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EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE CLINKER COOLER USING A CHIPPING GUN, CHIPPING BUILD UP FROM THE WALL OFTHE COOLER. SOME OF THE MATERIAL DROPPED ON HIS LEFT TOE CAUSING A FRACTURE.
PIPE WRENCH CAUGHT IN ROTATING DRILL ROD PULLING AROUND HAND OF OPERATOR IN ROTATION. THE ATTEMPT WAS TO BREAK DRILL ROD WHILE ROD WAS ROTATING WITH A PIPE WRENCH.
EE WAS TEARING OUT A RING OF BRUCK IN ROTARY KILN. THE RING FELL AND HIT HIS FOOT. HE HAD FOOT OUT OF CAGE BRACING HIMSELF HIS FOOT WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN BRUCK AND STEEL TOE GUARD.
INJURED WAS USING A SURFACE GRINDER TO CLEAN METAL FOR WELDING AND A PIECE OF METAL ENTERED HIS RIGHT EYE. HE DID NOT REPORT IMMEDIATELY FOR FIRST AID AND RECEIVED MEDICAL ATTENTION TWO DAYS L ATER FOR REMOVAL OF FOREIGN BODY.
INJURED WAS WELDING IN FLOOR OF STAMLER WHEN A BROKEN AIRLINE BLEW MATERIAL PAST HIS WELDING HOOD AND SAFETY GLASSES INTO HSI RIGHT EYE, RESUTLING IN ABRASION TO HIS RIGHT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING 02 PROBE WITH HIGH PRESSURE WATER BLASTER. WHEN TRIGGER WAS RELEASED, THE BLASTER KICKED BACK KNOCKING INJURED TO THE FLOOR. HIS THUMB WENT THROUGH THE GRATE AND WAS LA CERATED AND FRACTURED.
PIECE OF SLAG/METAL RICOCHETED OFF INSIDE OF SHIELD INTO RIGHT EYE.
INJURED WAS USING PRESSURE WASHER TO REMOVE BUILD-UP FROM INSIDE WALLS OF PREHEATER RISER DUCT BY WORKING THRU HAND HOLE OPENINGS. HE ATTEMPTED TO INSERT WASHER WAND INTO OPENING WITHOUT ADEQU ATELY CLEARING HAND HOLE OPENING OF BUILD-UP, CAUSING HOT WATER AND DUST TO FLY BACK AND BURN HIS FACE AND LEFT ARM. 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO FACE AND LEFT ARM.
HE WAS OPERATING D9K DOZER, PUSHING ROCK FROM QUARRY SHED TO THE LOADER. HE BACKED DOZER UP TO MAKE A PUSH AND RAN OVER LARGE ROCK AND THE DOZER ROCKED UP ON RIGHT SIDE, CAUSING HIS FOOT TO S LIP OFF THROTTLE, WHICH CAUSED HIS LEG TO HIT THE DASH. THIS CAUSED SEVERE COTNUSION TO RIGHT THIGH.
USING BLASTER TRUCK RUBBED EYE PART OF DUST IN EYE
EMPLOYEE WAS USING TORCH TO CUT STEEL CABLE. HOT METAL BURNED HOLE IN PANTS LEG AND ENTERED RIGHT BOOT CAUSING BURN TO RIGHT FOOT.
INJURED CLAIMS HE WAS BEHIND MACHINE SHOP WHERE METAL SHAFTING ETC. IS STORED AND THAT HE WAS STRUCK IN THE MOUTH BY AN UNKNOWN OBJECT OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN CAUSING LACERATION OF CHIN AND TONGUE A ND FRACTURED TEETH HE HAS PROVIDED THREE VERSIONOF WHAT HE THINK MY HAVE CAUSED HIS INJURED COMPLETE INVESTIGATION CONUDE THAT NONE OF THE REASON GIVEN WER PROBABLE OR POSSIBLE.
INJURED WAS STANDING IN FRONT OF KILN HOOD WHEN HOT DUST FELL ONTO HIS UPPER BACK AND RIGHT ARM CAUSING 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS.
INJURED WAS WORKING AROUND THE KILN PREHEATER WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF HOT MATERIAL BLEW INTO HIS RIGHT EAR.
OPERATOR OF HAMMER WAS POSITIONING ONTO ROCK STUCK IN JAW CRUSHER,BEING DIRECTED BY THE INJURED.HAMMER SLIPPED OFF ROCK STRIKING SAFETY RAILING BREAKING IT FREE AND HITTING THE INJURED IN THE MOUTH,CUTTING BOTH UPPER AND LOWER LIPS AND LOSING 2 TEETH.
