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While making repairs to dozer, employee slipped on the ice and fell to the ground. (Did not become reportable until he started to miss work due to surgery on 10/06/11.)
While collecting cement samples, employee slipped on ice falling to the ground. It was still snowing at the time of the accident.(Did not become reportable until he started to miss time due to surgery on 3/3/11.)
While using an air lance to remove kiln feed build up in preheater tower, employee tripped over support beam. (Did not become reportable until he started to miss work due to surgery on 2/24/11.)
As employee was responding to fire alarm, he slipped on concrete floor, striking his chin on desk. (Stitches required.)
As employee was removing guard from apron pan conveyor, the guard caught, causing him to lose his balance and take a couple of steps backwards. As he did so, he stepped in a pool of hot kiln feed.
Employee was climbing a stationary vendor ladder attached to equipment. He was grasping for the next rung and his hand slipped and he fell backwards 4'. His back hit against an adjacent railing.
EMPLOYEE FELL OFF SCAFFOLDING.
Employee was climbing onto loader when his foot slipped, causing him to strain arm and shoulder. (Did not become reportable until he started missing work due to surgery on 2-29-08.)
Dismantling elevated boom section about 5 feet in the air, while stepping off of boom section he got foot caught in lanyard. Uneven contact with ground resulted in twisting of right ankle.
EE was setting a 6 foot concrete column form and when the form started to tip over, he attempted to keep it from falling and he stepped off the concrete footing and fell approximately 3 feet to the ground below and struck his left knee and right ankle on rocks and concrete rubble, which resulted in a torn meniscus in his left knee and a sprain to his right ankle.
Employee twisted knee as he was stepping down from raw mill. (Did not become reportable until he started missing work due to surgery on August 2, 2007.)
Employee slipped on ice while carrying sample buckets. Fell backwards straining both shoulders. Did not become reportable until he started missing work on 5/24/07 due to surgery.
Injured slipped on ice on top of cement silos, twisting his knee.
Employee was climbing out from under a haulage truck after repairing leak in hydraulic tank when he twisted his knee. (Did not become reportable until he started missing work due to surgery on December 19, 2005.)
Employee was assisting in removal of kiln chain from clinker cooler when he fell, striking his elbow. Did not seek medical treatment until August 23, 2005 (radial head fracture).
Employee was getting on a Cat D6 tractor dozer to fuel when his foot slipped on the step and he fell forward striking his mouth on the handhold then fell backwards and struck his head on the side of the dozer, then struck the ground.
The employee was stepping down off of a dozer when his right foot hung up on the step between the tracks and caused his left foot to strike the ground with a jolt which caused pain in his lower back. An M.R.I. indicated a herniated disc at L5-S1.
Employee was measuring bin levels on river silos when he slipped on the ice (freezing rain). Did not become reportable until 4/18/05 when he started to miss work due to surgery.
INJ EE WAS WALKING FROM THE YARD OFFICE TO THE MILL BUILDING, WHEN HE TWISTED HIS KNEE DUE TO UNEVEN GROUND. DID NOT BECOME REPORTABLE UNTIL 1/31/05 WHEN HE STARTED TO MISS WORK DUE TO SURGERY.
Employee stumbled, fell and cut finger on leg of work stool.
SALARIED EMPLOYEE WAS SUPERVISING EMPLOYEES WHO WERE CHANGING LINERS AND FEED PIPE IN RAW MILL WHEN HE TWISTED HIS KNEE ON THE UNEVEN SURFACE. (DID NOT BECOME REPORTABLE UNTIL HE HAD SURGERY ON 1-18-05 AND STARTED TO MISS WORK.
EE WAS WALKING BETWEEN KILN AND MILL BUILDING WHEN HE SLIPPED ON ICE, TWISTING HIS KNEE. DID NOT BECOME REPORTABLE UNTIL 4-7-04, WHEN HE STARTED TO MISS WORK DUE TO SURGERY.
EE WAS SITTING IN SEAT OF FRONT END LOADER, HAD REMOVED HIS COAT AND WAS TWISTING TO HANG COAT OVER BACK OF SEAT WHEN HE FELT BURNING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HAD SLIPPED ON ICE WHILE WALKING T O LOADER, BUT DID NOT FALL. (DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT UNTIL 12/19/03).
