All MSHA-reportable accidents at CEMEX Construction Materials Florida, LLC operations in 2011. Fatalities appear first.
The employee and the employee's personal physicians believe there was an inhalation exposure to a chemical during work shifts in April 2011. The employee believes the possible occupational illness came from breathing tire smoke from a burning tire on the burner floor of the cement plant. A worker comp claim was filed but no occupational illness has been confirmed.
While working in the raw mill building, he felt a bite on his lower leg. The bite became infected(cellulitis) later and required medical treatment & lost days. A brown recluse spider is suspected to have bit him.
Employee was handling a vacuum hose from a vacuum truck when it sprung a leak spraying him with cement on right side of face & eyes. As the material sprayed upward, it knocked safety glasses off his face. The incident was located in the Finish Mill #2 area.
Back strain due to improper lifting
Employee was walking, expediently slipped and fell forward extending his hands to catch himself.
While operating a water blaster on pre-heat tower, the lance kicked backwards and struck him in mouth. Apparently, material inside chute fell on end of lance causing it to kick.
EE was removing 2""x2""x1/4"" angle iron from the storage rack to place on the cutting table when a sharp protruding sliver of the metal cut his right hand causing a cut that required 3 stitches to close the wound.
An employee was handing a piece of steel plate (2'x3') from a shaker screen to EE and the plate slipped out of his hands and pinched EE's left hand between the steel plate and a pipe. He broke a bone in his left hand.
In the process of pulling a tarpaulin over a roof vent. EE was pulling on a rope attached to an eyelet in a tarpaulin when the eyelet ripped in the tarpaulin and caused the EE to fall on same level impacting his elbow which impacted his left ribs.
Human being was inside of vehicle and burnt to the ground. Not a miner or place of the mine.
EE was working removing shell liners from raw mill (ball mill). The process required striking the liner with a hammer to loosed to remove. A piece of shrapnel struck EE in the right shoulder embedding under the skin.