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MAINTENANCE EE WAS MAKING ADJUSTMENTS TO BAGGINGMACHINE AND GOT HIS FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN THE CONVEYOR BELT AND BEND PULLEY, FRACTURING FINGER.
GRINDING UNDERCUTTER BITS WITH A BIT GRINDER MACHINE.
MACHINE BROKE IN HALF AT PIVOT POINT.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING SMALL PIECE OF WOOD ON TABLE SAW.WITHOUT HAVING GUARD IN PLACE.WOOD JAMMED AND KICKED BACK,CAUSING TWO FINGERS ON LEFT HAND TO COME IN CONTACT WITH BLADE.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A HAND GRINDER ON THE GRILL OF AN LHD A METAL PARTICLE BECAME LODGED IN HIS EYE REQUIRING REMOVAL BY DOCTOR
WHILE INSERTING ROOF BOLT INTO HOLE. THE EMPLOYEE PLACED THE DRILL STEEL NEXT TO THE TRANSMISSION OF T EBOOM. WHEN HE RAISED THE BOOM THE STEEL STRUCK THE TRANSMISSION AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN THE RIGHT ARM.
EE WAS DRILLING A HOLE INTO THE SALT ROOF FOR A SURVEY POINT, WHEN SALT FELL INTO HIS EYE. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES. EE WAS GIVEN PRESCRIPTION FOR EYE DROPS.
EMPLOYEE STARTED HAND HELD GRINDER PRIOR TO PUTTING ON FACE SHIELD
EMPLOYEE WAS DOING A LOT OF BENDING, GETTING UP AND DOWN, WHILE WELDING ON A CONVEYOR.
WHEN GRINDING DRILL BIT WITH GRINDING STONE THE BIT SLIPPED OFF THE TOOL REST & EMPLOYEES LEFT INDEX FINGER CONTACTED THE SIDE OF THE GRINDING WHEEL.
WHILE ROOF BOLTING 36E MAIN LINE ADVANCE THE EE STRUCK THE SALT RIB WITH THE CANOPY WHEN RAISING OPERATORS BOOTH UP TO ROOF. A CHUNK OF SALT BROKE FREE AND STRUCK EE LEFT HAND EE WAS WEARING A GLOVE AT TIME OF ACCIDENT.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A 1/2" DRIVE RATCHET WRENCH. THE WRENCH SLIPPED CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE TO FALL AGAINST CONVEYOR BELT.
EMPLOYEE WAS CONDUCTING MONTHLY BLEEDING OF FIRE SPRINKER SYSTEM.AT ONE LOCATION THE WATER PRESSURE CAUSED THE BLEEDER LINE TO UNSCREW THE WATER PRESSURE TO BE MISDIRECTED STRIKING THE EMPLOYE E BEFORE HE COULD MOVE OUT OF THE WAY.
EE WAS DISLODGING A CHUNK OF SALT CAUGHT UNDER A MAGNET. THE MAGNET SWUNG AND PINCHED HIS LITTLE FINGER RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE SHAKER AND THE MAGNET.
68935 INSTALLING A ROOF BOLT INTO THE DRILL HOLE,THE BOLT BECAME HUNG UP.THE OPERATOR PUT TOO MUCH PRESSURE ON THE BOLT AND BOTTOM END OF THE BOLT KICKED OUT OF THE AUGER CHUCK STRIKING THE VI 33940ON THE CHIN.SUTURES REQUIRED.
EMPL OILING MACHINE WITH SMALL OIL CAN.MACHINE WAS RUNNING.OIL CAN WAS CAUGHT IN MOVING SHAFT AND SQUEEZED AGAINST FINGER CAUSING SEVERE LACERATION TO RIGHT HAND RING FINGER.
CUTTING OUT BENT SECTION OF BOOM,GREASE HIDDEN INSIDE BOOM CAVITY IGNITED.WHEN EMPL TRIED TO EXTINGUISH FIRE,HOT GREASE SPLASHED ONTO LEFT HAND.NO LOST TIME -LIGHT DUTY-BURNS.
ROOF BOLTING A SHELL FAILED AND BOLT WAS HANGING FROM THE CEILING STUCK.EMPL TRIED DRILLING ANOTHER HOLE BESIDE IT.DRILL STEEL GOT CAUGHT AGAINST THE BOLT.EMPL REMOVED ROTATION HEAD AND TRIED TO FREE THE STEEL BY HAND.THAT DIDNT WORK SO PUT THE R.HEAD BACK UP TO STEEL.THE 2 DIDNT LINE UP SO HE TURNED R.HEAD BY HAND.THE MACHINE JUMPED,HAND GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE 2.SUTURES WERE REQUI
WHILE USING AIR HAMMER CHIPPING BLACKTOP FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
EMPL TRAMMING #26 DRILL FROM 2L -4L IN 2 YDS WHEN DRILL RAN OVER A CHUNK THROWING CHUNK FROM UNDER TIRE STRIKING EMPL IN RIGHT ANKLE.EMPL ANKLE WAS BROKE AND SURGERY REQUIRED.
