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EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON WRENCHES AND EXPERIENCED STOMACH CRAMPS, THOUGHT IT WAS A STOMACH VIRUS, ON HIS WAY HOME HE FELT A HARD SPOT. HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR AND WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A HERNIA.
EMPL LOADING TRUCK WHEN MATERIAL FLOW SLOWED.STRIKING SIDE OF TANK WITH STEEL ROD WHEN ROD CAME IN CONTACT WITH SUPPORT CABLE CAUSING ROD TO DEFLECT OFF CABLE AND STRIKE EMPL IN SIDE OF HEAD.R OD WAS BENT AND BENT PORTION IS WHAT STRUCK CABLE ALSO EMPL IS UNUSUALLY STRONG AND CAN PRODUCE CONSIDERABLE THRUST WITH ROD.
EMPLOYEE WAS DISLODGING ROCKS FROM THE APRON FEEDER OF THE STONE CRUSHER WHEN HE SLIPPED & FELL ON HIS LEFT ARM HE FELL ON THE APRON FEEDER
EMPLOYEE REMOVING STRUT ARM BUSHINGS ON PICK UP TRUCK WITH WRENCH PULLING ON WRENCH TO REMOVE STRUT ARM BUSING PULLED MUSCLE IN RIGHT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE A REPAIRMAN/4 WAS ASSISTING IN CONSTRUCTION OF FRAMEWORK OF NEW CRUSHING STRUCTURE A THE QUARRY,COME-A-LONG WAS BEING USED TO SECURE A 40" H BEAM TO OTHER STRUCTURAL STEEL AND THE HO OK ON THE COME-A-LONG SLIPPED OF AND THE METAL BEAM BUMPED THE EMPLOYEE'S SHOULDER.EMPLOYEE REFUSED MEDICAL TREATMENT UNTIL 11-14-88.EMPLOYEE HAS CONTINUED TO WORK.
EMPL WAS DOING JOB AS USUAL & POKER BECAME LODGED IN DISCHARGE SHUTE. EMPL ATTEMPTED TO FREE POKER & WHEN HE PULLED ON IT HE WAS CAUGHT OFF GUARD & POKER STRUCK EMPLS RIGHT SHOULDER.
NEW EMPLOYEE WITH 5 WEEKS WAS ATTEMPTING TO LOAD TRUCK FROM STORAGE BIN. MATERIAL HAD BRIDGED IN TANK AND WOULD NOT FEED OUT, THUS THE EMPLOYEE OPENED AN INSPECTION DOOR AND POKED THE MATERIA L WIHT A POKER, IN DOING THIS THE MATERIAL FELL AND DUST PARTICLES BLEW OUT OF THE APPROX. INCH DOOR AND BLEW INTO THE EMPLOYEES FACE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING WITH SHOVEL IN CRUSHER AND FELL IN HOLE INJURED RIGHT UPPER LEG HIP AREA.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A HAMMER TO BEAT ON THE SCREW CONVEYOR. WHEN HE DREW BACK TO SWING THE HAMMER HE HIT IS KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CLEAR THE DRAIN CHUTE UNDER #4 SCRUBBER THE DOOR HINGE WAS BROKEN AND WIRED SHUT WHEN EMPLOYEE HIT CHUTE UNDER #4 WITH HAMMER TO JAR MUD LOOSE HE JARRED THE DOOR L OOSE CAUSING HOT STEAM AND WATER TO COVER MOST OF HIS BACK HE ALSO SCRAPED HIS BACK WHEN HE JUMPED
EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF ELBOW PAIN. ASSIGNMENT CONSISTED OF SHOVELING MUCK FROM AROUND BELTS AND OTHER AREA. EMPLOYEE DECLINED TO SAY STRAIN FROM WORK CAUSED INJURY. INVESTIGATION BY SAFET Y DEPARTMENT CONCLUDED THE INJURY WAS PROBABLY DUE TO STENOUS WORK OR AT LEAST COULD HAVE AGGRABVATED INJURY. EMPLOYEE WAS OFF TWO DAYS PRIOR TO COMPLAINT.
EMPLOYEE HOLDING POST BAR AND ATTEMTING TO HIT WITH HAMMER THE BAR WAS MISSED AND EMPLOYEES RIGHT THUMB WAS HIT. ATTEMPTING TO CLEAR 51/2 FT. CONE CRUSHER JAMMED WITH STONE.
EMPL TIGHTENING BEARING BEING MOUNTED IN ROLLERMILL.LIMITED PLACE TO WORK,EMPL FORCED TO RELY ON TOUCH.WRENCH NOT SEATED ON HUB AND SLIPPED.HANDLE CAUGHT EMPL FINGER RESULTING IN CLOSED FX OF RING FINGER LEFT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING THE SCRUBBER FAN BY BEATING ON THE BLADES OF THE FANW ITH 4 SLEDGE HAMMER. HE CHANGED HANDS WITH THE HAMMER AND AS HE CONTINUED BEATING ON THE BLADE HE CAUGHT HIS LITTLE BETWEEN THE FA3 BLADE AND HAMMER HANDLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS PE9SPIRING HEAVILY DUE TO HEATR.SAFETY GLASSES SLID TO TIP OF NOSE.EMPLOYEE STRUCK BOLT ATTEMPTING TO SPLIT IT WITH A HAMMER AND CHISEL.A PIECE OF STEEL STUCK AND BECAME IMBEDDED IN RIGHT EYE. 3
MAINTENANCE EMP5OYEE WAS USING A HOIST TO PULL THE ROLLS IN THE ROLLER MILL,HOOK ON PULLY BLOCK BROKE.CABLE STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON THE UPPER LEFT BACK.INJURY CONSISTED OF ONE BROKEN RIB AND BRUISE D LEFT LUNG.INV9STIGATION BY THE SAFETY DEPARTMENT REVEALED THE NEED TO ATTACH A SECOND HOOK AND CABLE FOR THIS MAINTENANCE.
