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EMPLOYEE WATCHED THE WELDER BEING OPERATED RESULTING IN A BURN TO HIS EYES.
PRESSURIZED FROZEN PROCESS LINE WITH AIR BEHIND THE BLOCKAGE. TO FORCE ICE OUT OPEN END OF LINE. EMPLOYEE STEPPED IN FRONT OF OPEN END AS ICE BLEW FROM LINE. ICE STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE FRACTUR ING HIS RIGHT LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING FURNACE LINING WHEN JACK HAMMER SLIPPED CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL AGAINST STEE HORN CUTTING FOREARM
I,NAME WAS REPAIRING RAISERS, USED FOR SPRINKLING LEACH PAD, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE PIPE MACHINE AS FAR AS INVESTIGATION GOES, THE SECTION OF PIPE, (RISER), WAS INSTALLED CROOKED IN THE MA CHINE. EMPLOYEE THEN STEPPED ON PEDAL TO START HE MACHINE. THE FORWARD REVERSE SWITH WAS IN THE OFF POSITION SO EMPLOYEE LEANED OVER SUPPORTING HIMSELF WITH HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE MACHINE AND
HE WAS DRILLING SMALL HOLES IN AN OIL PAN TO STOP CRACKS FROM SPREADING WHILE WELDING ON IT. THE DRILL BIT BROKE AND A PIECE OF IT CAME UP UNDER HIS WELDING HELMET AND HIT HIS EYE. A MARK ON H IS EYE COULD BE SEEN SO SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION. TREATMENT CONSISTED OF ANTIBIOTIC AND PATCH.
AFTER INVESTIGATION IT WAS FOUND THE RETORT WAS NOT ELIMINATING ALL OF THE MERCURY. THEREFORE WHEN IT WAS PULLED OUT AND WHILE BEING FIRED IN FURNACE MERCURY VAPORS WERE PRESENT IN ATMOSPHERE. AS A RESULT MERCURY LEVELS BECAME HIGH IN I.NAME AND HE HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THIS AREA UNTIL RETORT HAS BEEN TAKEN CARE OF AND MERCURY LEVEL HAS BECOME NORMAL.
AFTER INVESTIGATION IT WAS FOUND THE RETORT WAS NOT ELIMINATING ALL OF THE MERCURY. THEREFORE WHEN IT WAS PULLED OUT AND WHILE BEING FIRED IN FURNACE MERCURY VAPORS WERE PRESENT IN THE ATMOSPH ERE. AS A RESULT MERCURY LEVELS BECAME HIGH IN I.NAME SO SHE HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THIS AREA UNTIL RETORT HAS BEEN TAKEN CARE OF AND MERCURY LEVEL HAS BECOME NORMAL.