EMPL WAS CUTTING HOLE IN 1/2"STEEL PIECE WITH TORVH WHEN LARGE PUDDLE OF MOLTEN SLAG BLEW UP THEN FELL DOWN UNKNOWINGLY ONTO CREASE IN COVERALLS ABOVE LEFT BOOT. SLAG BURNED THROUGH COVERALLS & PANTS & ONTO LEG INSIDE TOP OF LACED BOOT. HE RECEIVED 2ND TO 3RD DEGREE BURNS ON FRONT OF LEFT LEG ABOVE ANKLE.
WHILE ROOF BOLTING AT THE ROOF LINE, INJURED NEEDED TO GET A BOLT FROM BOTH HOLDER. ONE BOLT WAS STANDING UP HITTING THE ROOF & WAS SLIGHTLY BOWED FROM PRESSURE. INJURED HAD HIS HAND ON THE BO LT WHEN PRESSURE WAS TAKEN OFF BOLT CAUSING HIS FINGER TO GET PINCHED.
UWHILE INSTALLING LOWER SECTION OF 14' COMBINATION BOLT ANOTHER EMPL WAS THREADING ONE ELT SECTION TO OTHER ABOVE EYE LEVEL. HE HAD LOWER SECTION FROM HANDS & IT STRUCK INJURED ON RT ARM.
GRINDING METAL USING SIDE OF GRINDING STONE STRUCK R HAND JUST BELOW LITTLE FINGER AGAINST STONE SUTURES REQ
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO FREE AUGER WHICH WAS STUCK AND HAD FOOT ON TOP OF TOE GUARD PROTECTION PLATE.HE HIT THE WRONG HANDLE AND ROOF BOLT TRANSMISSION CAME DOWN AND STRUCK HIS FOOT(RIGHT).
DOOR CAME DOWN IN FRONT OF GETMAN-HIT WINDSHIELD, CHUNK BROKE OFF AND FLEW HITTING OPERATOR IN CHEEK ON LEFT SIDE OF FACE AND LIP. DOOR WAS TRIPPED BY TRACTOR OPERATOR WHO WENT THROUGH DOOR AH EAD OF VEHICLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A BROKEN CUTTER BIT WHICH HAD BECOME WEDGED BETWEEN THE CHAIN AND THE STAR. HE TRIED TO DISLODGE IT WITH A HAMMER BUT IT WOULDN'T MOVE. HE THEN USED A TORCH TO CUT THE BIT OUT. WHEN IT CAME LOOSE, THE CHAIN SNAPPED HITTING THE TORCH TIP HELD BY THE EMPLOYEE CAUSING IT TO FLY UP AND STRIKE HIM IN THE MOUTH.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING ROOF BOLT MACHINE. HE HAD HIS FOOT OFF THE FLOOR ON TOP OF THE FLOOR PLATE WHILE LOWERING THE TRANSMISSION. THE TRANSMISSION CAME DOWN AND CAUGHT HIS FOOT BETWEEN THE BO TTOM OF THE TRANSMISSION AND THE FOOT GUARD.
DRILLING WITH A HAMMER DRILL, GLOVE GOT CAUGHT IN DRILL STEEL AND BROKE INDEX FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS SAND BLASTING STEEL AT TRACK#10 CAR HAUL BLDG HE STRUCK KNEE ON ANGLE IRON EMPLOYEE WAITED THREE MONTHS BEFORE SEEING A DOC THIS WAS NOT PREVIOUSLY REPORTED AS WE WERE WAITING FOR A DETAILED REPORT FROM THE DOC REPORT STILL NOTRECEIVED WE HAD HEARD THE DIAGNOSIS WAS ARTHRITIS
EE STATED THAT HE WAS IN THE SHAFT POCKET TO GET A MEASUREMENT AND HAD HIS ARM EXTENDED BEHIND AN ANGLE IRON BRACE THAT WAS PART OF THE DUST COVER ON THE SURGE TANK. HE SAID HE WAS ABOUT TO GE T A MEASUREMENT WHEN THE NORTH GATE ON THE LOADIING CHUTE BEGAN TO OPEN. THE GATE CAUGHT HIS LEFT ARM IN THE PINCH POINT BETWEEN THE EDGE OF THE GATE AND THE ANGLE IRON, CAUSING AN INJURY.
LEFT HAND GLOVE GOT CAUGHT IN ROTARY HAMMER DRILL BIT AND BENT 3 FINGERS BACKWARDS. DRILL DISENGAGED AND THEN WAS ABLE TO RELEASE HAND. APPLIED COLD WATER IMMEDIATELY TO KEEP DOWN SWELLING RES ULTS 3 FINGERS ON LEFT HAND INJURED 1 FRACTURED STRAINED LIGAMENTS ON ALL THREE.