EMP WAS PUTTING3NEW CHAIN ON ELEVATOR HE WAS USING A FIVE FOOT PRY BAR O ALIGN THE CHAIN. THE PRY BAR SLIPPED OUT OF THE CHAIN SMASHING HIS HAND ON ELEVATOR HOUSING
INJ HELPING INS7ALL TRANSMISSION IN TRUCK.PULLING ON IRON BAR TO LINE UP BOLT HOLES WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER PART OF HIS BACK.CONTINUED TO WORK WENT TO DR AT 2:00PM.
EMP WAS ASSISTI3G OTHERS ATTEMPTING TO SPIKE DOWN A RAIL ROAD RAIL. HE PLACED HAND NEAR SPIKE HEAD OTHER EMPLOYEE STRUCK SPIKE AND HAMMER BOUNCED OFF AND HIT #1 S FINGER MASHED END OF FINGER
EMPLOYEE SET PU3CH ON BOLT AND PREPARED TO HIT PUNCH WITH 4 LB HAMMER HE SLID THUMB ON END OF PUNCH AND HIT THUMB WITH HAMMER
INJURED AND FEL5OW EMPLOYEE WERE BARRING DOWN OLD BRICK IN #3 KILN WHEN SEVERAL ROWS FELL WITH ONE BRICK STRIKING INJURED ON THE HEAD.
INJURED EMPLOYE9 WAS STANDING ON A LADDER INSPECTING MATERIAL BUILD UP WHEN MATERIAL BROKE LOOSE HITTING HIM IN THE SHOULDER CHEST AREA CAUSING HIM TO LOOSE HIS BALANCE AND FALL FROM THE LADDE R APPROX EIGHT 0EET.
EMPLOYEE WAS HO5DING A SPIKE HAMMER AS ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO KNOCK OUT A PIN IN ANIOTHER PIECE OF EQUIPMENT A PIECCE OF STEEL BROKE OFF OF THE SPIKE HAMMER AND STRUCK HAMMER HOLD ERS LEG THE STE9L SLIVER PENETRATED THE INSIDE THIGH OF EMPLOYEE EMPLOYEE WAS UNAWARE OF THE PENETRATION UNTIL HE NOTICED HSI BLOOD SOAKED CLOTHEING
INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING WASE MATERIAL FROM UNDER A CONVEYOR BELT WHICH REQUIRED SOME BENDING. WHEN HE STRAIGNTEN UP HE HAD A CATCH IN HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS SWINGING SLEDGE HAMMER, WORKING IN THE ASHRING, WHEN HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A STEEL BAR TO UNPLUG A ROCK SHUTE ON #4 ROCK TANK.WHEN MATERIAL BROKE LOOSE HE JERKED BACK AND SCRAPED HAND ON METAL CUTTING FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS RAKING CLODS WHILE THE ASH RING WAS COMING THRU THE #5 KILN WHEN LIME DUST AND SWEAT COMBINED TO BURN EMPLOYEE ON NECK, AROUND WAIST AND UNDER ARMS
EMPL RAKING CLODS ON #5 KILN WHEN HE REC\D LIME BURNS ON WRISTS AND LOWER ARMS.
EMPLOYEE WAS DIGGING OUT 6-SC-3 WITH A PIECE OF FLAT BAR AND FLIPPED LIME INTO HIS EYES.
INJURING WAS USING A PICK TO DIG OUT A HOLE TO SET A STEEL POST. A SMALL ROCK FRAGMENT BROKE OFF, WHEN STRUCK, HITTING HIM IN THE CHEST THEN IN THE CHIN.
EMP WAS ATTEMPTING TO TURN BALL VALVE ON 11 PU3 WHEN HE THOUGHT HE PULLED MUSCLE IN RIGHT SHOULDER
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING LID FROM DITCH WITH PRY BAR WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
HE WAS UNPLUGGING DROP ON DE HEATER PIT WITH ROD RAMMING IT UP CHUTE. HE OVER STRAINED WHILE TRYING TO DISLODGE OBSTRUCTION.
EMPLOYEE WAS RAKING CLODS WHEN HE RECEIVED A FOREIGN OBJECT IN HIS EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING 4 SCRIBBERS AND TOP FELL IN TRANSITION HITTING EMPLOYEE ON HEAD
REMOVING ASH-RING FROM KILN,BREAKING CLODS SO THEY COULD BE HANDLED EASILY.WHEN CLOD BROKE,HAMMER TURNED IN HAND AND HANDLE HIT LEFT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING BOLTS IN 3-6C-2 USING PUNCH TO DRIVE IN NEW BOLT MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND WITH HAMMER MASHING FINGER BETWEEN HAMMER ANDBEARING PUNCH XXX XX XX XXXXX XXXX OR IF PUNCH M OVED
EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING A MATERIAL HANDLING BUCKET ELEVATOR. VIBRATION CAUSED BY REPAIR WORK (HAMMERING) CAUSED LIME DUST FALL FROM RAFTERS AND FRAMEWORK ABOVE. ALTHOUGH WEARING PROTECTIVE EQU IPMENT, LIME DUST GOT IN HSI EYE AND CAUSED LIME BURNS.