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While employee was cleaning up in the finish mill area, cement dust blew around his safety glasses and into his eye. Employee was given prescription eye drops.

When employee leaned forward while using a 15 lb. chipping hammer, he felt pain in his right foot. Employee was treated and placed on restricted duty. Restriction were accomodated, no lost time.

The employee was moving a 55 gallon drum while holding the barrel at an angle. He tried to push an object out of the way with his left foot. This caused a pull or tear in the groin area.

Employee experienced a non-work related, report immediately, heart attack.

Employee was repositioning an oil-covered pump onto a pallet. The pump slipped from his hands and pinched his right middle finger. An x-ray of the finger showed a fracture of the distal phalanx of his right middle finger.

Employee carrying 5 gallon buckets when he slipped, fell and landed on his back.

A wedge the employee was installing dislodged from its mount striking the employee on both legs.

Employee was moving a pump with a bar in his hand. While trying to wedge the bar to move the pump, the bar slipped moving forward striking the employee on the left hand.

The employee was checking the triple gates on the coal mill. He climbed up a ladder, leaned over to look in to the mill then felt a sharp pain to his low back.

Employee was diagnosed with bi-lateral carpel tunnel syndrome.

Employee was working in the Pre-Heater tower to clean tipping valves when the left hand middle finger became caught between the hand rail and the tipping valve weight.

The employee was using a bob cat to move clinker dust when the clinker dust blew up and into the employee's left eye getting around the safety glasses he was wearing.

The employee was removing bliver mill bowls from the bliver machine. While lifting the bliver bowls the employee felt a strain in the wrist.

While moving boxes and furniture from second floor office to first floor office employee began feeling pain in neck, shoulder and back.

While trying to pry a screw out of a pump with a 5' bar, the bar slipped off the fulcrum point causing a strain to the right shoulder.

Employee was walking from the bathroom to the lunchroom when he dropped a battery. As he went to retrieve the battery, which had rolled under a bin, a raccoon reached out and bit the employee.

While overhauling Unit 7FKI a pipe slipped and fell on employee.

While walking down the stairs with an armful of obsolete stock the employee slipped and fell down the stairs.

Caught finger in steel door of drill.

While attempting to bend a metal tab on a Clinker Cooler door using a four pound sledge hammer, the hammer hit the edge of the door, deflected and hit the worker's left thumb. The impact resulted in a laceration requiring sutures.

While placing a wrench on a cam nut the wrench slipped and fell to the deck where the employee's hand was located. The wrench struck the employee's right hand.

Installing head liners in the ball mill, employee lost footing while hooking liner to the hoist and strained his upper back. Employee was placed on restricted duty for 2 days.

Clearing belts with blower. Put hand on belt. Fan moved catchig finger between pulley and belt.

While operating heavy equipment over the course of three days the employee experienced several events including running over potholes; large rocks and seat shift adjustments causing minor low back pain to escalate into severe low back pain.

While climbing into the assigned haul truck the employee slipped, lost his footing and fell 10 ft to the ground.

Employee pinched left hand middle finger palm side when he was placing a lid on the airslide. The finger got pinched between the two flanges. Employee was placed on restricted duty.

Employee placing gear guards on the mill gear when he felt pain in his lower back. Clinic diagnosed with strain to the lower back and placed on restricted duty for 2 days.

Employee was walking down the stairs when he slipped and fell to the bottom.

Installing liner in the mill when the liner slipped and pinched skin on palm side right hand pinky finger. The employee elected to voluntarily go home.

Employee was installing liner in the mill when his foot slipped causing strain to the lower back. Employee was released to modified duty but declined the modified duty position.

Employee was cutting rubber backing for shell liners with a razor knife when he slipped and cut his pinky finger of left hand. Employee received 9 stitches.

While prying a gearbox off of a shaft, the bar slipped pinching the employee's finger between the bar and weighfeeder.

Employee was installing liners in the mill when a foreign body got in the left eye. Foreign body was removed from the employee but he still was still complaining. He was taken to the clinic where a rust mark was found on the cornea. The rust was removed by an Ophthalmologist.

Miner adjusting a ball mill liner in the mill, when the liner swung to the left, pinched left index finger between the liner and the diaphram which caused a fracture. Miner was placed on light duty on 1/13/07 but elected to decline the modified duty postion.

Contractor suffered a broken left leg and right heel when he inadvertently stepped back off mill pier while installation of raw mill bearing housing was underway. Employee fell approximately 15'5". Employee had removed his fall protection to gather parts on the ground below and had failed to put it back on.

Miner removing liner in the ball mill, when it slid down and landed on his right foot behind the steel toe. The miner was informed on 1/3/07 that there was a fracture of the right 5th metatarsal. Miner was placed on restricted duty.

Miner initially reported on 12/26/06 that slag went through his left sleve on 12/23/2006 & his elbow was swollen. Miner stated that the alledged injury might have happened at a different operation. Miner was taken to clinic where he was diagnosed with cellulitus. He was placed on restricted duty from 12/26 thru 1/1/07.

A co-worker was pulling a drive chain back into position when the chain slipped out of his hands striking the injured worker in the right elbow.

Employee was using a jack hammer when the hammer slipped causing his finger to become caught between build up of the hammer and the hammer handle.

After the employee had changed a belt his hand became caught between the belt and the pulley.

Miner got struck by flying debris,(foreign body) on the left knuckle of index finger, as the operator of the jack hammer was chipping material. Miner received one stitch.

Miner was assisting two other mines in sliding a 2' X 6' X 1" steel plate three feet away from dry grass. Miners were repositioning plate so that cutting sparks would not make contact with, and ignite, grass. The distal tip of the small finger on the miner's right hand was severed when he reflexively jerked his hand back when it made contact with a rock underneath the plate.

Employee was removing liners in the mill with a sledge hammer when a piece of hammer head chipped off hitting employee in the forehead. Employee received stitches.

Employee was performing an electrial inspection/repair when he struck his right elbow on the edge of a hydraulic panel.

The employee was removing a clamp out of a 12" drisco pipe at EV 5 51. When the last bolt was removed from the clamp, the pipe dropped down striking the employee in the chest. This caused the employee to fall to the ground landing on his left flank.

The employee moved a heavy object with his left leg causing a strain to his left knee.

Employee was walking down the stairs when his foot slipped off the step. The employee held on to the stair rail but felt pain in his low back.

While cleaning under Palblizer; employee's foot slipped striking a metal cross beam. Injury became reportable after extensive medical treatment.

The employee was moving empty pallets when he felt pain in his low back.

While cutting a strip of rubber hanging from 8BC36 Conveyor Belt, the knife slipped causing a laceration to the left inside knee.