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WHILE PUTTING A CHAIN INTO A SPROCKET, INJURED DEVELOPED PERSISTENT PAIN IN LEFT WRIST OVERNIGHT.

WHILE GETTING OUT OF LOADER, INJURED STRETCHED ARM - HEARING A POP IN RIGHT ARM.

EE WAS DUMPING A LOAD OF ROCK ON AN EXISTING PILE. HE GOT OFF THE EDGE OF THE PILE TOO FAR & TIPPED THE TRUCK OVER ONTO THE PASSENGER SIDE.

INDIVIDUALS FINGER WAS MASHED IN A PINCH POINT CREATED BY A CHAIN BEING USED TO RELEASE PRESSURE ON A CRANE BOOM PENDANT LINE.

WHILE CHIPPING A CONCRETE BEAM ON THE 2ND FLOOR A FEW TINY PIECES OF CONCRETE & CONCRETE DUST FEILL FROM TOP OF EE'S HARD HAT & BETWEEN FACE SHIELD. THE EE WAS TREATED FOR CORNEAL ABRASION & RELEASED TO FULL DUTY.

EE WAS DIGGING A HOLE IN THE GROUND USING A PICK& SHOVEL. HE SWUNG THE PICK HARD INTO THE GROUND& HIT A LARGE ROCK, SENDING A VIBRATION UP HIS ARM THAT DISLOCATED HIS ELBOW. THE ARM WAS PULLED BACK IN PLACE BY ANOTHER EMPLOYEE. HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR, HAD X-RAY, PUT IN SLING FOR 4 DAYS. RETURNED TO WORK, DOING WELL.

EE HAS REPORTED ACUTE STRESS DISORDER DUE TO ALLEGED HARRASMENT INCIDENT DURING WORKING HOURS. DR HAS EXCUSED HER FROM WORK FOR THE LEAST TWO WEEKS DUE TO THIS CONDITION 1-17-02.

EE GOT DUST IN HIS LEFT EYE WHILE HE USED AN AIR LANCE TO PUSH CEMENT DUST DOWN AN AIR SLIDE. PHYSICIAN PRESCRIBED MEDICATED EYE DROPS.

EE HAD BEEN WELDING CUTTING EDGES ONTO AN ENDLOADER BUCKET. HE FELT AN IRRITATION IN HIS RIGHT EYE AND RUBBED HIS EYE WITH HIS GLOVES HAND CONTAMINATED WELDING GLOVE. THIS CAUSED HIS EYE TO BE COME FURTHER IRRITATED WHEN A FOREIGN OBJECT GOTINTO THE EYE, PROBABLY OFF OF THE GLOVE. PHYSICIAN REMOVED FOREIGN BODY AND PRESCRIBED MEDICATED EYE DROPS EE DID NOT SEE DR UNTIL 11-29-01.

EE HAD REACHED UP TO CLOSE A BALL VALVE ON AN AIR LINE AND FELT NERVE PINCH. HAD SEEN DR. ON 11-17-01 BUT NO TREATMENT PERFORMED. HAS HAD REOCCURANCE ON 1-8-02 AND HAS SPECIALIST CHECK. HE ADVISED HER TO STAY OFF WORK AND REST ELBOW. PROBLEM IS YET TO BE DETERMINED.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING AN OIL SEAL ON #45 HOUGH ENDLOADER WHEN A FOREIGN OBJECT ENTERED HIS RIGHT EYE (WEARING SAFETY GLASSES WITH SIDE SHIELDS). PHYSICIAN REMOVED FOREIGH BODY ON 11/14/01. ME DICATION PRESCRIBED.

DUST REPORTEDLY FELL INTO EMPLOYEE'S EYE WHEN PERFORMING MAINTENANCE TASKS.

EE SLIPPED ON MATERIAL ON FLOOR. EE CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH L ARM, CAUSING SHOULDER INJURY.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN BOTTOM FLIGHT OF STEPSTO CEMENT CLINKER COOLER PIT TO MAKE A DAILY IN-SPECTION OF THE AREA WHEN HE MISSED A STEP AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK. EMPLOYEE WAS GIVEN OSTEOPATHIC MANIPULATIVE TREATMENT AND PLACED ONRESTRICTED DUTY. RETURNED TO REGULAR DUTY ON 11/05/01.

