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EE WAS CHANGING THE GRATES ON THE #2 CLINKER COLLER WHEN DUST FELL IN HIS EYES.
ON 2-2-98 EE GOT SOME DUST ON HIS FOREHEAD AND AROUND HIS EYES. HE REMOVED HIS SAFTY GLASSES AND TRIED TO BRUSH THE DUST AWAY WITH HIS LEFT HAND. EITHER THE E-IN ONE FIRST AID ANTI OINTMENT USED FOR TREATMENT ON A PREVIOUS INJURY OR DUST GOT INTO HIS EYES. AFTER HIS SHIFT EE WENT HOME AND WENT TO BED. WHEN HE AWOKE,HIS EYES WERE ALMOST SWELLED SHUT.
EMPLOYEE LIFTED A PIECE OF GRATING AND STRAINED HIS BACK.EMPLOYEE ORIGINALLY WAS NOT GOING TO MISS WORK.PAIN DID NOT GET BETTER AND EMPLOYEE HAS NOT YET RETURNED TO WORK.
REPETITIVE LIFTING HEAVEY RESTACKING BAGS ONTO PALLETS AND REMOVING TORN BAGS FROM BELT.
EMP, AN ELECTRICAL/INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICIAN, STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK WHILE WORKING ON VARIOUS TASKS ASSOCIATED WITH MAINTENANCE AND INSTRUMENTATION REPAIR. HE WAS REQUIRED TO REPAIR INSTRUME NTATION PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH CLAY FLOW MUSSELL VALVES AND PLC UNITS. PERFORMED TASKS IN SQUATTING POSITION. ALSO CARRIED INDUSTRIAL ELEC CABLE TO TOP OF #1 DUST TANK TO HELP MAINT EMP'S.
EMPLOYEE HIT HER LEFT KNEE ON HER DESK. WHEN IT HAPPENED SHE KNEW SHE WAS GOING TO PASS OUT AND SAT DOWN. SHE REST HER HEAD ON HER ARM. SHE CAME TO CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE FLOOR WITH A SORE LEFT KNEE, A FLOOR BURN ON HER RIGHT KNEE AND HER TEETH AND GUMS HURT.
EMP AND COWORKER WERE TIGHTENING PINION BEARING BOLTS ON #1 KILN DRIVE PIER. EMP STEPPED BACK SOCOWORKER COULD HIT THE SLUGGING WRENCK. WHEN HE DID, HIS HAT FELL OFF AND HIS HEAD CAME IN CONTA CT WITH A BRACKET WELDED TO THE RETAINTIN RING AND HE CUT HIS HEAD OPEN REQUIRING 11 STITCHES.
RESTACKING PACKAGED CEMENT BAGS FROM ONE PALLET TO ANOTHER.
PUMP WAS VIBRATING BAD--MECHANIC DISMANTLED IT TO FIND THE PROBLEM. IN THE PROCESS OF CHANGING OUT THE FOLLOWER PLATE IT FELL AND CAUGHT EE'S HAND BETWEEN THE PLATE AND SHAFT PLATE.
EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO UNPLUG #3 SEPARATOR & GET THE CEMENT TO PUMP. THE RUBBER STOPPER CAME OUT OF THE FEED PIPE & A STREAM OF CEMENT CAME OUT OF THE PIPE & STRUCK HIM IN THE EYE.
EE WAS LIFTING A TWO GALLON GALVANIZED PAIL FULL OF IRON & DUMPING ITON THE RAW MILL ROCK BELT EE FELT PAIN IN THE LOWER BACK AREA IT WAS DIAGNOSED AS A PULLED MUSCLE HE VISITED THE CHIROPRAC TOR AT LEAST TWICE
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A TWO GALLON GALVANIZED PAIL FULL OF IRON ORE AND DUMPING IT ON THE RAW MILL ROCK BELT. EMPLOYEE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN THE BACK OF HIS NECK. THE PAIN CONTINUED INTO THE N EXT DAY AND EMPLOYEE WENT TO VISIT A CHIROPRACTOR ON 4-11-94 AND HAS ANOTHER APPOINTMENT SCHEDULED.
THERE WAS EXCESSIVE FUMES IN THE MAIN LOCKER ROOM FROM SOMEONE NOT READING THE PROVIDED MSDS SHEETS AND MIXING INCOMPATIBLE SOLVENTS EE WAS TRYING TO OPEN WINDOW TO VENT THE ROOM AND THE WINDO W WAS STUCK SHUT. HE TRIED TO OPEN THE WINDOW WITH HIS HAND AND THE WINDOW BROKE AND HE CUT HIS ARM ON THE BROKEN GLASS.
ASSISTING PLANT WORKER CLEAN CLAY CRUSHER WHEN HE CLOSED THE DOOR ON HIS FINGER.
