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May 6, 1989 OK · Metal/Non-Metal shaft repair, skip tender, station tender MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL WAS USING JACKHAMMER IN CONFINED AREA & ALSO IN AWKWARD POSITION.

April 10, 1989 CO · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL BEGAN DAY WITN NO APPARENT PROBLEMS. HE WAS ASSIGN4ED TO JOB WHICH REQUIRED INSTALLATION & WELDING OF ACCESS DOORS TO #1 CLINKER ELEVATOR. WHILE DOING THIS COLD WIND WAS BLOWING ON BACK. FOLLOWING MORNING HE CALLED IN TO SAY THAT HE WAS GOING TO CHIROPRACTOR TO HAVE BACK POPPED IN PLACE PROCEDURE HE HAD DONE ON TWO OTHER OCCASSIONS AFTER SEEING CHIRPRACTOR HE WENT HOME WAN'T B

March 17, 1989 OK · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS USING AN ANGLE DISK GRINDER WHEN IT GRABBED AND KICKED BACK HITTING HIM IN THE RIGHT LEG CAUSING A CUT.

February 13, 1989 OK · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

SAW MED ASTTENTION 2-13-89 BUT DID NOT KNOW IT WAS WORK RELATED ON 4-11-89 SAW MED AND DR. DETERM. WIRJ REKATED DATE OF INJ IS APPROX.

January 23, 1989 OK · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO START AN UNGUARDED HAND-HELD GRINDER WHEN HIS FINGER SLIPPED AND WAS CUT BY GRINDER BLADE.

December 19, 1988 OK · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HELPING WELDER FORM CHERRY PCIKER ON 1 FINISH MILL WHEN TRAPPED WELDING CORD ON FINGER CUASING HIM TO SCRAPE HIS KNUCKLE APPLIE FRIST AID BU T ON 2-13-89 REQ. MED ATTENTION DUE KNOT ON KNUCKLE .

December 3, 1988 OK · Metal/Non-Metal MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING JACKHAMMER OVERHEAD TO REMOVE CASTABLE FROM 2 KILN NOSE RING WHEN HE NOTICED PAIN IN CHEST.

August 11, 1988 OK · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

EMPLOYEE WAS SPRAYING WATER ON CLINKER INCLINE AND WAS BURNED BY STEAM.

July 6, 1988 OK · Metal/Non-Metal shaft repair, skip tender, station tender MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EMPLOYEE WAS REFUELING THE FORKLIFT WHEN THE NOZZLE CAME OFF THE HOSE ALLOWING GASOLINE TO SPRAY IN HIS FACE AND EYE.

June 13, 1988 UT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

INJURED WAS WELDING ON #1 COLLER STACK FAN IN THE FAN HOUSING AND HAD A HOT SPARK FALL BEHINE THE TONGUE OF HIS SHOE. HE SUFFERED 2ND AND THIRD DEGREE BURNS TO HIS LEFT INSTEP. TOTAL BURN AR EA IS 4 CENTIMETERS IN DIAMETER WITH A ONE CENTIMETER THIRD DEGREE BURNED AREA. REMAINING BURN AREA IS SECOND DEGREE BURN.

March 2, 1988 OK · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Struck by flying object

SANDBLASTING CEMENT PUMP SCREWS - HE HAD SIDE SHIELD GLASSES AND ROAD AN BUT SAND STILL ENTERED RIGHT EYE.

February 17, 1988 OK · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

KILN PENION PILLOW BLOCK SLIPPED AND MASHED FINGER.

January 5, 1988 OK · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

OPERATING JACKH5MMER IN TANK AREA LIFT HAMMER INJURED BACK.

January 4, 1988 UT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE AL 3 LEGEDLY INJURED HER SHOULDER 01-04-889NO WITNESSES.SHE DID NOT REPORT THE INCIDENT .SHE CONTACTED DR.ON 01-13-88 AND HE PRESCRIBED A RX OVER TH E PHONE.SHE WEN7 TO DR. ON 01-23-88 AND RECEIVED CORTISONE SHOTS AND HER ARM WAS PUT IN A SLING.I(NAME) NOTICED THE SLING 02-02-88 AND QUESTIONED THE EVENTS OF THE ACCIDENT AND SUBSEQUENTLY FI

October 22, 1987 OK · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HOOKING MILL RO2M CRANE TO MAGNET FOR ATTACHING TO HOPPER USED IN DUMPING BALLS INTO MILL RT THUMB WAS MASHED WHEN CRANE HOOK MOVED