RIGHT SHOULDER STRAIN REPORTEDLY FROM GRABBING AHOLD OF EQUIPMENT BEING MOVED TO PREVENT IT FROMHITTING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE. MEDICAL WAS NOT REQUESTED/PROVIDED UNTIL 11/27/01.

EE WAS WORKING ON BROKEN HANGER ON KILN 1 EAST FINE SCREW. DAMPER WAS NOT CLOSED AND AIR CAUSEDCLINKER DUST TO BE BLOWN INTO LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING VACUUM TRUCK NOZZEL WHEN THE NOZZLE BECAME PLUGGED THE HOSE KICKED BACK UNEXPECTEDLY AGAINST HIS HAND, SPRAINING HIS LEFT THUMB.

INDIVIDUAL FELT A PARTICLE IN HIS EYE AS HE WAS WORKING.

WHILE GETTING READY TO GO HOME, INJURED WAS STUNG ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE NECK. SHE HAD AN IMMEDIATE REACTION.

EE WAS CUTTING LOOSE A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT, HE DID NOT GET IT CUT COMPLETELY AND WHEN THE CRANE TRIED TO LIFT IT, THE PIECE BROKE LOOSE AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER.

SUBCONTRACTOR SMASHED THE END OF HIS LEFT FINGER BETWEEN AN 1 1/4" ANCHOR BAR AND A SECTION OF ANGLE IRON.

EMPLOYEE BUMPED L ELBOW WHEN ADJUSTING EQUIPMENT

EE WAS RIGGING SCAFFOLDING AT B-19 CLINKER RECLAIM HOPPER. HE WAS STANDING ON A BOARD WHEN HE WENT TO STEP INTO A ROPE LADDER. THE LADDER SWUNG FORWARD WHILE RIGHT FOOT REMAINED ON BOARD, CAUS ING STRAIN OF LOWER LEFT ABDOMINAL WALL. PHYSICIAN PLACED HIM ON LIGHT DUTY ON 10-9-01.

EE WAS ADJUSTING FORKS ON FORKLIFT, A BUNDLE OR REBAR SLID OUT, CAUSING EE TO FALL AND THE BARS PINCH RT. LEG SEVERLY. BRUISING WAS FROM KNEE TO MID-FEMUT, EXTENDING 180 DEGRESS AROUND BACK OF THIGH. HE WAS SENT HOME AND TO RETURN TOMORROW FOR DR.'S APPT.

DURING KILN SHUTDOWN EE WAS WORKING WITH MAINTENANCE REPAIRING THE PRECIPITATOR COLLECT SCREW CONVEYOR. WHEN PLACING THE SCREW LID ON THE FLOOR,IT BOUNCED UP AND A BURR ON THE EDGE OF THE LID STRUCK AND CUT HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER CAUSING A1 1/2" LACERATION THAT REQUIRED 4 SUTURES TO CLOSE.

EMPLOYEE HAD JUST DRIVEN A PIN IN ON THE TABLE AT THE CRUSHER. HE TURNED AROUND TO LEAVE AND HEHIT HIS HEAD ON A LOW OVERHEAD 4-INCH I-BEAM. THIS RESULTED IN PAIN IN HIS NECK. HE REQUESTED TREATMENT FROM A CHIROPRACTOR AND PLANNED ON SEEING ONE ON OCTOBER 6TH. THE EMPLOYEE WAS WEARINGHIS HARD HAT AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT.

WHEN ADJUSTING OVERHEAD EQUIPMENT, EE FELT PAIN IN LEFT SHOULDER AREA.

DURING KILN SHUTDOWN EE WAS INSTALLING WEAR LIPSON #1 CLINKER COOLER DRIVE MOTOR WHEN A FOREIGN OBJECT ENTERED HIS RIGHT EYE. HE WENT TO E.R. & WAS GIVEN EYE DROPS. NEXT DAY OPTHAMOLOGIST REMO VED FOREIGN BODY FORM UNDER RIGHT EYE LID.

