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EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO DRILL A 13/8" HOLE IN METALUSING A HOLE SAW & 1/2" DRILL. THE SAW GRABBED THE METAL CAUSING THE DRILL TO SPIN & TWISTED EE'S RIGHT HAND CAUSING INJURY. EE HAD BEEN DOING'J OB WITH NO RESTRICTIONS BUT HIS HAND CON'T TO BOTHER HIM AFTER 2 MORE CHECKUPS DR DECIDED SURGERY WAS NECESSARY. EE HAD SURGERY 12/31/02 & WASPLACED ON RESTRICTED WORK DUTY.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE FELT FOREIGN BODY ENTER (R) EYE AT APPROX. 3:30PM AFTER COMPLETING A WELD. EMPLOYEE STATES HE IS NOT SURE HOW FOREIGN BODY ENTERED EYE. AFTER INVESTIGATION, IT WAS DETER- MINED THAT SLAG ON WELDING HOOD OF EMPLOYEE ENT-ERED (R) EYE AFTER EMPLOYEE LIFTED HOOD FROM FACE TO INSPECT WELD.

AFTER GRINDING, EE STATES HE HIT THE METAL WITH A HAMMER AND DEBRIS FELL FROM ABOVE LANDING ON HIS HARD HAT. WHEN HE LIFTED HIS FACE SHIELD, THE DEBRISFELL BEHIND HIS GLASSES. PRESCRIPTION AND FOREIGN BODY EMBEDDED.

THE EMPLOYEE STATES, HE WAS WELDING IN THE COAL MILL BAG HOUSE. HIS SHIELD SCRAPED THE RUSTY DUCT ABOVE AND MATERIAL GOT ON HIS HARD HAT AND SOME GOT IN HIS EYE. PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION FOR TH E ABRASION TO HIS CORNEAL.

EMPLOYEES WERE USING A CHAINFALL & AN EYBOLT TO LIFT A HOPPER SECTION WEIGHING ~750 LB. THE WEIGHT OF THE HOPPER SECTION BROKE THE EYEBOLT. ONE EMPLOYEE WAS INJURED WHEN HE TRIED TO STOP THE HOPPER SECTION FROM HITTING HIM.

EMPLOYEE WAS SEAM WELDING AND COMPLETED TASK. EMPLOYEE RAISED HOOD AND DEBRIS ON HOOD FELL ONTO FACE AND BEHIND SAFETY GLASSES. EMPLOYEE HAD FOREIGN BODY IN (R) EYE.

INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING & CO-WORKER WAS FIRING AN 8-GAUGE INDUSTRIAL SHOTGUN. AS ONE OF THE SHELLS WAS FIRED, METAL FRAGMENTS OF THE CASING ESCAPED THE GUN'S BREECH & STRUCK THE LOADER IN HIS RIGHT HAND. THESE FRAGMENTS WERE EMBEDDED NEAR HIS MIDDLE FINGER KNUCKLE. THE SHELL WAS DEFECTIVE- AN UPSIDE-DOWN BASE WAS IS SUSPECTED.

EE STATES WHILE WELDING OVERHEAD SOME OF THE WELDING SLAG HIT HARD HAT, BOUNCED OFF OF HOOD INSIDE HITTING THE FRAME OF HIS GLASSES BURNING AND BLISTERING HIS LEFT EYE. PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION FOR BURN.

EE STATES WHILE PERFORMING A GRINDING OPERATION, FOREIGN BODY GOT IN HIS EYE. DOUBLE EYE PROTECTION WAS BEING WORN. METAL SLIVER HAD TO BE REMOVED FROM HIS EYE.

DRILLING OVERHEAD USING HILTI HAMMER DRILL. BIT JAMMED ON UNKNOWN OBJECT CAUSING DRILL TO TWIST AND FORCE EMPLOYEE'S HAND INTO STEEL BEAM. R METACARPAL FRACTURE. EMPLOYEE RETRAINING TO BE SCHE DULED BEFORE RETURNING TO WORK REGARDING PINCH POINTS AND PROPER PRE JOB PLANNING.

EE STATES THEY WERE WELDING ON DUST COLLECTOR AND GOR BURNED ON CHIN & CHEST. ARC RAYS WENT THRUY SHIRT. EE WENT BACK WELDING 8-6, FLARED UP AGAIN. WENT TO CLINIC. WAS GIVEN ANTIBIOTIC CREAM.

USING 1" DRIVE IMPACT WITH SWIVEL TIGHTENING BOLTS. SOCKET JUMPED OFF BOLT STRIKING THE MIDDLE FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE SOCKET AND THE IRON.

THREE EMPLOYEES WERE BEING LOWERED FROM RAW MILLSTRUCTURE IN A PERSONNEL BASKET. THE MAN WITH THE RADIO IN THE BASKET LOST CONTACT WITH THE CRANE OPERATOR. THE OPERATOR CONTINUED DOWN STRIKING BEAM ON GROUND, TIPPING BASKET. MEN WERE JOLTED.