September 11, 1987 UT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

INJURED WAS LYI3G UNDER COAL MILL, PULLING ON THE DRIVE BELTS TO ALIGN BEARING SET SCREWS FOR TIGHTENING. HIS COVERALLS GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BELTS AND THE ROTOR SHEAVE. HE GRABBED THE BELTS TO STOP THE SH9AVE FROM TURNING AND HIS FINGER GOT PINCHED BETWEEN THE BELT AND THE ROTOR SHEAVE. HE HAD NO PROBLEM UNTIL 9-15-87 WHEN HIS FINGER BECAME SWOLLEN AND INFECTED. THE FINGER WAS L

July 23, 1987 OK · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Struck by flying object

WORKING IN AREA3OF COMPRESSOR AT 3 KILN PICK CUTTING DRILLING WELDING ON COMPRESSOR GOT SOMETHING N RIGHT EYE.

May 29, 1987 OK · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INJURED WAS USI3G JACKHAMMER INSIDE GRINDING MILL. SOMETHING STRUCK HIS CHEST.

March 18, 1987 UT · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

I NAME 3 PLACED HER HAND BETWEEN THE BIT HOLDING LEVER AND THE JACKHAMMER BODY IN ORDER TO POSITION THE JACKHAMMER. WHEN SHE ACUMUATED THE TRIGGER THE LE VER CLOSED ON H9R HAND.

February 13, 1987 OK · Metal/Non-Metal shopman repair cars, mechanic MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

LIFTING SHAFT O6T OF LATHE HIT WRONG CONTROL BUTTOM CAUSING LOAD TO GO WRONG DIRECTION JERKED BACK TRYING TO MOVE OUT OF THE WAY

December 29, 1986 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EMP INHALED FUM9S FROM ACETYLEN TORCH USED TO CUT AN OBSOLETE BELT CONVEYOR BY A W ELDER EMP DEVELOPED NAUSEA AND HEADACHE FROM BREATHING FUMES

November 13, 1986 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Struck by flying object

WHILE CLEANING 7LINKER ELEVATOR PIT, A PARTICAL OF DUST BECAME LODGED IN EMPLOYEE'S EYE. A JACK HAMMER WAS BEING USED. CONDITIONS WERE NOT VERY DUSTY. IT IS POSSIBLE AIR FLOW JACK HAMMER MAY H AVE CAUSED A DU8TY CONDITION.

October 3, 1986 UT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Struck by flying object

WHILE CHIPPING 5 WELD APIECE OF SLAG ENTERED HIS LEFT EYE CAUSING IRRITATION.THE NEXT DAY INFECTION HAD BEGUN AND HE WAS SEEN BY A DOCTOR.

August 25, 1986 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG AN AIR LANCE TO CLEAR AWAY CLINKER DUST TO ENABLE HIM TO PULL OUT CAGES THAT WERE ENTWINED IN THE CLINKER DUST SCREW CONVEYOR WHILE BLOWING THIS MATERIAL A PARTICLE OF CLINK ER DUST BOUNCED3AND EMBEDDED ITSELF IN HIS LEFT EYE FIRST AID WAS RENDERED

August 19, 1986 OK · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

OPERATING SWEEP9R ON KILN BURNER FLOOR, LIFTED BACK OF SWEEPER AND INJURED NECK

May 31, 1986 CO · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Flash burns (welding)

EMPLOYEE WAS AS8IGNED TO BUILD UP THE BREAKER BARS IN THE PRIMARY CRUSHER UTILIZING AN AUTOMATIC WELDING MACHINE. HE RECIEVED SEVERAL ARE FLASHES THROUGHOUT THE DAY WHILE CHECKEING THE MACHINE ALSO SOME REFL9CTION WAS RECIEVED INSIDE HIS HOOD WHILE HE WAS INSIDE THE CRUSHER.

May 14, 1986 UT · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Struck by falling object

A 350 MILL LIFT9R FELL WHEN HOISTING CABLE CAUGHT ON EDGE OF MILL MANHOLE ALLOWING CHOKER TO LOOSEN.LIFTER FELL INTO MILL AND OUT OF THE BOTTOM.MANHOLE STRIKING EMPL RIGHT FOOT.

April 17, 1986 OK · Metal/Non-Metal shaft repair, skip tender, station tender MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Struck against stationary object

INJ TRYING TO S7RAIGHTEN BAG OF CEMENT IN AIR WASH BOX WHEN BAG TOUCHED TRIP IT TURNED AIR ON,THEN JERKED HAND AND CUT RIGHT HAND ON AIR TRIP.

