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A yellow jacket nest on the new side, employee got bit, employee was ran up to Urgent Care in West Seattle, they did not treat employee. Employee returned to work and was okay the remainder of the shift.
There no factors that contributed to this injury, The employee stated that he was walking at a normal pace.
While dismounting a work platform the employee's glove caught on the ladder's safety chain hook. He had not noticed his glove had snagged on the hook and when he stepped down the sudden unexpected jerk strained his left shoulder. This injury became a lost time Incident as of 12/7/15 due to surgery, prior to that employee was not restricted.
A foreign object entered employee's right eye
A rail car was shipped to Seattle Plant from Canada and arrived at Seattle Plant on July 31, 2013. When the rail car was spotted and opened a decomposing deceased individual was found inside. The coroner stated that the individual died several months earlier. He was not an employee of Lafarge.
Miner complained of chest pains as he was walking to a job. Supervisor on shift called 911. The Seattle facility followed internal procedures that are in accordance with MSHA requirements and immediately reported the incident. Miner was having a heart attack. The miner was admitted to the hospital, underwent surgery and was released Sunday.
I was working on the max flow meter. I turned to my right and felt a pain in my lower back.
Employee reported chest pains in the packhouse office, operator reported to supervisor, who called 911 immediately. Employee was suspected of having a heart attack when emergency personnel came to plant and took employee to hospital. She is under Short Term Disability leave and is under Dr. observation
While working in Precip Hoppers employee broke out with hives. Until we received a report from his doctor on November 7, we were not aware that this was an industrial related illness.
EE came to work this morning and notified other ee that he did not feel good he was having chest pains. Other ee told mgr ee what was going on. MGr said take ee to the hospital. Other EE took him to the hospital and came back to work. He had test ran and the hospital found he had 2 blocked arteries and they needed to do open heart surgery.
A 20mph gust of wind blew dust particles in the employee's eye. After trying to flush it out at the eye wash station the employee noticed that there was a particle imbedded in his eye. He then went to the ER, had the particle removed.
Employee was performing cleaning prior to kiln startup. He saw no buildup, but when he moved to the northernmost port a puff of hot gas exited the port, struck the employee, and burned his face. Employee sought treatment at local emergency room and was diagnosed with 2nd degree burns on his face.
Employee was working on piece of mobile equipment when he felt his knee pop. Employee reported injury to supervisor on 6/24/04, but did not seek treatment at that time. Employee was off on long weekend and iced knee to help condition. Assessment at OHS on 7/6/04, no restriction. Return appointment 7/8, placed on modified duty.
EE WAS WORKING AT THE RAW MATERIALS BINS. HE WAS ROLLING UP HIS TAPE MEASURE, HANGING IT UP, AND TURNED TO HEAD DOWN THE STAIRS. PARTICLES BLEW PAST HIS SAFETY GLASSES AND IN HIS RIGHT EYE. EE FLUSHED AT EYE STATION, THEN SOUGHT TREATMENT AT MEDICAL CENTER INDEPENDENCE.
HEART ATTACK.
BITTEN BY BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER ON THE LEFT HIP WHILE IN THE #3 STOREROOM.
EE WAS LOOKING UP AT A RETURN ROLLER WHEN A GUST OF WIND BLEW A SMALL STONE INTO HIS EYE.