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OPERATOR RECOVERING SPENT CLAY.THE RESLURRY GEAR WAS LEFT ROTATING AT LOW RPM.FREEING THE CABLE ON A WINCH THAT WAS LODGED BETWEEN THE SIDE PLATES AND WINCH FRAME.FREED THE CABLE AND DECIDED T O PULL ADDITIONAL SLACK OUT OF WINCH.THE SLACK CABLE WAS GRABBED BY THE RESLURRY GEAR.JERKED ROIGHT HAND AND THE WINCH CABLE CUT FINGERS THROUGH GLOVES.STITCHES WERE REQUIRED.

GRINDING ROUGH EDGES FROM EACH END OF 4 PIECES OF ANGLE IRON WH ICH WERE 3INX5INX1/2IN THICK EMPLOYEE HAD COMPLETED OUTER EDGES & WHEN HE R OLLED ANGLE OVER TO GRIND THE INSIDE EDGES HE PINNED HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN THE BENCH TOP & THE ANGLE ANGLE APPARENTLY HAD A NEEDLE SHAPED SPUR & THIS SPUR PUNCTURED HIS FINGER THROUGH HIS GLOVE & WHEN REFLEXES MADE H IM JERK HIS HAND IT

EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING A TUNGSTON ROD HE FELT AN EYE IRRITATION HE WENT TO FIRST AID & IT WAS DIAGNOSED AS A FOREIGN BODY

EMPLOYEE WAS BURNING A PIECE OF TIN WITH A TORCH. WHEN HE HIT THE AIR ON THE TORCH, A PIECE OF METAL FLEW INTO HIS EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING HIS PPE WHILE GRINDING ON INSIDE OF A PIPE. FELT SOMETHING IN HIS EYE. REPORTED TO MEDICAL.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A PIECE OF CHANNEL IRON.HE BRUSHED HIS RIGHT FOREARM AGAINST A PIECE OF HOT METAL.

EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING ON METAL THAT HAD BEEN WELDED.HE DID NOT RECALL HAVING A PROBLEM AT WORK.A T APPROXIMATELY 0230,THE INJURED WAS AWAKENED WITH HIS EYE HURTING.HE WENT TO RIVER PARISH HOSP ITAL FOR REMOVAL OF A FOREIGN BODY.

EMPL WAS OPERATING NEW HEATERS HEATER OVERFLOWED. HOT CONDENSATE & LIQUOR SPLASHED ON LEFT ANKLE.

EMPL WAS CUTTING IN A BOILER WITH A TORCH A PIECE OF HOT SLAG FELL DOWN R SLEEVE BURNING HIS ELBOW

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING AIR LINE FROM SHORT ENTRY AIR LINE CONNECTION. SHE DID NOT OPEN THE VALVE TO BLEED LINE. WHEN SHE DISCONNECTED THE HOSE, HOT CAUSTIC SPLASHED IN HER FACE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING GRASS USING A GRAVELY MOWER.EMPLOYEE PASSED TOO CLOSE TO A STOP SIGN.HIS LEFT AHND WAS JAMMED BETWEEN HANDLE OF GRAVELY AND SIGN POST.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING TAIL PULLEY ON FEED-AWAY BELT. WELDING WHIP SLIPPED OFF OF HIS LAP AND STRUCK AN ARC WHILE FALLING.

EMPL HARD SURFACING PLUG IN WELDING SHOP.HOT METAL ROLLED OFF PLUG DOWN PANTSLEG AND INTO LEFT BOOT.

EMPL WAS CUTTING GRASS USING A GRAVELY MOWER PULLING A SULKY THE SEAT ON THE SULKY BROKE WHILE THE UNIT WAS GOING FORWARD EMPL FELL BACKWARDS

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING ON NO 72 PRECIPITATOR TANK.HE WAS HIT BY THE STEAM SYPHON WHICH WAS PUMPING CAUSTIC FROM ONE PUMP INTO ANOTHER.THE SYPHON DID NOT EXTEND TO THE SECOND PUMP,ALTHOUGH IT WAS ROPED OFF.CAUSTIC CAME OUT OF THE END OF THE SYPHIN AND BLEW OUT BEYOND THE ROPED OFF AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS ENROUTS HOME.THE ROUTE SHE USED BY THE CAUSTIC MIX TANK IN PRECIPATION.THE SYPHON HOSE WAS PUMPING CAUSTIC FROM ONE SUMP TO THE NEXT.SYPHON HOSE DID NOT REACH THE SECOND SUMP.WHE N EMPLOYEE PASSED IN THE VICINTITY OF THE HOSE,CAUSTIC CAME OUT OF BOTH ENDS AND SPLASHED ON HER LEGS.

