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EE WAS GRINDING WITH AN ELECTRICK GRINDER WHEN HE STRUCK A BURR, THE GRINDER KICKED BACK STRIKING THE EE IN THE AREA BETWEEN HIS MOUTH AND CHIN WITH CASE OF THE GRINDER. CAUSING A LACERATION AND A LOSS OF A TOOTH.

EE WAS CUTTING LIMBS AWAY FROM THE TELEPHONE LINES AT THE RAISCH TANKS WITH A CHAINSAW. THE SAW STALLED HE ATTEMPTED TO RESTART THE SAW, IT BOUNCED BACK LACERATING HIS LEFT HAND MIDDLE FINGER AREA THAT REQUIRED STITCHES.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO BREAK UP HARD MATERIAL IN THE BOTTOM OF THE DENSIFIER SCREW CONVEYOR WITH A JACKHAMMER WHEN THE JACKHAMMER SLIPPED AND PINCHED EE'S FINGER CAUSING A LACERATION.

2 PRONTO EE WERE WELDING INSIDE ON #1 KILN COOLING SYSTEM WH/ IS BELOW FRONT END OF KILN. A PERSON STARTED TO LOOSEN OUTSIDE BOLTS W/ IMPACT WRENCH WH/ CAUSED LIME AND DEBRIS TO FALL ON EE. EE WAS RECEIVING A PIECE OF STEEL AND HAD HIS WELDING HELMET UP. LIME AND DEBRIS GOT IN HIS EYE AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO DR.

INJURED WAS USING A STATIONARY GRINDER TO GRIND A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON. THE ANGLE IRON GOT HUNG BETWEEN THE GRINDER & THE REST, PULLING HIS LEFT THUMB INTO THE GRINDING WHEEL. REPORTABLE FROM S TANDPOINT OF SUTURES.

INJURED WAS USING A JACK HAMMER TO BREAK AN ASK RING LOOSE IN THE KILN. PIECES CAME LOOSE FROM OVERHEAD & FELL ON HIM. REPORTABLE FROM STANDPOINT OF SUTURES.

EE WAS CHANGING DRILL BIT IN DRILL PRESS. HE SOMEHOW INADVERTANTLY STARTED THE DRILL. HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER WAS SEVERELY LACERATED INCLUDING TENDON DAMAGE. TWO OTHER FINGERS WERE ALSO CUT.

EE WAS REMOVING THE KILN EXIT SCREW CONVEYOR TROUGH. THE PICKER HOIST WAS CONNECTED TO THE MIDDLE OF THE CONVEYOR. DUE TO THE LIMITED HEAD ROOM THE HOIST WAS NOT CENTERED OVER THE LOAD. THE CO NVEYOR WAS BEING PULLED FROM UNDER THE KILN WHENIT HUNG UP ON THE ANGLE MOUNT. HE PRYED THE CONVEYOR LOOSE AND IT SWUNG. STRIKING HIM NEAR THE LEFT KNEE CUTTING HIS LEG APPROX. 3 INCHES LONG

AIR HOSE CAME OFF JACKHAMMER. EMPLOYEE STEPPED OFF PLATFORM, STEPPING ON DIRT CLOD TWISTING ANKLE.

EE WAS CUTTING TOOTH OFF 990 BUCKET WHEN SNAP RING CAME LOOSE AND STRUCK HIS CHIN.

EE WAS WELDING WIRE AROUND TRANSFORMER FRAME. THE WELDING HOOD LENSE WOULD NOT CLOSE ALL THE WAY. THERE WAS A SMALL GAP LEFT OPEN TO ALLOW FOR FLASH BURNS.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING WIRE AROUND TRANSFORMER FRAM.E THE WELDING HOOD LENSE WOULD NOT CLOSE ALL THE WAY. THERE WAS A SMALL GAP LEF TOPEN TO ALLOW FOR FLASH BURNS.

INJURED WAS USING A HIGH PRESSURE WATER JET SPRAYER TO CLEAN N KILN SILO. WATER HOSE GOT WRAPPED AROUND HIS LEFT LEG. WHILE TRYING TO GET FREE, HE BROUGHT THE TIP OF THE JET ACROSS HIS RIGHT F OOT.

STRAINED UPPER BACK WHILOE USING A AIR LANCE TO CLEAN CHANNEL IN A UP AND DOWN MOTION.

