HAVRE DE GRACE QUARRY Metal/Non-Metal

An employee was cutting a hole in a urethane cover with a blade to access the fill plug when the blade slipped and cut into their hand, causing a laceration between the thumb and index finger.

Employee was attempting to remove a screen from the lower deck, when the screen became stuck. The employee chipped out some frozen material and EE attempted to remove the screen again. As the screen came loose, the employee jolted backwards and hit EE's head on a crossmember in the screen. The employee decided to seek out medical attention on 12/17/25.

Employee was found laying on the ground unresponsive in the shop, EE was then transported to a local medical facility via ambulance

On 4/28/25, an employee felt a pop in EE's upper back while using a sledgehammer in the gyratory crusher. Did not seek medical treatment until 4/30/2025.

Employee was descending from being on the tracks on CAT Dozer, when employee stepped down on the dozer arm employee's foot slipped forward causing employee's leg to go down between the track frame and dozer arm causing the employee to fall backwards to the ground with employee's right leg stuck causing a fracture.

IW smashed right middle finger was while working on equipment

EE was changing a bulb on the R-85 haul truck. There is a rubber grommet around the lens which needed to be removed. EE pulled out EE's pocket knife to cut the rubber. While EE was putting it away EE's pinky was caught in the pivot point of the serrated portion of the blade. This resulted in a cut on the outside of the left hand pinky from the nail around the finger pad.

EE stepped back into a bad drill hole while moving the bulk truck hose and cut left lower leg.

Employee was in the process of working with a crane operator to remove a motor and motor base from the screening tower using a nylon lifting strap. When the lift began, the employee noticed the boom angle was too high and signaled the operator to boom down. The operator boomed up abruptly and snapped the nylon strap. The load dropped down and shifted, striking employee.

Employee replacing a leaking o-ring on 5CR Tramping Cylinder bleed valve. EE proceeded to remove the bolt without relieving the pressure. The bolt came loose, it shot out at an extreme velocity throwing the employee's left hand into a nearby conduit. Did not seek medical treatment until 10/22/2021.

Employee was attempting to remove a partially cut shank from a bucket via sledge hammer, a piece of the hammer chipped off lodging into employee's neck/shoulder area

EE developed left shoulder discomfort during shift. EE claimed the discomfort came from cooperating the dump lever on a Cat 773D haul truck.

The employee was throwing a line at the upper dock from the barge to a dolphin. As the employee was throwing the line, the line slipped through employee's hands. The employee's momentum followed the line and employee ended up falling/jumping onto the tires that act as bumpers on the dolphin.

Injured and co-worker were positioning a skirt board for installation when it slipped, causing injured's left thumb to be bent backward. Injured finished the shift and received treatment after EE's shift.

The employee was kneeling down on right knee while using a wash down hose underneath of S8. While using the hose, a tear developed at the connection point and began to spray the employee in the neck/chest area. When this occurred, the employee flinched and lost balance rolling back slightly causing a twisting motion in right knee.

EE was working on crusher when dust fell into right eye causing an abrasion.

Employee alleges employee twisted left knee while descending loader.

Employee twisted ankle while walking in the plant. Did not seek medical treatment until 3/22/2018.

IW was working to unjam a chute when IW's hand slipped and contacted a welding rod puncturing hand. IW did not seek medical treatment until 3/23/2018. IW is being treated for an infection.

Employee was walking from the building and stopped and bent down to tie boot, at this time a raccoon came out of the bushes and struck the employee in left heel. The employee then kicked and struck the raccoon with left hand. This event resulted in punctured skin on the heel and thumb. Being treated for possible rabies exposure.

Employee tripped over a rope and fell in the water. EE did not report an injury until 12/14/2016. Workers Comp. carrier denied injury on 1/12/2017. After investigation it was approved on 1/27/2017. Vulcan was notified by letter on 5/23/2017.

