EE WAS ROTATING AIR ACTIVATED HOIST INTO POSITION TO DUMP A KILN CAR WHEN THE HOIST BECAME STUCK ON ITS BASE PLATE DUE TO LACK OF PROPER LUBRICATION AS EE PUSHED HARDER TO FREE THE HOIST IT SU DDENLY MOVED AND EMPLOYEE S HAND SLAMED AGAINST THE SIDE OF THE KILN CAR CUTTING HIS INDEX FINGER ON THE LEFT HAND FORTUNATLY THE EE WAS WEARING GLOVES OR THE INJURY COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE.
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June 15, 1989
AR · Metal/Non-Metal
warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator
MACHINERY
Arkansas Lime Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Arkansas Lime Company · Struck by falling object
EMPL HAD DECENDED LADDER TO SCASFFOL INSIDE VERTICAL KILN.HE WAS STUDYING DETERIOATED SECTION OF WALL.HE THEN ORDERED DRAFT FAN EXHAUST TO BE TURNED ON.VIBRATION FROM DRAFT FAN START UP EVIDEN Y CAUSED SECTION OF WALL TO COLLAPSE.FORTUNATELYEMPL WAS STANDING AT FARTHEST POINT AWAY FROM FALLING MATERIAL.INJURY-FRACTURED RIGHT METATARSAL.
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