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EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON KILN FIRING FLOOR WHEN LIME DUST BLEW INTO HIS EYE. SAFETY GLASSES WERE BEING WORN AT THE TIME.
LIME BLEW OFF CONVEYOR BELT AND INTO EYE OF EE. EE WASHED EYE OUT AND WENT ON ABOUT HIS BUSINESS. FIRST AID PLANT--THE EE DID NOT REPORT THIS INCIDENT IN A TIMELY MANNER--WAITED 2 WKS. TO REPO RT THE INDICENT, BU THEN THE EYE HAD AN INFECTION AND MEDICATION WAS PRESCRIBED FOR TREATMENT.
ONE WORKER WENT AMUCK AND STARTED DEMOLISHING MINE PROPERTY WITH A FRONT END LOADER. HE WENT AFTER HIS FOREMAN WITH THE LOADER AND KILLED HIM. THE POLICE HAD TO SHOOT THE OPERATOR OF THE LOADE R IN ORDER TO GET HIM TO STOP. THIS IS CLASSIFIED AS A HOMICIDE AND NO PRELIMINARY WAS COMPLETED.
INJURED WAS PERFORMING MAINTENANCE WORK IN BASEMENT AREA WHEN EXITING BASEMENT AREA, NOTIECED A PROBLEM WITH HIS LEFT KNEE. INJURED DID NOT GO TO DR UNTIL 1/22/98. BECAME REPORTABLE ON 3/13/98
EE SAID HE WAS MOVING RAILCARS WITH A SKIPLOADER WHEN THE WIND BLEW SOMETHING IN HIS RIGHT EYE, FRIDAY AFTRNOON. H DID NOT COMPLAIN OR SHOW ANY SIGN OF ANY INJURY UNTIL SUNDAY NIGHT WHEN H CA LLED TO SA HE HAD SOMETHING IN HIS EYE ADN WAS SEEING A DR ON MONDAY. HE NEVER MENTIONED THAT IT HAPPENED AT WORK.
EE WAS WORKING WHEN A SPIDER BIT HIM. THE SPIDER WAS A BROWN RECLUSE. UNCONFIRMED.
HIGH WINDS WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH
HIGH WINDS/DUST & DIRT BLEW INTO EE'S RIGHT EYE.
CLC LOADING TRUCKS IN VERY WINDY WEATHER AND LIME DUST CONTINUED TO BLOW OVER EMPLOYEES. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES AND MONO-GOGGLES.
CLC LOADING TRUCKS IN VERY WINDY WEATHER AND LIME DUST CONTINUED TO BLOW OVER EMPLOYEE'S. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES AND MONO-GOGGLES.
HIGH WINDS WITH GUST TO 40 MPH.
HAD VERY HEAVY WINDS THROUGH THE DAY. WIND SPEED AT TIMES UP TO 50 MPH. SAND AND DUST GOT INTO HIS EYES.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UP STAIRWAY TO TOP OF CHAT BUILDING WHEN WIND JUST BLEW DEBRIS INTO HIS EYE.
AFTER CHECKING THE LEVEL OF THE SURGE SILO, EMPLOYEE STOOD UP AND TWISTED HIS UPPER BODY TO THE RIGHT AND FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT WHILE HELPING SET A PIECE OF HANDRAIL ON AN INCOMPLETE SECTION OF CONVEYOR THE WIND CAUGHT THE HANDRAIL CAUSING IT TO SPIN. WHEN HE REACHED TO CATCH THE LOAD, HE LOST HIS BALANCE FALL BACKWARD OFF THE OPEN END OF THE CATWALK. HE FELL APPROXIMATELY 17'.
ON JULY 10TH EE REPORTED TO WORK WITH COMPLAINT OF LOWER ABDOMINAL AND BACK PAIN MADE DR. APPR FOR 7-12. EE SUGGESTED SEEING A SURGEON POSSIBLE HERNIA SEEN DR WAS DIAGNOSED ABDOMINAL STRAIN ON 7-20. EE STILL HAVING PAIN EVEN WITH LIGHT DUTYTOOK TO ER ROOM DR PRESCRIBED PAIN MED AND LIGHT DUTY.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING OTHER EMPLOYEES TO UNLOAD A TRUCK WHEN HE WAS STUNG BY A BEE. EE IS ALLERGIC TO BEE STINGS.
