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ON 10-8-86 AT 10:45AM I.NAME WASS WORKING ON T HE 25# LINE WITH I.NAME. THEY WERE TO FINISH A ROUND I.NAME HAD STARTED WALKING BACK AROUND THE TABLE & AS HE WAS REACHING FOR CARDBOARD TO PUT ON PALLET HE WA8 BUMPED BY THE L IFT TRUCK OP WHO WAS DOUBLE STACKING A PALLET OF PRODUCT. I.NAME STATED HE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE PALLET & TURN TABLE.

OPERATOR FORGOT3TO FASTEN HIS SEAT BELT AT THE START OF THE SHIFT. ON HIS FIRST LOAD HE RAN OVER A DIP IN THE ROAD AND BUMPED HIS HEAD ON THE CAB ROOF, CAUSINT A LACERATION ON HIS HEAD

EMPLOYEE WAS MO5ING A 4 X 8 X 1/8 PIECE OF METAL WHEN IT SLIPPED FROM HIS H ANDS. STRIKING THE FRONT PART OF HIS RIGHT LEG BELOW THE KNEE. CAUSING A LACERATION.

EMPLOYEE WAS LI0TING A 40 LB BAG OF GEORGIA KAOLIN MATERIAL WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER ABDOMINAL REGION WITH SWELLING.

LIGHTNING CAUSE8 A PREMATURE DETONATION OF EXPLOSIVES.IT APPEARED THAT THE LIGHTNING HAD SHOT ONE HOLE ON THE FRONT OF THE FACE.ALL DAMAGE WAS TO THE FRONT HOLES.THERE WERE NO INJURIES INVOL VED WITH THIS A7CIDENT.

I WAS WORKING O3 AN OVERHEAD DOOR, STANDING IN A SAFETY CAGE. THEN, I NEEDED TO GET SOME PARTS. CLIMBING DOWN THE LADDER, JUST AS I WAS PUTTING MY FOOT ON THE GROUND, A SCREWDRIVER FELL FROM MY POCKET AND 5ANDED UNDER MY FOOT, CAUSING INJURY TO MY FOOT AND ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS VE9ING OUT AXLE ON MODEL 6 NORTHWEST SHOVEL. A PIECE OF HOT SLAG FELL, AND WHEN HE JUMPED TO GET OUT OF ITS WAY HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG A CHAIN SAW TO CUT DOWN A TREE WHICH WAS JOINED BY A SECOND TREE AT THE ROOTS THE FIRST TREE WAS 3/4 OF THE WAY DOWN WHEN THE CHAIN OF THE SAW HIT AGAINST THE SECOND TREE CAUSING IT TO 3KICK BACK STRIKING THE EMPLOYEES LEG

EMPL DESCENDING3FLIGHT OF STAIRS WHEN HEEL CAUGHT CAUSING HIM TO TWIST ANKLE.

FORKS ON HYSTER FORLIFT HAD SLID OUT OF POSITION AND FALLEN OFF. THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING ONTO THE FORK AND CO-WORKER WAS TRYING TO SLIDE THE FORKS WITH THE LEVER NOT AWARE THAT EMPLOY EE\S FINGERS WERE IN THE WAY.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING 50LB BAGS IN BOXCAR HE ENTERED CAR & POSITIONED HIS TOWMOTOR HE DISMOUNTED ON LEFT SIDE PRODUCT WAS STACKED 9HIGH HE PUT HIS LEFT HAND ON BOXCAR WALL & HIS RT HAND ON PAL LET OF PRODUCT TO BE UNLOADED & CLIMBED UP TO TOP OF 9 HIGH STACK HE LOST HIS BALANCE & FELL BACKWARDS HE LANDED ON BOXCAR FLOOR MORE ON LEFT SIDE OF HIS LOWER BACK

EMP WAS HELPING HIS FOREMAN SET A DRUM OF SAND UPRIGHT THAT HAD FALEN FROM PALLET WHEN HE PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS BACK

WHILE PRYING ON AN OPEN TOP HOPPER WITH A BAR FELT PAIN IN HIS SIDE THE NEXT DAY HE NOTICED A LUMP ABOUT 11.00 AM AND REPORTED IT HE SAW THE DOCTOR ON 7-9-85 HERNIA SURGERY WAS PERFORMED ON 7- 19-85 HE RETURNED TO WORK THE FOLLOWING MONDAY 7-2285 ON RESTRICTED

ROUTINE MAINTENANCE ON GRANNY FEEDER HAD HAND IN FEEDER DOING ADJUSTMENTS AND FEEDER ROTATED CATCHING THUMB EMPLOYEE KNEW THAT HE SHOULD NOT HAVE PUT HAND IN FEEDER UNDER THESE CONDITIONS

CLOSING BOTTOM VALVE ON TOTE BIN WHEN HE STRUCK HAND ON SHARP EDGE OF THE BIN.

