MILL POINT QUARRY Metal/Non-Metal

Employee was rocking the sheave on the grizzly feeder with his right hand because he thought the bearings were going out. Turned to talk to the employee beside him and caught his free hand (left) between the belt and the pulley, cutting off the very tip of his finger.

Employee was cutting wood for the trucking/mining shop wood furnace. The employee had cut a tree down. When cutting a branch off of the downed tree, the branch kicked back towards the employee striking him in the upper abdomen. Hospital observations had taken place, no injuries were found. The employee is on light duty for two weeks.

Employee drove a Kamatsu WA600 Wheel Loader into the muck pile to transport raw material to the primary crusher. As the loader entered the muck pile, the loader hit something making the machine come to a violent stop, straining the operators lower back. It is still unknown what the bucket hit to make the machine come to a sudden stop.

The injured worker was using a 4 1/2 inch angle grinder to plunge cut a cast bearing on the tail pulley of BC-2. This plunge cut would allow access to the steel part of the bearing, which would allow the use of a torch. The grinder got in a bind and kicked back and struck the worker on the safety glasses of his left eye down the side of the nose.

WHILE WALKING ON CATWALK OF WA600 STEPPED ON ROCK AND TWISTED / BENT FOOT BACK.

WAS GETTING UPON A LADDER AND HIT HIS L KNEE ON BOTTOM STEP.

WHILE HOLDING A WIRE TIE KNIFE SLIPPED & CUT THUMB ON LEFT HAND

WHILE BACKING OFF 11/2 LR PILE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS BACK