Imerys Lompoc Plant — Accidents

Total: 283 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
01/20/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 91d lost Employee was pulling a bulk line when he twisted his left knee and felt pain.
01/19/2007 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 351d lost Employee fell in the parking lot on his way to his loader. Employee sustained a fracture to his right wrist and a crushed vertabrae in his back. Employee does not recall falling.
01/10/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 9d lost Employee twisted his right knee while stepping off of a manlift
01/06/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Employee smashed his right thumb while trying to remove a rock out of the spike roller. Employee sustained a distal tip fracture.
12/28/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was climbing down a set of stairs and fell, hitting his head on the toeboard. Sustained a laceration to the right side of his head.
12/27/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost Employee was filling a lift truck with propane. Once the tank was full, the bleeder valve was frozen open. Employee tried to close the valve and sustained a chemical burn to fingers on the right hand.
12/05/2006 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST ACCIDENT ONLY None Silicate Plant Tray Dryer (Zone #3) had unburned fuel that ignited, creating a small explosion. This created enough pressure to open most of the dryer doors. Discovered that the air flow switch had be...
10/02/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 8d lost Employee was assisting an Electrician with mounting a transformer. Transformer weighed approximately 100 lbs. Employees lost control of the transformer and hit employee in the mouth and above the righ...
09/11/2006 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was driving a dump truck and hit a bump in the road. This caused the air seat to move up and down causing employee to hit his head on the air conditioning unit.
08/12/2006 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was cleaning a piece of flint from the spike roller with a pry bar. While prying, he struck his left ring finger against a spike roller tooth resulting in a fractured finger.
07/29/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 33d lost, 3d restricted Employee was packing and stacking 50lb. bags of product. He felt pain in his left shoulder and was diagnosed as a sprain.
07/19/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was pulling welding lead and felt a pain in his lower back.
07/06/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 12d restricted Employee was lifting pallets and felt pain in his back. Injury was not reported until 07/14/2006.
07/06/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee cut his left middle finger while trying to adjust the stroke on a cylinder at 1 Bulk Bin. The wound required three sutures.
06/09/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 26d restricted Employee injured his left knee when he was pushing a piece of plate steel with his foot. Employee didn't report the incident to his Supervisor till June 14.
06/02/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 5d lost Employee tripped over a piece of angle iron. Employee fell to the ground scraping right palm and left knee. Left knee sustained the impact of the fall. Employee first reported this injury to his Super...
06/01/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 55d restricted Employee was standing on a ladder while installing a light fixture. Later in the day he felt a pain in his left lower back.
05/25/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Employee strained a muscle in his midback while moving pipe.
05/15/2006 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 5d lost Employee was placing and welding patches on 601 cyclone and strained his back. Employee did not report this injury to his Supervisor till 05/18/06. He is claiming the strain was from an old injury sus...
05/05/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 17d restricted Employee was taking apart a plugged line. When he tapped on the line it broke apart and smashed his left ring finger.
04/20/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 72d restricted Employee was operating an automatic packing machine and noticed a bag jam. He ran to push the emergency stop button. He tripped on the flooring that had popped up by a jammed bag on the conveyor. Empl...
04/12/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted Employee was walking from the lunch and locker room to the mill. He stepped into a hole and lost his balance. He fell and twisted his ankle and wrist. He went to the doctor the following day and was d...
04/11/2006 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 25d restricted The mine experienced a train derailment (2 Cars) while moving train cars around the Plant. The Brakeman was injured when he jumped from the train. He was treated and released from the hospital with 8...
03/23/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee smashed his finger while trying to remove a rock from conveyor. Smashed finger between rock and magnet. Fracture Closed Phalanx / phalanges
01/18/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 16d restricted Employee was reaching for an off-weight bag when her left little finger was caught between the bag and pushing mechanism.
12/26/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 12d restricted Employee was installing a long piece of three inch schedule forty pipe. The pipe broke free from his grip, smashing his left thumb between the pipe and a flange.