February 26, 1986 UT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

HE WAS WELDING 3N THE SEPARATOR WHEN A GLOB AOA OF MOLTEN METAL WENT DOWN HIS COVERALLS LODGING AGAINST HIS LEG AND SCROTUM.

January 3, 1986 OK · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

WELDING IN PRIM5RY CRUSHER WEARING ORDINARY GLOVES SLAG FELL INTO CUFF OF GLOVE & BURNED LEFT FOREARM

December 18, 1985 CO · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG POWER GRINDER ON OUTSIDE OF KILN SHELL ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS ON A LADDER ABOVE THE INJURY EMPLOYEE EMPLOYEE ABOVE YELLED TO HIM & WHEN HE LOOKED UP PARTICLES OF MATERIAL FELL INTO HIS EYES F9OM HIS FACE SHIELD A SMALL PARTICLE WAS IMBEDDED IN CORNEA EMPLOYEE WASHED OUT EYE & FINISHED SHIFT HE WENT TO PHYSICIAN NEXT DAY AFTER EXPERIENCING DISCOMFORT

December 18, 1985 OK · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Flash burns (electric)

WELDING IN DUST3COLLECTOR RECEIVED FLASH BURNS TO BOTH EYES

November 13, 1985 OK · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INJURED WAS GRI3DING PADS ON NO.2 KILN WHEN ARM SLIPPED OFF TRUNION ROLL CAUSING GRINDER TO STRIKE LEFT FOREARM

November 1, 1985 OK · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Struck by falling object

ATTEMPTING TO L3NE UP HEAD OF SUMP PUMP AND INSERT HEAD BOLT CRANE WINCH LINE ALLOWED HEAD TO DROP MASHING MIDDLE LEFT FINGER

October 10, 1985 UT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS WASHING ON A CASTABLE MIXER WITHOUT LEAVING THE GUARD IN PLACE AND CAUGHT HIS RT. HAND AND A WATERHOSE IN THE MIXER BLADES.

May 4, 1985 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING JACKHAMMER OVERHEAD TO LOOSEN DUST BUILDUP IN CLINKER COOLER REAR GRATE SECTION.MATERIAL CAME LOOSE SUDDENLT THROWING EMPLOYEE OFF BALANCE.EMPLOYEE JUMPED 1 1/2 FOOT TO GR ATES AND CAUGHT JACKHAMMER CAUSING BACK MUSCLE STRAIN.

April 23, 1985 UT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE PLACED HAND ON A SPEADER BAR TO STEADY THE MOLD FOR A BABBIT MIN PREARATORY TO REMOVING THE MEWLY CAST BEARING AS THE MOLD WAS LOOSENED IT SHIFTED CATCHING HIS RIGHT THUMB BETWEEN THE SPREADER BAR AND LIFTING EYE, AMPATATING THE THUMB DISTAL TO THE 1ST JOINT.

January 18, 1985 OK · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

HOLDING CABLE S5ING AROUND BARREL OF GRINDING BALLS OVERHEAD CRANE WAS TO PICK UP BARRELS AND DUMP INTO MILL.

June 20, 1984 OK · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Fall from ladders

EMPLOYEE WA INVESTIGATING WHY AN AIRSLIDE WAS PLUGGED. WHILE DOING SO IT PUFFED INTO HIS FACE. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL ABOUT THREE FEET OFF THE LADDER, LANDING HEAVILY ON HIS HEEL. HE FIN ISHED HIS SHIFT BUT SWELLING BECAME SEVERE LATER IN THE DAY

May 11, 1984 OK · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Struck by rolling or sliding object

HE WAS WELDING IN THE KILN LAYING ON HIS SIDE HE SET THE STINGER DOWN AND WENT TO GET UP AND THE STINGER ROLLED AND STRUCK HIS LEG HE JUMPED AND FELT A POP IN HIS BACK HE REPORTED THE ACCIDENT MAY 14

February 1, 1983 UT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Struck by falling object

WORKING ON CLEANUP AND STRUCK BYY FALLING KILN TRUNION ROLL ASSEMBLY WHEN HOISTING SLING FAILED.

January 21, 1983 OK · Metal/Non-Metal carpenter MACHINERY
Ideal Basic Industries Inc · Struck by falling object

EE WAS USING A SMALL JACKHAMMER TOR EMOVE COSTABLE IN THE CLINKER COOLER. A CHUNK FELL & STRUCK HIS LEFT FOOT JUST BEHIND THE STEEL TOE OF HIS BOT.

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