Oil-Dri Georgia LLCMining Incidents in 2000

OPERATOR WAS WALKING FROM EQUIPMENT. SOFT GROUND GAVE WAS CAUSING OPERATOR TO LOSE BALANCE. OPERATOR FELT SOMETHING SHIFT IN HIS NECK AND SHOULDERS. PAIN WORSENED AS TIME PROGRESSED. REPORTED AND SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION THE NEXT DAY. MEDICATION PRESCRIBED.

EE WAS PULLING GREASE HOLE ACROSS THE GRD THAT HAD BECOME SLIPPERY DUE TO RECENT RAIN SHOWER. HELOST HIS FOOTING & FELL INJURING HIS BACK BUT CONTD TO WORK AFER HIS FALL. HE REPORTED INJURY SE VERAL WKS LATER (12/01/00) AND REQUESTED MEDICALATTENTION (PLEASE SEE ATTACHED DOCUMENT)

EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING POLYCAPS COVERS ON PALLETS THAT WERE TO BE CARRIED BY TROLLEY CAR TO BE STRETCH WRAPPED. SHE WAS AWARE OF THE TROLLEY CAR COMING DOWN THE TRACK AND ATTEMPTED TO PLACE A P OLYCAP ON BEFORE THE TROLLEY CAR RETURNED. SHE MISTIMED THE TROLLEY AND GOT HER RIGHT LEG CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TROLLEY CAR AND CONVEYER. SHE IS A TEMP EMPLOYEE WITH 2 WEEKS EXPERIENCE IN JOB.

EE PULLED LEVER ON BACKHOE AND PAIN SHOT DOWN SHOULDER AND RIGHT ARM. PAIN WORSENED AS DAY PROGRESSED.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO RESTACK A PALLET OF CAT LITTER THAT WAS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING STRETCH WRAPPED FOR SHIPPING. HE HAD PLACED ONE FOOT ON THE TURNTABLE AND THE OTHER ON THE CONVEYOR ROLLER WHEN HE TEMPORILITY LOST HIS FOOTING BUT CAUGHT HIMSELF BEFORE FALLING. HE BEGAN TO HAVE BACK PAIN AND WAS TAKEN TO THE COMPNAY DR AND EXAMINED.

DUE TO UNSEASONABLY COLD WEATHER, THE OPERATOR WAS USING A PROPANE HEATER TO WARM HIMSELF WHILELOADING RAIL CARS. HE STOOD TOO CLOSE FOR TOO LONG CAUSING IGNITION. HE COULD NOT REMOVE HIS OVE RALLS BEFOR BEING INJURED. HE RECEIVED MEDICAL ATTENTION & RETURNED TO WORK THE NEXT ASSIGNED SHIFT.

EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING THE EDGES OFF OF A PIECE OF METAL USING A BENCH GRINDER. THE GRINDING ROCKGRABBED THE METAL AND HIS THUMB INTO THE GRINDING CAUSING A DEEP CUT. THE EMPLOYEE WAS REQUIRED TO BE HOSPITALIZED OVER NIGHT AND HIS THUMB WAS SUTURED TO CLOSE WOUND.

EE WAS SHOVELING CLAY FROM THE TAIL PULLEY OF THE #1 DISINTEGRATOR INFEED CONVEYOR. THE AREA HAS LIMITED SPACE FOR TURNING A OUT FREQUENTLY. WHILE REMOVING CLAY WITH A SHOVEL HE PULLED A MUSCL E IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON A CONVEYER RESTACKING A PALLET WHEN HE STARTED UP CAUSING HIS FOOT TO GET CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO CONVEYERS. THE EMPLOYEE LEFT ANKLE WAS INJURED AND HE WAS IMMEDIATELY TAKEN FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEARING A JEMMED BALE FROM THE LABEL MACHINE ON LINE #2. THE LABEL PUSHING DEVICE RETRACTED WEDGING HIS THUMB BETWEEN THE FOOTPLATE AND PUSHER CUTTING HIS THUMB. THE EMPLOYEE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE DOCTORS OFFICE AND RECEIVED SUTURES TO CLOSE THE CUT.

EE WAS USING A METAL RAKE TO CLEAN UP DEBRIS UNDER A BELT IN HIS WORK AREA. AS HE CONTINUED THE RAKING MOVEMENTS HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT FOREARM. HE REPORTED THE INJURY ON 10/17/00 AND WENT TO THE DR AND WAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVING A PULLED TENDON OR SPRAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING THROUGH HIS DEPARTMENT WHEN HIS FEET BECAME INTANGLED IN GREEN PALLET STRAPPING CAUSING HIM TO TRIP AND FALL. HE EXTENDED HIS LEFT ARM TO BREAK HIS FALL AND SPRAINED HIS LOWER WRIST AND HURT HIS THUMB. HIS WRIST WAS PLACED IN A SPLINT.

