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During lubrication process the miner made contact with hot grease at mills number 3.
Maintenance employees were working with a large piece of metal in the mechanics shop. The piece moved of the work table, the employee realized that the piece would fall where ee was. The employee evades the piece causing the helmet to fall to the floor and hit the head with the edge of the table. Also, the shin of the left leg is lacerated with the piece that was on the floor.
Two employees were making a lifting for engaging an electrical engine; they lifted using the ball Eye ring and the reducer part of the engine. One employee put hand under the suspended load (engine) to install the screw at its base when The Eye ball ring came off the engine making the engine to get down and catching right hand fingers ( middle and ring fingers )
The employee did not take precautions when he closed the door of the elevator and this cause pricked one finger.
Employee was moving a fan frames from shell, supporting other employees in the task when he felt some back discomfort.
Employee was assigned to install the grilled plates on the IKN of the cooler; in the process of installing the plates he felt a sharp pain on his lower back when he extended his body forward during the process. The employee was wearing his PPE.
Employee was pulling cable through conduit during a system repair and the bending, pulling, and stretching caused a lower back strain.
A supervisor was working with the cooler that stop suddenly. To emptied the cooler two hydraulic jacks of approximately 10-20 lbs. were used in the drive #2 area. The two jacks barely move the grates and supervisor decides to use a big hydraulic jack, the jack slips forward and the supervisor tried to pull it back and feel a sharp pain in his back and right leg.
Employee was working with the Roller Mill pneumatic crane chains. He tried to drive a stretch of chains up by hands to unravel the base of the crane, and during the action he injured his back. He was complaining of back pain.
Employee was absent of work due to pain in the left shoulder. He was referred to state workers compensation insurance company by his doctor. He was sent to the company physician for evaluation and they determine to send him to state workers compensation insurance too because they determined that the pain is related to work activities.
Employee was changing the conveyor belt #2 of the cement Finish Mill #2; while in the process, employee picked up an end of the chain and launched towards the other side of the belt experiencing an intense pain on his left arm shoulder.
Supervisor was inspecting the pinions of a blower at the mechanical shop. During the inspection he moved the gears by hand and his left hand second finger got pinched between the blower gears. Left hand 2nd finger tip fracture.
Employee was performing belt mounting at the high speed crusher roller. Lockout was in place. Employees were moving the belt roller by hand to get in place the belts. Employee was standing on the pulley base when suddenly slipped and grasp the inside belt with right hand and got trapped between belt & pulley. Employee suffer a finger tip fracture of right hand 4th finger.
Employee and supervisor were moving a portable fan which was cooling #9 kiln bearing. In lifting the fan the casing was hot because of radiation from the kiln shell; the employee was not wearing gloves, so he dropped the fan at the contact with the hot metal, trapping his left hand index finger between the edge of the fan and a bin. Causing fracture of the finger.
Employee was opening the clinker feed elevator for bucket repairs; they were adjusting the counterweight guide and the guide beam shifted out of place, hitting his right foot.
Employee was moving a wood pallet and cut his left hand small finger with a scrap of metal. Laceration required stitches.
Employee was placing the babbit (bearing) of Finish Mill #2 electrical motor into the sleeve support. The babbit slipped and pinched his left index finger against the support, causing a puncture wound to his finger.
He stepped over some accumulated material to inspect the space between the loader ramp & the feeder; he stepped back on to the platform and accidentally moved a piece of scrap metal that was lying against a beam; he bent down to check chain conveyor & the piece of metal slipped & fell on his back.
Employee was helping in moving a 55 gallon oil drum from a wood pallet located at the warehouse entrance; next to the pallet was a garbage metal container. When the employee rotated the drum it turned over and caught his right-hand thumb against the metal container, crushing his thumb.
During the plant shutdown work ee was assigned to remove spilled material around the plant, particularly inside clinker cooler, kiln and roller mill. During the clean up work additional shoveling was required to remove compacted clinker from the cooler and compacted raw material from discharge hoppers
EMPLOYEE ALLEDGE THAT WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING A METAL PIECE STUCK AT THE DISCHARGE OF THE RECLAIMER TO THE CONVEYOR BELT # 13, HE FELT A SUDDEN PAIN IN HIS BACK AND LOST HIS BALANCE. THE EMPLOYEE CONTINUED WORKING HIS REGULAR SHIFTS. ON 4/19/04 EMPLOYEE REQUESTED MEDICAL ATTENTION FOR HIS BACK PAINS. ON 4/21/04 DOCTORS RECOMMENDED BED REST FOR 7 DAYS.
