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The employee was blowing the chutes on the first floor screens. As employee was doing this task EE had piece a dirt get in EE's eye. EE was wearing all PPE including safety glasses.
Employee was jackhammering debris when the chisel point dropped through the grate and caused the jackhammer to jerk back.
A millwright was working outside of the maintenance shop on a hopper that the millwright was building for the CKD briquetter. While drilling a pilot hole for a liner, a 1/8" drill bit broke. Once the 1/8" drill bit broke, it pierced the leather gloves at the seam. The seam was between the thumb & index finger. The drill bit went into millwright's flesh about 1/4" deep.
Dozer operator was ripping on the quarry floor with a CAT D-10 when they hit a large rock, due to the nature of the ripped material the dozer was on uneven ground and the employee jarred their neck and mid back due to the side to side motion. The employee was diagnosed with a neck strain and thoracic back pain, they were prescribed medication and given modified work duty.
There were 2 crews of 2 welding the ring on the shell at the same time. The affected EE was wearing a welding PAPR while EE was welding, but had the shield up while EE did the fitting work. As EE fitted the iron, the other crew continued to weld about 6 feet to the left. On June 10th EE woke up with eye irritation. EE sought medical attention and was suffering from welding flash.
Employees were removing a coupling from a reducer shaft. As the coupling was being heated with a gas torch, a puller was being used to apply hydraulic pressure to the coupling. A piece of the coupling broke off and struck the employee that was holding the torch.
Employee was holding/watching porta power for pushing the shrink disk on reducer. Lafarge employee pushed a button as the employee turned back and it caused the porta power to jump and strike him in the face cutting his lip and chipping 2 teeth.
Employee struck across both legs by high pressure water spray.
Employee was cutting old conveyor with torch, as he cut a piece of angle the angle had unseen stored energy causing it to strike the employee's right hand causing a cut and swelling in the knuckle.
Employee was sizing piece of 3/8 hard plate w/ hydraulic shear. The employee pushed piece into the shear to position it then operated the foot control while stabilizing the piece with his hand. When the shear came down the piece lifted off the shear and pinched his middle finger on his left hand between the work piece and hand guard. Employee received 6 stitches
Employee was balancing kiln ID fan. He had welded a balance weight to the side of the fan wheel and was wire wheeling the slag off his weld with a 4" grinder when it came in contact with the edge of the fan wheel and got ripped from his grasp. The grinder hit his chest, ran up his coat and hit his chin. Causing employee to receive 1 internal stitch and 3 external stitches.
EE production utility operator, was air-lancing a vessel in the prehater tower when he wrenched his right elbow. He did experence some swelling at the joint and was taken to a local clinic for examination. The physician aspirated the joint, removing a small amount of fluid. He returned to work without complication.
Drilling hole thru diamond plated decking, Drill bit caught as it was penetrating deck and spun the drill body twisting employee's right ring finger.
Pushing and pulling air lance to clear plastics line.
Back strain while operating drill. Sitting in twisted position for 2 hrs - didn't realize seat swiveled. Found release knob on side of seat & rest of shift the seat swiveled. However, some back discomfort at end of shift. 2 days later, he reported increased back pain, sought medical attn & was prescribed a Rx & light duty.
Cutting 1/8th aircraft cable, a tooth caught on the blade, pulling finder into the blade, leaving a 1' cut. Contractor did receive stitches.
While operating jackhammer felt a pull in groin area.
Employee was using an air lance to clear a blockage from an air slide on 9/19/2012, he felt that he "strained" his right shoulder. Employee did not see a physician until he felt it was necessary on 9/28/2012.
Employee was welding on the boat-loader catwalk, in the shop. He was wearing his welding helmet & safety glasses. He raised his welding helmet while grinding the slag off the weld when a piece of foreign material got past his safety glasses and into his eye.
Employee exited overhead crane cab at end of shift. While traversing walkway to leave, an AC unit cooling fan engaged creating a draft. Employee was wearing safety glasses but some dust particulate entered his left behind them.
Ee had begun to clean the riser with a water lance, when a large piece of build-up dislodged. As the material fell, some of it struck the end of the lance causing it to hit the Ee's aluminized hood. The Ee's hood flew up striking the Ee on the cheek and causing a laceration. The employee had to have 8 sutures to close the wound which was approx 1" in length.
Employee was using an impact tool and punctured his left index finger. He was wearing leather gloves and was able to control the bleeding and placed a bandaid on the finger. He left work at 5pm, but when he got home he noticed pressure in the fingernail area and sought treatment at St Lukes ER in Lee's Summit, MO. Pressure was relieved from nail,two stitches were placed in finger.
While pulling bags employee felt pain in lower back right side.
Employee was dislodging chunk from feeder. There is a cross bar on the feeder and employee was using this as leverage. The poker slipped off and at the same time his feet slipped causing left arm tripping the stop-cord. This tripped a pneumatic gate to prevent spills. When the gate closed his right hand ended up pinched between the gate and cross bar.
