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Employee was working to rewire VFD control box for electric booster station pump. Employee reached inside the VFD circuit box to check the wiring and must have hit a bare wire causing an ignition or spark to occur that caused him to have burns to his face/head/neck/arms.
Climbing onto equipment.
Employee repairing faulty switch under dash of service truck.
Heavy rain and deep mud, the employee was going up and down on the track hoe, when he slipped on the steps of the track hoe and caught himself with right hand and straining his right shoulder.
EE was replacing a wear liner in #1 jig feed bin. As he was welding it in, the polished steel was reflecting back into the hood from the sides and behind him causing the arc burn to his eyes.
EE was removing the hydraulic rams from an old crusher and was using a hammer to drive out the pins holding it in place. He missed the pin, hitting is left wrist with the hammer.
employee was tightening the bolts on the pipe line for the dredge and pulled his shoulder and bicep of his left arm.
Bag house #1 tube had coal fines builing up and falling down chunks into the Jig, EE was reaching in and pulling out the chunks of coal fines and strained his neck.
EE was assisting with maintenance on a pump, he was trying to clean around the pump to make it more accessible for other EE's working on pump. Pushed shovel to dig and when it stopped against surrounding material, his weight shifted against shovel and lost balance. His body weight shifted, felt pull in his leg. Trouble with leg due to prior injury not related to work.
10dB STS on right ear from annual evaluation on 9/16/09 and a 25dB reportable loss since baseline evaluation on 12/10/07.
EE had finshed lunch and went up in the plant to clean out the #1 baghouse hopper with an air lance which is a air hose with a 1/2 inch pipe hooked to it with a ball valve to turn air on and off with the valve. EE was removing the lance from the hopper it hit him in the mouth knocking out a lower front tooth. The ball valve is what struck him knocking the tooth out.
The john boat floor was slippery as water had accumulated in the bottom at one side of the boat.
Employee was examining the air cylinder in the float cell. When he started to come down the ladder, he took a misstep on the ladder which turned his foot sideways causing his knee to pop.
Jumped off the back of a truck to the ground, instead of climbing down.
Cold weather made the pipe more brittle than normal. Typically the pipe can be cut to a certain point then the pipe can be broken with the equipment to finish the break. Under normal conditions the pipe could have been broken this way. Due to the cold weather making the pipe brittle the amount that was cut was not strong enough to keep from breaking on its own.
Cold weather made the pipe more brittle than normal. Typically the pipe can be cut to a certain point then the pipe can be broken with the equipment to finish the break. Under normal conditions the pipe could have been broken this way. Due to the cold weather making the pipe brittle the amount that was cut was not strong enough to keep from breaking on its own.
Employee was working a come-along overhead at the end of his reach.
Drilling 4.5" hole in siding @ plant overhead. Once drill went thru it grabbed and turned bit into 3rd & 4th finger on left hand.
The employee was installing metal sheeting on the prep plant roof when he became ill from the heat - mild heat exhaustion was eventually diagnosed.
Slurry is entering the streambed at 3 locations approximately 1/4 mile downstream of the dam. The flow rate is estimated to be 600 to 800 gallons a minute. The flow is contained and being pumped back into slurry impoundment #5. MSHA has done a full investigation of the accident and has released the impoundment for work to resume as normal.
EE was sitting on structural steel, reached down below the floor level to lift a chain hoist.
A fire developed on the upper most elevation of the preparation plant being constructed in Brookwood, AL for Covol Engineered Fuels. It is assumed that slag from a cutting torch unknowingly fell inside a polyethylene pipe, allowing it to smolder and eventually catch fire from the inside of the pipe(s). MSHA's 800 number was called - report # 1-52227611.
Employee was walking/running across the construction site of a preparation plant - when he twisted his left knee on uneven ground/mud.
Employee was working under overhead personnel - hot slag/sparks fell through grating floors - striking employee in the right ear.
Dredge capsized from a collapse of material causing the ejection of the operator and an employee took off his clothes, put on a life preserver and went into the water to help rescue and expedite the removal of the injured operator from the water that left this man hypothermic.
Dredging was in place at the #4 pond 150 to 200 feet from the upstream side of the dam when the material along with part of the dam structure collasped into the pond capsizing the dredge causing facial and head injuries to the operator. The operator was removed from the pond by rescue from employees. He and another employee also were hypothermic.
Employee was bending down to pick up plastic pipe. Employee stated that he was not doing anything out of his routine duties. Nothing strenuous or unsafe. He said he felt the pain when he bent over.
Employee was grinding steel with a hand held grinder throughout the day. Wearing a faceshield and glasses, when he got home he felt an irritation in his right eye.