On July 7, 2016 employee was performing welding tasks from approximately 8:30 am until 11:30 am. At 11:30 am the employee reported that ee was feeling bad and experienced dizziness when ee stood up. Employee was immediately taken for medical treatment and was treated for dehydration symptoms.

Employee was cutting out old chute work and hot slag went into boot. The hot slag burnt employee's right ankle. *The accident happened on 06-07-16, however it was not reported until the end of the shift on 06-09-16.

EE was driving new OEM wedge into the manufactured wedge slot of crusher to separate the top shell from the bottom shell with a #8 sledge hammer. A small chip of the wedge sheared off and lodged into EEs lower left thigh near knee cap.

Employee was in the back of the service truck accessing his cab mounted tool box. As he stepped out of the bed, he missed the work platform/step and fell directly to the ground dislocating right pinky finger.

Employee was driving a wedge with a hammer to loosen concaves on primary crusher when the wedge released and struck the employee on the back of the leg.

EE was opening back door of utility truck body as he pulled down on latch to release the door he felt he felt pain in left wrist.

EE was clearing material from conveyor when he felt pain in his shoulder.

EE was stepping from dock onto barge when he slipped and fell backwards into the river between the barge and dock.

EE was walking thru yard when he slipped on ice and fell.

EE was changing bit on drill and when he was putting chain wrench away felt pain in right hand.

stemming a bore hole on uneven ground, while in wet conditions, pulled groin

The Employee was assisting another employee with welding a plate over a hole on the Coastal 216 Barge upper deck. The EE was wearing safety glasses and was not the employee doing the welding. The employee suffered from Superficial Injury of the Cornea (welders flash) per the doctor.

Climbing onto top of bulk truck, he tripped on a hose, fell onto nitrate bin cover, broke/dislocated left elbow.

Employee was closing the gate at the end of his shift when the gate came off its hinges and fell onto the employee's little toe.

While carrying two sample buckets down from 2 tower, about 3rd step down from top of bottom landing, employee's right knee had slight pop and sharp pain. He stopped for a brief second but someone else was coming behind him with buckets, so he continued down to the bottom.

EE's tooth was chipped/fractured after the pry bar he was using slipped and struck his mouth while lining up a punch plate on the bottom deck of the #1 screen.

Employee was chipping burn bolts when a piece of chipping hammer came off, pierced his glove and became imbedded in his left hand.

EE was operating his Komatsu truck and did not notice that someone else has inflated his lumbar support. After driving his truck 6.5 hours, he noticed his back was bothering him a day before.

Employee was climbing back into sweeper truck on 4-18-06. He felt a pain in his left shoulder. He notified his supervisor & did not want to fill out incident report & did not want medical treatment. On 4-24-06 @ 6 AM he went to his supervisor & reported pain. Then requested medical attention.

EE was doing maintenance on mantle. Mantle dropped suddenly, causing EE's body to twist and pull, as he was startled by the movement of the mantle. Initially EE was fine, but as time went by, he decided to seek medical treatment several days later.

Rock slid down face as shot was being dug striking the rear of the truck employee was operating. On investigating, there were no witnesses to actually verify vehicle being struck.

EE was loading out of a tight shot. Due to the way he was operating the loader, he was beating himself up inside the cab unnecessarily.

Driver had an empty truck, returning from primary, running over pot hole. He jarred his neck. Continued to haul when he began to have increased pain and stiffness.

Ee had just pulled cable up barge. cable was tight under cleat. Cable popped out from under cleat. Hitting him in the right upper mid leg.

EE WAS RUNNING BACKHOE TO REMOVE PIPE. HE STEPPED OFF MACHINE AND TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE ON ROCK.

Two haul trucks were parked bumper to bumper with 2 1/2' to 3' separation. Employee was climbing from one truck to another. He slipped and fell to the ground. EE HAD ARTHROSCOPIC PROCEDURE ON LEFT SHOULDER.

