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December 14, 1992 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS INSTALLING A RUBBER BUMPER IN THE #2 SAG MILL FEED CHUTE WHEN A CLUMP OF DIRT FELL OFF THE SIDE AND PARTICLES ENTERED HIS RIGHT EYE.

October 1, 1992 ID · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT SHE WAS MOVING HPM BARRELS FROM ONE PALLAT TO ANOTHER. WHILE DOING THIS TASK THE EMPLOYEE FELT A PAIN IN THE UPPER BACK.

July 25, 1992 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck against stationary object

WHILE TRYING TO REMOVE OIL HEATER USED THE PALM OF HAND TO LOOSEN IT HIT CONTROL KNOB WITH R WI ST LACER

February 29, 1992 ID · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS TRYING TO POSITION A 55 GALLON BARREL OF NOKES ON TOP OF THE MIX HOPPER. HE STATED THAT WHILE POSITIONING THE BARREL, IT SLIPPED AND PINCHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE BARREL AND THE TOP OF THE HOPPER.

January 9, 1992 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPL TURNING AROUND TO PICK UP PIECE OF METAL,STRUCK RIGHT ELBOW AGAINST WELDING TABLE.

December 15, 1991 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS LIFTING HIS TOOL BOX OFF HIS ROLLAWAY. AS HE LIFTED HE FELT A PULL IN HIS LOWER RIGHT ABDOMEN.

October 23, 1991 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck by flying object

EMPL STATED THAT AS HE WAS REMOVING STRIP OF RUBBER FROM PIECER OF PIPE HAND SLIPPED CAUSING RUBBER TO UNRAVEL SENDING DUST & DIRT INTO AIR SMALL PARTICLE ENTERED LEFT EYE.

October 21, 1991 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL STATED THAT HE FELT IRRITATION OF LEFT EYE & COULDN'T REMEMBER HOW IT BECAME THAT WAY. EMPL WAS EXAMINED BY DR & FOREIGN BODY WAS REMOVED FROM LEFT EYE. OBJECT WAS EMBEDDED. PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION WAS GIVEN TO EMPL TO PREVENT POSSIBLITY OF INFECTION OF LEFT EYE.

August 28, 1991 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE HE WAS REPLACING THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT DOOR CYLINDERS ON AN EXCAVATOR THE DOOR WHICH HE HAD TEMPORARILY PROPED UP WITH A SURVEY STAKE SLAMMED DOWN ON HIS HEAD EMPLO YEE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A NECK STRAIN

March 16, 1991 ID · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE STA TED THAT AS HE WAS CLIMBING THE LADDER ONTO A HAULTRUCK HE FELT SOMETHING TINGLE IN HIS LOWER LEFT BACK AFTER HE SEATED HIMSELF IN THE OPERATORS SEAT HE THEN REACHED OVER TO OPEN HIS LUNCH BUCKET & AT THAT TIME FELT SEVERE PAININ HIS LOWER LEFT BACK

January 8, 1991 ID · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

WHILE UNHOOKING HOT WATERLINE EMPLOYEE FAILED TO CLOSE ONE VALVE AND GOT SPRAYED IN GROIN AREA.

January 1, 1991 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT SOMETIME IN JAN HE WAS LIFTING HIS 20POUND BAG OF TOOLS OUT OF THE BACK OF A PICK-UP & AT THAT TIME HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RT SHOULDER

July 10, 1990 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THAT WHEN HE WAS REMOVING SHAVING FROM UNDER HIS LATHE, ONE OF THE SHAVING CUT THROUGH HIS GLOVE AND CUT HIS FINGER.

April 13, 1990 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THAT WHEN CLOSING THE DOZER DOOR IT HIT HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER. EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS HOLDING ON TO GRAB IRON WITH HIS ELFT HAND WHEN HIS FINGER WAS STRUCK.

March 31, 1990 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE HAD JUST FINISHED USING A HAND GRINDER AND HAD TAKEN HIS HARD HAT OFF TO REMOVE THE FACE SHIELD, WHEN HE PUT HIS HAT BACK ON A METAL SLIVER GOT IN HIS EYE.