EE WAS DISENGAGING THE AUX ENGINE CLUTCH ON NO.1 KILN. HIS HAND SLIPPED OFF THE CLUTCH HANDLE AND HIS ELBOW STRUCK A FUNNEL THAT HE HAD BEEN USING TO PUT GAS IN THE AUX ENGINE.
WHILE MOVING CEMENT COMPOSITE TYPE I TO PHYSICAL TEST LAB INJURE DPULLED MUSCLES IN SHOUDLER AND NECK LEFT SIDE.
REPETITION OF BENDING AND STOOPING FROM DESK TO GET STORES ITEMS HAS PLACED A STRAIN ON KNEES. HE HAD AN ARTHROSCOPIC PROCEDURE DONE ON HIS LEFT KNEE AND WAS PLACED ON LIGHT DUTY MAKING THIS A N MSHA DOCTOR TREATED CASE. LIGHT DUTY STARTED ON 7-12-93.
INJURED WAS REACHING FOR A VALVE AND HEARD A POP IN HIS SHOULDER.HE LATER IN THE EVENING BEGAN TO FELL DISCOMFORT.
INJURED WAS STRADDLING A WOODEN PALLET WHIEL SLIDING AND PICKING UP GE AK-25 BREAKERS AND LOADING THEM ONA TRUCK, WHEN HE WENT TO SLIDE AND LIFT THE LAST BREAKER HE HURT HIS BACK.
I.NAME DIGGING & CLEANING OUT NO.2 KILN COOLER DRAG BECAUSED MATERIAL HAD TURNED TO A CONCRETE STATE.AFTER EMPL WAS CLEANING A WHILE GOT A CHEMICAL REACTION FROM MOIST MATERIAL.IN PLACES THERE WAS EXCESSIVE LIQUID.SOMETIME DURING CLEANUP OPERATION,THE LIQUID GOT INSIDE SHORT RUBBER GLOVE
UNLOADING WOODEN PALLET FROM BACK OF ELECTRICAL DEPART PICKUP TRUCK AND TWISTED BACK
I NAME WAS REARRANGING DRUMS IN THE STAGING AREA BECAUSE OF SPACE & POSITION OF THE DRUM THEY HAD TO BE MOVED BY HAND AFTER MOVING SEVERAL DRUMS HE NOTICED DISCOMFORT IN HIS CHEST
WHILE WORKING ON CLAY PUMP I NAME HAND SLIPPED & HE CAUGHT HIS RT RING FINGER PUMP BARREL & THE BASE
PUSHING 5 GAL BUCKET FULL OF LIQUID UNDER PIPE PUT HER L KNEE ON PIPE PULLED IT HEARD KNEE POP
INJURY OCCURRED WHILE OPENING THE DOOR TO THE RAW MILL WHICH HAS TO BE IFTED UP FOR PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE TO SHOVEL MATERIAL OFF THE RAW MILL TABLE. EMPLOYEE WAS TREATED BY CHIROPRACTOR.
HE SPEND MOST OF THE DAY SHOVELING MATERIAL AT THE END OF THE DAY HE TOLD US THAT HIS BAKC WAS HURTING. HE THOUGHT HE JUST NEEDED TO REST. THE NEXT MORNING HIS BACK STILL HURTS. HE WENT TO A CHIROPRACTOR WHO PUT HIM ON LGITH DUTY FOR 1 WEEK.
EE WAS STACKING EMPTY DRUMS INTO THE BOX TRAILER, WHEN THE DRUM HE HAD JUST STACKED ONTO THE TOP ROW FELL & HIT HIM ON THE HEAD. EE WAS WEARING HIS HARD HAT.
I NAME WAS REMOVING THE DOOR FROM THE MATERIAL HANDLING ELEVATOR THE DOOR WAS VERY HEAVY I NAME STATED HE FELT A SHARP PAIN BETWEEN HIS SHOULDERS
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING CEMENT OUT OF HIS SHOE WHEN A DRILL MOTOR FELL OFF THE BENCH AND HIT HIS RT FOOT EMPLOYEE SUFFERED NON-DISPLACED TRANSVERSE FRACTURE OF DISTAL PHALANX OF RT GREAT TOE
EMPTYING 55 GAL DRUMOF WASTE OIL WHEN SOME LIQUID SPLASHED FORM DURM ON INJ R. WRIST AND FORARM.
I NAME WAS TRYING TO STRAIGHTEN A BENT PUNCH BAR BY PRESSING DOWN ON IT WITH HIS ARMS THE BAR ROLLED CAUSING I NAME TO LOOSE HIS BALANCE AND FALL DOWN TWISTING HIS LEG
HAMMERMILL WAS PJLUGGED THE VICTIM WAS IN THROAT OF MILLL TRYING TO UNPLUG IT . HE WAS USING HAND TO MOVE SMALL LOOSE ROCK WHEN LARGER ROCK ROLLED APPROX TWO FT. AND STRUCK HE HAND.
