CLEANING A FLASK WITH A 1:1 SOLUTION OF HCL BY BOILING IT ON THE HOT PLATE IN LAB. WHEN REMOVING FROM HOT PLATE WITH TONGS: THE FLASK SLIPPED AND SPILLED OUT ON BACK OF RIGHT HAND
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Showing all 10REMOVING COATING FROM #1 KILN WHEN ANOTHER PIECE OF COATING HIT PRY BAR. BAR HIT AND CUT RIGHT FINGER.
PULLING COATING CHUNKS FROM KILN WITH RAKE. RAKE CAUGHT ON GRATES AND CAUSED A MUSCLE PULL IN NECK.
BREAKING COATING BALLS WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER. TASK WAS BEING PERFORMED AT THE DISCHARGE END OF 2 COLLER. WHILE BENT OVER, SWINING HAMMER, STRAINED MUSCLES IN LOWER BACK.
WHILE RAKING A COATING AT A #2 COOLER THE EMPLOYEE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.
IN THE ATTEMPT TO REMOVE A KILM COOLER GRATE BY HOISTING WITH CHAINFALL TO SLIDE THE GRATE OUT THRU THE OPENING. THE GRATE SLIPPED. HITTING LEFT FOOT. LITTLE TOE.
EMPLOYEE WAS POKING A CHUNK IN THE WEST PRIMARY SCREEN FEED CHUTE WITH A BAR. THE CHUNCK MOVED-HITTING THE BAR; THE BAR ON THE OPPOSITE END JERKED -PINNING HIS HAND BETWEEN THE BAR AND THE CHU TE SUPPORT.
EMPLOYEE PULLING COATING FROM THE HOOD OF THE KILN WITH THE NORMAL RAKE. OVER THE COURSE OF THE EVENING HE FELT DISCOMFORT IN HIS LEFT ELBOW. THERE WAS NOT PARTICULAR MOVEMENT WHICH CAUSED T HE DISCOMFORT. THIS DUTY IS ANORMAL FUNCTION OF THE EMPLOYEE'S JOB.
68935 ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A MOTOR FROM A VIBRATING SCREEN,THE RIGGING SLIPPED,ALLOWING THE MOTOR TO DROP ONTO THE EMPLOYEES HAND.
THE INJURED WAS PULLING COATING BALLS AT THE PRIMARY COOLER WHEN A PIECE OF DUST BLEW INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.