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WHILE LIFTING A LARGE SPROCKET FOR CONVEYOR BELT #18, EE HAD THE CABLE GUIDING THE CONVEYOR GRIPPED WITH HIS LEFT HAND. A SUDDEN JERK PULLED HAND INTO THE PULLEY CABLE WAS GOING INTO. THE LEFT INDEX FINGER WAS PULLED INTO THE PULLEY CAUSING A LACERATION TO THE FINGER REQUIRING SIX SUTURES. EE RETURNED TO WORK AFTER TREATMENT.

BELT GUARD WAS PROPPED UP WHEN EE PASSED BY - KNOCKING GUARD OVER ON HIS LEFT FOOT.,

EE PLACED HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE DOOR FRAME OF A 988 CAT END LOADER & WITH HIS LEFT HAND PULLED THE DOOR TO - MASHING THE RIGHT THUMB.

INJURED WAS USING A BOBCAT TO PICK UP SOME ASH UNDER #2 ROTARY KILN CLINKER CHUTE. HE HAD PICKED UP ONE BUCKET AND WAS GOING FOR A SECOND. AS HE WAS UNDER THE CHUTE, HE HEARD A PIECE OF ASH COMING DOWN THE CHUTE. HE TRIED TO MOVE THE BOB CAT AWAY, BUT COULD NOT IN TIME. THE PIECE OF HOT ASH(ABOUT THE SIZE OF A LARGE BOWLING BALL) LANDED AT AN AREA BY HIS LOWER LEG CALF AREA,

WHILE APPLYING ADHESIVE MATERIAL TO A PVC DRAIN PIPE, ANOTHER EMPLOYEE PUSHED PIPE PINNING THE LEFT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN PIPES. LACERATIONS TO THE TOP AND BOTTOM OF MIDDLE FINGER SECOND DIGIT REQUIRED SEVEN SUTURES TO CLOSE WOUND.

LIFTING A PIPE BENDING MACHINE WHILE PUTTING INTO PICK-UP.

MOVING A HYDRAULIC CYLINDER FROM A PALLET & STRAINED SHUOLDER & RT FOREMOST FINGER OF LEFT HAND

LACERATION LEFT HAND INDEX FINGER DISTAL PHALANGE TIP OF PHALANGE TRIMMED SKIN GRAFT APPLIED INJURED & CO-WORKER WERE HOOKING UP A FUEL TRAILER TO A PICKUP SOME DIFFICULTY WAS ENCOUNTERED DOIN G THIS INJURED PLACED HIS FINGER UNDER THE TRAILER HITCH TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANYTHING OBSTRUCTING THE LATCH UNDER THE HITCH AT THAT INSTANT THE TRAILER HITCH DROPPED CAUGHT THE EMPLOYEES FING

55061S DOING CLEANUP ON AIR DUCT FROM 2 ROTARY KILN PREHEATER TO ID FAN. WHILE DOING THIS WORK EE GOT LIME DUST ON HIMSELF. HE RECEIVED LIME BURNS TO HIS NECK RIGHT HAND AND RIGHT FOREARM. MOS 30660THE BURNS WERE 1ST DEGREE SOME SMALL SPOTS WERE 2ND DEGREE. HIS RIGHT HAND BECAME INFECTED THE NEXT DAY AND WAS TAKEN TO LOCAL HOSPITAL FORTREATMENT OF THAT HAND FOLLOW UP ON 7-27-92.

68935 WORKING ON 2 ROTARY KILN COOLER GRATES EE GOT LIME ON HIS BODY. THE TOP OF HIS FOREARMS RECEIVED DEVELOPED 1ST & 2ND DEGREE BURNS.

