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June 30, 2021 FL · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer OTHER
Lhoist North America of Tennessee, Inc · Unclassified, insufficient data

Employee while operating loader asked for medical assistance and 911 was called. Employee was removed from loader short of breath and in distress. Employee became unresponsive during first aid assistance and was provided CPR and AED while awaiting arrival of external emergency responders. Reported to MSHA immediately without knowing personal medical yet.

February 2, 2021 TN · Metal/Non-Metal weighman, scale person OTHER
Lhoist North America Of Tennessee, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was cleaning the windows of the front door to the main office. When the employee was coming back into the building the employee grabbed the side of the door when a wind gust suddenly blew the exterior door which swings outward shut, pinching finger and causing the skin to be removed from the tip of the right hand ring finger.

September 16, 2015 FL · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver OTHER
Lhoist North America of Tennessee, Inc · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee suffered a minor stroke while unloading a tanker of grinding agent.

December 21, 2010 GA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator OTHER
Lhoist North America of Tennessee, Inc. · Struck by flying object

Employee was dumping empty bags into an outside trash dumper when the wind blew some residue from the bags into his face. He got some material in his left eye. He flushed the eye and when he returned to work the next morning it was red and irritated. He was carried to a walk-in clinic where a doctor examined his eye.

October 5, 2006 GA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator OTHER
Lhoist North America of Tennessee, Inc. · Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was sitting in the breakroom and stood up. When he started walking he felt pain in the upper part of his right leg. As he walked the pain worsened. He was taken to the emergency room and diagnosed with a strain/sprain to the muscle in his leg.

July 13, 2004 TN · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator OTHER
Lhoist North America of Tennessee, LLC · Unclassified, insufficient data

Unkown (8/4/04 per call to Brian Bell, exact time and circumstances could not be determined. Employee currently on Workman's Compensation).

December 19, 2000 GA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator OTHER
Lhoist North America of Tennessee, Inc. · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE COLLAPSED WHILE STANDING IN THE MILL CONTROL ROOM AS HIS MORNING SHIFT WAS BEGINNING. HE WAS CONVERSING AND GAVE NO INDICATION OF DISTRESS WHEN HE COLLAPSED. ATTEMPTS TO REVIVE WERE UNSUCCE SSFUL AND HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE HAMILTON COUNTY EMERGENCY ROOM. CAUSE OF DEATH WAS A BLOOD CLOT IN HIS LUNGS.

February 9, 2000 FL · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator OTHER
Lhoist North America of Tennessee, Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

WAS STRUCK BY ANOTHER EE-FELL DOWN STRIKING HEAD.

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