All MSHA-reportable accidents at Specialty Minerals Inc operations in 2015. Fatalities appear first.
The employee was lifting 50 lb bags of lime briquettes into our furnace loading area. Over a two day period the Employee started to have shoulder pains that radiated into his chest. The Employee brought himself to an ER where they determined that he had a rotator cuff issue.
Conflicting story, not sure this is a worker's compensation.
A Calcium Department Employee was vacuum cleaning up lime that had accumulated below the briquetting area. When removing the lid of the vacuum system, lime dust particles were released into his face and into his eyes. As a result of getting lime particles in his eye, the employee received a corneal abrasion.
The contract employee was onsite to replace railroad ties. The employee's denim clothing was wet and plastered with mud which contained some lime. The employee developed a rash and was prescribed a pain killer, which he did not take. According to his employer, Railworks, his rash became infected and the Dr. recommended that he not return to work until it was fully healed.
The Miner went up the stairway to Mill #6 to find the electrician working up there. After finding the electrician, the Miner and the electrician proceeded down the stairway. At a landing the Miner turned right to continue going down. While turning his right boot caught on the grated landing and the Miner twisted his knee.
While connecting a product off-load hose to a rail car filled with lime, the employee slipped on the snow that was in the area. When he stood up, he felt a pain in the lower back.
Miner parked his forklift and dismounted onto an uneven surface and rolled his ankle spraining it. He stepped off the forklift facing away from it instead of facing it using three points of contact as he was trained to do.