WHILE CHANGING DUST BAGS IN #2 DUST COLECTOR,SOME CEMENT DUST GOT ON EMPLOYEE'S BODY;IT WAS HOT WEATHER AND THE PERSPIRATION MADE THE DUST STICK AND BURN.
WHILE PICKING UP CEMENT BAGS FELT PAIN IN LEFT SHOULDER ELBOW AND SIDE OF NECK DIAGNOSIS OF LEFT SHOULD JOINT STRAIN. EMPLOYEE LAST DAY WAS THISFRIDAY 2-5-88 BEFORE GOING ON LAYOFF STATUS. WAS GOING TO THERAPY AFTER LAYOFF BUT WAS DECLARED TOTALLY INCAPACITATED BY DR AS OF 3-1-88.
INJURED WAS ATT9MPTING TO CHANGE THE VALVE ON THE RUN. CEMENT STARTED LEAKING HE HURRIED CLOSED THE VALVE PINCHING HIS FINGER.
EE WAS CLEARING3CHUNKS OF SPILLED CONCRETE FROM PERIMETER OF FOUNDATION & PUTTING THEM INTO BUCKET OF FRONTEND LOADER. HE OVEREXTENDED HIMSELF CAUSING WHAT THE DOCTOR FELT TO BE STRAINED MUS CLES. HE CONTI3UED TO HAVE PAIN & RETURN TO DOCTOR 11-24 & 26 AT WHICH TIME IT WAS DETERMINED THAT HE HAD A HERNIA. THE HERNIA NEEDED TO BE REPAIRED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE & THE SURGERY WAS
EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING TO UN OG PREHEAT TOWER PLUG. SOME HOT MATERIAL FELL OUT O F THE OPEN PORT AND INTO HIS BOOTS CAUSING 2ND DEGREE BURN ON TOP OF LEFT FOOT 2 INCH IN DI AMETER. 3
MAINTENANCE JOU9NEYMAN WAS ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE A 1000 WATT BULB ON THE LIGHT PLANT IN THE QUARRY. THE TIP WAS BROKEN OFF OF THE BULB AND AS THE EMPLOYEE UNSCREWED THE BULB IT BROKE AND CUT TH E VICTIM'S RIGH7 HAND, BETWEEN THE PALM AND THUMB. THE LACERATION REQUIRED SEVEN STITCHES.
EMP WAS PULLING OUT HOUSING AND CAUGHT RT LITTLE FINGER ON ROUGH EDGE OF HOUSING FRAMEWORK LACERATING LITTLE FINGER NEXT TO THE FINGER NAIL
INJURED CAUGHT THUMB BETWEEN TWO PIECES OF METAL WHILE CHANGING THE SHALE CRUSHER.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING OIL BARREL BY HIMSELF AND WHEN OIL SHIFTED IN BARREL CAUSING EXCESS LOAD, HE STRAINED MUSCLES IN LOWER STOMACH.
CARRYING AIR SLIDE TO 3RD LEVEL IN MILL ROOM. WEIGHT OF AIR SLIDE CAUSED THE EMPLOYEE TO PULL BACK MUSCLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING ON PRY BAR TO TIGHTEN LEAKING VALVE AND LET HAND SLIP DOWN BAR CATCHING THUMB IN PINCH POINT BETWEEN BAR AND PIPE.
EE WAS WORKING IN KILN IN CHIAN SECTION & PIECE OF DIRT FELL IN HER EYE.
LEAL WAS WORKING INSIDE OF NO 2 MILL WHEN SOME CEMENT FLUSHED THROUGH THE SYSTEM AND ENTERED THE MILL. HE GOT DUST IN BOTH EYES
WHILE CHECKING WEAR ON BUCKET BOLTS ORTEGA LEANDED OVER TO GET A BETTER LOOK. HE WAS WORKING ON THE DEEP BUCKET CONVEYOR. HE T HOUGHT HE WAS PUTTING HIS HAND ON THE COVER OF THE DEEP BUCKET CONVEYOR FOR SUPPORT, BUT IT WAS INSTEAD ON THE TOP OF THE RAIL. THIS RESULTED IN THE LACERATION OF 4 FINGERS ON THE LEFT HAND.
STARTING TO DISASSEMBLE #4 CEMENT PUMPING COMPRAESSOR AND WHEN HE REMOVED 1ST VALVE COVER THE COMPRESSOR WAS PRESSURIZED AND CCOVER FLEW OFF AND STRUCK EMPL BREAKING HIS NOSE.
WHILE MEASURING CEMENT SILO,DROPPED CAP ON RIGHT FOOT.CAP WEIGHS 4 LBS.AND FELL 3\.