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EE STATES HIS LEFT HAND SLID OFF THE GRINDING WHEEL AND CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE GRINDING WHEEL
CHANGING CUTTING EDGE. IMPACT WRENCH CUT HAND.
WAS CUTTING BOLT OFF IDLER WHEN A PIECE OF METAL WENT INTO THE RIGHT EYE.
CONTRACTOR, MCCADDEN ENTERPRISES, WAS REPAIRING LOCOMOTIVE OWNED BY ALAMO GULF COAST RAILROAD WHEN A WHEEL AND BRAE ASSEMBLY FELL FROM BLOCKING AND STRUCK CONTRACTOR IN HEAD. INJURED EE WAS AS SISTING CONTRACTOR AND INJURED BACK.
EE WAS PRIMING THE PUMP FOR THE WASH PLANT PRIOR TO STARTUP. AS HE WAS PUTTING THE CAP BACK ON, HE HAD ANOTHER EE START THE PUMP AND THE CAP BLEW OFF AND HIT HIM IN THE FACE.
CO-WORKER LOST CONTROL OF JACKHAMMER & HIT RIGHT KNEE. BEGAN LOSING TIME 12/31/96.
CLEANING TOP OF FIRING HOOD IN KILN SECTION AND HOT MATERIAL FELL ON HARD HAT. BURNS WERE TO EXPOSED AREA AROUND SAFETY GOGGLES AND RESPIRATOR. MEDICAL TREATMENT/MEDICATION PRESCRIBED.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS GRINDING METAL WHEN METAL ENTERED HIS RIGHT EYE.
REPAIRING FAN AND LIME BLEW INTO RIGHT EYE. MEDICATION/LIGHT DUTY.
WELDING IN AN AWKWARD POSITION ON WATER WAGON AND FELT PAIN TO LEFT LEG. MEDICAL ATTENTION AND PRESCRIPTION RECEIVED REPORTED 11-21-96.
OPERATING DOZER AND DEBRIS FELL INTO RIGHT EYE FROM TREE BRANCH. ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIPTION.
WHEN ATTEMPTING TO UNPLUG BRIDGED MATERIAL FROM #2 CYCLONE, HOT KILN DUST BEGAN TO FREE FLOW FROM THE TIPPER DISCHARGE VALVE. EE WAS BURNED BY THIS HOT FREE FLOWING DUST.
EMP, BLEND TRUCK OPERATOR, TRIED TO DISLODGE A PROCUST JAM IN THE VERTICLE AUGER ON THE MIX TRUCK WIHT HIS RIGHT HAND, WHEN IT GOT CAUGHT IN THEAUGER AFTER THE OBSTRUCTION WAS REMOVED, CAUSING SEVERE DAMAGE TO 3 FINGERS OF HIS RIGHT HAND.
EE BURNED HIS FACE AND RIGHT FOREARM WHILE CLEANING THE KILN FEED ENDDRAFT PIPE. WHILE EE WAS CARRYING OUT HIS CLEANING DUTIES, THE BURNER LIT THE KILN. THIS BLEW THE THERMO COUPLE INSPECTION CAP OPEN COVERING HIS BODY WITH HOT DUST.
EE STATES ARM OF TELEDYNE HAMMER CAME DOWN & STRUCK ANGLE HE WAS HOLDING WHICH CAUSED THE PIECE OF ANGLE TO HIT THE EE.
DRILLER WAS DRILLING ANGLE HOLES IN FRONT OF A WALL CONTAINING LOOSE AND BROKEN STONE. TWO LARGE STONES FELL FROM THE LEVEL ABOVE STRIKING HIM IN THE LEG.
EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A SLIDE FROM UNDER THE FULLER DUST COLLECTOR AS HE PULLED OUT THE SLICE THE COLLECTOR BLEW DOWN THE BAGS & THE PRESSURE FORCED DUST OUT BEHIND THE SLIDE THIS DUST B LEW INTO EE LEFT EYE EE WAS TAKEN TO A LOCAL EMERGENCY ROOM THERE HIS EYES WERE FLUSHED HE WAS GIVEN DROPS & OINTMENT & A PATCH WAS PUT ON HIS EYE FOR 24 HOURS
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS PUSHING A WHEELBARROW & IT STARTED TO TILT. IN TRYING TO KEEP THE WHEEBARROW UP, HE TURNED HIS LEFT KNEE. *THIS JUST TURNED INTO A REPORTABLE ACCIDENT.
EE STATES HE WAS WELDING & AN ARC FLASHED IN HIS EYES.
AIR HOSE WAS STOPPED UP. SUDDENLY OPENED AND BLEW MUD INTO FACE & EYES. ANTIBIOTIC ISSUED ON 10-25-94.
WHILE OPERATING A OVERHEAD HOIST AND MANEUVERINGFORKS TO LIFT A PALLET INJURED TWISTED HIS RIGHTKNEE AND AGGREVATED A PRE-EXISTING CONDITION. HIS PREVIOUS INJURY WAS NOT WORK RELATED AND OCC URRED BEFORE SHAWN BEGAN WORKING FOR REDLAND OHIO.
EE STATED HE BLEW FINE METAL PARTICLES WITH HIS MOUTH AND SOME FLEW INTO HIS FACE UNDER HIS SAFETY GLASSES.