11/21/2005 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 21d restricted Employee was preparing to cut a piece of steel plate on top of the refeed system. He turned around from the area of work and tripped on a process pipe. The trip resulted in an ankle sprain from the fa...
11/10/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 152d restricted Employee complained of pain to his right shoulder after lifting an air pad for installation on the bottom of a rail car. The event occurred on 10/19/05 and became reportable when a doctor treated Erni...
10/10/2005 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 8d restricted Employee had removed some material from the bed of a pickup while standing on the bumper. When he stepped down from the bumper of the truck, he placed his left foot down in an awkward spot, twisting h...
10/08/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 24d restricted Employee was reaching for a bulk line at 1148 West truck dock when he felt a pop in his shoulder.
10/06/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 22d restricted Employee was assigned to shovel spilled material at #3 A/P packer bin. EE felt low back pain and soreness later the same evening.
09/30/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 25d restricted Employee was handling dog pallets at #6 Air Sifter bagging station. The pallets weigh approximately forty pounds and the task required EE to pick up the pallet and place it in the presswell. EE felt p...
09/22/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 16d restricted By lifting tool box felt pain in lower back.
09/02/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 2d restricted EE was shoveling spillage from the floor behind #1 Shaker when he experienced pain in his left shoulder.
08/08/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE shut off a forklift engine & reached into the engine compartment to check the fan belt tension. When reaching into the engine compartment with his left arm, He contacted the hot surface of the exha...
07/19/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 19d restricted Employee complained of soreness in his left wrist after shoveling spillage from the Shaker in the Crushing Plant on 7/16/05. Employee was seen by a physician the morning of 7/19/05 and placed on modif...
07/03/2005 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 9d restricted EE was exerting force on a jack in an effort to reposition a rail car. While operating the jack, He felt a pain in his groin area.
05/20/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 18d restricted Employee was stacking fifty pound bags of product into a presswell when he felt soreness in his left elbow.
05/15/2005 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 30d restricted Employee was walking down the stairs at #3 Auto Packer. His right hand slipped off the railing causing him to strike his arm against the hand rail. This case became reportable when he was placed on li...
04/24/2005 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None A fire started at the obsolete #4 S/C Baghouse area of the Mill. The local fire department was called and the fire extinguished. No injuries occurred. The origin of the fire is unknown at this time.
04/13/2005 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 12d lost, 83d restricted EE was using a jack hammer to break some concrete when his left wrist became sore. The doctor placed EE on restricted work activities.
04/04/2005 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was using a hammer to align a pipe flange. He struck the tip of his right thumb with a hammer blow that inadvertently missed the pipe flange. This case became reportable when Max was seen by a phys...
03/24/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 18d lost EE was packing product at the 10# packing station. When She pulled a full bag of product off, the packer blew out some air and product and She sustained a foreign body in the right eye.
03/22/2005 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 7d lost, 9d restricted EE was walking along the preswell area of #6 Air Sifter packaging station when he tripped on the floor mat.
02/28/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 13d restricted On 2/21/05 at approximately 8:00 am, EE was using a shovel to dig a trench. When pushing on the shovel, EE felt pain in his right thigh. This case became reportable when EE requested medical attention...
02/17/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted EE closed some bottom dump crude car doors manually on 2/13/05 at 4:30 pm when he felt pain in his back. The door closer was malfunctioning again on 2/17/05 and EE manually attempted to close the car...
01/01/2005 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was cutting shrink film off a pallet of bagged product. EE was cutting in a downward motion with his left (dominant) hand while holding the film with his right hand. The knife blade came in c...
11/17/2004 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 13d lost, 102d restricted Employee went to the Shipping break room to take break. He sat on the end of an aluminum bench. Because there was no other weight on the bench, it tipped and flipped up, causing him to fall on the flo...
11/11/2004 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 8d restricted Injured and another employee were removing an air line from a compressor. The air line was under pressure when the fittings were released. The pressurized hose struck him in the left hand. His work wa...
10/08/2004 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 9d restricted Employee was working in the booth at #3 Auto Packer. When employee stepped out of the booth, he stepped on a can of spray lubricant located on the floor, causing him to slip. Apparently, the can of lu...