Premier Silica LLCMining Incidents in 2001

EE WAS CHANGING PANS TO DIRECT THE CHUTE SYSTEM TO ANOTHER PRODUCT (GRADE OF SAND). WHILE REMOVING THE PAN HE FELT A PAIN INLOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE OPENED A FLOOR GRATING ACCESS PANEL TO CHECK A VALVE. LEFT PANEL OFF AND WENT TO CHECK ANOTHER PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. WALKED BACK THROUGH AREA AND FELL INTO THE OPENING. BRUISED RIBS AND ELBOW.

EE WAS MOVING MATERIAL BY WHEELBARROW. DID NOT PROPERLY LIFT WITH HIS LEGS.

EE WAS HELPING REMOVE SPEED REDUCER COUPLING ON LEWISTOWN MILL AND SLIPPED WHILE STEPPING OVER SPEED REDUCER. TO BREAK HIS FALL, HE REACHED OUT WITH RIGHT ARM HITTING THE FLOOR RESULTING IN A BROKEN ARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A SMALL STEEL STRUCURE WITH THE CRANE. HE SET STRUCTURE DOWN. CLIMBED UP ON CROSSBEAM (ABOUT 4'HIGH) TO UNHOOK CRANE. SLIPPED AND LANDED ON HIS WRIST AND SPRAINED IT.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO MOVE A PIECE OF STEEL. FELT A PAIN IN HIS SHOULDER AND NECK.

HE WAS UNHOOKING CRANE BALL FROM CONVEYOR COVER, CAUGHT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN BALL & COVER-MASHED LEFT INDEX FINGER.

BRUSHING SCREENS AND NOTED THAT GATE ON SCREEN MAY BE HUNG. STEPPED UP ON EDGE OF SCREEN ELEVATING FEET ABOVE STAIRS, APPROX. 1'. REACHED TO FEEL IF GATE HUNG AND SLIPPED OFF SHAKER. APPARENTL Y TWISTING BACK.

EE WAS DESCENDING STAIRS IN VOC NORTH SCREENHOUSE. HE FELL LANDED ON HIS BACK. APPARENT MUSCLE STRAIN IN LOWER BACK.

HE HAD BEEN REMOVING PALLETS FROM THE STRETCH WRAP MACHINE AND PUTTING THEM INTO STORAGE. HE WENT TO LINE UP THE MACHINE WHEN HE WALKED BETWEEN THE MACHINE AND PALLET CONVEYER. WHEN IT WAS ACT IVATED IT PINNED THE LOWER PART OF HIS LEG BETWEEN THE PALLET AND THE FRAME OF THE MACHINE. LOWER PART OF HIS LEG BEGAN TO SWELL UP.

TAKING TOOLS OUT OF TOOL BOX & LID FELL ON HIS RIGHT WRIST

PULLING PALLET OUT OF PALLETIZER MAGAZINE AND APPARENTLY DISLOCATED RIB ON LEFT SIDE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING SAND BAGS AND MISSED ARRANGED ORDER, SO THE PALLET NEEDED TO BE RESTACKED. HE PULLED ANOTHER PALLET OUT OF THE MAGAZINE RACK AND LEANED IT UP AGAINST IT AND WENT TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PALLETIZER. WHILE GETTING THE PALLET HE SLIPPED AND FELL AND THE PALLET HIT HIM IN THE FACE AND THE SHOULDER ON THE LEFT SIDE.

EE WAS TAKING A 5 GALLON BUCKET OF OIL TO THE SCRUBBERS. BENT DOWN, HIS FOOT SLIPPED. HE HIT ACROSS HIS RIBS ON A RAIL.

EE WAS HOLDING A 6"" PIECE OF PLASTIC PIPE WHILE ANOTHER EE WAS CUTTING IT. A 4"" PIECE OF PIPE INSIDE THE 6"" PIECE SLIDE OUT OF 6"" PIECE CUTTING EE FINGER. THE RESULTING LACERATION REQUIRED STI TCHES.

EE APPARENTLY STRAINED HIS SHOULDER LIFTING A 5 GALLON BUCKET.

WAS TRYING TO SHUT RAIL CAR DOOR TO KEEP FROM LEAKING. USED SLEDGE HAMMER TO KNOCK TIGHT AND APPARENTLY SMASHED MIDDLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND CAUSING POSSIBLE FRACTURE.

CHANGING LIGHT BULB IN TUNNEL WHEN HE WAS APPARENTLY BITTEN BY A SPIDER ON HIS RIGHT HAND RING FINGER HAND SHOWED SIGNS OF IRRITATION AND INFECTION.

AS EE STEPPED ONTO CAB ENTRY STEP ON WATER TRUCK, HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF THE STEP CAUSING HIM TO HIT HIS UPPER LIP AGAINST THE INSIDE DOOR HANDLE. EE NOTED HE HAD OIL ON THE BOTTOM OF WORK BO OT CAUSING HIM TO SLIP. THE RESULTING LACERATION TO LIP REQUIRED SUTURES.

SAND IN LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING THE HOPPER TO EUMINATE A BUILDUP OF MATERIAL. THERE WAS A STEEL DIVERSION ANGLE WITH A SHARP EDGE. EMPLOYEE CUT HIS RIGHT FOREARM.

ASSISTING WITH CHANGE OF CONVEYOR BELT, TO AVOIDTHE BLET HANGING UP ON RAILING, WHIPPED THE BELTTO MISS THE OBSTRUCTION. BELT DETACHED FROM SPOOL & FELL HITTING TOP OF HEAD WITH NAILS PUNCTURI NG CHEEK & SCRATCHING ARM

ATTEMPTED TO ROLL DRIVE BELTS TO CHECK FOR WEAR., WHEN FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN BELT & SHEAVE CAUSING INJURY TO LEFT RING FINGER.

USING BAGGER AND PALLETIZER REPEATEDLY WHEN LEFT SHOULDER BECAME SORE. REPORTED 5-15-01, WENT TO DOCTOR 5-3-01.

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TAKING ALTERNATOR OFF OF TRUCK BECAME DISORIENTED MOVED TO SHADE AND WET DOWN BECAME ILL AND VOIMITED.

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THE FILING OF THIS FORM IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS AN ADMISSION BY THE OPERATOR THAT AN OCCUPATION RESPIRATORY DISEASE OR ILLNESS HAS OCCURRED.

CLASS B READER INTERPRETATION OF 1/0 ON XRAY THE FILING OF THIS 7000-1 IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUEDAS AN ADMISSION BY THE OPEATOR THAT AN OCCUPATIONAL RESPIRATORY DISEASE OR ILLNESS HAS OCCURED

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