Buzzi Unicem USAMining Incidents in 2000

EE WAS WELDING ENDS ON FABRICATED ROLLERS THAT WAS PLACED STANDING UP AGAINST WORK BENCH. ROLLER STARTED TO FALL AND EE GRABBED FOR IT. FIRST LOST TIME DAY 3/30/00.

WHILE PULLING ON CABLE AT RIVER DOCK, EE STEPPEDOUT OF SNOW ONTO A SPOT OF ICE, SLIPPED AND FELL.

EE WAS OTHERS WERE PULLING A 3/4"" CABLE UP THE VCONVEYOR WAY TO A SHEAVE, PREPARING TO PULL A BROKEN CONVEYOR BELT AND FELT PAIN IN RIGHT ELBOW. REQUESTED TO SEE DOCTOR ON 10-16-00. FIRST LOST TIME DAY WAS ON 10-17-00.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A DUST SCREW CONVEYOR. WHILE ATTACHING A CHAIN HOOK ON A STEEL BEAM OVERHEAD, THE WEIGHTED ARM OF AN OVERHEAD DOUBLE-DUMP VALVE ACTUATED & CAUGHT HIS WORK JACKET, PULL ING HIS ARM INTO A PINCH POINT BETWEEN THE VALVE'S WEIGHTED SHAFT & THE ADJACENT STEEL CHANNEL FRAMEWORK. HE WAS RETRACTING HIS ARM FROM SETTLING THE CHAIN HOOK WHEN THE VALVE ACTIVATED.

EE STATED WHILE STEPPING OFF SCAFFOLDING, FOOT HUNG IN BRACING AND TWISTED KNEE.

EE WAS PRYING COPPER PLATE OFF BREAKER BAR N CRUSHER WITH PRY BAR, PRY BAR SLIPPED AND EE HIT LEFT ELBOW.

WHILE DRAINING HOT OIL OUT OF THE MACHINE, THE EE'S RIGHT ARM WAS BURNED.

WHILE CLIMBING THROUGH SCAFFOLD TUBING ON HAMMER MILL CRUSHER HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON LOOSE MATERIALON SCAFFOLD BOARDS.

WHILE REMOVING CONCRETE FORMWORK THE FORMWORK SUDDENLY RELEASED UNDER PRESSURE FROM CROW BARS WHICH WERE BEING USED TO PRY THE FORMWORK OFF. THEFORM SPRANG OFF AND TRAPPED HIS HAND AGAINST THE SCAFFOLD PLATFORM POLE.

HE WAS REMOVING CHAINS FROM CEMENT KILN THAT IS FULL OF DUST.

COLD AND ICY DAY. PULLING PALLET JACK WHILE MOVING BRICK SLIPPED AND FELL DOWN ON HIS KNEE.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS GETTING IN GROVE PICKER AND TWISTED GETTING IN AROUND STEERING WHEEL AND FELT KNEE POP.

EE HAD DUMPED A LOAD OF MATERIAL FROM THE DUMP TRAILER. EE WAS IN PROCESS OF GETTING RESIDUAL MATERIAL FROM TRAILER WHILE IT WAS IN THE ELEVATED POSITION THE TRAILER CONTACTED POWER LINES EE HAND, LEFT HAND ON CONTROL VALVE & WAS ELECTROCUTED. RECD BURNS TO BOTH KNEES, LEFT HAND & LEFT FOOT

TWO EE WERE TRYING TO OPEN THE HAMMER MILL DOOR BY REMOVING THE NUTS ONT HE BOLTS. THE WRENCH SLIPPED AND JUMPED BACK TWOARD THE EE, STRIKING HIM ON THE FACE.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON A COME-A-LONG WHEN HE FELT A PULL IN THE GROIN AREA. EMPLOYEE DID NOT REQUEST TO SEE A PHYSICIAN UNTIL 4-13 WHEN THE SYMPTOMS SEEMED TO WORSEN.

EE WAS BOLTING IRON WITH ANOTHER. THE LOAD SHIFTED, CAUSING THE BEAM TO FALL AND SMASHED THE EMPLOYEE'S HAND BETWEEN THE IRON.

MINER WAS PULLED INTO BELT WHILE ATTEMPTING TO KNOCK FROZEN CHUNKS OF MATERIAL FREE FROM RETURNIDLER.

MINER SLIPPED ON STEPS, CAUGHT HIMSELF ON LAST STEP INJURING WRIST.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A BEAM, USING AN 80 LB HAMMER. FELT PAIN IN THE ARM/ SHOULDER AREA. RECENT SUBSEQUENT TREATMENTS NOW MAKES THIS INCIDENTREPORTABLE, AS OF 5/16/00.