EMPLOYEE HAD EXTENDED THE EXTENSION LADDER IN ORDER TO MAKE REPAIRS TO OVERHEAD ELECTRICAL LINESTHE SLIDES ON THE LADDER BECAME STUCK & HE BEGANSHAKING THE LADDER TO FREE THE EXTENSION. THE EX TENSION SLIPPED FREE & JAMMED HIS LEFT THUMB AGAINST THE LADDER RUNG. MEDICAL ATTENTION WAS SOUGHT & SUTURES WERE REQUIRED TO CLOSE LACERATION TO HIS THUMB.

SHE WAS CLIMBING AND FLIGHT OF STAIRS AND USING THE HAND RAILS TO ASSIST HER. SHE ACCIDENTALLY JAMMED HER FINGER ON HER LEFT HAND WHICH RESULTED IN A FRACTURE REQUIRED A CAST SPLINT TO BE PLAG ED ON LEFT HAND.

EE WAS MANUALLY LOADING BAGS INTO THE BAG SPACER SECTION OF THE VALVE PACKER MACHINE BECAUSE THE CLAMP WOULD NOT AUTOMATICALLY PICK UP THE BAGS. WHILE PUSHING THE BAGS THROUGH BY HAND, THE MAC HINE ACTUATED AND JAMMED HIS RIGHT WRIST CAUSINGA CONTUSION. HE RECEIVED MEDICAL ATTENTION AND WAS RELEASED TO RESTRICTED DUTY.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO COOL DOWN AN OVERHEATED RADIATOR ON THE FORKLIFT HE WAS OPERATINGBY POURING WATER ON IT. HE REMOVED THE RADIATOR CAP PRIOR TO IT BEING SUFFICIENTLY COOLED AND TH E PRESSURE FORCED THE HOT COOLANT OUT SCALDING HIS LEFT FOREARM WITH 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS.

EE WAS STACKING 28 LB CARTONS FO CAT LITTER FOR SHIPMENT. HE STATES THAT AS HE STACKED THE CARTONS, HE FELT A SUDDEN PAIN IN HIS BACK. HE WAS SENT TO THE COMPANY DR ANDDIAGNOSED WITH A PULLE D MUSCLE IN HIS BACK. HE WAS GIVEN RESTRICTED DUTY TO LIFT NOTHING GREATER THAN 25 LB.

EMPLOYEE WAS CASE PACKING 14LB CARTONS INTO BOXES FOR SHIPMENT ON A TRIANGLE MACHINE. HE COMPLETED THE DAY'S WORK WITH NO PROBLEMS BUT WOKE UP EARLY THE NEXT MORNING WITH BACK PAIN. HE WAS SENT TO THE COMPANY DOCTOR & RESTRICTED FROM LIFTING GREATER THAN 20LB & GIVEN LIGHT DUTY. HE WAS RELEASED TO NORMAL DUTIES ON 4/11/00.

EMPLOYEE WAS MANUALLY PACKING 14 LB CARTONS INTOBOXES FOR SHIPPING. WHILE PLACING ONE OF THE CARTONS INTO THE BOX HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LEFT WRIST. THE INJURY WAS DIAGNOSED AS A SPRAIN AND HIS WRIST WAS PLACED IN A SPLINT.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PULL A BAG OF CAT LITTER FROM A DEVICE CALLED A TILT CHAMBER. WHILE REMOVING THE BAG, THE DELIVERY ARM ON THE DEVICE STRUCK HIS LEFT FOREARM CAUSING A HEMATOMA. THE INJURY REQUIRED THAT HE WEAR A SPLINT.

EE WAS GRINDING METAL INSIDE OF A DUMPSTER WHEN A PIECE OF METAL BOUNCED OFF A WALL AND WENT INTO HIS EYE. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE CO. DR. WHERE THE METAL WAS REMOVED FROM HIS EYE. HE WAS WEARING A SAFETY SHIELD AND SAFETY GLASSES AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.

SUPERVISING EMPLOYEE GRINDING METAL; PIECE OF METAL FLEW INTO HIS LEFT EYE.

HE REPORTED THAT HE FELT HIS BACK BEGIN TO HURT AFTER HE WENT HOME; IT GOT WORSE OVERNIGHT & HE COULD BARELY MOVE DUE TO PAIN. HE WAS EXAMINED BY COMPANY DR. ON 6/16/00 & IT WAS DETERMINED TH AT HIS CURRENT PROBLEM STEMMED FROM A PREVIOUS BACK INJURY IN 1992. THERE WAS NO CURRENT INCIDENT TO SUGGEST THE INJURY OCCURRED ON THE DAY IT WAS REPORTED TO HIS SUPERVISOR.