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USING ANLE GRINDER CONTACTED KNEE WITH GRINDING DISC LACERATION
CHIPPING MARTAR FORM BRICK WITHOUT GLOVES GUN SLIPPED LACERATION LITTLE FINGER OF R HAND
WAS WORKING WIT2 2 OTHER ON REMOVING BALL MILL FEED SCOOP. 2 OF WORKERS (TILLMAN BEING ONE) WERE DOWN ON SCOOP BOX TO HELP PRY IT OUT OF BOX AS THE SCOOP WAS HOISTED UP TO CLEAR THE SOUND COVE R THE PULLEY HO2KED ON I BEAM ABOVE WHERE THE WORKERS WERE-IT RELEASED THE HOOK AND THE SCOOP FELL. I,NAME GRABBED FOR RAILING ABOVE HIM-LOST HIS FOOTING-GOING OFF OF SIDE OF SCOOP BOX.
TUNNEL BECAME P5RTIALLY FLOODED FROM BREAK IN LINE. THEY WHERE IN THE TUNNEL PUMPING OUT WITH AIR DIAPHRAM PUMP THE DISPHRAGM RUPUTURED CAUSING A FINE MIST FROM THE SLURRY WGHICH HAS SULFURIC ACID IN IT. T2EY WORKED IN THE TUNNEL APPROX 5 MIN. BEFORE SHUTTING THE PUMP OFF. THE NIGHT AFTER HE NOTICED BRATHING DIFFICULTY WHEN LAYING FLAT.
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9NING A PALLET OF ORE BAGS WITH GRINDER AS USASAL, ONE OF THE UPPER BAGS FELL OFF HITTING GRINDER AND PUSHING GRINDER INTO RIGHT ANTERIOR THIGH JUST ABOVE KNEE. LACERATION WAS 5 INCHES LONG O6T ONLY IN FAT LAYOR.
SANDBLASTING IN LST 2 TANK WEARING SANDBLASTING HOOD WITH BREATHING AIR ATTACHED. SANDBLASTED FOR SEVERAL HOURS. NEXT DAY NOTICED HE HAD THROAT IRRITATION-IT HAS CONTINUED SINCE THAT TIME-WAS CHECKED ON 8/29/85 BY DR. MINER-FEELING OF "LUMP" IN THROAT CONTINUED-WAS GIVEN ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY BY DR. MINER-9/5 COND. OF BLISTER NOTED IN THROAT-SAW DR. GIBB OF PAYSON 9-9-85.
SANDBLASTING IN LST 2 TANK-WEARING SANDBLASTHOOD WITH BREATHING AIR. DID THIS FOR MANY HOURS. THE NEXT DAY HE EXCPERIENCED SOME THROAT IRRIATATION-FEELING OF "LUMP" IN THROAT. THIS CONDITION PERSISTED. ON 8-29-85 SAW DR. MINER AT PLANT DISPENSAY-WAS GIVEN ANTIOBIOTIC THERPY. THROAT GOE SORE 9-5-85 THROAT RED & IRRITATED-WAS SENT TO DR. GIBB IN PAYSON 9-9-85-CONTINUED AN ANTIOBIO
I.NAME WAS SHEARING A PIECE OF 1/8 IN PLATE FOR A SHIM WHEN THE SHEAR CUT THE PIECE OF METAL IT ALSO CUT THE END OF THE TAPE MEASURE OFF I.NMME WAS LOOKING AT THE TAPE HE HAD NOT YET REMOV ED HIS FOOT FROM THE BAR THAT ENGAGES THE SHEAR AND HE UNCONSCIOUSLY LEFT WEIGHT ON THE BAR AND TRIPPED THE SHEAR AND THE CLAMP THAT HOLDS THE METAL CAME DOWN ON THE END OF HIS LEFT MIDDLE
I.NAME WAS CLEANING HARDENED SULFURIC ACID & BERYLLIUM SLURRY FROM SULFATE TANK USING A POWER SPRAY NOZZLE AND AN AIR HAMMER - INSPITE OF HIS WEARING A RUBBERIZED SUIT & TOWELS AROUND NECK & H EAD & TAKING 3 SHOWERS DURING THE SHIFT HE HAD ENOUGH CONTACK WITH THIS MATERIAL THAT IS CAUSED IRRITATION OF THE SKIN WHICH DURING NIGHT DEVELOPED A HEAVY ROUGH RASH & BLISTERING ON NECK WRI
AUTOMATIC LEVEL CONTROL MALFUNCTIONED -MAMUAL VALVE USED WHICH RUPTURED GASKET SPRAYING HOT BERYLIUM SOLUTION OVER RIGHT ARM. SOLUTIOM TEMP.TO 199 DEGREES 60% OF RIGHT ARM BURNED AND FIRST & S ECOND DEGREE BURNS