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THE WHILE WORKING ON THE HOPPER, EE STEPPED BACKWARDS BECAUSE OF THE HOT DUST THAT SHOT OUT WHILE WORKING ON THE HOOPER. HE STEPPED BACKWARDS ONTO AN UNEVEN SURFACE CAUGHT HIM TO TWIST HIS ANK LE AND FALL.
EE WAS WELDING WHILE IT WAS RAINING AND HIS GLOVES WERE WET. THERE WERE NO INSULATORS ON THE WELDING ELECTRODE AND HE SUFFERED MULTIPLE LIGHT SHOCKS.
EE WAS CHANGING THE GRATES ON THE #2 CLINKER COLLER WHEN DUST FELL IN HIS EYES.
WORKING IN AREA OF HIGH DUST CONCENTRATION ON HOT DAY. LIME IN DUST COMBINED AND PERSPIRATION TO CAUSE CONTACT DERMATITIS.
WORKING IN AREA OF HIGH DUST CONCENTRATION ON HOT DAY. LIME IN DUST COMBINED & PERSPIRATION TO CAUSE CONTACT DERMATITIS.
EE WAS LOOSENING A HATCH BOLT ON A TANKER TRUCK AND NOTICED SOME DISCOMFORT IN HER LEFT HAND. SINCE THAT TIME WITH CERTAIN MOVEMENTS SHE'S NOTICED PAIN IN HER LEFT FOREARM. UPON VISITING THE D R SHE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH TENDONITIS AND GIVEN IBUPROFEN.
EE WAS CRAWLING DOWN THROUGH KILN #2 THIMBLE WHEN FINISHED WITH CHAIN WORK. HE GOT DUST IN HIS LEFT EYE. IT WAS THE UPDRAFT FROM THE THIMBLE. THE DUST SCRATCHED HIS LEFT CORNEA. EE WAS NOT WEA RING HIS GOGGLES.
HE WAS PARTICIPATING IN THE MORNING "TIME OUT" PROGRAM. THIS PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO DO LIGHT STRETCHING EXERCISES TO PREVENT STRAINS AND SPRAINS. WHILE TAKING PART IN THIS PROGRAM, ANOTHER EMP LOYEE GAVE HIM A BEAR HUG AND HE FELT DISCOMFORT IN HIS CHEST (THE STERNUM/BREAST BONE AREA). AFTER NUMEROUS TESTS IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE BEAR HUG CAUSED A RIB STRAIN AND THE DOCTOR GAVE
EE WAS OPERATING THE MID KILN BY PASS EIGHT GAUGE SHOT GUN AND ON THE FOURTH ATTEMPT FAILED TO OPEN THE THIMBLE COMPLETELY THUS OBSTRUCTING THE BARREL OF THE GUN. WHEN THE GUN FIRED THE SHOT D EFLECTED OFF THE DOOR (GATE) CAUSING THE INJURY.
IT WAS POURING DOWN RAIN AT THE START OF EE'S SHIFT. AROUND THE WASH MILL THERE IS A SMALL DRAINAGE DITCH. TO KEEP FROM GETTING HIS FEET WET HE TRIED TO JUMP ACROSS THE DITCH AND IN THE PROCES S, SLIPPED ON SOME WET MATERIAL AND HURT HIS NECK AND BAKC. AFTER READING EE'S XRAYS ON HIS THIRD VISIT, THE DR. DECIDED THAT EE NEEDED A WEEK OFF.
ON 2-2-98 EE GOT SOME DUST ON HIS FOREHEAD AND AROUND HIS EYES. HE REMOVED HIS SAFTY GLASSES AND TRIED TO BRUSH THE DUST AWAY WITH HIS LEFT HAND. EITHER THE E-IN ONE FIRST AID ANTI OINTMENT USED FOR TREATMENT ON A PREVIOUS INJURY OR DUST GOT INTO HIS EYES. AFTER HIS SHIFT EE WENT HOME AND WENT TO BED. WHEN HE AWOKE,HIS EYES WERE ALMOST SWELLED SHUT.
