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THE EMPLOYEE, A3MAINTENANCE 4, WAS WALKING BETWEEN SILOS AND RAILROAD TRACKS NEAR LIME LOADOUT FACILITY WHEN LIME PARTICLES ENTERED HIS EYE. ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIPTION SUPPLIED.
INJURY OCCURRED3WHILE REMOVING DIFFERENTIAL FROM 560B ENDLOADER.AN IMPACT WRENCH WAS USED TO REMOVE DIFFERENTIAL BOLTS.EMPLOYEE WAS USING RIGHT HAND TO SUPPORT WRENCH AND LEFT HAND WAS USED TO OPERATE THE SW3TCH.WHEN BOLT BACKED OUT IT MOVED IMPACT WRENCH BACK PINNING FINGER BETWEEN WRENCH AND CROSSMEMBER ON LOADER FRME.WHEN BOLT DID BREAK LOOSE,IT CAME BACK AT A VERY RAPID PACE,HI
AS EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING PAST THE #3 DUST COLLECTOR HE OBSERVED THAT DUST WAS SESEPING FROM THE #3 KILN BY-PASS STACK BECAUSE A DAMPER WAS NOT COMPLETELY CLOSED THE DAMPER POSITIONER IS LOCATED ON A STRUCTURE WHICH IS APPROX 3 FT HIGH HE CLIMBED ONTO THAT STRUCTURE REMOVED THE GUARD FROM THE DRIVE AND ATTEMPTED TO CLOSE THE DAMPER BY PULLING ON THE V-BELTS HE DID NOT TURN OFF AND
USING PORTABLE GRINDER TO SMOOTH SURFACE ON LOADER BUCKET ARM.GRINDER HIT ROUGH SPOT THROWING FRGRINDER FROM EMPL GRIP.GRINDER BLADE BRUSHED ACROSS LEFT FOREARM AND LEFT UPPER ARM.SUSTAINED LA CERATIONS TO LEFT FOREARM AND LEFT UPPER ARM.
INJURED WAS SANDING WELDS ON THE #3 ROTARY KILN WEST DUST CHAMBER SCREW SLIDE GATES USING A PORTABLE CIRCULAR SANDER. EMPLOYEE WAS USING THE DAN SANDER IN A KNEELING POSITION WITH THE OBJECT H E WAS SANDING ON BETWEEN HIS KNEES. AS THE EMPLOYEE PULLED THE SANDER TOWARDS HIS BODY THE SANDER JUMPED AND SLID ACROSS HIS LEFT KNEE. THE EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A LACERATION TO THE LEFT KNEE.