Lehigh White Cement Company, LLCMetal/Nonmetal

Sharp piece of metal after grinding

Stepping off of ramp picking up air lance hose

Pinched middle finger between packer roller and mounting of roller

Shoulder sprain during cleanout of ball charge hopper pit

Suspended load of kiln feed pipe slipped in strap and came in contact with employee's shoulder

Vibration from running jackhammer caused strain to right wrist

Lifting of heavy object causing sprain/strain to lower back

Employee caught hand in pinch point of seat mechanism of forklift while trying to adjust seat. Received cut/crushing injury to left hand ring finger and finger nail.

Blowback of natural gas from kiln ignition

Hot meal from kiln operation coming in contact with employee's neck

Stepped off of ladder pulled knee

Use of sledgehammer to drive shim hit thumb

Cut to the hand from a utility knife

Annual hearing tests resulted in employee experiencing reportable hearing loss.

Lifting strain on lower back muscles.

Employee was repairing part of stretch hood at palletizer for packaged cement production line. Knife blade used to cut bags over top of pallets cut into employee's hand.

Employee was descending staircase and tripped and fell down three subsequent steps landing on their knee. Knee sustained a sprain.

Employee was carrying large clinker ball removed from clinker discharge. When they stepped off of clinker drag they felt a sharp pain in lower back and pain shooting down both legs following with numb feet. Employee sought medical attention and incurred lost time as of 8/20/19

Employee was returning excess sampled cement back into finish mill via 5 gallon bucket. Employee lifted bucket full of cement up to reclaim screw and strained shoulder in process. Employee sought medical care and had physical therapy. Recent MRI indicated tear in shoulder and employee was referred to surgeon. Employee underwent surgery 10/9/19 and began losing time from work.

Employee got loader stuck in kiln dust and when EE exited the cab stepped into a mixture of kiln dust and water which entered both boots causing an alkali burn to the top of the feet and the ankle.

Maintenance mechanic was coming down the passenger elevator from the top of the 56 silos. The passenger elevator stopped during the flight to ground level. An electrician climbed the ladder way to the top of the silos, activated the elevator key to open and close the door and the car was recalled to the top.

Employee was working on the Kiln performing re-bricking. When stepped down to retrieve a hammer a refractory brick came loose and struck ee in the lower back. Incident became reportable when the employee received an epidural shot to lower back on 2/22/17

Employee was working in the raw mill, hammering out mill liner bolts. Employee was driving out bolts with a sledge hammer and bolt ricocheted back and struck employee in the mouth. Laceration to lower lip required two stitches. Chip on upper left incisor tooth.

Employee was cutting a 3-inch pipe line and when cut was almost complete, the blade of the bandsaw being used crimped in the cut. At the same time the pipe started to fall and the employee accidently triggered the saw and cut into fingers of right hand, requiring stitch

Employee was operating an air impact wrench. The wrench extension was modified with a bolt tore serve the socket to the extension. When the wrench was accidentally activated. The bolt tore into the employee's left hand between the under and middle finger.

Fire had started in the coke mill fining system blower while using rubber fluff fuel. fire resulted in smoky conditions and employee suffered smoke inhalation respiratory distress during kiln shut down and firefighting procedures.

Employee had arrived for work and was leaving the parking lot to come in and slipped on the snow and ice injuring his left knee.

Employee was applying belt dressing to the one-inch stone head pulley when his right hand and wrist was caught in the head pulley. Employee had lacerations and contusions to the right hand and arm, and sustained a hairline fracture to the right wrist.

While hammering a slide on the coke belt, the EE struck his middle left hand finger against the slide, cutting his finger.

Employee was using a sledge hammer against a silo hopper to unchoke gypsum hangars and felt a pull and dull pain in lower abdomen. Diagnosis of hernia was made on 3/10/10

EE was grinding a metal stud and got metal particles embedded in left eye. EE went to emergency room on 10/11/09.

