Santan Pit: 1 muerte registrada Metal/Non-Metal

Had gone to get a tool, walking across the concrete pad between the crush and feeder, fell off the concrete slab. When EE fell EE scaped right knee, ripped my pants and scaped my knee.

Employee standing on the 6X catwalk cutting crown rubber to place in 6X shaker. Finger in glove in it ended up in the path of the blade, cut through Maxo flex gloves

Tried to get down from haul truck, missed step fell on right hip and hit back of head on the ground.

Employee had tied EE's sweater with a zip tie and used a blade for cutting. When EE was cutting EE pointed the blade toward EE's body and cut EE's hand. EE should have pointed the blade away from body to prevent this incident.

Walking up to wash plant between the 1/2" belt and 3/4" belt and walked under 7X20 shaker slowly because of algae build up on concrete floor, slipped and fell back, hitting head. Got up and saw blood on shirt and then reported to shift foreman. EE taken up to scale house and applied clean gauze and pressure to stop bleeding. Taken to hospital, received surgical staples.

Doing a liner change, installing wear plates on inside of tub of the K400 crusher, EE was in bottom of tub aligning wear plate. A jack was installed from cone head to the wear plate to get it ready for welding. Everything was in place and when they let it go, the jack gave out causing the plate to come down landing on EE's left hand, causing the injury.

EE went to the wash plant to look for some rubber boots. In the floc room ee found them located at the bottom shelf: there was a spray bar laying across. With left hand ee held on to the shelf and pulled the boots out. The bar came down and smashed hand. The metal strap on bar cut left middle finger. Spray bar was a 6.5' x 1.5" side strap.

Not an EE, incident occurred inside plant's property line. An EE noticed fire, thinking it was a brush fire, then noticed a vehicle halfway engulfed with fire. Called 911 and fire dept. and safety manager. After fire was extinguished fire and police dept. determined there was a body of a male, No positive ID, no cause as of yet and under investigation. MSHA called at 6:27pm.

While cutting a 48 inch length rail rubber down to 45 inches, employee held the rail rubber with left hand. EE made the cut with a utility knife with right hand and over cut the rail rubber into work glove and as a result, lacerated left hand, outside palm. The laceration was 1.5 inches long and received minimal injury with sutures.

Employee was grinding when the grinder hit a burr and jumped and knicked left arm.

Employee was removing rail clamp inside of 8x20 Primary screen using a pry bar when bar slipped and struck employee on the right side of his face causing a laceration above his lip.

Employee claimed he hurt his wrist climbing down from truck on 12-19. He did not report until 12-22. Said he would be off 2 weeks. Our Dr. returned him to work to drive truck on 12-31. Investigation found employee had personal surgery and did not report to company. Under investigation due to holidays, will follow up and report to MSHA. Company at this time is denying accident.

Employee was stockpiling sand with a 980 loader. He felt a pain his back. He reported to his supervisor but did not want medical help. On 5/12/08 he went to the hospital with back pains. He was placed off work. Our Insurance carrier investigated to make sure it was a work comp. case. GRSG had personal changes and overlooked the time to file.

EE WAS BEGINNING A WORK AREA EXAM WHEN HE WALKED UP TO THE REPAIR AREA, WHEN HE NOTICED MECHANICS HAVING TROUBLE W/GEAR BOX AS THEY WERE MANUALLY LIFTING & LINING GEAR BOX ONTO SHAFT, SO HE ST OOD BETWEEN CONVEYOR & BEHIND SERVICE TRUCK TO HELP LIFT THE 215 LBS GEAR BOX. IN MIDST OF LINING UP KEY WAY ON SHAFT FOR GEAR BOX TO SLIDE ONTO, GEAR BOX BEGAN SLIPPING OFF SHAFT & WHILE STI

CLMT WAS CHECKING ELECTRICAL PANEL IN CRUSHER VAN WHILE DISCONNECTING WIRES THEY ARCHED IN HIS FACE