INJURED WAS CUTTING 3/4IN PLYWOOD WITH SKILL SAW SAW BLADE WAS PINCHED BY PLYWOOD CAUSING IT BO KICK BACK & STRIKE INJUREDS RT RING FINGER
INSPECTING CLINKER COOLER WIND BOX AND THE WIND BLEW BACK OUT OF INSPECTION GLASS INTO HIS EYES.
USING JACKHAMMER LG PC OF HARD MATERIAL CAME LOOSE FELL ON INJ R FINGER
INJURED WAS WORKING ON PLAT FORM OVER FEED END OF NO 5 KILN USING PRESSURE WASHER TO REMOVE MATERIAL FROM PREHEATER HE ASSUMED A SQUATTING POSITION WITH HIS LEFT KNEE EXTENDED OUTSIDE GUARD RA IL & WAS STRUCK BY CORNER OF KILN SEAL RING SEGMENT LEFT KNEE WAS BRUISED & SKIN SCRAPED
CLEANING H-560 LOADER WITH WATER BLASTER LOST CONTROL OF NOZZLE AND TWISTED BODY TRYING TO AVOID BEING HIT.BACK WAS TERRIBLY PULLED AND STRAINED.
INJURED WAS WORKING IN INLET AIR DUCTS UNDER ROLLER MILL WITH TWO LOUVERED ISOLATION DAMPERS IN CLOSED POSITION. WHEN KILN ID FAN CHANGED SPEED DUE TO UNEXPECTED DUST LOAD ROLLER MILL SYSTEM C HANGED FROM NEGATIVE PRESSURE TO POSITIVE PRESSURE CAUSING HOT GASES & DUST TO ENTER ROLLER MILL SYSTEM. INVESTIGATION REVEALED 1 OF ISOLATION DAMPER LOUVERS HAD BROKEN OFF ALLOWING HOT GASSE
INJURED WAS WORKING IN INLET AIR DUCTS UNDER ROLLER MILL WITH TWO LOUVERED ISOLATION DAMPTER IN CLOSED PSOITION. WHEN KILN ID FAN CHANGED SPEED DUE TO UNEXPECTED DUST LOAD ROLLER MILL SYSTEM C HANGED FROM NEGATIVE PRESSURE TO POSITIVE PRESSURE CAUSING HOT GASSS & DUST TO ENTER ROLLER MILL SYSTEM. INVETIGATION REVEALED THAT ONE OF ISOLATION DAMPER LOUVERS HAD BROKEN OFF WHICH ALLOWE
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A 4"X4" HARDWOOD BOARD TO USE TO INSTALL A BEARING ON A COAL CRUSHER.AS EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING WITH BAND SAW,HIS HAND WAS PUSHED INTO SAW BLADE AS BOARD WAS CUT THRU.
WHILE PUTTING BOLT IN #335 SCREW, I.NAME PLACED HIS FINGER IN THE BOLT HOLE TO SEE IF IT WAS LINED UP.
THE INJURED TOOK PINS OUT OF THE SMALL INSPECTION DOOR TO UNPLUG THE CYCLONE.WHEN HE TURNED THE DOOR LOOSE,THE HOT MATERIAL FLUSHED OUT ON HIM AND BURNED HIS ARMS AND HIS LEFT SIDE.
INJURED WAS STANDING ON HAND RAIL WHILE DRILLING HOLES IN COAL MILL CHUTE AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.ON JUNE 21,1989 MEDICAL ATTENTION WAS GIVEN AND INJURY WAS DIAGNOSED AS TENDINITIS OF RIGHT KNEE.
HE WAS SUING WATER BLASTER TO CUT BUILUP OIUT OF #15 CYCLONE ON PREHEATER UP ABOVE THE INSPECTION DOOR A LARGE BUILDUP FELL INSIDE BYCLONE AND DUST BLEW OUT OF DOOR AND HE TURNED AND RAN FROM DUST AND INTO BEAM WITH HIS SHOULER HE MISSED HIS FIRST DAY FROM WORK 1-29-88
CLEANING LOADER AND TWISTED HIS BODY TRYING TO AVOID BEING HIT BY A NOZZLE OF A WATER BLASTER HOSE WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF THE NOZZLE HE ORIGINALLY HURT HIS BACK ON 5-21-86
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING INSPECT AND CHANGE BAGS AS NEEDED FOR #2 F.M. DUST COLLECTOR AND DUST BLEW INTO HIS EYES CAUSING ABRASIONS TO HIS EYEBALL.
DRILLING ROCK I3 QUARRY.PIECE OF RUBBLE SHIFTED STRIKING FOOT.
DRILLER WAS OPERATING A TRAC DRILL A PLUG BLEW OUT OF THE HAMMER AND STRUCK HIM ON THE SIDE OF HIS HEAD ABOVE RT EYE