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February 17, 2004 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Sud-Chemie Adsorbents Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

AS THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING THROUGH THE SHIPPING DEPT THROUGH PALLETS THAT WERE PLACED NEAR THE DOOR, THE EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT FOOT GOT CAUGHT UNDER A PALLET CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE TO TRIP. THE RIGH T FOOT NEVER MOVED DURING THE FALL.

January 7, 2004 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Sud-Chemie Adsorbents Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CLIMBING DOWN LADDER KNEE GAVE WAY AND FELT SHARP PAIN IN RIGHT KNEE.

July 16, 2003 GA · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Sud-Chemie Adsorbents Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

THE EE WAS ABOUT TO ADJUST CONTROLS ON MOBILE GENERATOR WHEN A WASP NESTLING 1FT FROM CONTROL PANEL. SPRAY WAS APPLIED WAS BEGAN TO FLY EE RAN SAND SLIPPED IN THE MUD LANDING ON FACE & RIGHT SHOULDER

April 25, 2003 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Sud-Chemie Adsorbents Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE CARRYING HYDROLIC JACK TO KILN #2 STEPPED OUT OF THE SCOPPLES DOOR WHILE IT WAS RAINING FEEL SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER THE EE LOST BALANCE HYDRALIC JACK FELL ON LEFT KNEE.

January 24, 2002 GA · Metal/Non-Metal forklift operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Sud-Chemie Adsorbents Inc · Fall from piled material

EE NEEDED TO REFMOVE 20 SLIP COVER FROM PALLET THAT WAS BEHIND ANOTHER PALLET, INSTEAD RMOVING THE PALLET IN FRONT HE HE DECIDED TO CRAWL OVER THE PALLET TO GET SLIP COVERS. ONCE HE GOT THE SL IPP COVERA AND STABLED CLIMB BACK OVER THE FRONTPALLET HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL TO FLOOR.

July 27, 2001 GA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Sud-Chemie Adsorbents Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE WALKING TO A WORK STATION THE EE STAPPEN ON UNEVEN GROUND AND TUNNEL HIS LEFT ANKLE. THIS WAS RECOCURRENACE OF AHN NEUTRAL FROM 1999.

October 14, 2000 GA · Metal/Non-Metal dryer operator, kiln operator, dry plant operator, fluid operator, bed dryer operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Sud-Chemie Adsorbents Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

AT AROUND 9:00PM ON 10/13/00 ONE SECTION OF A UHMW LINER CAME OUT OF HP3 (CLAY HOPPER). THIS PLASTIC SHEET WAS PLACED ON THE FLOOR TO THE EAST OF THE CONTROL ROOM. AFTER HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THE FULLER DRYER ALL NIGHT THE OPERATOR WENT OUTTO FIRE THE DRYER AT 5:30AM. WHILE ROUNDING THE CORNER OF THE CONTROL ROOM, HE TRIPPED ON THE PLASTIC & FELL LANDING FACE FIRST ON THE CONCRETE.

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