EE WAS MOVING DUCTWORK WITH A CHAIN HOIST WHEN A SHIPPING BRACE BROKE ALLOWING THE SUSPENDED METAL EXPANSION JOINT TO SWING STRIKING THE SURFACEOF THE EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT UPPER ARM BRUISING AND C AUSING TENDERNESS AT THE AREA OF CONTACT.

EE FELL ON SNOW AND ICE WHILE PULLING NEW ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CABLE THROUGH CONDUIT. EE COMPLAINED OF PAIN ON 2-2-00 AND WAS PUT ON RESTRICTED DUTY UNTIL 2-7-00. RESTRICTED TO LIFTING 10#.

EE SLIPPED ON A LARGE ROCK UNDERNEATH THE SNOW STRAINING HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE PICKED UP A CABLE, IT SLIPPED AND LANDED ON HER KNEE.

WHILE BLOWING OUT DOUBLE DUMPS, ALKAI DUST BLEW UP UNDER SAFETY GLASSES AND FACE SHIELD INTO RIGHT EYE.

EE WAS WORKING AT A DRILL PRESS IN THE MACHINE SHOP AND HE TURNED TO PLACE A 1 LB HAMMER ON A WORK BENCH AND HE FELT HIS BACK POP AND CAUSED PAIN. EE HAS A MEDICAL HISTORY OF BACK PROBLEMS. HE DID NOT MISS WORK OR HE WAS NOT ON RESTRICTED WORK, BUT HE DID SEE A CHIROPRACTOR.

EE WAS CHANGING DRAG PINS ALL DAY AND ALLEGEDLY EXPERIENCED LOWER BACK PAIN. PLEASE NOTE THAT WEDID NOT KNOW IT WAS MSHA REPORTABLE UNTIL 11/29 WHEN CHIROPRACTOR BILLS WERE RECEIVED.

REPLACING HEAD LINERS WHEN A LINER CAME LOOSE AND HIT MINER'S FINGER AS HE TRIED TO CATCH IT.

EE WAS MOVING RAILROAD TIES AROUND TO SET A NEW FINISH MILL SHELL SECTION ON AND LATER EXPERIENCED LOWER BACK PAIN. HE WENT TO THE CHIROPRACTOR FOR TREATMENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING THE TOP OF THE AUXILIARY HOPPER AND HE TWISTED HIS LOWER BACK. HE WENT TO A CHIROPRACTOR AFTER THE INCIDENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING IN THEINSTALLATION OF A GEAR BOX WHEN HIS FINGER WAS CAUGHT IN THE DRIVE BELT AS THEY WERE BEING PUT BACK ON. STITCHES ONLY.

EE WAS DOING CLEAN UP WORK ON KILN PIER #3 AND DUST BLEW IN EYE. (MEDICINE ONLY)

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING 3/4 SHEETS OF PLYWOOD FROM DECKING. WHEN HE PULLED UP ON A PIECE, IT HUNG UP, BROKE LOOSE AND HIT THE ELBOW AGAINST THE BEAM SUPPORT.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING SLEEVE OUT OF CYLINDER CLEVIS. CYLINDER MOVED AND MASHED FINGR (RAW MILL)

WHILE WORKING ON 924 SCREW A SUDDEN GUST OF WIND BLEW CLINKER DUST INTO EMPLOYEE'S EYE. EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.

EE WAS INSTALLING CONVEYOR PARTS, TWISTED, AND STRAINED THE BACK. EE RECENTLY UNDERWENT PHYSICAL THERAPY SESSION, INCIDENT NOW REPORTABLE.

EE WAS REMOVING CEILING TILE AS HE WAS REMOVING THE TILE MATERIAL FELL FROM THE TILE OVER GLASSES INTO RIGHT EYE. NO LOST TIME RX DRUGS

EMPLOYEE TRIPPED ON SOME ROLLERS AND FELL ON THE WRIST.

EE WAS OPERATING THE 966 LOADER AND AS HE WAS MAKING A RIGHT HAND TURN INTO THE CLINKER STORAGE BUILDING HE STRAINED HIS BACK MUSCLES. IT IS UNKNOWN WHY HE HAD BACK PAIN AT THIS TIME. HE DID G O TO THE CHIROPRACTOR AND DOCTOR FOR TREATMENT. HE DID NOT MISS WORK.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING A FUEL HOSE OUT OF A FUEL TRUCK AND SLIPPED, FALLING INTO A PIECE OF IRON. EMPLOYEE DID NOT REQUEST MEDICAL TREATMENT UNTIL 4-25-00.

EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING WHEN HE FELT A PIECE OF DEBRIS ENTER HIS RIGHT EYE. HE FLUSHED THE EYE AND THOUGHT HE HAD GOTTEN FOREIGN MATERIAL REMOVED. EMPLOYEE WAS COMFORTABLE THROUGH THE NIGHT.HOWE VER, THE FOLLOWING MORNING HE FELT AS IF HE HAD A FOREIGN OBJECT IN HIS RIGHT EYE (SUPERIOR MEDIAL ASPECT) AND SOMETIMES THIS MOVES TO THE UPPER PART OF HIS EYE (UPPER LATERAL ASPECT). DIAGNO

EE WAS WORKING ON #2 PUMP AT THE SL AND REPORTED TO HIS SUPERVISOR THAT ON 3/20/00 HIS KNEE WAS SORE. HE SAID HE KNELT DOWN AND THIS CAUSED SORENESS. THE DR PUT HIM ON LITE DUTY. XRAY IS NEGAT IVE.

EE WAS ALLEGEDLY GETTING OUT OF THE KILN AND A LADDER SLIPPED AND HE HURT HIS SHOULDER. HIS SUPERVISOR THOUGHT THE INCIDENT WAS MINOR AT THE TIME AND NO FIRST AID WAS GIVEN. EE REQUESTED TO SE E A CHIROPRACTOR SUPPOSEDLY FOR THIS INCIDENT ON 4/19/00. THIS INCIDENT WILL BE INVESTIGATED FURTHER.

EE WAS REINSTALLING THE DRAG BOX IN THE KC16 AREA AND THE BOX GOT CAUGHT BY THE CHUTE AND EE ATTEMPTED TO USE A PRYBAR TO FREE IT, BUT THE PRYBAR CAME OUT OF HIS HANDS STRIKING HIS RIGHT AND L EFT SHIN. HE RECEIVED 8 SUTURES ON RIGHT SHIN AND CONTUSION LEFT SHIN. X-RAY NEGATIVE.

EE WAS REPLACING IDLERS ON #7 CONVEYOR AND HE ALLEGES THAT HE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE LIFTING AN IDLER AND SLIPPING IN MUD. HE WENT TO HOSPITAL ON 3-4-00 WITH PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EE WAS HELPING ANOTHER TO MOVE A VICTAULIC GROOVER DRIVE MULE OFF A PLATFORM. THE EE'S FINGERS GOT PINCHED BETWEEN THE BACK OF THE MOTOR AND THE CONCRETE PAD WHEN THEY PULLED ON IT.

EE REPORTED THAT HIS LEFT FOOT HURT FROM POSSIBLY STEPPING ON A STONE. THE EXACT CAUSE OF THE PAIN IS UNKNOWN. HE HAS BEEN WORKING LONG HARD HOURS. HE CLAIMS THAT AN EXISTING BONE SPUR ON HIS FOOT WAS AGGRAVATED. HE DID SEE A CHIROPRACTOR FOR TREATMENT AND A MEDICAL DOCTOR FOR A SHOT OF CORTISONE. X-RAY WAS NEGATIVE.

EE WAS STRIPPING 500 MCM WIRE, KEEPING AN EYE ON WORKERS ABOVE. THE KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT THE FINGER.

WHILST TRAVELING IN CONSTRUCTION ELEVATOR EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO THE 300 LEVEL ON ROUTE TO THE 230 FT LEVEL FOR MUD. AT THE 300 FT LEVEL HE WAS ENVELOPED IN STACK EMMISSION FUMES. HE LEFT FOR W ORK AT 12 PM AND BECAME ILL WITH A SORE THROAT. HE LATER DEVELOPED A SERIOUS MEDICAL CONDITION.

EE WAS WELDING STEEL IN A CLOSED SPACE FOR THE MOST PART OF THE DAY AND RECEIVED A FLASH BURN IN BOTH EYES WHILE WELDING.

EE HAD BEEN WORKING IN THE PRE-HEATER TOWER FOR APPROXIMATELY 2 HOURS. HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF PUTTING CONDUIT IN THE TOWER. CO-WORKERS HAD SEEN HIM SITTING DOWN AND TRIED TALKING TO HIM, BUT HE DID NOT RESPOND. EE HAD DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES ACCORDING TO CORONER'S REPORT. THE REPORT ALSO STATED THAT THE EE DID NOT DIE FROM ELECTRICALEXPOSURE OR TRAUMA. NON-OCCUPATIONAL DEATH.