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EE STATES RODS FELL AND CAUGHT ROD CLAMPS, FOOT PEDAL RELEASE, CAUSING PEDAL TO GO BACK IN UPWARD POSITION WITH EXTREME FORCE.

EE WAS OVERSEEING CORE DRILLING OPERATION. HE ATTEMPTED TO ALERT DRILLER BY STEPPING ONTO PLATFORM, PLATFORM WAS MUDDY & HE SLIPPED. HE SLIPPED & STRUCK HIS RT. RING FINGER AGAINST A DRILL LIF TER, CUTTING IT WHICH REQUIRED STITCHES.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE PORTABLE LIGHTING. THE CABLE BROKE AND HINGED SECTION OF POLE FELL STRIKING EE ON RT. SHOULDER.

EE WAS WALKING ACROSS PLANT TOWARD OLD RAW MILL.IN FRONT OF MILL BLDG. IS A CONCRETE PAD THAT STANDS APPROX. 3"HIGHER THAN THE GROUND APPROACHING IT. EE TRIPPED AND FELL ON HIS HANDS JAMMING HIS RT. THUMB.

EE WAS LIFTING FLOOR GRATE IN RECLAIRE TUNNEL, STEPPED BACKWARD AND TWISTED BACK.

EE WAS PULLING A PORTABLE WASHER THROUGH THE DOORS OF THE HOMO SILO BUILDING. CART BECAME LODGE ON BERM IN DOORWAY. WHEN EE PULLED ON CAT, IT SMASHED HIS FINGER AGAINST A COMPRESSOR AND HANDLE OF CART.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER OF A 980 LOADER WHEN THE BOTTOM WRUNG OF LADDER BROKE.

EE WAS CARRYING COILS OF WIRE THRU CLINKER TUNNEL. AREA IS VERY TIGHT AND MANY EVERABILITY IS DIFFICULT . EE SUFFERED BACK STRAIN.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO FREE TIPPING VALVE WHEN CLIMBING BELOW FROM AFTER HE SLIPPED AND PULLED MUSCLE IN RIGHT LEG.

EE WAS CLIMBING INSIDE OVER BEAMS OF DUST COLLECTOR WHEN HE SLIPPED & STRUCK HIS ELBOWS AGAINST A SUPPORT BEAM.

EMPLOYEE WORKS LOADING BARGES. HE WAS POSITIONING MIMSELF TO THROW A ROPE TO ANOTHER BARGE, WHEN THE ROPE CAUGHT ON A CLEAT OF THE BARGE. THE RESULT WAS A SPRAINED LEFT SHOULDER.

EE WAS WALKING IN THE AREA OF CLAY SILOS WERE IT WAS VERY SLIPPERY. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.

EE WAS CUTTING RUBBER WITH A RAZOR KNIFE WHEN KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT HIS LEFT HAND ABOVE THE LEFT THUMB.

DRIVER WAS HAULING LOAD FROM STRIP SITE (CLAY HARVEST) TO DUMP SITE. SPEED WAS APPROX 20 MPH. DRIVER STATED HE WAS HAVING A HARD TIME BREATHING. DRIVER BLACKED OUT, RAN THROUGH AND OVER BERM. TRAVELED APPROX 50' INTO FIELD BEFORE STOPPING.

EE WAS LIFTING A DAMPER INTO PLACE INSIDE A DUST COLLECTOR. THE AREA WAS TIGHT CAUSING EE TO WORK IN AWKWARD POSITION.

EE STATED HE WAS GRINDING METAL, WHEN DEBRIS FLEW INTO HIS LT LOWER LEG CAUSING A LACERATION AND A CONTUSION.

EES WERE ATTEMPTING TO UNCHOKE #2 CLAY SILO BY USING A PRYBAR & HAMMER WHEN EE STRUCK BAR WITH HAMMER A FOREIGN OBJECT FLEW INTO HIS LEFT EYE.

EE WAS SWINGING A 16 LB SLEDGEHAMMER ON AN UNEVEN SURFACE WHEN HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMAKING KILN RAMPS AND CLOSING HIID WHEN HE BENT OVER TO PICK UP HAMMER & STRAINED BACK.