EMPLOYEE LIFTED A PIECE OF GRATING AND STRAINED HIS BACK.EMPLOYEE ORIGINALLY WAS NOT GOING TO MISS WORK.PAIN DID NOT GET BETTER AND EMPLOYEE HAS NOT YET RETURNED TO WORK.
EE WAS STRIPPING BAGS OUT OF THE N/W COMPARTMENT. HE CLIMBER OUT TO REMOVE THE SPRING LOADED CAPS & WHILE DOING SO THE SUCTION FROM INSIDE OF THE COMPARTMENT SUCKED DUST FROM THE OLD BAGS & CA USED FOREIGN MATERIAL TO ENTER HIS RIGHT EYE.
HE WAS JACK HAMMERING A SULFUR RING IN #2 KILN. HE WAS ROTATING WITH THE OTHER EMPLOYEES DURING THE 9 HOURS HE WAS WORKING IN THE KILN. AT THE END OF HIS SHIFT AND THE FOLLOWING DAY HE NOTICED THE ARM AND HAND PROBLEM.
REFILLING THE WATER TRUCK AND WENT TO STEP DOWN AND SLIPPED IN SOME MUD CREATED FROM CONSTRUCTION OF THE DITCH FOR PIPE LINE GOING TO NEW DUST TANK IN THE QUARRY. THE LADDER ON THE EUCLID WAS ALSO BENT.
REPETITIVE LIFTING HEAVEY RESTACKING BAGS ONTO PALLETS AND REMOVING TORN BAGS FROM BELT.
EMP, AN ELECTRICAL/INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICIAN, STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK WHILE WORKING ON VARIOUS TASKS ASSOCIATED WITH MAINTENANCE AND INSTRUMENTATION REPAIR. HE WAS REQUIRED TO REPAIR INSTRUME NTATION PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH CLAY FLOW MUSSELL VALVES AND PLC UNITS. PERFORMED TASKS IN SQUATTING POSITION. ALSO CARRIED INDUSTRIAL ELEC CABLE TO TOP OF #1 DUST TANK TO HELP MAINT EMP'S.
EE WAS HELPING REMOVE A MUD RING FIN THE NUMER 1 KILN USING A 20 LB. JACK HAMMER. TWENTY-FOUR HOURS AFTER HIS SHIFT, HE EXPERIENCED A SHARP PIAN IN HIS LEFT WRIST. EE WENT TO DR. WHOE PRESCRIB ED SOME MEDICINE & PUT HIS ARM IN A PERFORATED WRIST SUPPORT.
EMPLOYEE HIT HER LEFT KNEE ON HER DESK. WHEN IT HAPPENED SHE KNEW SHE WAS GOING TO PASS OUT AND SAT DOWN. SHE REST HER HEAD ON HER ARM. SHE CAME TO CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE FLOOR WITH A SORE LEFT KNEE, A FLOOR BURN ON HER RIGHT KNEE AND HER TEETH AND GUMS HURT.
EE WAS USING A HAMMER & CHISEL WHEN THE HAMMER SLIPPED & STRUCK HIS LEFT THUMB. HE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT UNTIL 1-19-96, THUS THIS EVENT BECAME REPORTABLE ON 1-19-96.
EE WENT OUT TO UNPLUG THE IRON HOPPER AND AS HE WAS STEPPING OUT FROM UNDER THE HOPPER BY THE W=BELT, HIS FOOT CAUGHT ON AN AIR HOSE AND HE FELL.
EMP AND COWORKER WERE TIGHTENING PINION BEARING BOLTS ON #1 KILN DRIVE PIER. EMP STEPPED BACK SOCOWORKER COULD HIT THE SLUGGING WRENCK. WHEN HE DID, HIS HAT FELL OFF AND HIS HEAD CAME IN CONTA CT WITH A BRACKET WELDED TO THE RETAINTIN RING AND HE CUT HIS HEAD OPEN REQUIRING 11 STITCHES.