CLIMBING UP LADDER OF 100-TON HAUL TRUCK. (SLIPPED & FELL TO GROUND, HITTING RIGHT ARM ON ROCK. TWO LACERATIONS; STITCHES REQUIRED.)

Employee was working in area 1. He was pulling on 6" punch plate to attach chains on the crane. His left thumb was caught between the plate he was working on and the next plate up.

Was working on MPK hammer. corner of plate broke. attempting to reposition by hammering back into place. piece of metal was to small to be held in place by hand. struck thumb with 32 oz hammer.

EE was throwing a piece of tri braze off of screen tower onto ground when his finger along with the gloves he was wearing caught the steel.

While holding the hyrdraulic control unit lid, which was propped with a piece of steel, was cleaning debris away when the prop slid off bottom and it came down on his right hand. This resulted in severe laceration of right thumb and small finger.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CATCH SCREENS AS THEY WERE BEING TOSSED BELOW TO LOWER DECK

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING A SIDE DOOR ON THE CRANE. WHEN HE STEPPED BACKWARDS, HE MISJUDGED HIS FOOTING AND FELL OFF PLATFORM OF CRANE.

WINDOWS WERE FOGGY. HE WIPED WINDOWS WITH A RAG. STILL WAS NOT ABLE TO SEE. STOOD UP TO LOOK OUT THE TOP OF THE CAB. HATCH CAME DOWN AND HIT ON TOP OF HIS HEAD.

WHILE GRINDING WITH WIRE WHEEL, THERE WAS EXTREME VIBRATION TO HANDS CAUSING NUMBNESS AND TINGLING TO BOTH HANDS. WORSENED AFTER HE LEFT WORK THAT EVENING.

WHILE LOADING SHOT ROCK ONTO HAUL TRUCK, A PIECE OF ROCK BROKE LOOSE FROM THE HIGHWALL AND FELL ONTO LOADER BUCKET. IT CAUSED HIM TO COME FORWARD IN THE CAB AND HE HIT THE BOOM CONTROL. HE BOUNCED VERY HARD AND BACK UP AGAIN JARRING HIS BACK.

USING CHIPPING HAMMER TO CLEAN ROCK BUILD-UP FROM BETWEEN TROUGHING ROLLERS

EE WAS SHOWING ANOTHER EE HOW TO PROPERLY CHANGE THE NEW FILTER HE INSTALLED ON SAT. AFTER EXPLAINING HOW, HE OPENED THE LID TO THE HIGH PRESSURE FILTER WITHOUT ISOLATING THE SYSTEM AND BLEDDI NG THE PRESSURE OFF. THE LID TO THE HIGH PRESSURE VESSEL BLEW UP INTO HIS FACE.

WE BELIEVE THAT EE WAS WALKING FROM THE FUEL PUMPS TO THE SHOP.

EE WAS REALIGNING CONVEYOR #3 USING A HAMMER TO KNOCK DOWN HILL FROM CONVEYOR. HE LOWERED HIS HEAD AS HE CAME OUT FROM UNDER THE CONVEYOR WHEN HIS CHIN MADE CONTACT WITH THE CABLE BRACING CON VEYOR AND WINCH TOWER.

EE WAS USING A CHIPPING HAMMER TO REMOVE FROZEN MATERIAL FROM AROUND A GUARD. A ROCK STRUCK EE IN THE EYE.

EE STEPPED UP ON BANK OF THE 100 TON BIN AND HISFOOT SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM. AS HE SLIPPED HIS LEFT KNEE STRUCK THE ICE.

#4 SYNTRON BEING MOVED INTO POSITION OVER #4 CRUSHER. SYNTRON WAS STUCK AGAINST FEED BOX. IT NEEDED TO BE MOVED TO ONE SIDE SO SYNTRON COULD BE SLID INTO PLACE. HE USED A 4' PLY BAR TO MOVE SY NTRON OVER ABOUT 1-1/2". WHEN HE MOVED THE SYNTRON IT LUNGED FORWARD AND TOOK THE BAR OUT HIS HANDS. THE BAR STRUCK HIM UNDER THE CHIN.

