Gramercy Operation — Accidents

Total: 579 accidents | Fatalities: 1

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
11/20/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted While preparing to work on filtrate door, employees removed the manway aside. When ee pulled the manway open, a large piece of scale slid out of the opening. The scale was the size of the manway and s...
09/23/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 2d restricted Employee began hurting in his chest. He suffered a chest muscle strain. Instructed not to push, pull, reach, or lift overhead over ten pounds.
09/03/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 8d restricted Employee was on the dock, handling the back of the gangway when it fell from the ship. The gangway swung back and smashed his left foot between the gangway and the concrete wall of the sulfide pump...
08/20/2007 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted Employee (General Repairer) reported irritation to his eyes on the morning of August 21. He had peformed fitting work on the 20th, working near a welder. Due to the degree of irritation, he was sent...
08/14/2007 DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None EE was working in the machine shop and passed out due to dehydration. He worked 12 hrs. on Aug. 13. He went home following his shift and experienced some signs of heat exhaustion which he did not re...
07/05/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 1d restricted Employee was assisting the maintenance crew pulling the #8 belt back together, using a 1/2"" cable. Pulling one end of the belting caused slack in the cable. While unhooking the cable in an attempt t...
06/06/2007 OTHER DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 1d lost, 3d restricted Employee squatted down to retrieve an item from a bottom shelf. Upon rising, experienced severe pain in knee.
04/21/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost Truck Driver climbed light tower to rotate lights. Stood on bracket and turned lamp assembly not entire mast. Mast slide down jamming right hand between tubing and bracket; used left shoulder to lift...
04/09/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was moving pipe out of the way of the work area, when he felt a pulling & burning sensation in his right lower back. He reported it to the area foreman. After months of taking over-the-counter pa...
03/16/2007 EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 312d lost While putting the north back pressure control valve in service, all drain valves were closed. The 6"" drain valve on the inlet line out of V5 had to be closed with a maul. The line was then pressured...
02/18/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was unhooking a hose off the bottom of tank Y-15. He thought he had bled the pressure off and unhooked the hose. The hose still had pressure in it. The bottom of the tank was not dogged off all...
01/27/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 28d restricted Four employees were attaching a jack hammer attachment to a Brokk machine. As the employees started to lift the attachment to connect it onto the Brokk machine, one of the employees felt a pop in his...
01/04/2007 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 361d restricted Employee was attempting to climb the 101 Gantry when he lost his footing causing him to slip & fall. He fell from the second step to the ground. Losing his footing caused a strain to the groin muscle....
12/04/2006 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 39d restricted Employee was descaling the 6 to breaker hopper. He had a #2 gun bit in his hand scraping off the side of the hopper. When he was pushing the scale down, he jammed his right thumb between the shaft o...
11/22/2006 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using a cutting torch, cutting a piece of metal. As he was cutting, a piece of metal (slag) flew into his left ear.
11/02/2006 OTHER NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While walking to turnstile, employee felt a F/O blow in his right eye.
10/20/2006 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee had completed cutting with a torch and was removing his cutting goggles. A spark from a nearby welder flew into employees eye.
10/20/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted While walking to change #5 belt, employee slipped on wet bauxite and twisted his back.
10/05/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Operator was in process of taking #4 press off line & while closing the inlet block, the packing started leaking and splashed on the left side of his face and into left eye. He washed affected area a...
07/11/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was working on replacing covers on #2 wet cake belt. A man-lift was needed to get the covers in place. He & co-workers were putting one of the covers in the basket when the edge of the cove...
06/28/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 7d restricted Employee reported that he lost his footing after putting the #4 Decanter Recirculating Pump in service. He felt a sharp pain in his lower back. He stated that he sat down, and could not get up. He...
06/18/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was working on ground floor in Slurry Mix Area & slipped & fell to the ground. Contusion to left wrist, elbow & side rib cage. On 7/12/06 he received a steroid injection which then classifi...
05/12/2006 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 244d restricted Operator was removing slag from inside tank wall with (Grant BDRE) when a piece of slag dislodged from above hydraulic hammer, the slag traveled down length of boom and struck the operator in the left...
05/05/2006 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was welding the bottom boot of AG-6. Upon returning to work the next day, he stated that it felt like a flash burn in his left eye. Dr.diagnosed foreign body in left eye. It was removed, a...
05/01/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 278d restricted On 5/1/06, the carpenter crew was dismantling and removing a scaffold on the decanter structure. Employee was handing a board down & felt a pain in his back and continued working. He reported to medi...