68935 WORKING ON 2 ROTARY KILN COOLER GRATES EE GOT LIME ON HIS BODY. THE LEFT WRIST AREA DEVELOPED 2ND DEGREE BURNS.

68935 WORKING ON 2 ROTARY KILN COOLER GRATES EE GOT LIME ON HIS BODY. THE TOP OF HIS FOREARMS RECEIVED DEVELOPED 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING JACK HAMMER ON VIRGINIA LIME JOB AND FELT TWINGE IN LOWER BACK. DIDN'T PAY MUCH ATTENTION TO IT. WENT TO WORK ON APG LIME JOB NEXT DAY AND WENT TO PICK UP 100 LB BAG OF MA TERIAL-COULDN'T MOVE AFTER THAT.

ON 3-11-91, EMPLOYEE GOT LIME DUST IN HIS BOOT CAUSING A SMALL BURN (1ST DEGREE) TO RIGHT FOOT JUST BELOW ANKLE BONE, OUTER PART OF FOOT. EMPLOYEE REPORTED INJURY ON 3-13-91. BURN WAS CLEANSED AND SILVEREDENE APPLIED, RETURNED TO WORK- WORKED THE REST OF THE WEEK WITHOUT INCIDENT. ON 3-17-91 WHILE CLEANING A RAILCAR, LIME AGAIN GOT IN BOOT AND AGGRAVATED BURN. THIS TIME, THE BURN D

EMPLOYEE AND A CO-WORKER WERE USING A PORTABLE PUMP TO DRAW WATER OUT OF A COAL PIT.WHEN THEY WERE DONE THE INJURED WAS IN THE PROCESS OF PULLING THE WATER HOSE APART.APPARENTLY THE HOSE FLEW UP AND HIT THE EMPLOYEE ON THE FRONT TEETH.THE COUPLING ON THE HOSE APPARENTLY HIT THE EMPLOYEE CAUSING THE TOOTH ON TOP JAW TO LOOSEN SLIGHTLY TWO TEETH ON BOTTOM JAW ON FRONT WERE CHIPPED AN

EMPLOYEEW AS MOVING SOME 8D MOBILE EQIPMENT BATTERIES IN THE BATTERY HOUSE AND APPARENTLY STRAINED LOWER BACK. INJURY WAS REPORTED 12-31-90. EMPLOYEE CONTINUED TOW ORK WITHOUT INCIDENT UNTIL 1-8-91 WHEN HE INDICATED HIS BACK WAS HURTING. EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO THE COMPANY DOCTOR AND WAS GIVEN MEDICATIONS, RELEASED TO WORK WAS TOLD TO REPORT IF NOT IMPROVED. ON 1-11-91 WAS TAKEN

INJURED AND CO-WORKER WERE REMOVING A COVER FROM A SILO LOADING SCREEN. INJURED DID NOT NOTICE HIS RIGHT HAND WAS BETWEEN A PINCH POINT. HIS RIGHT INDEX FIGNER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE COVER A ND ANOTHER ANKLE OR PIECE OF METAL WHEN THE SCREEN WAS BEING PUT DOWN.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WALKED BY A RACK HOLDING SOME PEICES OF COLD ROLLED STEEL. AS HE DID HE STUMBLED OVER HIS OWN FEET. HE KNOCKED A PEICE OF STEEL FROM THE RACK. IT FELL ON THE TOP OF HIS FOOT HITTING THE AREA ABOVE THE STEEL TOE. EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED A FRACTURE OF THE RIGHT TOE.

EMPL WORKING IN ROTARY KILN COOLER PIT -HOT & DUSTY.TOLD EMPL SEVERAL TIMES TO WASH UP DURING SHIFT.DIDNT UNTIL END OF SHIFT.BY THEN HE WAS ALREADY LIME BURNED ON HIS BACK.INJURY BEING REPORTE D BECAUSE LIME BURNS TOOK MORE THAN ONE TREATMENT TO HEAL ALTHOUGH TREATED BY PLANT PERSONNEL.

