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EE HAD FINISHED POWDERING THE FACE 49 EAST AFTER TYING CAP WIRES TOGETHER SHE STARTED TO TURN AROUND & HAD HER FOOT BETWEEN ROCKS & TWISTED HER RT KNEE.
EMPL LOADED RR CAR WITH LIME AND HAD MOVED CAR OUT OF LOADOUT BLDG.HE LOOKED DOWN TRACK LATER AND SAID IT LOOKED LIKE THE CAR WAS MOVING HE STARTED TO RUN TO CATCH THE - AND FELL ON RIGHT ARM. BUT THE CAR WASNT MOVING.
EMPLOYEE WAS GOING TO DUMP A SCREW CONVEYOR UNDER 2 BAGHOUSE 2 COMPARTMENT WHILE WORKING OUT OF A BASKET ON THE FORKLIFT ABOUT 4 TO 5 FT ABOVE GROUND LEVEL HE FAILED TO ISOLATE COMPARTMENT AN D REMOVED PLAT ON THE SCREW CONV. WHILE UNDER PRESSURE DUST FLEW OUT OPERATOR BACKED UP TO GET HIM OUT OF DUST. AND KNOCKED HIM OUT OF BASKET TO GROUND LEVEL.
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OFF OF THE CRANE HE HAD ONE FOOT ON THE TIRE AND THE OTHER ONE ON THE SECOND STEP BELOW THE TURRET OPOSITE HYD. TANK. HAD HIS LEFT HAND ON THE HAND HOLD WHEN HIS FOOT SLIP PED ON THE STEP WHICH HAD SOME OIL & GRIT ON IT HE JAMMED HIS RIGHT THUMB. EMPLOYEE ALSO HAD OIL & GRIT ON HIS SHOES.
EE WAS GOING UP TO THE #3 STONE BIN TO GET A READING THERE WAS DUST ON TOP OF THE BIN & IT HAD STARTED TO RAIN THIS CUASED IT TO BE SLICK WHEN HE STEPPED OFF OF WALKWAY ONTO THE TOP OF T HE BIN HIS FOOT SLIPPED & CAUSED HIM TO FALL HURTING HIS BACK & LEFT SIDE. FIRST DAY MISSED 10-11-849
ON 7-16-84 EMPLOYEE SAID HE SLIPPED IN SOME HYDRACULIC FLUID WHILE FILLING THE POWDER MONKEYS AND TWISTED HIS BACK. ON 7-18-84 HE RAN OVER SOME MUCKS IN 89 SOUTH WITH THE RIG WHICH JARRED HIS BACK CAUSING SEVER PAIN. THIS ACCIDENT WAS NOT HONORED BY BLACK RIVER UNITL 8-15-84.
EMPL GOING UP LADDER ON LOADER.FOOT SLIPPED ON RUNG OF LADDER CAUSING HIM TO BUMP KNEE ON RUNG OF LADDER.
EE WAS CLIMBING UP STEPS TO GET ON A YALE LOADER TO MOVE IT. HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON TOP PLATFORM CAUSING HIM TO FALL & HIT RIGHT FRONT TIRE & THEN FALLING TO THE GROUND.
EMPLOYEE HAD TOOK A TRASH BARREL TO THE DUMPING AREA, AFTER DUMPING THE TRASH HE JUMPED OFF OF THE BACK OF A 1 TON FLAT BED TRUCK AND HE SAID THAT HE HURT IS BACK.
EMP WAS DESCENDING THE LADDER OF224 LOADER AND HE SAID THAT HE MISSED THE LAST RUNG IN THE LADDER AND TWISTED HIS RT ANKLE AND HURT HIS RT FOOT
EMPLOYEE WAS DESCENDING LADDER ON BACK OF POWDER HIS HAND SLIPPED ON HANDRAIL CAUSING HIM TO TURN LOOSE WITH RIGHT HAND STILL HOLDING WITH LEFT HAND HE SWUNG AROUND STRICKING HIS BACK ON THE B ACK OF THE POWDER RIG CAUSING A AGGRAVATION TO SERVERAL OLD BACK INJURIES DATED 012377 031178 032480 043081
EE HAD BEEN OPERATING A LOADER & PARKED IT & ATSRTED TO GET OFF OF IT, HE SAID HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THE RUNG OF THE LADDER & HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK. EE DID NOT FALL. THIS IS AN AGGRAVATION OF AN OLD INJURY 9-14-83.
EMPLOYEE WAS COMING OUT OF #3 KILN HE SAID THAT HE SLIPPED AND STARTED TO FALL NAND HE CAUGHT WITH LEFT ARM AND PULLED MUSCLES IN SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING MUCK OFF OF THE TOP OF #2 STONE BIN. HE SAID THAT HE STEPPED ON SOME FROZEN MUCK AND SNOW AND SLIPPED AND FELL DOWN ON TOP OF BIN AND HURT HIS BACK A ND LEFT KNEE
WALKED IN HYDRATE BLDG BOTTOM FLOOR AND STEPPED ON WET LIME AND SLIPPED AND FELL.