EE WAS HELPING CHANGE MOTOR FOR WINDOW ON DOOR OF PICK-UP TRUCK. SPRING ASSEMBLY MECHANISM SPRUNG.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING AIR CONDITIONING VENT WITH A RAG. RAG WAS PULLED INTO FAN ALONG WITH HIS FINGER, CUTTING TIP OF FINGER AND PARTIAL NAIL.

EMPLOYEE WAS OUTSIDE OF SHOP. CARBON ARC PLATE OFF 992G. PLATE FELL OFF BEFORE JOB WAS FINISHED.

EE WAS UNTYPING BARGE. ROPE POPPED UP JERKING WRIST AND THUMB.

EMPLOYEE HAD FINISHED GREASING BEARING LOCATED ON DOWN RIVER SIDE OF SCREEN. ATTEMPTED TO CLIMBUP LADDER TO DECK LOCATED AT UPPER END OF SCREENFOOT SLIPPED OFF 3RD STEP FROM BOTTOM AND ARM CAUGHT THE SAFETY CHAIN HOOK.

EE WAS ORGANIZING A STOCK OF 4" PLATES. FORKLIFT OPERATOR WAS LIFTING PUNCH PLATE WITH FORKS WHILE EE WAS SLIDING THEM INTO PLACE. WHEN EE SLID THE PLAT, IT SLIPPED OFF THE FORS, CATCHING EE'S HAND BETWEEN 2 PLATES.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING AND PULLING TRAINING TROUGHING ROLLER AND FRAME.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LOOSEN BROKEN DRILL BIT BY STRIKING IT WITH A HAMMER. THE HAMMER SLIPPED OFF THE BIT SURFACE, STRIKING THE EE IN THE RIGHT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO OPEN BOX WITH A UTILITY KNIFE. KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT HIS LEG.

EE WAS BANGING STEEL IN PLACE WHEN OVERHEAD LIGHT VIBRATED LOOSE AND STRUCK HIM IN THE HEAD.

EMPLOYEE PARKED LOADER AT BLENDING PLANT. WHEN CLIMBING DOWN THE LADDER, AT THE LAST STEP HE STEPPED TO THE GROUND AND TWISTED LEFT FOOT AND FELL TO THE GROUND.

CUTTING STEEL PLATE IN COMMONS BOX ON #2 TOWER. A PIECE OF SLAG BURNED THROUGH BOOT TO HIS FOOT.

CLIMBING INTO TRUCK, PUT WEIGHT ON RIGHT LEG AND FELT SOMETHING POP.

EE WAS BACKING 100 TON TRUCK TO A BERM ON LEVEL #1 IN ORDER TO DUMP A LOAD OF RIP-RAP INTO THE BASEMENT. UPON CONTACT WITH REAR TIRES TO BERM, LEVEL BEGAN FALLING AWAY, STARTIG WITH RIGHT REAR SIDE. THEN ENTIRE BERM FAILED CAUSING TRUCK TO FALL BACKWARDS OVER HIGHWALL.

A DEFICIENCY IN WALK WAY.

WINCHING BARGES DOWN RIVER AND LINES BECAME TAUTAND SLIPPED OFF EDGE OF BIT, STRIKING JIM AND KNOCKING HIM DOWN.

BLASTER WAS PREPARING TO LAY OFF A SHOT ON A BENCH. AFTER EXAMINING THE BENCH FROM BELOW, HE WENT BACK ON THE BENCH AND BEGAN PLACING REFERENCE MARKERS ALONG THE CREST OF THE FACE IN ORDER TO LATER PROFILE THE FACE. A SECTION OF THE BENCH (APPROX 4' X 5') SLID AWAY WITH EE ON IT. HE LANDED FEET FIRST ON A MUCK PILE BELOW, FRACTURING HIS HEEL. HE CLIMBED DOWN, SUMMONED HELP, HOSPITA