Employee was trying to break loose a pipe union. When the wrench slipped and the left ring finger struck an angle iron plate fracturing the tip of the left ring finger.

Employee was unchocking clinker hopper and clinker ball rolled down and smashed right thumb. Injury caused by laceration requiring stitches.

Employee was hanging electrical conduit and as he was pulling on the conduit, pulled & strained his left shoulder. Employee had surgery performed on 1/11/07, lost time as of 1/16/07

EE walked into steel beam next to boiler room. He hit his hard hat and his nose. Accident resulted in broken nose.

While removing liner plates ee's hand got caught between the liner and the mill shell support pipe as the liner was being removed.

EE WAS CLEANING UNDER COKE FEED BELT AND SCRAPED HIS BACK ON FEEDER CAGE. A MOLE ON HIS BACK WAS PARTIALLY TORN OFF IN THE PROCESS WHICH WILL BE SURGICALLY REMOVED.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A TANK INTO A PIT USING A FORKLIFT WITH A CHAIN PLACED ACROSS THE FORKLIFT FORKS. WHILE LOWERING THE TANK INTO THE PIT, CHAIN SLIPPED OFF THE FORKS, CAUGHT THE EMPLOYEE , AND PULLED HIM INTO THE PIT ON TOP OF THE METAL BOX.

WORKER PICKED UP A 60# PIECE OF BRASS BUSHING AND STARTED TO WALK AND HIS BACK GAVE OUT.

EE WAS HOLDING A METAL FLANGE WHILE ANOTHER WAS TRYING TO PRY OUT A BEARING. THE PRY BAR SLIPPED & CRUSHED THE TIP OF THE RIGHT RING FINGER. IT WAS FRACTURED & THE MIDDLE FINGERTIP HAD A HAIRL INE FRACTURE.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING OUT A HOPPER AND STRUCK RIGHT RING FINGER AGAINST METAL ANGLE IRON OPENING A WOUND THAT WAS A PRE-EXISTING INJURY. CUT REQUIRED TWO STITCHES.

EE WAS RE-BRICKING THE KILN AND SLIPPED WHILE INSTALLING A BRICK. THE BRICK PINCHED THE EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER CAUSING IT TO FRACTURE AT THE FINGER TIP.

EE WAS POKING THE BACK END OF THE KILN WITH A BAR AND APPARENTLY CAUSED A METAL PARTICLE TO BE EMBEDDED IN HIS RIGHT EYE. EE WENT TO DOCTOR THE NEXT DAY AND IT WAS REMOVED.

EE WAS CUTTING EXPANDED METAL WITH METAL SHEARS. HE PUSHED HIS FINGERS TOO FAR INTO THE CLAMPING PART OF THE SHEAR CATCHING HIS LEFT MIDDLE AND INDEX FINGER. MIDDLE FINGER TIP WAS FRACTURED.

EE WAS WALKING DOWN STAIRS & ALLEGEDLY SLIPPED ON OILY STAIRS & HURT HIS LOWER BACK

EE WAS PULLING CHAIN INTO THE KILN AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOOTING A RING BUILDUP IN THE KILN WITH 12 GAUGE SHOT GUN. ON ONE OF HT EROUNDS, EMPLOYEE APPARENTLY DID NTO HOLD GUN PROPERLY, GUN KICKED BACK AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN UPPER LIP.

EMPLOYEE LIFTED A 55-GALLON OFF A STAND TO EMPTY IT INTO A HOLDING DRUM. THE DRUM SLIPPED OUT OF THE EMPLOYEE'S GRASP, CAUSING IT TO FALL ONTO THE FRONT OF THE STAND PINCHING HIS FINGER BETWE EN DRUM STAND AND 55-GALLON DRUM.

EMPLOYEE WAS HAMMERING A CHISEL AND CAUGHT HIS RIGHT THUMB BETWEEN THE HAMMER & CHISEL.