EE WAS TRYING TO GET DUST TO FLOW THROUGH THE DRY DUST DISCHARGE SIDE OF NUMBER 2 DUST TANK. THE AIR HOSE RAN FROM THE MAIN FLOOR OF THE DUST BLENDER TO THE DRY DUST DISCHARGE CHUTE AND IT HOO KED INTO THE VALVE ON THE SIDE OF THE DISCHARGE CHUTE. WHILE WORKING THE COUPLING STARTED TO COME APART. BEFORE THE AIR WAS SHUT OFF, THE HOSE CAME APART AND DUST FLEW INTO EE'S EYES.
CARRYING OLD FEEDER MOTOR TO TRASH. SLIPPED ON SOME GRINDIBG AID THAT SOMEONE SPILLED ON THE FLOOR.
RESTACKING PACKAGED CEMENT BAGS FROM ONE PALLET TO ANOTHER.
PUITTING SAND IN RAW MILL HOPPER THE AIR CONDITIONER IN THE L-70 WAS NOT WORKING & EE OPENED THE PASSENGER SIDE WINDOW IN THE CORSE OF THE EVENING DUST CAME IN & GOT IN HER RIGHT EYE
CONVERTING AN OBSOLETE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT INTO A MOBILE EQUIPMENT ATTACHED JACK HAMMER. EMPLOYEE HAD A PIECE OF STEEL CLAMPED WITH TWO C CLAMPS. HE TOOK OFF ONE CLAMP AND WHEN HE DID THE SECON D ONE CLAMP CAME OFF AND THE PLATE FELL ON EMPLOYEE'S LEG.
EE WAS MEASURING A-1 SILO AND SLIPPED ON SOME LOOSE CLINKER.
USING A NUT DRIVER TO LOOSEN A BOLT.HAND LOST FEELING AND STARTED TO SWELL UP.
EE WAS WORKING IN THE KILN DRIVE ROOM STRIPPING 5000 VOLT KV INSULLATION WITH A KNIFE. WE TRIED WIRE STRIPPERS TO NO AVAIL.
PUMP WAS VIBRATING BAD--MECHANIC DISMANTLED IT TO FIND THE PROBLEM. IN THE PROCESS OF CHANGING OUT THE FOLLOWER PLATE IT FELL AND CAUGHT EE'S HAND BETWEEN THE PLATE AND SHAFT PLATE.
EE WAS GETTING OUT OF THE RELIEF TRUCK AT THE START OF HIS SHIFT TO SERVICE & REOPERATE THE D-9 DOZER AS HE WAS EXITING FROM THE CAB OF THE PICKUP TRUCK HE SLIPPED ON THE ICE
EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO UNPLUG #3 SEPARATOR & GET THE CEMENT TO PUMP. THE RUBBER STOPPER CAME OUT OF THE FEED PIPE & A STREAM OF CEMENT CAME OUT OF THE PIPE & STRUCK HIM IN THE EYE.
INJURED WAS HELPING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE INSTALL A TRANSDUCER IN THE TOP OF NO. 11 SILO. HE WAS HOLDING A 16"X 16" 1/4" STEEL PLATE WITH A PAIR OF CHANNEL LOCKS WHILE IT WAS BEING CUT OUT OF THE TOP OF SILO ACCESS LID. NEITHER INJURED OR OTHER EMPLOYEE REALIZED THE DUST COLLECTOR WAS ON BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T NOTICE ANY SUCTION AS THEY WERE CUTTING NO. 11 SILO. JUST AS OTHER EMPLOY
EE WAS WALKING NEAR THE FLY ASH PILE BY THE WASH MILL AND FLY ASH BLEW INTO HIS EYE.
EE WAS LIFTING A TWO GALLON GALVANIZED PAIL FULL OF IRON & DUMPING ITON THE RAW MILL ROCK BELT EE FELT PAIN IN THE LOWER BACK AREA IT WAS DIAGNOSED AS A PULLED MUSCLE HE VISITED THE CHIROPRAC TOR AT LEAST TWICE
WHILE WALKING UNDER CLINKER SILOS, DUST OFF HANDRAILS AND BEAMS ETC. BLEW OFF AND INTO HIS EYE. HE WENT TOT HE DR TO HAVE DUST REMOVED. IT TOOK THREE VISITS TO GET IT COMPLETELY OUT. A RX WAS PRESCRIBED FOR INFECITON.