WHILE USING SMALL AIR GUN FOR DESCALING #1 PRESS PIECE OF METAL BROKE OFF OF CHISEL & ENTERED EMPL'S RIGHT THIGH APPROX 2" ABOVE KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS HEATING A SHAFT.LEFT FOREARM BRUSHED AGINNST THE HOT SHAFT.

WHILE OPENING GATE VALVE ON NO. 1 DUST PUMP, EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN RIGHT FOREARM.

IMPACT WRENCH MALFUNCTIONED AND EMPLOYEE SMASHED 5TH FINGER TIP OF LEFT HAND BETWEEN WRENCH AND PIPE.

WHILE FABRICATING A TANK FOR THE EVAP UNIT, I,NAME WAS FITTING AND HOLDING THE METAL WHILE OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING. I,NAME'S EYES STARTED BURNING AND WATERING. FLASH BURNS TO BOTH EYES, ALO NG WITH A FOREIGN BODY IN RIGHT EYE. FOREIGN BODY ENTERED EYE FROM EMPLOYEE RUBBING HIS EYE WHEN IT STARTED BURNING.

WHILE REMOVING BOLTS ON #13 HEATER WITH IMPACT WRENCH PIECE OF TRASH FLEW INTO LEFT EYE.EMPL WASHED OUT EYE & RETURN TO WORK.REPORTED NEXT DAY COMPLAINING OF EYE STILL HURTING.

HE WAS HOLDING BACK ON A STUD BOLT. HE WAS USING DRIVE IMPACT WRENCH. THE WRONGE FITTING THAT ATTACHES THE AIR HOSE TO THE GUN WAS USED, NOT ENOUGH THREADS COULD BE SCREWED INTO THE GUN. US ING THE THREADS STRIPPED CAUSING THE HOSE TO HIT HIM ON THE TOP OF HIS LIP.

EMPLOYEE WAS WE5DING IN SHOP. AT THE SUPPER BREAK, SHE EXPERIENCED A BURNING SENSATION TO HER LEFT EYE, WHICH WAS DIAGNOSED AS AN ABRASION TO THE LEFT EYE. WHILE DRIVING HOME, HER EYES BEGAN T EAR AND HURT. S2E WENT TO HER DR WHO DIAGNOSED FLASH BURNS TO BOTH EYES. HOWEVER EMPLOYEE STATED SHE HAD USED A SUNLAMP PRIOR TO REPORTING TO WORK.

EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING A PRESS,REACHED INTO PRESS TO ALIGN STEEL AND ACTIVATED FOOT CONTROL AT THE SAME TIME.

EMPLOYEE HAD TU9NED COMPOUND AT 10 DEGREE ANGLE TOWARDS CHUCK TO CUT STEEP ANGLE ON SHAFT AS EMPPLOYEE WAS SETTING UP TOOLING UNCONSCIOUSLY HIS HAND GRAZED THE CHUCK JAWS ON CHUCK WAS STICKIN G OUT AND ONE 2IT HIS LEFT HAND CAUSING THE INJURY

AN ELECTRICIAN 4AS SERVICING A 6IN CIRCULAR SKILL SAW FOLLOWING REPAIRS TO THE SSAW HE REPLACED THE BLADE & ADJUSTABLE BLADE GUARD HOLDING SAW IN HIS RT HAND HE STARTED SAW IN ORDER TO LOOK IN TO THE HOUSE HE3TURNED THE SAW INWARD AS HE DID SO HE REACHED DOWN WITH HIS LEFT HAND HIS LT INDEX FINGER ENTERED BLADE OPENING SEVERING TIP OF L INDEX FINGER