WHILE CHECKING KILN COLLER GRATES FOR BUILDUP, DUST WAS BLOWN FROM THE KILN TOWARD THE INJURED EE. SAFETY GLASSES DID NOT ADEQUATELY PROTECT THE EE'S EYE. A DUST PARTICLE EMBEDDED IN LEFT EYE OF EE.

EE WAS OPERATING AN ELECTRIC GRINDER. HE WAS GRINDING TRAY CABLE SUPPORTS. THE GRINDER GOT AWAY FROM HIM & CUT HIS RIGHT WRIST.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING MOST OF THE DAY. THERE WAS OTHER WELDERS IN THE AREA. EE'S EYES WERE HURTING AT THE END OF THE SHIFT. HE DECIDED TO GO TO THE DR AFTER HE WAS OFF HIS SHIFT. THE DR SAI D IT LOOKED LIKE TI WAS FLASH BURNS. PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION WAS USED.

FLASH BURN

WHILE PREPARING A WELD FOR PAIN EE GOT A SLIVER OF METAL IN HIS LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS BUSTING BAGS OF CASTABLE INTO MORTOR MIXER AND SOMEHOW GOT HIS FINGER TO CLOSE TO BAG CUTTER.

WHILE SACKIGN LIME, BAG EXPLODED AND SPRAYED LIME UNDER EE'S PROTECTIVE AND GOT IN BOTH HIS EYES.

POKING OUT KILN WITH 16FT AIR LANCE.

EE WAS ATTMPTING TO DECEND A BANK APPROX. 12'0" IN HEIGHT. IN SO DOING FOR REASONS UNKNOWN HE RAISED THE BLADE OF THE D9 DOZER CAUSING MATERIAL TO FALL BENEATH INSTEAD OF IN FRONT OF DOZER. TH US LEAVE NO RAMP ON WHICH THE DOZER COULD TRAVEL ALSO HE WAS NOT PERPENDICULAR TO THE BANK AND THE DOZER ROLLED ON ITS RT SIDE HE WAS WEARING A SEAT BELT NO INJURY NO EQUIPMENT.

STRAINED PULLED OR TORE AREA IN THE LOWER ABDOMEN. JACKHAMMERING BRICK APART IN THE KILN.

STRAINED RIGHT WRIST AND HAND USING 15LB JACKHAMMER TO REMOVE BRICK FROM THE KILN.

EE HAD JUST PUMPED UP THE PRESSURE WHEN THE BOTTOM GASKET ON THE PUMP BLEW THE MANHOLE GASKET WAS ALSO LEAKING HE PULLED HARD ON THE BY-PASS HANDLE & HIT HIS RT ELBOW ON THE MANHOLE PIPE

EE REMOVED A COVER FROM THE CO2 LINE & USING A AIRLANCE WAS CLEANING THE LINE EE DIDNT REALIZE THE PLUGGED CONDITION OF THE LINE & WHEN SHOT A BLAST OF AIR THE HOT CO2 DUST CAME BACK IN HIS FA CE & NECK

EE WAS SHAPING A PIECE OF 1/2 INCH X 30 INCH CONDUIT ON THE 8 INCH BENCH GRINDER WHEN THE CONDUIT SLIPPED AROUND THE SIDE OF THE DISK AND PULLED ITSELF AND HIS RIGHT HAND INTO THE GRINDER CUTT ING THE FLESH AND BREAKING BONE IN HIS LITTLE FINGER.

EE WAS BLOWING DUST OFF THE PAVEMENT AREA NEAR BAGHOUSE. DUST GOT UNDER HIS GLASSES AND INTO HIS EYE.

OXYGEN BOTTLE DISLODGED FROM LOAD AND DROPPED ON PIPE STRIKING EMPLOYEE.

WHILE HOISTING DOWN THE HOLE HAMMER UP TO DRILL DECK, THE DECK CENTRALIZING THE BUSHING GOT CAUGHT ON THE GUARD RAIL OF THE DECK. EMPLOYEE PULLED THE HAMMER AWAY FROM THE DECK WITH HIS HAND. W HEN HE DID THIS, THE BUSHING SLID DOWN THE DRILL PIPE. SMASHING HIS FINGER AGAINST THE DRILL BIT.