Employee welding on overhead collector pipe in raw grind. Felt burn near right eye. Took off mask and wiped spark away, washed eye with saline. Incident reported to supervisor. Days later eye became irritated and employee sought medical treatment. Doctor removed residue from small piece of metal and employee given prescription for medication.
While cleaning the preheat tower, a chunk of material broke loose from above. Then material fell below, hitting the Woma gun the employee was using to clean the Preheat Tower and the Woma gun handle hit employee in the lip, causing a laceration.
Employee was using the shop plasma cutter. Laid the plasma handle on his left thigh as he bent down to move the angle iron. The plasma gun has a yellow safety switch caught on a piece of clothing and pushed it forward, then the red main trigger was depressed while he was moving. With both of these activated, the plasma cutter turned on and burned him in two areas.
Employee came to control room complaining of lower back pain and thought he had kidney stones. He was taken to OHS Clinic where diagnosis was lower back strain.
Employee was breaking up bridged material in cone; rock flew up and struck him finger causing a fracture.
Employee was removing liner plates from ball mill. He was welding and a hot piece of metal fell onto his right foot causing a burn.
Employee was using cutting torch when wind shifted and a spark flew up into his left ear, causing burn. At that time, employee shut off cutting torch and flushed ear with water. Incident reported to supervisor 4/28/08 when employee sought medical treatment. Referred to specialist in May for treatment.
A welder received flash burns to the eyes from reflection inside a 10 inch bore. Employee received prescription meds and return to work.
Employee was welding on quarry drill when he felt a flash in his right eye while striking a welding arc. He notified his supervisor and applied eye drops for flash. A couple of days later eye was still irritated and employee sought medical treatment. Doctor removed piece of foreign material from eye, installed a contact lens and gave him a prescription for eye drops.
Ee was operating a 40lb rock drill to drill a 1 1/2" hole in boulder which was stuck in the opening of rock hopper. Having difficulty starting the hole Ee reached down to the lower end of the hammer to help guide the drill steel & bit with his leather gloved right hand. When ee applied air to the drill, right middle finger was caught between the drill & the end of hammer.
Employee was kneeling on 496 belt using a REMA belt buffing disc, which is highly abrasive, to make a groove for belt repair patch to fit in. Disc then gripped belt that was getting hot and sticky from grinding, causing grinder to twist and kick back into knee.
Employee welding on Fletcher scaler pick rotation standing on bottom rung of ladder. He was wearing rubber boots with pant legs tucked inside. Spark fell into boot and burned top of left foot. Employee removed boot and had red area size of quarter on top of foot. Pain ceased, put boot back on, placed pants over boots to prevent a reoccurence. Did not report to spv til 7/9/07.
On 6/27/07 employee reported that at approx. 2:30 P.M. on the previous day, his eye started bothering him, which he thought was his contact lense, because he could not identify anything in particular he was doing that would bother his eye. The employee had been doing some jackhammering and may have gotten dust in eye without realizing it.
Employee was tightening a bolt when his glove was caught in between the washer and the frame.
Demoing steel. Cutting angle from beam. Finger pinched between angle & beam.
Employee was seal passing and grinding a seam on the kiln.
Employee was using a cutting torch and a hot piece of slag fell between his cutting goggles and safety glasses hitting his left eye.
Employee was air lancing hard material out of 225 impactor chute to allow contractors in to do blow bar welding. Material was hard and air lance was a little shorter than needed to perform job. While air lancing, the lance deflected off material and hand went into opening causing a pinch of the finger and the door frame.
Employee was lowering boom on drill. Boom caught edge of his hardhat and flipped it off. Employee bent over to pick it up and when he straighted, he hit his head on the boom. Laceration requiring sutures.
While cutting off bolts on old purline with torches, employee was bending over doing this work. When employee stood upright, his back started hurting.
On 10/11/06 employee reported to supervisor that his back was sore due to work he was doing on 10/7/06. Employee reported using chipping gun overhead to remove buildup of material in elephant trunk of #4 RR belt head pulley. On 10/12/06 at the end of the shift he went to doctor and returned to work on the 13th reporting that he had gone to the doctor.
While cleaning riser with woma lance, chunk fell off wall hitting end of lance and driving handle up under chin.
Employee was using a jackhammer to break away chunks on the silo's cone. When some chunks broke loose it pivoted the jackhammer upward snapping Tracy's arm upward. It appeared the right elbow was hyper-extended.
Employee was using a 45 pound jackhammer when jackhammer became stuck in cement. After jackhammer was freed, employee reported that his right wrist was a little sore at the end of the shift but that it grew increasingly worse overnight. Employee reported injury at the beginning of his shift the following day.
Employee was grinding on the bottom of an old MCC to remove rust and dirt so new steel could be welded to unit and the steel dust went around his safety glasses and into his eyes.
Employee was working on empting #1 kiln hot air cyclone when it flushed shooting dust out of a broken cap. The hot dust burned him on his neck and face.