BEGAN TO HAVE PAIN IN LOER ARMS AND HANDS OF LEFT AND RIGHT HAND. NUMBNESS IN LEFT HAND.

EE CLEANING 4' DEEP FORMS ON SLIPFORM DECK. THE 3' X 8' DOOR WAS USED TO COVER OPENINGS OF FORMS. THIS DOOR WAS RAISED TO CLEAN. ANOTHER WORKER IN AREA HAD A 6' STEPLADDER ON DOOR SIDE. THE EE KNOCKED THE LADDER OVER WHICH HIT THE FORM DOOR, THEN THE DOOR HIT EE IN FORM. THE INJURED EE LOST HARD HAT FROM THE FORCE OF IMPACT.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THAT HE STARTED FEELING DISCOMFORT ON HIS R LOWER ABDOMEN AT APPROX 3:30 PM OF 9/18/01. HE REPORTED TO THE COMPANY @ APPROX NOON ON 3/19/01 AND WAS TAKEN TO THE DR AND WAS DIAG NOSED WITH A RT INGUINAL HERNIA. HE WAS SCHEDULED FOR SURGICAL REPAIR OF THE HERNIA ON 9/20/01. EMPLOYEE ALONG WITH 20 OTHERS WERE RIF 9/21/01.

EE HAD BEEN HELPING LOAD SACKS OF CEMENT ONTO PALLETS FROM A CONVEYOR SYSTEM. AS HE WAS REACHINGFOR ONE BAG, HE STUCK HIS FINGER INTO A SPRING ON THE CONVEYOR CAUSING A SMALL AREA OF SKIN TO B E TORN LOOSE. HE WASHED & BANDAGED THE WOUND BUTCONCERNED BECAUSE HE HAD NOT HAD A TETNUS SHOT FOR A LONG TIME HE WENT TO THE E.R. BECAUSE HIS REGULAR DOCTOR DID NOT HAVE ANY TETNUS SHOTS.

EE WAS WALKING UP A GANGWAY AND WHEN HE REACHED THE END, IT DROPPED APPROX. THRE TO FOUR FEET (DUE TO SLACK IN LIFTING CABLES). EE FELL BACK ON THE GANGWAY IN A TWISTING MOTION WHICH RESULTED IN A LUMBAR STRAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS TURNING THE LOADING SILO CHUTE GATEWHEN HIS HAND SLIPPED OFF GATE WHEEL AND STRUCK HIS ELBOW ON A PIPE.

EE WAS IN THE MILL BUILDING CLOSING THE RAW MILLDOORS FOLLOWING MILL SHUTDOWN. HE HAD PICKED UP THE HEAVY METAL BRACKET AND WAS POSITIONING THE WASHER AND NUT PREPARING TO BOLT THE DOOR ONTO T HE RAW MILL WHEN HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER. ON 9/20/01 DOCTOR ADMINISTERED STEROID INJECTION TO SHOULDER AND PLACED HIM ON LIGHT DUTY.

NEW EE TWISTED WHILE USING A SHOVEL & STRAINED AMUSCLE IN LOWER RIGHT BACK AREA.

OPERATING COME-ALONG GUIDING CHOKERS THAT WERE LIFTING BEARING. HAD HAND ON CHAIN. COME-ALONG CHAIN GOT TIGHT & POPPED, HITTING HAND.

WHILE SWEEPING 3RD FLOOR OF MILL BUILDING, INJURED'S LEFT EYE STARTED TO WATER. WAS ALOT WORSE BY THE NEXT DAY. WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.

EE HAD BEEN EMPTYING 55 GALLON BARRELS CONTAINING VARIOUS TYPES OF GARBAGE AT SEVERAL AREAS IN THE PLANT. HE WAS HELPING TO LIFT THE BARRELS INTO A GARBAGE DUMPSTER AND AT TIMES HE WAS LIFTING BY HIMSELF. THE EE WENT TO THE DR. ON THE 4TH DAY AFTER THE INCIDENT AND WAS TOLD IT COULD BE A HERNIA OR AN INFECTION. ON 9-6, HE WAS DIAGNOSED W/ A MUISCLE TO THE LOWER ABDOME & GIVEN MEDIC

EE'S RIGHT THUMB WAS PINCHER BETWEEN DUMPSTER BUCKET AND FORK GUARD.