TRIGGER ON MI6 WELDING GUN HIT STEEL REELING THEWIRE OUT STRIKING THE EE HANDS GIVIVING EE HEAT BLISTERS. DIAGNOSIS: CONTACT DERMATITIS (PRESCRITPION)

EE & COWORKER WERE ARC-AIRING A PARTITION GRATE IN #6 FINISH MILL. HOT SLAG FELL OFF OF GRATE TO INSIDE OF GLOVE & BURNING HIS RIGHT WRIST. SURGERY TO REMOVE KELOID (SCAR) IS SCHEDULED FOR 4/18/02

USING A BURNING TORCH THE EE WAS CUTTING A ANGLEIT WAS UNDER TENSION WHEN HE CUT THRU THE ANGLE SPRANG STRIKING EE ON LEFT THUMB

EE WAS WELDING A SHM WITH HOOD DOWN. JACK SLIPPED BECAUSE OF IMPROPER BLOCKING PINNING HIS FINGER UNDERNEATH IT. ACCIDENT CRUSHED MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND

EWE WAS NAILING 2X8 TO FORM. HE PLACED HIS HAND BEHIND THE BOARD TO HOLD IT. WHEN HE NAILED THE 2X THE NAIL WENT INTO BOTH BOARDS AND INTO HIS LEFT HAND.

EE WAS WORKING ON THE RAW MILL. HE WAS WELDING. HE WAS UP ON A PLATFORM BENDING OVER A RAIL CABLE TO LIFT A PIECE OF PLATFORM.

AT ELEVATION 254 IN THE PREHEAT TOWER, EE WAS IMPACTING BOLTS WHEN IMPACT GUN SLIPPED OFF THE BOLT TWISTING HIS ARM AND WRIST. NOT GETTING ANY BETTER AFTER FOLLOW UP VISITS TO DR. EE NEEDED A RESCRIPTION(STEROIDS).

TRYING TO THROW CLINKER DIVERTER #3 AND WOULD NOT THROW. HE DECIDED TO MOVE WITH HYDRALIC CYLINDER. OPERATING THE HYDRALIC PUMP, USING HIS CHEST TO PUMP THE CYLINDER PUMP. THE CYLINDER PUMP WO ULD ONLY BUILD PRESSURE IN A VERTICAL POSITION. USING HIS BODY FOR SUPPORT, HEARD SOMETHING POP IN THE CHEST AREA. FELT PAIN 2/11/01, WENT TO DR. 2/12/01

INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS UNCHOKING A DUCT. AFTER HE EMPTIED IT, MORE DUST ENTERED THE DUCT AND FLOWED OUT THE OPEN PORTHOLE OVER HIS HAND. SOME DUST TOUCHED HIS BARE WRIST BETWEEN SLEEVE AND GLOVE , CAUSING A SECOND DEGREE BURN.

INJURED EMPLOYEE REPORTED DUST ENTERED HIS EYE WHEN KNOCKED OFF A BEAM BY HIS WELDING SHIELD. OPTHAMOLOGIST REPORTED A METALLIC RUST RING ON THE EYE SURFACE, NOT DUST. THE RUST SPOT WAS REMO VED. THERE IS NO EXPLANATION OF WHEN OR HOW IT OCCURRED.

EE WAS BURNING BOLTS OUT OF GUARD. HOT BOLT BURNED HIS LEG. FIRST AID WAS GIVEN. LEG BECAME INFECTED & HE WAS SENT TO SPECIALIST 2/4/01, DIAGNOSED AS HAVING A REACTION TO THE MEDICATION HE HAD RECEIVED ON 1/26/01.

EE WAS MAILING PLYWOOD INTO P[OSITION. THE NAIL WNE INTO THE PLYWOOD, TURNED AND WNET INTO HIS LEFT THUMB.

RELEASED PIN ON JIB OF CRANE BEFORE SETUP WAS READY WHEN THE JIB BEGAN TO ROLL EE JUMPED CLEARJUMPING FROM FENDER TO CONCRETE 8' EE LANDED UPRIGHT ON BOTH FEET

THE EE WAS PULLING ON THE HANDLE OF THE PALLET LIFT FORKS WITH HIS LEFT ARM & OPERATING THE OVERHEAD HOIST WITH RIGHT HAND. AS THE EE BEGAN TO PULL ON THE PALLET LIFT FORKS TO REMOVE THEM FRO M UNDER A PALLET OF EMPTY CEMENT BAGS, HE REPOR TED STRAINING HIS LOWER BACK. THE EE WAS PLACED ON A RESTRICITON ON 4/6/00

WHILE TAPING THE GUZZLE HOSE, THE AIR CANNON DISCHARGED BLOWING DRY CEMENT UNDER HIS SAFETY GLASSES INTO THE LEFT EYE.

MILLWRIGHT AND COWORKERS WERE INSTALLING SCREEN DECK. TWO WORKERS TIGHTENED BOLTS, ONE ABOVE THE DECK WITH IMPACT WRENCH, THE OTHER BELOW THE DECK WITH PIPE WRENCH. COWORKER ACTUATED IMPACT WR ENCH PREMATURELY, AND NUT SPUN, LACERATING INJURED'S RIGHT THUMB. TWO SUTURES REQUIRED FOR WOUND.

INJURED WAS CHECKING MOTOR ON PALLETIZER DUE TO FAILURE. PALLETIZER OPERATED AND THE PRESS ELEMENT OF THE PALLETIZER CAUGHT HIS RIGHT HAND CRUSHING THE ENDS OF 3 FINGERS, REMOVING LAST JOINT O F SMALL FINGER AND RING FINGER.