EE WAS WALKING ALONG KILN CATWALK AND TRIPPED OVER AN AIR HOSE. IN SUBSEQUENT FALL HE STRUCK LEFT KNEE ON CATWALK.

LAB TECHNICIAN DECIDED TO POUR A GLYCERIN ETHONOL AMMONIUM SOLUTION IN A CLINKER DRAG THAT TRANSPORTS CLINKER FROM CLINKER COOLER TO STORAGE. THE MATERIAL COMBINED WITH THE TEMP AND RED HOT CL INKER TO CAUSE AN EXPLOSION IN THE CLINKER ELEVATORS.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO BEND A BAR BY WEDGING IT BETWEEN 2 STATIONARY OBJECTS. THE BAR BENT SOME AND THEN THE BAR SLIPPED AND HIT HIM IN THE FACE. RIGHT SIDE OF UPPER EYE.

MINER PRESSED THE OPEN BUTTON ON AN OVERHEAD DOOR. AS HE STOOD THERE WAITING FOR THE DOOR TO RISE, THE SPROCKET ON THE DRIVE MECHANISM CAME LOOSE, FELL AND STRUCK THE MINER ON HIS HARD HAT KNO CKING HIM UNCONSCIOUS AND LACERATING HIS SCALP.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON A PALLET TO REMOVE ROPE THAT WAS HOLDING AC UNIT ON PALLET. AS EMPLOYEE STEPPED BACK OFF OF PALLET, HIS RIGHT FOOT GOT HUNG ON THE EDGE OF TOP BOARD AND HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HIS HANDS ON WALL. EMPLOYEE DID NOT FALL.

EE WAS CLEANING ANALYZER INLET PRIOR TO SLIDING PROBE IN. HOT DUST FROM BACK OF #2 KILN ANALYZER PROBE PUFFED OUT ONTO FACE AND IN RIGHT EYE. EE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES, BUT FROM NOW ON A F ACE SHIELD WILL BE REQUIRED WHEN WORKING ON THISITEM.

EE HAD PARKED THE D8 DOZER AND WAS STEPPING OFF OF IT WHEN HE SLIPPED ON LOOSE MATERIAL AND SRAPINED HIS KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON CONVEYER FRAME CHECKING LIMIT SWITCHES HE STEPPED INCORRECTLY AND STRAINED BACK.

EE IS AN ELECTRICIAN AT THE PLANT. THERE ARE SEVERAL AREAS IN THE PLANT WITH NOISE LEVELS ABOVE 85 DBA. SOMETIMES THE ELECTRICIANS DO WORKIN THESE AREAS.

#44 GYP FEEDER WAS PLUGGED AND COULD NOT UNPLUG FROM BELOW. EE WENT ON TOP WHERE FLOOR WAS SLIPPERY AND LIGHT WAS LOW. HE WAS UNAWARE OF WHERE CHUTE WAS AND WHEN HE STEPPED ON PLUGGED MATERIAL , HIS WEIGHT CAUSED MATERIAL TO FLOW AND LEFT LEG WENT DOWN CHUTE AND RIGHT LEG REMAINED ON TOP.

EE WAS SPLICING A CONVEYOR BELT & WAS PULLING ON THE BELT WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND STRAINED HIS BACK & NECK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING INSIDE SILO #3 AND CEMENT PARTICLES FELL OFF WALL GETTING IN HIS EYE. EYES WERE RINSED AND PLANT AND HE WAS SENT TOT HE DOCTOR, WHO PRESCRIBED EYE DROPS.

EE WAS BANDING AIR HOSES TO CLAMPS WHEN BAND BROKE, BAND AND BRANDER STRUCK UPPER LIP.

CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME. SURGERY ON 1ST HAND 3-20-2001.

EE WAS LIFTING HEAVY LINER IN PLACE ON PRF-6 CONVEYOR.

EE WAS SHUTTING TAILGATE ON DUMP TRUCK & CAUGHT HIS 3RD & 4TH FINGERS ON HIS RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE TAILGATE & TRUCK. HE WAS TAKEN TO EMERGENCY,X-RAYED & FINGERS SPLINTED. HE RETURNED TO WORK.