EMPLOYEE ALLEDGED THAT WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING A 40 LB. RADIATOR AT THE FM#3, HE FELT A SUDDEN PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER. THE EMPLOYEE CONTINUED WORKING HIS REGULAR SHIFTS. ON 4/19/04 EMPLOYEE REQUESTED MEDICAL ATTENTION FOR HIS SHOULDER PAIN. ON 4/22/2004 DOCTORS RECOMMENDED BED REST FOR 10 DAYS.
EE WAS OPERATING THE BOBCAT FOR CLEAN UP OF SPILL ASH MATERIAL FROM THE KILN INLET, APPARNTLY WHEN HE STEPPED OUT OF THE BOBCAT SOME HOT ASH MATERIAL FELL IN HIS LEFT HAND, CAUSING A MINOR B URN THAT THE EE TREATED HIMSELF WITH FIRST AID CREAMS AND CONTINUED WORKING SHIFT. ON 11-14-03 EE SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION BECAUSE OF INFECTION OF HIS HAND.
EE WAS CONDUCTING EQUIPMENT INSPECTION OF THE PRE-HEATER TOWER PRIOR TO START-UP OF KILN #3. WHILE CHECKING THE TIPPING VALVE OF CYCLONE #4A,HE PUSHED THE LEVEL/WEIGHT ARM TO CHECK MOVEMENT AND WITH A SUDDEN ? HE GOT HIS THIRD FINGER/RT.HAND SMASHED AGAINST AN UPPER STEEL BEAM.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN THE REPLACEMENT OF THE E-14 CHAIN BUCKET ELEVATOR AND HE FELT A PULL IN HIS BACK WHILE LIFTING PIECES WITH THE CAIN PULLEY, AND CONTINUED WORKING UNTIL THE END OF HIS S HIFT. EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF BACK PAIN AND WAS SENT FOR MEDICAL EVALUATION. MEDICAL EVALUATION REFERED AS MUSCULAR STRAIN.
EE REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH A LEFT INGUINAL HERNIA BY HIS ATTENDING DR., DUE TO A PARTICULAR ACTION OR ACTIVITY IN HIS WORKPLACE. NO SPECIFIC ACTIVITY WAS ESTABLISHED FOR HIS CON DITION, BUT EE IS ENGAGED IN REPETITIVE LIFTING AND PULLING ACTIVITIES.
EE WAS MOVING A 75LB. NITROGEN GAS CYLINDER AT THE ELECTRICAL ROOM OF CEMENT FINISH MILL #2, INTHE ATTEMPT TO LIFT IT AT THE ENTRANCE STEPS W/ THE HELP OF CO-WORKER THE CYLINDER SLIPPED AND CAUGHT HIM IN BOTH 1ST & 2ND FINGERS OF HIS RT. HAND. EE SUFFERED CUTS IN BOTH FINGERS AND STITCHES WERE REQUIRED.
EE ALLEGED RECURRENT LOW BACK PAIN FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. AFTER MEDICATL EVALUATIONS WAS DIAGNOSED WITH SEVERE MUSCULAR SPASM, PROBABLY CAUSED BY IMPROPER LIFTING.
EE WAS CUTTING PORTION OF THE COAL CONVEYOR BELTFOR REPLACEMENT. WHILE TEARING OUT THE DAMAGED BELT AN AMOUNT OF COAL DUST COVERED HIS FACE. HE REMOVED THE DUST FROM HIS FACE, CLEANED HIS SAFE TY GLASSES & CONTINUED WORKING UNTIL THE END OF HIS SHIFT. NEXT DAY HE CAME TO WORK COMPLAINING THAT HIS EYES WERE SWOLLEN, RED & HAD SOME VISION DIFFICULTY.
EMPLOYEE STATES SUFFERING FROM BACK PAINS FOR A PERIOD OF TIME CAUSED BY LIFTING AND PUSHING HEAVY BOXES. AFTER MEDICAL EVALUATION HE WAS DIAGNOSED AS LUMBO SACRAL STRAIN.
CRANE OPERATOR WAS DOING MECHANICAL MAINTENANCE TO THE CRANE, HE WAS SETTING THE CARBURATOR WITH THE ENGINE RUNNING. THE CRESCENT KEY HE WAS USING SLIPPED FROM HIS HAND AND HIS LEFT HAND WAS C AUGHT BY THE FAN BLADES.