EE WAS USING A MAGNESIUM CUTTING BAR TO BURN OFF A BRIQUETTE PRESS ROLL. WHILE USING THIS CUTTING BAR, HE BURNED HIS LEFT HAND AND WRIST FROM RADIANT HEAT. HE RECEIVED 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO HIS LEFT HAND AND WRIST./
INJURED WAS PULLING COATING BALLS WITH A RAKE AT THE END OF #2 COOLER, WHILE HE WAS PULLING ON A BALL, ANOTHER BALL HIT THE RAKE KNOCKING IT LOOSE FROM TEH BALL AND THE HANDLE OF THE RAKE HIT INJURED'S GROIN AREA.
EE WAS GRINDING A METAL SHAFT WHEN A METAL PARTICLE FLEW INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.
EE STATES HE WAS THREADING WIRE THRU TUBE ON THE AUTOMATIC WELDER WHEN THE WIRE PUNCTURED HIS LEFT HAND.
WHILE CLEANIGN THE RETURN CHUTE TO #2 COOLER, HOT MATERIAL FELL INTO RIGHT SHIFT SLEEVE BURNING HIS ARM.
CLEANING 4" PIPE WITH AIR HOSE. RAGS WERES TUFFED IN PIPE WITH AIR HOSE ON. WHEN MOVING NOSE OF HOSE BACK AND FORTH, DUST BLEW OUT OF PIPE INTO EYES.
CLEANING HYDRATE LIME PIT AND CO-WORKER TURNED ON WATER PUMP. SPLASHED LIME WATER INTO HIS LEFT EYE.
ASSISTING A WELDER FOR TEN HOURS
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS PUMPING THE PRESS HANDLE WHEN THE PRESSURE IN THE PRESS BUILT UP AND THE BEARING HOUSING BROKE, RELIEVING ALL TENSION AND PRESSURE OFF OF THE PRESS PUMP HANDLE, CONSEQUE NTLY HIS HAND CAME DOWN AND HIT THE BASE PORT-A-POWER.
WHILE GRINDING, THE GRINDER SLIPPED CAUSING A LACERATION TO HIS LEFT KNEE. SUTURES PLACED.
TORCHING AMETAL PIPE WHILE CUTTING IT. HE IMMEDIATELY FELT SOMETHING FLY INTO HIS LEFT EYE. ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIBED.
EE WAS TEARING DOWN THE PLANT TAKING WINGS OFF THE FEEDER. WHILE STANDING ON A WORK PLATFORM EE WAS STARTLED WHEN FEEDER MOVED AFTER HE REMOVED A BOLT. EE JUMPED FIVE FEET TO THE GROUND.
EMPL STATES WAS STANING ON CATWAL, FACING SHEAVEWITH HAND ON SHEAVE WHEN CRANE STARTED TO LIFT CABLE & IT MOVED & CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN THE CABLE & SHEAVE.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS GRINDING ON A LOADER FRAME SPARKS WERE COMING FROM GRINDING BACK ON HIS RT LEG HE WAS STANDING ON A 4FT STEP LADDER HE MOVED SUDDENLY BACKWARDS TO AVOID SPARKS & TWISTED HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS WELDING WHEN A HOT SPARK FROM WELD GOT UNDER THE TOUNGUE OF HIS HSOE AND BURNED HIS LEFT FOOT.
TRIMMING BRANCHES CUT L KNEE WITH SAW
REMOVING BELTS FROM CRUSHER WITH IMPACT WRENCH SHARP EDGE CUT MIDDLE FINGER
EMPL STATES HE WAS STANDING ON SLOPE WITH CHAINSAW IN PROCESS OF CUTTING TREE. WHILE STARTING TO CUT TREE IT SPLIT THROUGH MIDDLE & SPLIT END CAME BACK & HIT LEG.
EMPL REPORTS ELBOW PAIN FROM PUSHING SWING LEVER IN DROPBALL.THIS JUST DEVELOPED INTO A MEDICAL ACCIDENT.
ROCK JAMMED IN JAW CRUSHER WHILE REMOVING IT IT SLIPPED FROM EMPLOYEES GRASP FELL ON THUMB PINNING THUMB BETWEEN ANOTHER ROCK
REPLACING T EETH ON LOADER BUCKET POSSIBLE METAL SLIVER IN THE LEFT HAND (FIRST FINGER) SWELLING OCCURRED & EMPLOYEE WENT TO THE MD ON THE 7TH OF MAY
GRINDING METAL. ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIBED.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS STOOPING OVER A WALKING BEAM OF A D7G TRACTOR WITH A 7" DISC GRINDER WHEN A SMALL FRAGMENT OF STEEL FLEW UP AND HIT HIM IN HIS LEFT EYE,CASUING A ABRASION.
AFTER GRINDING FOR SEVERAL HOURS, THE EMPLOYEE NOTICED DISCOMFORT TO HIS EYE.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS USING THE GRINDER DIRT FROM ALL OVER THE APRON FEEDER DIRT WENT INTO EMPLOYEES EYE
EE STATES HE WAS ON TOP OF THE BARS GETTING READY TO LOOSE THE TORCH. HE LAID THE TORCH UP AGAINST RUBBER TO CLEAN OFF BOLTS TO BE CUT. THE TORCH SLID DOWN AND THE FLAME HIT HIS LEFT HAND.
PC SLAG FLEW OFF GRINDER IN L EYE
HE USED AN ELECTRIC GRINDER TO GRIND METAL HE NOTICED SOME IRRITATION. HE WAS SENT TO THE DR FOR THE REMOVAL OF A SMALL METAL PARTICLE IN HIS ELFT EYE.