HE LIF TED HIS SHIELD TO LOOK AT THE WELDER DEBRIS FELL IN HIS EYES CAUSING A PIECE OF METAL 9CFO) TO IMBED IN HIS RT EYE

LIGHT WAS REFLECTED OFF OF A PIECE OF SHEET METAL THAT WAS PLACED OVER A TRUNIEN WHILE WELDING CAUSING BURNS ON BOTH EYES

USING A PORTABLE GRINDER. THE GRINDER CAUGHT AN EDGE OF METAL AND KICKED BACK INTO EMPLOYEE'S KNEE REQUIRING STITCHES.

EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING SIDE WALL OF PREHEATER, GRINDING. SPARKS CAME THROUGH TOP OF FACE SHIELD AND GOT INTO LEFT EYE.

E;MPLOYEE WAS CUTTING PLATE IN OVERHEAD POSITION & SLAG FELL INT O LEFT EAR

EMPLOYEE WAS OBSERVING CRUSHER OPERATION. A LARGE CHUNK OF ROCK WAS LODGED NEAR THE CRUSHER MOUTH. HE PUSHED IT LOOSE AS A PIECE OF ROCK WAS EXPELLED BY THE CRUSHER AND NOT FULLY STOPPED BY TH E CHAIN CURTAIN. EMPLOYEE RECEIVED A BURST LOWER LIP. 4 STITCHES WERE REQUIRED TO CLOSE THE WOUND.

INJ ON SUBMERSIBLE PUMP FLOAT ON SETTLING POND AND HAD HOOKED CRANE HOOK TO SUBMERSIBLE PUMP.HAD RIGHT HAND ON BAR SUPPORTING WHEN CRANE HOOK SLIPPED OVER AND CAUGHT RIGHT HAND.

EMPL WORKING IN 400 TUNNEL TRYING TO BREAK UP A ROCK HUNG #6 GATE OPEN.AS ROCK BROKE,GATE CLOSED CATCHING IRON BAR TOOL BEING USED -STRUCK LOWER JAW CAUSING HEMATOMA AND LOOSENING OF 4 FRONT T EETH ON LOWER JAW.

WHILE DRILLING SHANK BROKE THROWING A PIECE OF METAL THAT STRUCK THE LOWER LEFT SIDE OF DRILLER'S FACE.

HE GOT FINGER CAUGHT WHEN STARTING PULLEY TO BELT. LOST TIP, FLESHY TIP OF FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO MAKING AN ADJUSTMENT TO THE THROTTLE ON A GAS POWERED WELDING MACHINE, WHEN HIS GLOVED HAND GOT TO CLOSE TO THE FAN, WHICH STRUCK HIS RIGHT HAND, INJURING THE 5TH D IGIT (LITTLE FINGER) RESULTING IN 3 STITCHES.

TRYING TO DISLODGE BOULDER WHEN SMALL ROCK FELL INTO IMPACT AREA. HAMMER SHOT ROCK BACK OUT WHICH HIT EMPL IN ARM WHILE ON OPERATORS DECK.

AIR GATE ACTIVATED BY SECOND EMPL SMASHING FINGER OF MAINT MAN.

INJURED WAS HELPING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WELD ON BOLTS. THE GLARE FROM THE WELDING CAUSED BURNS TO HIS EYES.

INJURED WAS CUTTING DOOR INTO A CRUSHER CHUTE AND FIRE FELL INTO BOOT BURNING LEFT FOOT.

EMPL WAS DUMPING THE HOPPER ON 722 DUST COLLECTOR SYSTEM AS HE OPENED THE TRAP DOOR WHICH WAS PRESSURIZED LIME DUST BLEW OUT HITTING HIM IN THE FACE CAUSING LIME BURNS IN THE R EYE NEAR THE PU PIL

EMPLOYEE WAS AIR LANCING #3 KILN WHEN A BUILD-UP SHOT-BACK HITTING HIM IN LEFT EYE, HIS SAFETY GLASSES HAD FALLEN OFF MOMENTS EARLIER.

PUSHING A LOADED PALLET OF LIME BAGS ARM GOT CAUGHT IN THE AUTOMATIC PALLETIZER CUTTING HAND AND ARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A HOLE THROUGH A CONCRETE FLOOR AND WHEN THE HOLE WAS COMPLETED THE DRILL MOVED RAPIDLY THROUGH THE HOLE CUAUSING THE EMPLOYEES HAND TO BE PINCHED BETWEEN THE DRILL HANDLE AND A PIECE OF METAL.