ON 5-8-89 AT 4:30 PM THE INJURED REPORTED LIME BURNS TO HIS LOWER BACK. THE BURNS WERE DETERMINED TO BE FIRST DEGREE, WERE TREATED AND THERE WAS NO FURTHER INCIDENT. ON 5-16-89 THE INJURED REP ORTED THAT THE BURNS HAD "FLARED UP" OR "BLISTERED UP", THE NIGHT BEFORE AND HE HAD GOTTEN TREATMENT AT A CLINIC. THE CAUSE FOR THE "FLAREUP" IS UNKNOWN AS THE INITIAL BURNS WERE HEALED AND T

EMPLOYEE AND C0-WORKERS WERE INSTALLING A H-CAL SCREEN.THE AREA WAS DUSTY AND HOT.EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING GOGGLES,BUT THEY FOGGED UP.DURING ONE OF THOSE TIMES LIME DUST FLEW INTO EYES CAUSING IRR ITATION EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO COMPANY DOCTOR RX GIVEN.

AS INJURED WAS APPROACHING ONE OF HIS WORKERS A PIECE OF STEEL STRAP THAT THE WORKER WAS PULLING OFF OF A STEEL RACK FELL AT ONE END OF THE RACK & ONE EDGE OF THE STRAP HIT INJURED ON ARM R.)I NFLICTING SMALL LACERATION WHICH REQUIRED 3 SUTURES TO CLOSE A TETNUS SHOT WAS GIVEN BY DOC.

EMPLOYEE REACHED FOR A BAG OF ANFO ON BED OF EXPLOSIVES LOADING TRUCK HIT SIDE BOARD PLYWOOD BED LINER WITH HIS FINGER RAN PLYWOOD SPLINTER UNDER FINGERNAIL OF RIGHT RING FINGER

THE EMPLOYEE AND A CO-WORKER WERE LIFTING OPEN A DOOR ON TOP OF A RAILCAR IN ORDER TO LOAD IT WITH LIMESTONE. EMPLOYEE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE ATTEMPTING THE LIFT. (RAILCAR DOORS ON THIS TYPE OF CAR ARE TOO HEAVY FOR EVEN 2 PEOPLE TO LIFT SAFELY).

EMPL HURT HIS THUMB WHILE PUSHING BUTTON TO CHANGE KILN SPEED FRO 3RD TO 4TH SPEED MILD COMPLAINT OF SOME SORENESS UNTIL 7-29-88 WHEN COMPLAINED THAT THUMB WAS GETTING NO BETTER TO RULE OUT MO RE SERIOUS INJURY PLANT REFERRED TO CO DR WHO WROT RX FOR PAIN PILLS AND SENT TO ORTHOPEDIST WHO WILL PERFORM OUTPATIENT SURGERY 8-11-88 FOR TRIGGER FINGER WITH NO LOST TIME ANTICIPATED

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO SET A SPEED REDUCER AT BALL MACHINE WHEN HE GOT SOME LIME DUST IN HIS RT.EYE EMPLOYEE WASWEARING SAFETY GLASSES WHEN DUST GOT INTO HIS EYE THIS RESULTED IN AN IRRITATED REDDENED EYE PLANT FIRST AID TO WASH OUT EYES WERE CONFIRMED BY CO.DOC.WHO PATCHED EYE & PRESCRIPBED AN OPTHALMIC SOLUTION PATCH WAS REMOVED THE NEXT WORKDAY

THE EMP. WAS GETTING SILO MEASURENENTS FROM TOP OF LIME SILOS. LIME GOT INTO HIS RIGHT EYE. PLANT PERSONNEL WASHED OUT THE EYE. EYE CONTINUED TO BOTHER EMP. , SO HE WAS ENT TO THE COMPANY DOCTOR, THEN TO AN EYE SPECIALIST AS A PRECAUTIOLNARY MEASURE. THE CONDITION WAS DIAGNOSED AS AN ULCERAGE, AND ANTIBIOTIC SALVE WAS GIVEN THE EMMP. TO A PPLY.