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THE WHILE WORKING ON THE HOPPER, EE STEPPED BACKWARDS BECAUSE OF THE HOT DUST THAT SHOT OUT WHILE WORKING ON THE HOOPER. HE STEPPED BACKWARDS ONTO AN UNEVEN SURFACE CAUGHT HIM TO TWIST HIS ANK LE AND FALL.
IT WAS POURING DOWN RAIN AT THE START OF EE'S SHIFT. AROUND THE WASH MILL THERE IS A SMALL DRAINAGE DITCH. TO KEEP FROM GETTING HIS FEET WET HE TRIED TO JUMP ACROSS THE DITCH AND IN THE PROCES S, SLIPPED ON SOME WET MATERIAL AND HURT HIS NECK AND BAKC. AFTER READING EE'S XRAYS ON HIS THIRD VISIT, THE DR. DECIDED THAT EE NEEDED A WEEK OFF.
REFILLING THE WATER TRUCK AND WENT TO STEP DOWN AND SLIPPED IN SOME MUD CREATED FROM CONSTRUCTION OF THE DITCH FOR PIPE LINE GOING TO NEW DUST TANK IN THE QUARRY. THE LADDER ON THE EUCLID WAS ALSO BENT.
EE WENT OUT TO UNPLUG THE IRON HOPPER AND AS HE WAS STEPPING OUT FROM UNDER THE HOPPER BY THE W=BELT, HIS FOOT CAUGHT ON AN AIR HOSE AND HE FELL.
CARRYING OLD FEEDER MOTOR TO TRASH. SLIPPED ON SOME GRINDIBG AID THAT SOMEONE SPILLED ON THE FLOOR.
EE WAS MEASURING A-1 SILO AND SLIPPED ON SOME LOOSE CLINKER.
EE WAS GETTING OUT OF THE RELIEF TRUCK AT THE START OF HIS SHIFT TO SERVICE & REOPERATE THE D-9 DOZER AS HE WAS EXITING FROM THE CAB OF THE PICKUP TRUCK HE SLIPPED ON THE ICE
THE CONCRETE PAVEMENT ON THE BACK SIDE NORTH OF THE PACKHOUSE WAS ICY AND THERE WAS ONE BIG CHUNK AND EE TRIPPED AND FELL.
EE WAS WALKING DOWN STEPS WHEN HIS LEFT KNEE GAVE WAY CAUSING A FALL DOWN THE STEPS HIS LEFT KNEE HIT THE CONCRETE FLOOR.
68935 EXITING A VAN TRAILER, INJURED TRIPPED AND FELL OUT OF THE TRUCK LANDING ON HIS RIGHT LEG.
INJURED WAS WORKING ONT HE ELECTRICAL MONITORING SYSTEM. HE WAS DISMOUNTING THE LOADER AND STEPPED OFF THE LADDER ONTO A FOLDING CHAIR. THE FOLDING CHAIR COLLASPED AND HE WAS LEFT HANGING BY ONE HAND ON THE HANDRAIL AND HIS RIGHT LEG WAS CAUGHT IN THE LADDER.
THE HYDRAULIC SHOVEL WAS PARKED IN A MUDDY AREA AND MUD WAS STICKING TO THE MECHANICS SHOES AND BOOTS MAKING THEIR TRIP UP AND DOWN THE HYDRAULIC SHOVEL LADDER VERY VULNERABLE FOR A FALL.
WHILE WALKING OUT TO THE TANK FARM EE TRIPPED OVER A GROUNDING CABLE TEARING THE MENISCUS IN HIS LEFT KNEE EE DID NOT RECIEVE REPORTABLE MEDICAL TREATMENT OR MCUR LOST TIME UNTIL 11-22-91.
INJURED WAS WALKING TO LAFARGE WAREHOUSE TOOL TRAILER CROSSING WET CEMENT DUST UNDER MILL.HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.
REMOVING AIR LANCE FROM CONE OF GYPSUM TANK, EMPLOYEE FELL BACKWARD AGAINST HANDRAIL WITH WEIGHT AND FORCE OF BODY, POSSIBLY BRUISING BACK, FORCE OF IMPACT CAUSED MAN TO LOOSE HIS BREATH.
FELL FROM LADDER WHILE REPAIRING HOT WATER LINE IN RAW MILL ROOM BASEMENT.
VICTIM WAS DESCENDING LADDER OF O0K HYDRAULIC SHOVEL HE MISSED THE LAST STEP & FELL TO THE GROUND VICTIM FELL APPROX.THREE FT.
VICTIM WAS SHOVELING MATERIAL ON TO A MOVIN CONVEYOR BELT HE WAS STANDING ON LOSE MATERIAL HE SLI/PPED AND FELL TOWARD THE BELT HE PUT HIS LEFT HAND OUT AND GOT IT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BELT ROLL ER AND THE BELT
EMPLOYEE WAS MEASURING DEPTH OF HOLES,WHICH HAD BEEN DUG FOR BARRIER POSTS AND CULVERT PIPE,AS HE TURNED HE STEPPED OFF INTO ON EOF THE HOLES.(THERE WERE SIX HOLES)TWISTING HIS RIGHT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CL3MBING A LADDER TO A ROOF TOP TO PLACE A GAS LINE THE LADDER WAS OT TIED OFF AND WAS PLACED IN A VERY MUDDY SLIPPERY AREA THE MAN HE WAS WORKING WITH WENT UP ABOVE THE ROOFTOP T O LOWER SOME LI3E WHILE THE VICTIM WAS CLIMBING THE LADDER ALONE THE FEET SLIPPED OUT AND THE VICTIM FELL APPROX 10 FT TO THE GROUND
EMPLOYEE WAS DE7ENDING STAIRS ON TO PCLINKER SILOS AND GLASSES WERE WET. HE THOGUHT HE WAS ON LAST STEP, LET GO OF HANDRAIL, AND TOOK A STEP AND FELL DOWN. HE PUT OUT HIS RIGHT HAND TO BREAK THE FALL. 3
EMPLOYEE WAS DE8CENDING STAIRS WITH A FIVE GALLON BUCKET OF GROUT. VICTIM SLIPPED AND RIGHT KNEE STRUCK A CONCRETE WALL.
STANDING ON SCA0FOLD SUPPORTED BY 4X6 WOODEN TIMBERS. FOR REASONS UNKNOWN ONE TIMBER GAVE WAY MAN FELL 20' THEN HIT SLOPE WALL 30X35 DEGREE MAN & SCAFFOLD FELL DOWN WALL 35'40' BEFORE HITTING BOTTOM. MAN RE7EIVED BROKEN LEG.
THE INJURED WAS3CHECKING A VALVE ON #2 SILO.HE JUMPED FROM ON TOP OF CEMENT SLIDE CAUSING THE BIG TOE OF HIS RIGHT FOOT TO JAM INTO THE FRONT OF HIS SAFETY SHOES.
FUELING MACHINE AND JUMPED ACROSS DITCH TO GO TO CLOCK HOUSE INSTEAD OF USING WALKWAY