EMPLOYEE ALLEDGES HE WAS BITE ON HIS UPPER LEFT THIGH ON 6/27. BY THE MORNING OF THE 28TH THE AREA OF THE BITE WAS RED AND SWOLLEN. DOCTOR DETERMINED IT WAS A NON-POISONOUS BITE OF SOME KIND.
EMPLOYEE CAME TO WORK ON 6/27 WITH AN APPARENT INSECT BITE ON HIS FACE. HE STATED THAT THE PREVIOUS DAY HE HAD A SPIDER IN HIS HOOD AND THOUGHT IT MAY HAVE BIT HIM. AFTER DR. EXAMININATION IT WAS DETERMINED THAT IT WAS IN FACT A SPIDER BITE
EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING MAINTENENCE WORK UNDERNEATH A HAMMERMILL CRUSHER WHEN A FOREIGN BODY GOT INTO HIS RIGHT EYE. HE HAD ON SAFETY GLASSES.
EMPLOYEE WAS ENTERING TEH CAB OF A D-9 CAT DOZER, PLACED HIS LEFT HAND AND THUMB IN THE DOOR JAM TO PULL HMSELF INSIDE THE CAB. THE WIND BLEW THE DOOR SHUT WHIEL HIS HAND & THUMB WERE STILL I N THE DOOR JAM AND PINCHED HIS THUMB.
EMPLOYEE WAS RETURNING NUTS & BOLTS TO THEIR BIN LOCATIONS IN THE WAREHOUSE WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING STING HIS LEFT HAND WHILE IT WAS IN THE SMALL BIN COMPARTMENT
EE WAS CLEANING UP MATERIAL AROUND 1 KILN FIRING HOOD. EXTREMEMLY WINDY CONDTITIONS WERE PRESENT AND AIRBORNE MATERIAL GOT INTO ROB S EYE.
EMPLOYEE GOT LIME INTO HIS EYE THAT REQUIRED MEDICAL ATTENTION BY A DOC HIS EYE BECAME INFECTED & MORE THAT FIRST AID WAS NEEDED FOR TREATMENT
55061S UNPLUGGING THE ELEVATOR UNDER WINDY CONDITIONS. WIND DRIVEN LIME DUST BURNED HIS FACE AND EYELID.
EMPLOYEE BECAME DIZZY WHILE WORKING. HE COMPLAINED OF SHORTNESS OF BREATH AND NUMBNESS IN HIS HANDS AND FACE. HIS SUPERVISOR TRANSPORTED HIM TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT ST. ROSE DOMINICAN HOSPITA L. AT THAT TIME, THE DOCTOR SAID IT WAS HEAT STROKE. UPON FURTHER TESTING THEY FOUND HE HAD A VIRAL INFECTION.
AS EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO REMOVE HIS COVERALLS HE EXPERIENCED SHARP PAIN IN HIS RIGHT HIP CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE GROUND, INVESTIGATION IS CONTINUING TO DETERMINE IF THIS IS AN INDUSTRIAL RE LATED INJURY.
EMPLOYEE WAS HAVING SEVERE CHEST PAINS AND NAUSEA FEELING.THE OTHER WORK TOLD HIM TO GO OUTSIDE AND REST.EMPLOYEE WENT HOME AFTER PAIN DID NOT SUBSIDE.
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING LIME DUST INTO A CONTAINER WHEN THE WIND BLEW THE DUST UP UNDER HIS GLASSES AND INTO HIS EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN QUARRY SHOP, INSPECTING MOTOR IN A SQUATTING POSITION AS HE WENT TO STAND UP HIS KNEE LOCKED IN A FLEX POSITION, THE EMPLOYEE THEN FORCEABILTY STRIGHTENED HIS KNEE OUT MAKING I T POP. TEARING LEGIMENTS IN HIS RIGHT KNEE.
CONTRIBUTING FACTOR UNKNOWN, PROBABLE CAUSE OLD INJURY FROM 1972. WAS WALKING WHEN LEFT KNEE WENT OUT FOR NO APPARENT REASON CAUSING TORN LIGAMENTS AND POSSIBLE CARTILAGE DAMAGE. EMPLOYEE DID' NT SLIP OR TRIP ON ANYTHING.