INJURED WAS PREPARING CONCRETE SUFACE WITH A 6" POWER HAND GRINDER. THE BLADE STRUCK A STEEL SUPPORT AND KICKED BACK TOWARDS THE OPERATOR. THE FORCE CAUSED A MINOR WRIST SPRAIN.
INJURED WAS PREPARING A CONCRETE SURFACE WITHA 6" POWER HAND GRINDER. HE GOT TO CLOSE TOT HE METAL SIDING OF A PUMP HOUSE. THE GRINDER CAUGHT THE METAL AND JERKED THE GRINDR OUT OF HIS HANDS . THE BLADE TRUCK HIS LEFT FOREARM. INJURED RECEIVED 6 STITCHES AT THE HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM.
EE WAS UNPLUGGING NEW AIRSLIDE. HE BECAME OVERHEATED DURING THE PROCESS AND FRACTURED TIP OF RIGHT THUMB WHILE USING AN AIRSLIDE COVER CAP TO HAMMER THE AIRSLIDE. THE CAP HIT HIS THUMB WHILE B EATING ON AIRSLIDE.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE MILL CLEANING THE GRATE AND EITHER BUMPED HER SIDE OR TWISTED JUST RIGHT CAUSING SORENESS AND SWELLING IN THE LEFT AREA OR WAS CARRYING RAILROAD TIES.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A TWO GALLON GALVANIZED PAIL FULL OF IRON ORE AND DUMPING IT ON THE RAW MILL ROCK BELT. EMPLOYEE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN THE BACK OF HIS NECK. THE PAIN CONTINUED INTO THE N EXT DAY AND EMPLOYEE WENT TO VISIT A CHIROPRACTOR ON 4-11-94 AND HAS ANOTHER APPOINTMENT SCHEDULED.
THERE WAS EXCESSIVE FUMES IN THE MAIN LOCKER ROOM FROM SOMEONE NOT READING THE PROVIDED MSDS SHEETS AND MIXING INCOMPATIBLE SOLVENTS EE WAS TRYING TO OPEN WINDOW TO VENT THE ROOM AND THE WINDO W WAS STUCK SHUT. HE TRIED TO OPEN THE WINDOW WITH HIS HAND AND THE WINDOW BROKE AND HE CUT HIS ARM ON THE BROKEN GLASS.
THE CONCRETE PAVEMENT ON THE BACK SIDE NORTH OF THE PACKHOUSE WAS ICY AND THERE WAS ONE BIG CHUNK AND EE TRIPPED AND FELL.
EE WAS WALKING DOWN STEPS WHEN HIS LEFT KNEE GAVE WAY CAUSING A FALL DOWN THE STEPS HIS LEFT KNEE HIT THE CONCRETE FLOOR.
ASSISTING PLANT WORKER CLEAN CLAY CRUSHER WHEN HE CLOSED THE DOOR ON HIS FINGER.
WHILE PERFORMING NORMAL WORK ACTIVITIES, HE HIS HIS LEFT KNEE ON A FORKLIFT BOOM LEFT BY A CONTRACTOR.
EE WAS DISENGAGING THE AUX ENGINE CLUTCH ON NO.1 KILN. HIS HAND SLIPPED OFF THE CLUTCH HANDLE AND HIS ELBOW STRUCK A FUNNEL THAT HE HAD BEEN USING TO PUT GAS IN THE AUX ENGINE.
HOOKING UP WATER LINE ON NO. 1 KILN NO.5 PIER. PRODUCTION WAS LOADING THE DUST THRUCK AT THE DUST BLENDER AND SOMETHING HAPPEN TO THE WATER SPRAY AND THE HIGH WIND CAUGHT THE DRY DUST AND IT BLEW UP WHERE INJURED WAS WORKIGN AND FILLED HIS EYES.
WHILE MOVING CEMENT COMPOSITE TYPE I TO PHYSICAL TEST LAB INJURE DPULLED MUSCLES IN SHOUDLER AND NECK LEFT SIDE.