HYDROSIZER WAS LAYING ON ITS SIDE ON SHOP FLOOR HIS WEIGHT CAUSED HYDRO TO M OVE AND HIM TO LOOSE BALANCE WHIEL ATTEMPTING T TO REGAIN BLANCE TO PREVINET FALL HE STRAINED BACK

MINER WAS ATTEMPTING TO THROW FLATGATE ON CHUTE THAT FEEDS CONVEYOR BELT ON SHUTTLE. THE SHUTTLE WAS MOVING AT THE TIME & MINER GOT HIS FOOT CAUGHT UNDER SHUTTLE WHEEL.

MINER CLOSING OVERHEAD WAREHOUSE DOOR CABLE BROKE LOOSE ALLOWING DOOR TO FALL AND THEN IT JUMPED OUT OF TRACK CRASHING TO FLOOR.MINER COULDNT GET OUT OF WAY AND WAS PINNED UNDER DOOR.

MINER WAS RIDING AS BRAKEMAN (CAR DROPPER) ON ROTARY DUMP RAILROAD CAR. WHEN SCOOP CAR COUPLED THE JOLT CAUSED HIM TO LOOSE BALANCE AND HIS ARM HIT CAR. HE HAD A SAFETY BELT ON.

MINER WAS REPLACING MAIN HOIST DRUM SHAFT. THE DRUM LAGGING SHIFTED AS THE LAST BOLT WAS BEING REMOVED AND CAUGHT HIS RIGHT HAND

MINER WAS CLOSING BOTTOM ON R/R CAR WHEN BAR SLIPPED OUT OF DOOR LOCK & HIT MINER IN FOREHEAD.

WORKING AS FLAGPERSON ON R.R.LOCOMOTIVE BENT OVER TO THROW SWITCH TO CHANGE TRACKS AND COULD NOT STRAIGHTEN UP.

CLOSING DOORS ON TOP OF RR CAR WHEN SLIPPED ON WET SURFACE AND FELL ON DOOR.

EE WAS STACKING FLANGES IN WAREHOUSE YARD WHEN ONE SLIPPED & FINGER GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN FLANGES.

MINER WAS PUTTING STEEL I BEAMS INTO STORAGE HE WAS STANDING ON OTHER BEAMS IN RACK AND WHILE GUIDING ANOTHER BEAM INTO POSITION SUSPENDED FROM CRANE HE SLIPPED AND FELL HITTING HIS ARM ON SHA SHARP CORNER OF BEAM

MINER WAS TAKING TEETH OFF DRAGLINE BUCKET USING PUNCH AND SLEDGE HAMMER. MINER WAS HOLDING B+O PUNCH WHILE OTHER MINER USED HAMMER. PIECE OF STEEL BROKE OFF TOOTH AND HIT MINER IN FOREHEAD.

WORKING IN FABRICATION SHOP CUTTING PIECE OF SHEET STEEL.PIECE 24\\ X 24\\ FELL FROM CUTTING TABLE AND STRUCK HIM ON FOOT.

USING ELECTRIC DRILL AND SLEEVE OF JACKET GOT CAUGHT IN CHUCK,PULLING ARM INTO DRILL CAUSING LACERATION OF FOREARM.

MACHINING LOCOMOTIVE WHEEL.HAD GLOVES ON AND REACHED IN TO REMOVE SOME METAL SHAVINGS WHICH CUT THROUGH GLOVE AND CUT FINGER.

LOST BALANCE ATTEMPTING CLIMB UP ON DOZER.LEFT FOREARM HIT TRACK AND BROKE ULNA.