INJURED WAS CLIMBING DOWN OFF OF A TANKER TRUCK AND STEPPED ONTO A PIT GRATING WHICH HAD BEEN PUSHED APART.
EE WAS WALKING ACROSS A GRAVLED PARKING LOT WHEN SHE STEPPED IN A HOLE AND TWISTED HER KNEE.
INJURED WAS DESCENDING FROM QUARRY HAUL TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED STRAINING HIS BACK. DID NOT SEEKMEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL 11-19-01, AT WHICH TIME HE WAS DISABLED BYU COMPANY DOCTOR.
INJURED WAS INVOLVED IN A BI-ANNUAL MSHA INSPECTION IN THE BASEMENT OF THE PLANT PUMPHOUSE WHEN HE SLIPPED ON MUD TWISTING HIS KNEE. AS HE ATTEMPTED TO CATCH HIMSELF, HE ALSO STRAINED HIS SHOU LDER. DID NOT BECOME REPORTABLE UNTIL HE STARTEDMISSING WORK DUE TO SURGERY ON 12/21/01. HAS RETURNED TO WORK, BUT IS SCHEDULED FOR KNEE SURGERYON 1/18/02.
INJURED SLIPPED ON GREASE SPOT ON FLOOR OF AUTOMOTIVE SHOP. DID NOT BECOME REPORTABLE UNTIL INJURED BEGAN TO MISS WORK ON 7-18-01 DUE TO SRUGERY.
EE WAS PATCHING CEMENT LINE ON TOP OF CEMENT SILOS. WHEN DESCENDING SCAFFOLDING, HE JUMPED DOWN THE LAST 3-4 FEET CATCHING THE HEEL OF HIS SAFETY SHOE ON A ROD LYING NEXT TO THE SCAFFOLDING. H E FELL HITTING HIS ELBOW ON THE ROOF. DID NOT BECOME REPORTABLE UNTIL HE STARTED MISSING WORK DUE TO SURGERY ON 10/26/01.
INJURED WAS PERFORMING PRE-OPERATIONAL CHECK OF FRONT END LOADER WHEN HE SLIPPED ON ICE FREEZING RAIN AND TWISTED HIS KNEE. DID NOT BECOME REPORTABLE UNTIL 8-22-01 WHEN HE STARTED TO MISS WORK DUE TO SURGERY.
THREE CABLES WERE STRUNG ABOVE THE CENTERLINE OF THE KILN TO SUPPORT SCAFFOLD BOARDS USED AS A WORK PLATFORM. THE CENTER CABLE FELL WHEN THE ATTACHMENT BROKE LOOSE FROM THE KILN SHELL. INJURED WAS ON THE SCAFFOLD WEARING A SAFETY HARNESS, BUT HAD NOT TIED IT OFF. AS ANOTHER EE ACCESSED THE SCAFFOLD IT FELL APPROXIMATELY 9 FEET.
INJURED WAS WALKING TO PREP ROOM WHEN HE TWISTED KNEE BECAUSE OF UNEVEN GROUND. HE HAD PREVIOUSLY INJURED SAME KNEE WHEN HE TWISTED IT MOVING THE RAIL UNLOADING RAMP. DID NOT BECOME REPORTAB LE UNTIL HE STARTED LOSING TIME DUE TO SURGERY ON 8/3/00.
INJURED SLIPPED ON BOTTOM STEP WHILE DESCENDING LADDER ON FRONT END LOADER. WAS WORKING OUTSIDE AND IT WAS RAINING. DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT UNTIL 3-20-00. WAS DISABLED BY DOCTOR ON THAT DATE.
INJURED AND CO-WORKER WERE IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING OLD BAGS FROM DUST COLLECTOR. AFTER INJURED REMOVED RIGGING STRAPS FROM DISPOSAL HOPPER, HE TURNED TO PICK UP OLD BAGS, STEPPED ON A SECTI ON OF NEW SIDING FOR THE DUST COLLECTOR, SLIPPEDON ICE AND FELL CATCHING HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT HAND.