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The employee was lifting an empty 55-gallon drum (~48 pounds). During this lift, the employee felt discomfort in left biceps.

We were dumping the grinding media balls (metal balls) out of the CF1 Ball Mill into barriers (constructed of 4x8 plywood, etc). One of the balls bounced out of the barriers, bounced up and hit a supervisor in the forehead. It caused a laceration that required 5 stitches.

Temporary Employee got dust in left eye. Rinsed at eyewash station, continued to work. Reported to work the next day with eye still irritated. The employee had shoveled up dust into a bucket and upon dumping the bucket into a larger hopper, got dust into the eye. EE was wearing safety glasses but not safety goggles.

Employee dropped roll of plastic (90 lbs) when team-lifting the roll. The roll needed to be replaced on our stretch-wrap system. Roll fell and struck top of right foot. Fracture to metatarsal bone.

Lab tech, moving 3 gallon buckets (weighing 7-10 lbs) from stacked on a pallet, to a pull cart. Some buckets that were stacked 5-6 high fell over onto him as he was kneeling. Buckets hit the employee in the head (wearing hardhat). Headache resulted. No other injuries. Became a Lost Work Incident on August 15th (Dr. gave 10 Days Off).

The production utility man was disconnecting a 4" vacuum hose from a manifold and when it came loose it hit him on the lower lip and caused about a 0.25" split. He was taken to the hospital where a doctor glued the cut closed. He was immediately released to go back to work.

A contract laborer was assisting cleaning up a lime spill with a shovel and a big bag with several others. After he went home he noticed a burns on the upper inside of his legs. He went to the doctor the next day and the doctor treated the burns and told him to come back in 2 days.

A contract laborer was assisting a lime spill cleanup with a vacuum hose. He noticed a burn on his neck later that evening and went to a doctor on monday. It appears that some lime dust got on his neck and reacted with body moisture.

A REPAIRMAN WAS TOSSING 75 LB LINERS OUT THE MILL DOOR THAT WAS POSITIONED ON THE SIDE. THE LAST LINER HE THREW HIT THE SIDE OF THE DOOR FRAME AND BOUNCED BACK IN AND SMASHED 2 LEFT HAND FINGE R TIPS BETWEEN THE DOOR FRAME AND THE LINER. SOME BONE WAS REMOVED FROM THE TIP OF ONE FINGER AND BOTH FINGERS REQUIRED STITCHES. BOTH FINGER NAILS WERE REMOVED, TRIMMED AND THEN PLACE BACK.