EE WAS CARRYING TO TOOL BOX UP STEPS OF MILL BUILDING AND STRAINED BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING BAGS FROM DUST COLLECTOR, REMOVING BAGS REQUIRED A TWISTING MOTION AND EMPLYOEE INJURED BACK AND SHOULDER.

TWO EES WERE REMOVING LINER BOLTS FROM AN FLS BALL MILL WITH A HAMMER AND PUNCH. HAMMER WAS DEFLECTED BY AN ADJACENT HAND RAIL. INJURED WAS STRUCK BY HAMMER ON TIP OF RH MIDDLE FINGER REQUIRIN G APPROXIMATELY 20 STITCHES.

EE WAS WALKING DOWN STEPS THAT WERE MUDDY, LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL ON HIS BACK.

WHILE PULLING PONTOON WITH ROPES TO MOVE IN SILTPOND, EE COMPLAINED ABOUT PULLING A BACK MUSCLE.EE REFUSED MEDICAL ATTENTION AND REPORTED IN CASE HE HURT MORE. ON 2/19 HE ASKED TO SEE A DOCTOR

EE WAS TRYING TO SWITCH A VALVE. HE WAS USING HIS HAND TO TRY TO THROW THE VALVE, WHEN IT DID NOT BUDGE, HE USED HIS UPPER BODY TO ADD PRESSURE AND LEANED HIS TORSO AGAINST HIS HAND RESULTING IN FRACTURED RIB.

EE & ANOTHER EE WERE MOVING THE GUARD ON 62BC-1 COAL CONVEYOR BELT WHEN EE CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN GUARD & FRAME OF 62BC-1. ANOTHER EE WAS CLEANING OUT EE'S WOUND WHEN INJ EE FAINTED. BECAUS E EE FAINTED HE WAS TAKEN TO MED CTR HOSP WHERE THEY CLEAN & BANDAGED HIS FINGER. HE DID NOT FAINT DUE TO TRAUMA OF THE INJURY

EE TRIPPED ON PIECE OF METAL ON FLLOR OF BUILDING. FELL AGAINST BRUILDING LANDINGS ON RIGHT WRIST. WENT TO E.R. WHERE SPLINT WAS APPLIED.

EE WAS USING A PRY BAR TO OPEN A VALVE TO SILO. WHILE APPLYING SUBSTANTIAL PRESSURE, EE STRAINEDHIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

WHILE OPERATING BLADE, EE DIRECTED HIS ATTENTIONAWAY FROM THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL. DURING THIS BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME, THE EQUIPMENT STRUCK AN EMBANKMENT, JARRING HIM UNEXPECTEDLY, RESULTING IN A PULLED BACK MUSCLE.

EE WAS SHOVELING AND BENT TO PICK UP SOMETHING FROM GROUND. UPON TURNING, HE FELT NUMBNESS SHOOT UP LEFT SIDE INTO LEFT SIDE OF SKULL.

INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A 75 LB LINER PLATEINTO POSITION INSIDE THE PRIMARY CRUSHER. THE WITNESS USING A PINCH BAR TO ALIGN THE BOLT HOLES TO SECURE THE LINER. THE INJURED DID NOT REPORT THE ACCIDENT UNTIL 2/5/01 & MADE AN INITIAL DOCTOR VIST ON 2/6/01. THE COMPANY WAS UNAWARE OF ANY FURTHER VISITS UNTIL 2/21/01 WHICH MADE THIS INJURY REPORTABLE.

EE WAS WORKING ON A 6" AIR LINE UNDER THE DISCHARGE END OF ## RAW MILL. THE COMPRESSOR'S SUPPLY AIR TO THE LINE WERE LOCKED OUT, THE VALVE FROM THE RECEIVING TANK WAS CLOSED. EE WAS REMOVING A DRESSLER COUPLING FROM THE SECTION OF LINE TO BE RE-ROUTED WHEN A BLAST OF WATER AND AIR PRESSURE ESCAPED FROM LINE.

THE WELDER WAS FLIPPING A FILLER BAR END OVER END WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING IN HIS BACK (A FILLER BAR IS A STEEL PLATE THAT A TIRE ON A CEMENT KILN RIDES ON).

WHILE MUCKING OUT THE KILN, MATERIAL SLID DOWN HITTING THE BOBCAT & CAUSING EMPLOYEE INJURY.