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September 20, 1985 TN · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON PLATFORM BETWEEN BOX CAR & MILL BUILDING STACKING BAGS OF CLAY IN DOORWAY OF CAR HE HIT HIS HAND ON CONVEYOR HITTING A NERVE IN HIS HAND THIS CAUSED HIM TO FALL OFF PLATFORM BACKWARDS CAUSING HIM TO HIT HIS HEAD ON NATURAL GAS LINE

June 17, 1985 KY · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

IT WAS RAINING EMPLOYEE WAS ENTERING DOORWAY TO DRYER THE WALKWAY WAS WET AND HE SLIPPED

May 15, 1985 KY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company · Fall onto or against objects

EE WAS ENTERING DOOR TO BAGGING MACHINE AREA OF NEW MILL. HW SOMEHOW LOST HIS BALANCE & GRABBED METAL SLIDING DOOR & C UT HIS HAND ON A PIECE OF METAL PROTRUDING FROM THE DOOR.

April 8, 1985 TN · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING D-8 AND MISTEPPED CAUSING HIM TO DROP ABOUT 14 AND LAND HARD JARRING HIS BACK HE HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN OPERATING THE DOZER ON EXTREMELY KOUGH GROUND WHICH HAD PITCHED HI M AND FORTH A GREAT AMOUNT.

December 5, 1984 TN · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company · Fall from ladders

HE WAS PUTTING A COVER OVER THE NEW SLURRY TANK. HE WAS COMING DOWN OFF THE TANK TO THE FLOOR. INSTEAD OF COMING DOWN THE SCAFFOLDING, HE STEPPED DOWN ON A LONG LADDER WHICH HAD BEEN REMOVED F ROM THE INSIDE OF THE TANK AND PROPPED UP AGAINST THE SCAFFOLDING. THE LADDER SLIPPED, HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL 6 TO 8 FT. ONTO A CONCRETE FLOOR.

November 20, 1984 KY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company · Fall onto or against objects

RUNNING ALONG R R TRACK TO CHECK ON DRIVER OF PO// PAYLOADER WHICH HAD OVERTURNED WHEN HE FELL.

July 18, 1984 KY · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS ON TOP OF WATER TRUCK, GETTING DOWN, FOOT MISSED FIRST STEP ON LADDER, HE SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL APPROX. 8\.

March 7, 1984 TN · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company · Struck against stationary object

HE WAS TRYING TO SQUEEZE SOME PALLETS IN THE DOORWAY OF A BOX CAR. HE JUMPED UP TO JUMP DOWN ON THE PALLETS. HE CAME DOWN TOO HARD JARRED HIS KNEES AND FELL. CONTUSION TO BOTH KNEES. HE WAS OF OFF WORK ON 3/8 THE MILLS DID NOT RUN ON 3/9 HE WAS RELEASED BY THE DOCTOR TO COME BACK TO WORK ON 3/12/84 HE CAME IN ON 3/12 AND REQUESTED A WEEK VACATION.

February 1, 1984 TN · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WASCARRYING 100# BAGS OF CHEMICAL. HE SLIPPED IN THE MUD WHILE CARRYING THE BAGS OF CHEMICAL AND TWISTED HIS BACK CAUSING LOWER BACK PAIN. FIRST WENT TO DOCTOR ON 2-4-84 BUT CONTINUED TO WORK. CONDITION GOT WORSE AND HE WENT TO DOCTOR AGAIN ON 3-9-84.

August 9, 1983 TN · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

MSHA REPRESENTIVE NORMAN HONGASTEAU WAS SHOWING A SAFETY FILM IN THE LUNCHROOM. MCKINNEY HAD JUST FINISHED VIEWING THE FILM WHEN HE FAINTED AND HIT HIS HEAD ON THE CONCRETE FLOOR. HE WAS CARR IED BY AMBULANCE TO THE METHODIST HOSP OF MCKENZIE LACERATION TO HEAD ABOVE LEFT EYEBROW HEAT STROKE LOSS OF POTASSIUM & FLUIDS IN BODY SYNCOPE

August 8, 1983 KY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company · Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING BARRELS OF GGLUE TO STORAGE AREA WHEN LID CAME OFF ONE BARREL SPILLING GLUE ON PAVEMENT EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING IT UP BY USING A SHOVEL TO PUT CLAY ON SPILLED GLUE TO ABSORB IT SO THAT IT COULD BE SHOVELED INTO A BUCKET AND WHILE DOING THIS HE ACCIDENTLY SLIPPED AND FELL ON HANDLE OF SHOVEL BRUISING RIB

July 13, 1983 KY · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS ON TOP RAILROAD BOXCAR TRYING TO RELEASE BRAKE SO THAT BOXCAR WOULD ROLL FORWARD HIS HANDS SLIPPED OFF LEVER CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE AND FELL IN FRONT OF BOXCAR

July 11, 1983 TN · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company · Fall from machine

HE WAS DRIVING A TRUCK HAULING CLAY FROM THE MINES TO THE PLANT. HE STEPPED LONG OUT OG THE TRUCK SKIPPING A STEP. WHEN HE HIT THE GROUND IT JARRED HIM HARD HURTING HIS BACK. HE WENT TOT HE '%'%**% HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR ON 7-13-83. THIS EE HAD BACK SURGERY IN 1981 AFTER A WORKMAN\S COMP INJURY.

April 11, 1983 UT · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Redco Silver Inc · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

FELL OFF 5FT LEDGE AND INJURED LEFT FOOT

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