Mitsubishi Cement CorpMining Incidents in 2014

Employee states while removing bad thermocouple hot material exited hole and struck his face, causing 1st and 2nd degree burns to ears, eyes and head.

Employee was organizing top shelf in the tool room and while stepping down from the step stool, the stool slipped out from under him.

Employee was walking to get a bucket for an oil leak on a loader when he stepped wrong and twisted ankle

While trying to break up a chunk of rock with a jackhammer, the jackhammer slipped off the rock puncturing his toe.

Employee injured his left hand while doing repairs to a sledgehammer in the tool room. Employee was hammering a wedge into the top of sledgehammer to tighten the handle to the head, the sledgehammer was clamped in a vice, and he hit the base of his left thumb with a glancing blow while trying to drive the wedge in with a hammer. No broken bones, released for modified duty.

Employee was relieving the pressure on the lime slurry injection system the discharge was plugged of the relief valve. Employee thought the pressure was gone and opened the line when it hot lime water shot out and went up his shirt sleeve burning his left arm.

While Poking down in the tower employee states he was sweating, going into his left eye causing irritation and blurred vision.

Employee started walking towards 48 forklift when he slipped, tripped and fell over a pipe that was sticking out in the dark. He hit the ground cutting and splitting his left hand.

While closing the knife gate, the Porta Power slipped pinching the employees hand between the frame.

While manually loading bricks in the bucket of a bobcat with 3 other employees, a brick being tossed into the bucket hit employees right hand and smashed his index finger against the brick he was tossing. The impact broke his right index finger. Employee was wearing gloves.