WHILE PUSHING HOIST OVER ON TRACTION WHEEL, INJURED GOT LITTLE FINGER (PINKY) CAUGHT IN CHAIN.

DURING KILN SHUTDOWN, EMPLOYEE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK WHILE HELPING TO LAY BRICK IN FLOOR OF CEMENT KILN. HE SAW PHYSICIAN ON 8-24-01, RECEIVED OSTEOPATHIC TREATMENT AND WAS PLACED ON LIGHT D UTY. HE WORKED ON LIGHT DUTY 8-24, 8-25, AND 8-26. RETURNED TO REGULAR DUTY 9-4-01.

DURING KILN SHUTDOWN, EE WAS HAMMERING ON F25 SCREW CONVEYOR WITH METAL HAMMER TO TRY TO UNPLUG CONVEYOR WHEN A 1/8" PIECE OF METAL FLEW OFF ANDLODGED IN HIS LEFT FOREARM. REQUIRED SURGICAL RE MOVAL BY PHYSICIAN.

DURING KILN SHUTDOWN, EE WAS ASSISTING MAINTENANCE ON REPAIR OF CEMENT DOME. HE WAS STANDING ON CURB AT TRUCK SCALES AT DOME LOOKING IN A PICKUPTRUCK FOR A FLASHLIGHT WHEN HE BACKED UP AND SLI PPED OFF THE CURB, INJURING HIS LEFT ANKLE. AFTER REPORTING FOR WORK ON 8-24-01 HE WAS SENT TO ER WHERE MINUTE AVULSION CORTICAL FRACTURE WAS DIAGNOSED AND ANKLE SPLINTED.

DURING KILN SHUTDOWN, EE WAS REMOVING STEEL DOORON ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATOR DUCT IN ORDER TO INSPECT AND REPAIR DUCT WHEN HE DROPPED THE STEELDOOR ON HIS LEFT FOOT. X-RAY NEGATIVE FOR FRACTU RE BUT HIS FOOT WAS BADLY SWOLLEN. HE LOST 1 DAYOF WORK.

EE WAS PERFORMING MAINTENANCE ON CENTER COLUMN OF SLURRY BASIN AGITATOR. HE WAS CLIMBING FROM A MANLIFT BASKET ONTO THE AGITATOR WHEN HE STRUCKHIS HEAD WEARING HARD HAT ON A STEEL BEAM, CAUSIN G STRAIN OF CERVICAL, THORACIC, LUMBAR SPINE ANDPELVIS. HE DID NOT SEE DR UNTIL 9-5-01 WHEN HE WAS GIVEN AN OSTEOPATHIC MANIPULATIVE.

WHILE WORKING ON IMPACTOR FEED BELT, INJURED WASUSING WRENCH THAT SLIPPED, PINCHING RIGHT THUMB AND FIRST KNUCKLE BETWEEN WRENCH AND PULLEY.

EMPLOYEES WORKING OVERHEAD LOOSENED CEMENT DUST WHICH FLEW INTO EMPLOYEE'S EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRAINING THE LUBRICATION OIL FROM A KILN TRUNION BEARING THAT GOT OVERHEATED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE VISCOSITY OF THE OIL. WHILE REMOVING THE DRAIN CAP AND ATTACHING HOSE TO THE OIL DRAIN HOLE IN THE BEARING, HOT GEAR OIL SPILLED ONTO HIS GLOVED HANDS. THIS CAUSED 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO HIS RIGHT THUMB AND PALM AND LEFT INDEX FINGER. DEBRIDED SKIN ON RIGHT THUMB.

WHILE WORKING AT THE OLD PACKHOUSE, INJURED GOT SOMETHING FOREIGN MATERIAL IN HIS EYE FROM DUST BLOWING.