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Electrician was working on pulling cable out of conduit when he felt a warm burning sensation in his groin area. Employee was treated and released. H & S was notified on 3/6/15 that the injury was indeed a hernia, which made this a reportable injury to MSHA.
A 24" diameter by 9' long screw section was being lifted by a picker. When lifted the screw swung unexpectedly striking a mechanic on the left side, pushing his right side into a handrail. This resulted in a broken rib on the left side.
Tripped while descending stairs to concrete floor. Rolled ankle resulting in an ankle sprain. Company was not notified of lost time until 12/3.
While installing an oil header the employee was holding the header in place while another employee was threading the union, header slipped and employee caught the header and felt a pop in his right elbow. Currently the employee is on restricted duty.
Employee was moving an Acetylene bottle with a crane with the chocker slipped, EE was guiding the bottle and it jerked injuring his back. Patient was treated and released from the hospital. The company was not notified until 11/4/14 that the injury was an MSHA recordable injury.
EE felt pop in right knee while ascending stairs.
Employee was assisting in moving a piece of equipment, through a door. equipment was being moved with a cherry picker, equipment hung up on a door jam, employee tried to free it and his hand got pinched between the equipment and the door jam.
employee that was fixing a fence that had been blown over behind our building on the FMC property. As the employees were lifting the top horizontal bar and repositioning this bar into a fence post coupling, the top horizontal bar pinched his left hand at the thumb between the post and the fence post coupling resulting in a laceration on his left hand thumb.
Employee was cleaning in a dissolver and suffered heat exhaustion. Was given IV fluids at the local ER.
EE bent down felt a slight pain in lower back, while moving valve. EE reported to the onsite medical facility the next day. Treated and released without restriction. EE was later treated by Specialist, prescribed medication for pain relief which made this recordable on 7/24/14. Company was not informed that it had become reportable until a later. (Date Unknown)
Employee was found with bad cuts on his arms. He was given first aid and transported out of the mine.
Employee was carrying water hose, while crossing a roof bolter cable it took up slack causing the cable to whip, catching the EE causing him to trip and roll his ankle. Injury was not determined to be recordable until the employee returned to his regular scheduled duty, and was put on restricted duty because of his injury.
EE had been using a die grinder throughout the day, later in the day noticed an irritation in his left eye. Metal shaving was found in his eye the next day after reporting to the onsite medical facility to have it examined. Employee received antibiotic drops for treatment after the metal shaving was removed.
Struck ribs against the operators compartment of the shuttle car, when shuttle car lost power, broke 2 ribs, and bruised spleen.
EE stepped on a nail in a board and it went through her boot.
Employee was cleaning the area behind the crusher drive belt and was using a screw driver to scrape the rock out. The screw driver slipped, struck his left thigh puncturing it.
Smashed tip of right middle finger between pump shaft and hand rail.
EE was cutting the linkage on the cage of the crusher when a rock came down the chute bouncing off the rotor and through the opening striking the EE on the head, causing a laceration which required stitches, and/or staples.
Employee was lifting steel weights for a gravity belt take up to remove them. At the end of the shift he reported pain in the abdomen. He was referred to a doctor, FMC received the medical information on 10/22/2013 to show this hernia was work related.
Miner was stepping into a grease truck, twisted knee and felt it pop.
Operator strung out water hose that was twisted. Hose slipped out of his hands and sprayed his leg with scalding hot water. Injured area became blistered and resulted in a 2nd Degree burn on upper right thigh.
Employee was arranging steel bars on a rack, one bar fell and pinched finger between two bars, pinching caused laceration which required four stitches.
Employee hit his head on a low pipe, and injured his neck. Received an X-Ray from chiropractor and treatment.
Walking out of building employee stepped on a concrete patch that broke away causing the individual's ankle to roll.
Operator was adding Sulphonic acid and D-90 in a mixing tank when the liquid splashed into his right eye. He was wearing safety glasses but the fluid splashed up under the glasses.
While installing roof bolt,the employee reached to grab the steel an put his other hand on the top of the drill box, other steel came out of the roof landing and landed on his hand smashing his finger between the steel and the box. Employee was transferred to ER and received stitches. Returned to work with no restrictions.