I.NAME WAS HANGING 3IN CONDUIT ON SIDE OF 2A BELT COVER AT GROUND LEEL WHILE LOOKING UP & HANDING CONDUIT TO HELPER HE STEPPED ON PC OF STEEL & FELL DOWN HITTING HIS KNEE ON GROUND

CUTTING PIEC OF CHANNEL IRON AND PIECE FELL 3\ STRIKING EMPL FOOT ANDPENETRATING BEHIND STEEL TOE PROTECTOR IN BOOT.

HE WAS LIFTING A L.P. GAS CYLINDER FROM THE BED A 1/2 TON PICKUP TRUCK WHEN HE STRAINED SOME MUSCLE IN HIS BACK. THE CYLINDER WEIGHS APPROX 50-55 LBS.

EMP WAS DRIVING A R 22 EUCLID AND COMING OFF A STEEP GRADE WHEN THE RETARDER WENT OUT AND EUCLIDS BRAKES WOULD NOT HOLD AFTER THIS HAPPENED EMP JUMPED FROM THE EUCLIS

ADJUSTING FORKS ON FORKLIFT WHEN IT SLIPPED AND FRACTURED MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS ON LEFT HAND.

INJURED WAS CARRYING MILL ROD WWITH 2 OTHER EMPLOYEES. THEY PLACED THEIR END IN THE MILL INJURED HELD ONTO HIS END AND FELT SHARP PAIN IN SMALL OF BACK HE LIFTED HIS END AND PUSHED ROD INTO MI LL REPEATED TASK 4 TIMES

USED A DIRT PACKER FOR 1 1/2 HRS. FELT NUMBNESS IN BOTH HANDS. YET NUMBNESS PERSISTED IN RIGHT HAND THAT EVENING & HAS CONTINUED PLUS IMPAIRED LATERAL MOBILITY OF FINGERS.

THE INJURED LIFTED A 100 LB BAG OF SAND AND POURED HALF INTO AN EMPTY 55 GAL. DRUM. WHILE POURING HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE AGGRAVATED THE INJURY THE NEXT MORNING WHILE DUMPING THE SAME CONTAINER

WAS HELPING TIGHTEN A LOCKNUT ON MOTOR DRIVE SHAFT WHEN PART OF THE NUT BROKE CUAISNG 1, IN PIPE WRENCH TO SLIP CUTTING THE BACK OF EMP HAND

WAS CLEANING OFF SLIDE CHUTE CAUGHT HIS RT INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN A FLEXIBLE CHAIN LINK CONVEYOR AND THE CHUTE

EMP WAS HELPING PUT RODS IN DENVER ROD MILL AND WAS MOVING THE MAUL ROLLER CONVEYOR INTO POSITION WHEN CO WORKER LET A ROD SLIP DOWN THE CONVEYOR CATCHING THE EMP LEFT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN TH ROLLER AND THE ROD

EMP WAS DISCONNECTING THE QUICK CONNECT ON VACUUM DRYER WHEN THE QUICK CONNECT MALFUNCTIONED CAUSING HOT WATER TO BE SPRAYED ON EMP RT ARM WITH 2ND DEGREE BURNS

EMPLOYEE WAS DISLODGING CHUNK OF BENTONITE FROM ELEVATOR WHEN SHOVEL HE WAS USING WAS CAUGHT BY ELEVATOR BUCKET. CAUSING HANDLE OF SHOVEL TO STRIKE EMPLOYEE IN JAW, BREAKING TWO TEETH.

WHILE LEAVING WORK AREA, EE CAUGHT HEEL OF BOOT ON CATWALK & FELL FORWARD DOWN STEPS. EE CAUGHT WRIST BETWEEN 2 STEPS.

EMP NEEDED TO ADJUST BAG WEIGHT ON PACKER HE WAS ADJSUTING SADDLE WHEN HE LEANED OVER AND ACCIDENTLY HIT THE AUTOMATIC KICKOFF SWITCH EMP HAD GRABBED SADDLE SUPPORT WHEN SADDLE ITSELF CAME DOW AND CAUGHT THUMB BETWEEN SADDLE SUPPORT AND SADDLE

WORKER WAS SITTING ON TOP OF ROPS ON CAT FORKLIFT WHEN DECENDING EMP PLACED LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE GUIDE PIN AND CYLINDER CAP THE WORKERS FOOT HIT THE LIFT CONTROL THE MAST CAP MOVED UP AND MASHED HIS FINGERS

FOREMAN WAS RECEIVING 2 100LBS BAGS FROM ANOTHER EMPLOYEE ON TOP OF 3 STACKED PALLETS AS SECOND BAG CAME DOWN TO FOREMAN HE FELT A CRAMP IN HIS SHOULDER. THAT NIGHT HIS SHOULDER HURT SO MUCH HE COULDNT SLEEP.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING AN OFF PALLET CAR TAKING BAGS OF SAND OFF OF A PALLET ON A FORKLIFT AND PUTTING THEM ON THE FLOOR OF A RAILROAD BOX CAR. IN DOING SO HE HURT HIS BACK

CLEANING PIPET REMOVING FILLING DEVICE ON END OF PIPET WHEN GLASS BROKE CUT FINGER AND PALM OF LEFT HAND STITCHES REQUIRED