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February 20, 1992 MT · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Struck by flying object

ON THE MORNING FOLLOWING THE INCIDENT, HE REPORTED TO HIS IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR, THAT WHILE REPLACING A TOOTH ON THE GRADER BLADE, A PIECE OF METAL GOT IN HIS LEFT EYE. HE SAW THE LOCAL OPTOMET RIST AND WAS REFERRED TO AN OPTHAMOLOGIST FOR A CUT IN THE EYE.

October 9, 1990 GA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

DUEING NORMAL CRUSHER OPERATION THERE WAS A ROCK LODGED IN THE JAW CRUSHER. THE EMPLOYEE TRIED TO DISLODGE IT WITH A PRY BAR. HE PUT THE BAR DOWN AND LEANED OVER WHEN A SHARP PAIN HIT HIT IN T HE LOWER LEFT PART OF HIS BACK.

September 23, 1988 MT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE REPAIRING CATTLEGUARD ATTACHED A COME-A-LONG TO A BELT PIECE OF CHANNEL IRON AND PROCEDED TO PULL BACK THE IRON INTO PLACE FOR WELDING. AS MORE PRESUURE WAS PUT ON COM-A-LONG THE HOOK S LIPPED OFF AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON THE MOUTH CAUSING LACERATION ON UPPER LIP.

April 8, 1988 GA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE PRYING ROCKS IN BULLPEN CAUGHT LEFT INDEX FINGER AGAINST PEN WALL & ROCK, LOSS FINGERNAIL. RX ISSUED, 10 PILLS DARVON

March 3, 1988 NE · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Struck against stationary object

HE WAS OPENING A HATCH ON A HOPPER CAR WHEN THE RACHET HE WAS USING SLIPPED AND HE HIT HIS FINGER ON THE GROUND. HE FRACTURED HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER.

February 17, 1988 MT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS DRIVING PIN OUT OF TOOTH OF LOADER BUCKET. A PIECE OF METAL HIT HIS JAW AND CUT IT. A TINY PIECE OF METAL SHOWED ON X RAY BUT DR. WAS UNABLE TO REMOVE IT.

February 10, 1988 AL · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HIS SHOULDER WAS INJURED WHEN THE PRY BAR HE WAS USING TO WALK A ROCK BOX INTO PLACE SUDDENLY JERKED. THE BOX SLIPPED, CAME OFF THE FOUNDATION SLIGHTLY AND CAUSED THE PRY BAR TO JERK. THE EMPLOYEE DID NOT REALIZE HE HAD STRAINED HIS SHOULDER UNTIL TEN DAYS LATER WHEN HE SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT.

January 18, 1988 NE · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS UNLOADING ROCK FROM A HOPPER CAR ON MINDAY 1-18-88. ON TUESDAY HE SAID HIS BACK WAS HURTGING. HE WAS NOT SURE WHAT IT WAS FROM BUT FIGURED IT WAS FROM UNLOADING THE ROCK. TO UNLOAD THE ROCK, HE HAD TO USE A SLEDGE HAMMER AND PICK AND HE THOUGHT THAT THIS MIGHT HAVE CAUSED THE PROBLEM BUT WAS NOT SURE.

January 11, 1988 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Struck by falling object

I NAME WAS CHAN1ING LINK IN ELEVATOR CHAIN. HE WAS LEANING INTO BUCKET ELEVATOR TO ATACH COME A LONG TO CHAIN WHEN LUMP OF WET CLAY FELL FROM UP IN ELEVATOR STRIKING HIM ON SHOULDERS AND BEHIN D HEAD. AS A RE8ULT, HE HIT HIS CHIN ON NUT ON LXX ELEVATOR BRG TAKE UP. HIS CHIN WAS CUT WHEN HE SUDDENLY WITHDREW FROM ELEVATOR. HE ALSO BROKE ONE TOOTH.

January 7, 1988 MT · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE I NAME WA8 NAILING A SCAB ONTO A TIMBER POST WITH AN AXE HE MISSED THE NAIL HITTING HIS LEFT HAND WITH THE BACKHEAD OF THE AXE. THE IMPACT BROKE THE INDEX FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND.

November 29, 1987 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS IN8TALLING A NEW SET OF LINERS IN CAGE MILL. HE HAD JUST LAID DOWN A PRY BAR INSIDE CAGE MILL AND STOOD UP TO OBSERVE WHEN HIS LEFT ARM CONTACTED A SHARP CORNER. FAILURE TO REMOVE SHARP EDGES PR3OR TO STARTING JOB IS WHEN WENT WRONG. CONSEQUENCE CUT ARM.

November 16, 1987 MT · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPL BARRING OR9 MATERIAL FROM PLUGGED CHUTE,MATERIAL MOVED PUSHING BAR TO THE SIDE CATCHING RING FINGER BETWEEN BAR AND EDGE OF CHUTE.

August 19, 1987 AL · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EMPLOYEE STATED3HE WAS CUTTING WEEDS BESIDE WASHER WASTE POND WHEN HE HIT A HORNETS NEST WITH AXE RESULTING IN MULTIPLE HORNET STINGS.

June 17, 1987 MT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE STATED3SHE WAS STRUCK IN RIBS WITH CROWBAR WITH CROWBAR WHILE TRYING TO PRY LOOSE A ROCK FROM THE TALC CHUTE

October 3, 1986 GA · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Struck against stationary object

THE EMPLOYEE ST5TES THAT HIS WRENCH SLIPPED WHILE LOOSENING THE BOLTS TO THE GRIZZLY SCREEN DRIVE MOTOR, THUS CAUSING HIS HAND TO STRIKE AGAINST THE MOTOR BASE.

June 1, 1986 AL · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE STATED3THAT HE FELT A MUSCLE PULL IN HIS SHOULDER WHEN HE USED A WRENCH TO TIGHTEN SOMESEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION.PROBLEM WAS DIAGNOSED AS MUSCLE STRAIN AND HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 6-1

August 9, 1985 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Struck against stationary object

MAHCINE DOWN WITH LEAKING WATER PUMP. BOLT WAS TIGHT AND WHEN MECHANIC PULLED ON WRENCH BOLT LOOSENED UP CAUSING HAND TO STRIKE BROKEN ASPIRATOR PIPE, CUTTING MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND BROKEN PIPE WAS TO BE REPAIRED WHILE WATER PUMP WAS BEING REPAIRED .

April 10, 1985 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS HOISTING WHEN CHAIN HE WAS PULLING SLIPPED, AND PULLED HIS FINGER WITH IT.

January 29, 1985 MT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Struck by falling object

EMPL BARRING PLUGGED PIECE OF TALC FROM LOWER PART OF BACK BIN IN SHED.BARRING BIG PIECE OF TALC,SMALL ONE ABOUT SIZE OF A SOFTBALL CAME AROUND BIGGER PIECE AND HIT EMPL ON LEFT WRIST.

September 1, 1983 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

SCREWING BOLT IN NEW FENDER-TOP OF THUMB STRUCK SHARP EDGE.

May 16, 1983 GA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE STAES HE WAS HELPING TAKE OUT A CUT OFF BOLT CAUGHT HOT SHARP NUT INJURING RI INDEX FINGER

January 28, 1983 TN · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Struck by falling object

EE REPORTS HE WAS HOLDING PIPE WITH ROPE, WHEN THE ROPE SLIPPED ALLOWING THE PIPE TO FALL APPROX 5\ STRIKING TOP OF RIGHT FOOT.

January 5, 1983 NE · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

MAN WAS OPENING RAIL CAR DOOR WITH PRY BAR. THE PRY BAR SLIPPED A STRUCK LEFT LEG.

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