On 1/24 a.m. EE had been welding/cutting/grinding on sections of the ore dist. building installing unistrat. He was wearing all required PPE but at some point around 9:00 a.m. he felt a foreign object in his eye. Assuming it was dust he attempted to wash it out, when that failed he notified the safety dept.
A spud wrench impaled the injured employee in the back of the calf when another employee working above him dropped the wrench.
Employee was pulling a 55 gallon barrel off of a pallet when the pallet broke, tipping the barrel on its side. The employee bent over to roll the barrel out of the way when he felt a pain in his back. He was treated by a chiropractor.
While tamping a hole underground, employee slipped on an oil slick and fell landing hard on right shoulder and arm. Reporting shoulder strain.
While hanging a cable up, he stepped on the first rung of a two step ladder and felt the ladder tip backwards causing him to fall onto the belt line hitting his head on the belt line rail. The fall caused a head wound requiring 8 staples, to the back of his head.
Running a come-a-long, the tooth broke on the machine making him fall, injuring neck and left shoulder.
Employee had backed out from a parking space near the tool room, turned and was moving forward to exit the warehouse parking lot when the truck struck the concrete retaining wall that runs east west to allow lower elevation access to the receiving dock.
Mechanic was welding a baffle plate inside Mono 1 dissolver, while making an up hill weld the mechanic came into contact with a sharp edge of the baffle cutting his right index finger. The mechanic was sent to Medcor where his finger was evaluated and the laceration was medically glued.
Inspecting overhead welding leads did not see hole in deck and stepped into the hole injuring his knee and straining his back.
Employee was cutting the straps off a new pallet of empty bags. He was momentarily distracted and cut his left index finger requiring sutures.
Employee was stripping a 5kV cable when the knife slipped cutting his left index finger. Sutures were required because the cut was over a joint.
Mechanics were removing a pipe, when they cut the bolts supporting it the temporary support allowed the pipe to twist and fall striking the employee on the head, shoulder and back. The employee received a slight concussion.
Over time the employee developed ganglion cysts in the left wrist. This was determined to be work related on March 8, 2012 after receiving the medical information.
The employee was working on an elevated deck, did not hook the access chains and fell about 10 feet when the pry bar slipped.
Employee was moving a large steel plate about 500# and had set it on the ground to re-rig it to move again. Initially the plate did not move but when EE stepped up to it to re-rig it fell over striking EE's left ankle.
On the bagging line a bag was pushed off the loading spout and began spilling. The operator reached to his left to push the e stop and strained his shoulder. On February 7 the employee sought medical treatment and was put on restricted duty.
A miner was barring down some top that was over a disconnect box. When the rock hit the box it bounced and struck the miner's right foot, fracturing one bone in the right foot. The miner had X-rays taken on 12/19/2011 and that is when the broken bone was discovered. Prior to the 19th the injury was not thought to be serious.
Employee was lifting a railcar lid. The lid jammed half way up and the employee strained his back. Company was notified of work restrictions on 10/31/11.
Employee was aligning the load spout to the Railcar. He was aligning the spout with his right leg. He was supporting his posture and gripping the hand rail. As he pushed with his right leg. He felt a sharp pain run through the back side of his right upper leg which resulted in a torn hamstring muscle.
Employee was moving a 6" vacuum hose and felt pain in his shoulder. Employee was prescribed Physical Therapy.
While the employee was traveling to the mining section to begin work the nut retaining the pitman arm fell off causing the jeep to veer to the left climbing the rib and rolling over. Initial examination at the hospital showed no injury. Reexamination on 7/8/11 showed a fractured vertebrae. At that time the doctor put him off work.
Employee was manually handling filter leaves and felt a pop and then pain in right arm. Employee diagnosed with detached bicep tendon.
Employee reported pain in L Wrist which was diagnosed as inter carpal instability. Accepted as work related on 5/17/11 when medical documentation was received & reviewed that stated diagnosis.
Employee was using a 1/2 inch drill to drill a hole in sheet metal. The hole saw grabbed, causing the drill to spin out of his hand. The drill had a side handle attached and the twisting of the drill caused the side handle to strain his left thumb. Injury became reportable when the employee had surgical intervention on 7/19/2011.