October 19, 1989 ID · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck by falling object

EMPL WAS FILLING BALL CHARGE BUCKET WITH 3" GRINDING BALLS THE CHUTE DOOR TUCK OPEN AND A BALL ROLLED OF THE TOP OF THE BUCKET AND STRUCKT HE EMPLS TOE

July 13, 1989 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A DRILL PRESS TO DRILL HOLES IN PLATE STEEL. HE SHUT THE DRILL OFF TO CHANGE THE BIT, KNOCKED METAL CUTTINGS OFF THE BIT AND CUT HIS THUMB.

July 17, 1988 ID · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO DRAIN WATER FROM #9 SCREW CONVEYOR HOPPER WHEN HE LOOSENED THE SECOND CLAMP ON THE HOPPER DOOR THE DOOR OPENED AND DUMPED HOT WATER AND MOLY ON HIM

September 11, 1987 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

TWO FELLOW WORK9RS WERE ADJUSTING A SHEAVE ON A MOTOR EMPLOYEE HAD HIS HAND ON THE LOWER PUMP PULLEY THE SHEAVE SLIPPED OFF THE SHAFT AND FELL ON EMPLOYEES RT HAND

April 29, 1987 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

TWO EMPLOYEES W9RE MOVING A SHAFT GAURD OUT OF THE WAY ONTO THE SCREEN DECK. AS HE SET IT ON THE EDGE OF THE DECK IT SLIPPED AND PINCHED HIS HAND.

January 8, 1987 ID · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS IN8TALLING A PIPE AND VALVE ASSEBLY ON PUMP. THE VALVE WAS HANGING ON THE PUMP STUDS WHEN ANOTHER EMPLOYEE MOVED THE ASSEMB.Y CAUSING IT TO FALL.

September 15, 1986 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS CA9RYING A 30 LB SCRUBBER FAN AND FELT PAIN IN GROIN. EMPLOYEE HAD A PREVIOUS HERNIA FROM OFF O F ACTIVITIES.

September 12, 1986 ID · Metal/Non-Metal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS RE4OVING CHOCKERS FROM CRANE HE PLACED HIS HAND ON THE SIDE OF THE SHEAVE BLOCK, THEN MOVED HAND UP INTO CABLE AND SHEAVE CATCHING HIS FINGERS.

June 19, 1986 ID · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS INSTALLI3G A BLST HOLE DRILL BIT ON THE STEEL. THE BIT BASKET WAS WEDGED ON THE BIT. IN ORDER TO FREE IT THE EE LIFTED ONE HANDLE OF THE BASKET IT BROKE LOOSE PIVITED & PINCHED THE TI P OF HIS FINGER1

April 23, 1986 ID · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS IN8IDE A SAG MILL CHECKING LINERS. HE STEPPED BACK ONTO AN ELECTRICAL CORD WHICH PULLED THE LIGHT STANDARD OVER. THE LIGHT STANDARD STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE IN FRONT OF HIS LEFT EAR.

April 2, 1986 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS RE4OVING HYDRAULIC STEERING LINE AS HE LOOSENED THE THIRD BOLT THE HOSE BLEW OFF ALLOWING OIL UNDER PRESSURE TO STRIKE HIS FACE

February 4, 1986 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

THE EMPLOYEE WA8 ASSIGNED THE TASK OF THE REPAIRING A CLUTCH ON A PICK UP. THE MECHANIC BEFORE HIM HAD REMOVED THE EXHAUST SYSTEM TO GAIN BETTER ACESS TO THE WORKING AREA. I,NAME WAS ATTEMPTIN G TO RE-INSTALL3THE EXHAUST PIPE. WHILE DOING THIS HE NOTICED THAT THE EXHAUST HEAD WAS WORPED ANDHE WAS HAVING TROUBLE GETTING THE BOLTS LINED UP, THE PIPE SLIPPED AND PINCHED HIS LEFT HAND

January 13, 1986 ID · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPL PREPARING 7O GO HOME.AFTER TAKING SHOWER EMPL BENT OVER TO PICK UP BAR OF SOAP ON FLOOR.CAUGHT CORNER OF LEFT EYE ON LOCKER.EMPL PUNCTURED AND LACERATED LEFT EYE.

