MILL OPERATOR VENTED 502 GAS FROM PLANT VAPOR CLOUD BLEW OVER CONTRACTOR FUELING AREA. OPERATOR INHALED VAPORS WHILE HE WAS FUELING SCRAPER. THIS WAS AN INTENTIONAL RELEASE OF 502 FROM MILLING FACILITY.
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Showing all 28EMPL CLEANING C6TTING EDGE ON BLADE IN PREP FOR REMOVING IT.HAND SCRAPER SLIPPED W/HIS RIGHT THUMB RECVING LACERATION COMING IN CONTACT WITH A BURR ON BLADE.
EMPLOYEE STATES2 "WORKING IN A SITUATION WHERE THERE WAS A GRATED WALKWAY OVERHEAD AND HAVING TO LOOK UP TO PERFORM WORK DUTIES. PEOPLE WALKING OVERHEAD, DIRT AND DEBRIS CONSTANTLY FALLING TH ROUGH GRATING. 1OT A SMALL PIECE OF STEEL CUTTING IN MY RIGHT EYE, EVEN THOUGH I WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.
EMPLOYEE STATES2 "I WAS LINING UP A PIECE OF PIPE UNDER A PANEL. KNOCKED IT INTO PLACE AND DISLOCATED A JOINT IN MY FINGER."
EE WAS STANDING3UP AFTER HIS COFFEE BREAK & HIT HIS HEAD ON A STEEL BEAM THAT HE DID NOT KNOW WAS ABOVE HIM.
SCAFFOLDING FEL5 KNOCKING SUBJECT ONTO HIS BACK
DRILLING CEMENT3DRILL BIT GOT STUCK WHILE ON AUTOMATIC AND SMASHED FINGER AGAINST CASING
EMPLOYEE STATED3THAT HE WAS DRIVING A TRUCK & WRENCHED HIS NECK.
FELL OUT OF CHA3R.
LIFTING A PIPE,3IT SLID ONTO HAND AND PINNED IT AGAINST A RAIL.
OFF LOADING BAR9ELS FROM TRUCK TRUCK MOVED BACKWARDS DRAGGING BARREL ACROSS FOOT
EMPLOYEE STATES3BENDING DOWN TO MEASURE PIPE, LEFT KNEE STARTED TO GET STIFF.
EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING ALONG SIDE SLOPE OF TAILINGS DAM.HE STEPPED ON A ROCK AND STRAINED HIS ANKLE.EMPLOYEE WAS NOT RECOVERED FROM BROKEN LEG PRIOR TO HIS EMPLOYMENT AND WE WERE NOT TOLD.INSTR UCTED DOCTOR AN8 EMPLOYEE TO STAY OFF WORK UNTIL FULL MEDICAL RELEASE.
EMPLOYEE STATES3HE WAS MOVING IRON AND TWISTED HIS BACK.
PUMPING WATER A3D CONCRETE, HAD HOSE OVER HEAD, FELL OFF SCAFFOLDING.
EMPLOYEE STATES2 HE WAS HOLDING UP SOME PIPES WHEN THE LADDER TIPPED SIDEWAYS AND FELL OVER, TWISTING MY RIGHT ANKLE AND THE PIPES HIT ME IN THE HEAD.
EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING UNIT RIG PARTS WITH A SAFTEY SOLVENT . DUE TO SENSITIVE SKIN AND EXPOSURE TO SOLVENT, CAUSED CHEMICAL BURN.
EMPLOYEE WAS FI5LING IN A HOLE WHEN THE WIND BLEW DIRT INTO HIS RIGHT EYE
EMPLOYEE WAS CU7TING TAPE OFF OF POWDER POLE WITH HIS KNIFE THE POLE TURNED AND CUT HIS LEFT THUMB W/KNIFE
EMPLOYEE STATES2 NO LIGHTS WHERE HE WAS WALDING, FELL IN A HOLE, INJURING NECK AND BACK.
I WAS WORKING B9LOW 30 FT TANK WHEN A 2X4 ABOUT 5 FTLONG HIT ME IN THE HEAD.
DRIVING A BOBCA7 IN REVERSE AND HIT THE SIDE OF THE HILL.
WHEEL CAME OFF 4ELDING CART WHILE PULLING IT ALONG & ALL THE WEIGHT ON CART SHIFTED DOWN ALONGSIDE HIS BODY WRENCHING HIS BACK.
PATIENT STATES 6ENDING BOLTGS WITH A HAMMER MISSED BOLT & HIT HIMSELF IN THE LEFT KNEE
EMPLOYEE WAS OF0 LOADING PRILL SACKS FROM FLAT BED TRUCK AND PLACING BY DRILL HOLES ON 7-6-87 THE NEXT DAY AT SHIFT END EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF A SORE BACK ON 7-9 HE BEGAN GOING THROUGH SESSIO NS W/CHIROPRACT2R
TWO MEN TORQUI3G DOWN OVERSIZE BOLTS WITH LARGE WRENCH 1 MAN LET GO OF HIS SIDE OF THE WRENCH, CAUSING THE FULL PRESSURE TO FALL ON I NAME.
OFF LOADING LAR1E 02 TANK FROM TRUCK, HE WAS POSITIONED A GROUND TO CATCH BOTTOM OF TANK AS IT CAME DOWN. JUST AS HE GOT A HOLD OF THE BOTTOM OF THE TANK, THE SAFETY CAP THAT THE MAN UP ON THE TRUCK WAS HANGI3G ONTO, JUST POPPED RIGHT OFF, SENDING THE FULL WEIGHT OF THE TANK INTO I NAME S LAP. FELL TO KNEES, WIND KNOCKED OUT AND STRAINED LOWER BACK.
STOPPED WELDING3LIFTED HOOD AND A SHOWER OF SPARKS FROM A BODY GRINDER BEING USED NEARLY HIT LEFT SIDE OF FACE AND LEFT EYE.