PICKED UP DOOR 2F 18 TON CHERRY PICKER TO CHECK WHY MOTOR WAS SMOKING. DOOR VIBRATED AND FELL ONTO EMPLOYEES ARM

SCALER USING RI5ET BUSTER TO BEAT LOOSE FALSE BOTTOM FORMED INSIDE TANK NO. 50

WHILE USING A RIVET BUSTER AT #1 SAND CLASSIFIER EMPLOYEE WAS DESCALING THE PADDLES ON THE SCREW THE TASK REQUIRED THE EMPLOYEE TO WORK WITH THE RIVET BUSTER AT WAIST LEVEL AND BELOW RESULTIN G IN A STRAINED HIP

UNLOADING RAILROAD RAILS 40\LENGTH, FROM FLAT BED TRUCK USING DOCK GANTRY, A RAIL BEING LIFTED STRUCK THE REMAINING RAIL IN THE STACK CAUSING THE RAIL TO TOPPLE AND FALL APPROX 4" ONTO THE EMP LOYES FOOT WHO WAS HOOKING THE CABLES ONTO THE RAIL

OPERATING GRAVELY MOWER IN DIGENTION UNDER PIPE RACK EMPLOYEE OPERATED UNIT TOO CLOSE TO CONCRETE PIPE SUPPORT LEFT HAND GOT JAMMED BETWEEN HANDLE OF GRAVELY MOWER AND CONCRETE SUPPORT

I NAME A GNERAL REPAIRER WAS USING AN IMPACT WRENCH IN THE SETTLER AREA HE RECALLS NO SPECIAFIC TRAUMA BUT HIS EYE BECAME SRATCHY IN THE AFTERNOON. THE CONDITION WORSENED DURING THE EVENING AN D BY EARLY MORNING HE HAD TO SEEK HELP AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM WHERE A PIECE OF STEEL WAS REMOVED.

WORKER STATED SHE NOTED DISCOMFORT IN LEFT EYE ON AFTERNOON OF 8-15-84 WORKER WAS FABRICATING SOME PIPING AND FELT EYE IRRITATION MAY HAVE COME FROM FLYING FRINDING ABRASION FROM WORKER PERFOR MING GRINDING ACROSS THE WORK TABLE FROM HER. AFTER WORK EYE BECAME SEVERELY IRRITATED WITH PHYSICIAN REMOVING METAL FOREIGN BODY AT 4 ON 8/16 NO PERMANENT DAMAGE.

OPENING A VALVE UNDER PRESSURE WITH A VALVE WRENCH, THE VALVE SPRUNG OPEN SMASHING THE WRIST BETWEEN THE WRENCH AND AN ADJACENT PIPE

EMPLOYEE WORKING ON A CLATHE, A STEEL SHAVING WAS STUCK IN THE CHUCK CAUGHT HIS LEFT RING FINGER.

EMP GRASPED BELTS THAT DRIVE A MOTOR SHEAVE THE BLETS WERE NOT TURNING BUT THE SHEAVES WERE THE PRESSURE FROM EMPLOYEES ENGAGED THE BELSTS EMP RT THUMB PULLED THROUGH THE SHEAVE

WHILE MOVING WELDING MACHINE,LEG COLLAPSED AND SMASHED 3 FINGERS ON RIGHT HAND.

WHILE CUTTING PIECE OF CHECKERED PLATE ON METAL SHEAR,EMPL HAD HAND RESTING ON PLATE WHEN SHEAR BLADE CAME DOWN.PLATE RAISED SMASHING LEFT RING FINGER ON SHEAR BED.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLOSING A VAPOR VALVE WHICH IS A GEAR VALVE WHEN SUDDENLY THE VALVE TURNED FREE AND JAMMED THE MIDDLE FINGER OF THE LEFT HAND BETWEEN LARGE AND SMALL GEAR WHEELS

EMPL TRIED TO STOP A WIND-MILLING FAN FROM TURNING BY CATCHING IT WITH PIPE WRENCH AND WRENCH EITHER SLIPPED OR WAS THROWN FROM SHAFT,STRIKING EMPL ON RIGHT THIGH.