November 13, 1985 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS RE1AIRING A LIGHT PLANT, WHICH WAS I N THE SHOP FOR PREVENTIVE MAITENANCE. EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING TO FREE A CABLE FROM A PULLEY, WHEN THE TOP SECTION CAME DOWN AND PINCHED HER FING ER. 3

October 25, 1985 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING A BUSHING WHILE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS USING A HAMMER TO POSITION THE BUSHINGRING FINGER.THIS INJURY REQUIRED SIX SUTURES.

September 19, 1985 ID · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL CARRYING MOCK PATIENT ON BACK BOARD WHILE PRACTICING RESCUING PATIENT FROM SHOVEL ROOF TOP.EMPL LET GO OF BACK BOARD WITH ONE HAND TO MOVE FOOT/HAND HOLD OUT OF THE WAY.THIS MOVEMENT CAUS ED STRAIN TO LOWER BACK OF EMPL .POSSIBLE HERNIATED DISC.

July 9, 1985 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

I.NAME WAS UNLOADING PLATE GLASS FORM A TRUCK THE GLASS WEIGHED 55# & THE SIZE WAS 52"X63". AS I.NAME WAS WALKING TO THE GLASS RACK TO PLACE THE SHEET OF GLASS HIS HANDS WERE IN WRONG POSITION & WHILE CHANGING POSITION HE CUT HIS FOREARM.

February 28, 1985 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE TWISTED HIS BACK WHEN LIFTING ONE END OF A 3 SCH. 40 PIPE INTO A SET OF ROLLERS.

January 23, 1985 ID · Metal/Non-Metal coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

I.NAME INJURED HIS LEFT SHOULDER WHILE PULLING UP S-3\S TRAIL CABLE DURING A SHOVEL MOVE. HE WAS USING A HOT STICK WITH HIS LEFT HAND AND HIS BODY WAS TURNED AWAY FROM THE POWER CABLE WHEN THE CABLE CAUGHT ON A ROCK FROZEN TO THE GROUND. THE SUDDEN STOP OF THE CABLE CAUSED A SUDDEN JERKING MOTION OF HIS LEFT ARM

January 14, 1985 ID · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck against stationary object

I.NAME SUSTAINED A NECK INJURY WHEN HIS HARD HAT STRUCK THE TOP OF AN ACCESS OPENING WHILE HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO AVOID SPRAY OF A WATER HOSE

July 26, 1984 ID · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEES BACK HURT AFTER HANDLING ROLLS OF LINING MATERIAL FOR ROAD BED MATERIAL

July 16, 1984 ID · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A 75LB PUMP ACROSS HEADER LINE WHEN SHE SUFFERED A SHARP PAIN IN HER LOWER BACK

June 4, 1984 ID · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck against stationary object

AT THE END OF SHIFT THE EMPLOYEE THREW HIS BOOTS INTO HIS LOCKER WITH A SWINGING MOTION AND WHEN HE DID THIS, HIS RIGHT HAND STRUCK THE LOWER EDGE OF THE UPER LOCKER LACERATING HIS INDEX FING ER ON HIS RIGHT HAND.

May 30, 1984 ID · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE CLEANING FILTER PRESS LOCATED IN THE MILL LEACH PLANT, ONE OF THE FILTER PRESS PLATES BECAME DISLODGED AND FELL, CATCHING EMPLOYEE\S RGITH INDEX FINGER BETWEEN PRESS PLATE AND PRESS FRA ME MEMBER.

January 16, 1984 ID · Metal/Non-Metal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck against stationary object

WAS WORKING ON CLARKSTON FEEDER. BANGED KNUCKLE ON FEEDER CUP. WAS WEARING GLOVES 1/2" LACERATION REQUIRED 4 SUTURES.

December 6, 1983 ID · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

POSITIONING MCC CABINET. REACTIVATED RECURRENT BACK STRAIN. MCC-MOTOR CONTROL CONSOL

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