04/28/2006 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was performing a routine task of putting Tank #69 back in service. He was attempting to knock out the short entry nozzle to inspect it. He was in the process of swinging the maul to unscrew...
04/05/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 32d restricted EE slipped and hurt his right lower back when he was attempting to climb stairs at the platform by #3 washer underflow pump. The area he was trying to walk through was covered with mud. The injury w...
04/05/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was bringing up #3 filter and was trying to clean the wash water spray bars. His safety glasses got fogged. He backed away from the filter and took his safety glasses off and something spla...
03/21/2006 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 51d restricted Employee was using hand tools(wrench) on Tuesday, 3/21/06, when he injured a tendon in his right thumb. It was determined that the employee had lacerated his right thumb at home on 3/19/06, but did n...
03/01/2006 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 15d restricted Employee was rodding out taps in Clarification at the underflow pumps when the drill bit caught on scale in the tap causing the drill to twist his right hand.
01/27/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None A scaffold lug failed in the southeast quadrant of the vessel. This was caused by insufficient weld on the scaffold lug.
01/27/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None A scaffold lug failed in the southeast quadrant of the vessel. This was caused by insufficient weld on the scaffold lug.
01/27/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None A scaffold lug failed in the southeast quadrant of the vessel. This was caused by insufficient weld on the scaffold lug.
01/18/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was walking down the ramp of a utility trailer used as work station storage. He slipped and fell, making contact with a piece of angle iron on the bottom, which caused a laceration requiring...
01/12/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was standing on a process line to access a valve & close it. After closing the valve & preparing to leave the area, the ee slipped & fell, hitting his back against the flange of a 3"" discharge lin...
12/12/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 7d restricted Felt pain in his left side lower back while attempting to mount eliminator onto valve.
12/12/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 13d restricted Employee was rolling a wire reel up an incline. The employee states the reel started to move to one side and he experienced pain in the shoulder on the ""down"" side of the turned reel.
11/03/2005 OTHER DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 11d lost Not Work Related: Employee had been performing normal shop work and went to get some water and began to feel bad. As he was returning to his work area, he became light headed and dizzy and was unabl...
10/30/2005 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was descaling bolts & nuts on the number 12 press when the scaling gun slipped and his finger was smashed between the gun & a flange. Following morning, employee had hemotoma under the finge...
10/17/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 28d lost, 26d restricted While bending over to pick up tools, employee felt a pain in his mid-lower back. While returning to the shop on the scooter, he stated that the bumps in the road bothered his back. It is currently b...
10/12/2005 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 14d restricted EE was attempting to tighten packing on an angle valve with a pair of channellock pliers. The packing stud nuts were tight & when he exerted more force, he felt a ""pop"" in his middle left side of hi...
10/06/2005 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 28d lost Employee was cleaning panfeeder on 102 gantry. Was using scraper to clean scale off the walls of panfeeder hopper. Was jabbing at scale and struck right hand, right side of his hand and little finge...
10/04/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 33d lost, 35d restricted EE was loading a blind flange into the back of a scooter bed from a blind rack. As the blind was being rolled into the scooter, it rolled & caught His right middle finger on the scooter bed. This in...
09/30/2005 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 65d restricted Employee complained of wrist discomfort on 8/11/05, but initially refused evaluation. Employee was later evaluated by the plant nurse and doctor. Orthopedic surgeon diagnosed CTS on 9/29 and recomme...
09/28/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 1d restricted Employee was lifting scaffold leg when he felt a burning pain in the left back side of his neck. Company doctor examined and prescribed muscle relaxer & ibuprofen.
09/28/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 39d restricted Employee was moving plate from the breaker area and felt his upper arm starting to burn. He reported to supervisor & was sent to medical to have it checked out. Diagnosed with possible muscle tear;...
09/19/2005 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was grinding V2 Digester outlet block valve and was preparing to remove locking pin from valve when his supervisor opreated the eliminator to release locking pin. The anchor for the eliminat...
09/08/2005 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was fabricating parts in the lathe. He was preparing to take the sharp edge off of a piece of material and then mic it. As he put the sandpaper to the material, it caught, pulling his right...
08/17/2005 DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None At 8:30 employee began working on the deck of the ship to remove transcontainers. Upon completion, he complained of complications from the heat. He was taken to medical where he was treated and releas...
08/16/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was fabbing a spool for #2 ESP dust line. He lifted his welding shield and wiped the sweat off of his face with his shirt sleeve. He said it felt like something was in his right eye. He st...