WHILE GRINDING STEEL PLATE WITH HAND GRINDER I. NAME FELT SOMETHING HOT IN LEFT EYE
PASTED TORCH OVER HAND WHEN LOST BALANCE AFTER CUTTING BOLT BURNED FINGERS ON LEFT HAND
WELDING ON COV9R OF LHD, KNELT ON PIECE OF HOT SLAG, BURNING KNEE. INFECTION SET IN
WELDING DOOR ON7O TRANSFER HOPPER DOOR SLIPPED OFF AND STRUCK EMPLOYEES RT FOOT FRACTURE TO SMALL TOE
I,NAME BROUGHT 7HE HEAD DOWN TOO FAST CAUSING DRILL STEEL TO JAM HIS FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING THREADS ON PIPE NIPPLE AND GOT HAND TOO CLOSE TO WIRE BRUSH ON GRINDER. SKINNED INDEX FINGER LEFT HAND.
EMPL WORKING WI7H FOREMAN AND ANOTHER EMPL TO DETERMINE PROBLEM WITH BIT GRINDING MACHINE.GRINDING WHEEL WAS IN MOTION AND GRINDING BIT WHEN PIECE AND WENT BETWEEN GLASSES AND CORNER OF INJURE D EYE. 3
EMPLOYEE ALLEGE8 RIDING (OPERATING) SMALL WAGNER-BULLDOZER IN 7 EAST & BUMPED SHOULDER ON VEHICLE HE WAS OPERATING (DID NOT REPORT INCIDENT TO HIS FOREMAN OR SUPERVISOR)
UNDERCUTTER OPE9ATOR WAS PARKING CUTTER IN 7XE YARD, PULLED CUTTER UP TOO FAR AND STARTED TO BACK IT UP JUST AS YARD HELPER REACHED TO SHUT OFF WATER AS CUTTER BACKED UP, IT RAN OVER YARD HELP S LEFT FOOT. 3
BRAKE FAILURE W2ILE MACHINE WAS ON THE SLOPE RESULTING IN MULTIPLE INJURIES TO I,NAME.
EE WAS BEING TR5INED ON T HE OPERATION OF A ROAD GRADER. AFTER BEING INSTRUCTED THE OPERATOR PUT THE MACHINE IN GEAR POPPING THE CLUTCH TOO QUICKLY CAUSING THE EE TO FALL BACKWARD STRIKING H IS BACK. 3
EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG A 1/2 IN DRILL TO DRILL OUT A HOLE HE WAS SITTING ON A BUCKET HOLDING THE DRILL LEVEL IN ORDER TO DRILL A STRAIGHT HOLE THE DRILL BIT HUNG UP AS IT WENT THROUGH THE METAL TH E DRILL HANDLE 7O TWIST OUT OF THE EMPLOYEES GRIP SPINNING AROUND STRIKING HIM IN LEFT KNEE CAP
EMP HAD LIT A W9DLING TORCH FOR A FELLOW EMPLOYEE AS HE POSITIONED HIMSELF TO BEGIN WELDING HE STUMBLED ON A SALT PILE AND HIS WELDING TORCH CAME IN CONTACT WITH INJUREDS LEFT WRIST AND HAND CAUSING A BURN 3
EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING ON THE WEST POCKET OF THE SERVICES CAGE.HE WAS WELDING WITH STAINLESS STEEL ROD.HE WAS WEARING A WELDING MASKWITH HIS OWN PERSONAL FACE GLASSES UNDERNEATH(WITHOUT SIDE SHI ELDS)HE ADVISED HE HEARD THE WELD SLAG POP & THE HEARD A PIECE OF SLAG SEARCHING AROUND INSIDE THE HEAD LODGING IN HIS LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A 220V HAND DRILL TO DRILL HOLES INTO SALT THAT HAD BUILT UP IN BACK OF A CONVEYOR BELT HE WAS IN PROCESS OF DRILLING WHEN AUGER HIT SOMETHING CAUSING DRILL TO BIND UP TORQ UE ON DRILL WAS THEN TOO MUCH FOR EMPLOYEE TO HANDLE SO HE LOST CONTROL HANDLE OF DRILL SPUN AROUND & HIT EMPLOYEE IN THE FACE
RECURRENCE OF OLD INJURY. WHILE TRAMMING IN MAIN HEADING, HIT CHUNK OF ROCK SALT AND BOUNCED UP IN VEHICLE, BUMPING HEAD AND NECK.
EMP WAS ADJUSTING THE SADDLES ON AN AUTOMATIC BAGGING MACHINE WHEN HE INADVERTANTLY TOUCHED THE PNUEMATIC VALVE ON THE MACHINE WITH HIS SHOULDER THIS CAUSED THE SADLE TO ACTIVATE AND HIS ARM WAS CAUGHT IN A PINCHPOINT
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING BOLTS OFF 4 MILL BELT TAIL WIPERS. A PORSTION OF THE WIPER CAUGHT FIRE. INJURED ATTEMPTED TO PUT FIRE OUT BY PUTTING FINE SAFT ON FLAME WHILE ATEEMPTING THIS INJURIES STU