Amboy Aggregates Metal/Non-Metal

Working on the counter weight belt B4. In process of removing an old guard, employee knocked a piece of steel loose. After being informed that the piece was loose, an approximately 20 lb piece of angle iron came down and hit his hand.

Employee bent over to pick up a torch and his back locked up.

Putting 10' Length of 2" conduit in storage rack approx 35lbs to 45 lbs.

Walking by a trailer employee was started by a cat coming out of the weeds and tripped and fell on his leg breaking it.

EE was installing a new grounding rod (3/4 copper) with a hammer. He missed the piece his hand took the impact slicing his left palm.

Employee got out of his bulldozer to move a stacker. He attempted to cross a retaining wall and fell about 3 ft.

Employee working in possible 'bite' area if steel should break away from it's mount while forcing with come-along. Damage was to one of the employee's knee (right)

EE strained a muscle while moving sand from a belt. EE notified management on 01/11/2010 of injury and we started an investigation, and sent him to be examined on this date.

Pushing hand truck and slipped on gravel.

Employee slipped on ice.

Felt a groin pull when crossing from barge to ship.

Injured was attempting to clear blocked transfer chute when a large rock fell pinning his hand against a steel skirt board.

Employee was pulling on a crowbar and it slipped and hit him in the face.

Employee broke bolt loose and it snapped, hitting him in the eye under safety glasses.

Hernia--EE notified not to do any heavy lifting.

Employee was pulling on a pipe wrench towards his face and wrench slipped off & struck him in the face.

Slipped going through engine room door.

Employee picked up a 50 pound pump and threw his back out.

CONVEYOR BELT ROLLER FELL ON EE'S HAND.

Picking up plates hand got wedged between plate and concrete.

Pulled shoulder lifting a board.

EMPLOYEE WAS ADJUSTING CONVEYOR BELT TENSION WITH MANUAL COME-ALONGS. BELT CAUGHT ON A PIECE OF THE FRAME AND PARTED. EMPLOYEE WAS THROWN INTO A STEEL ANGLE.

EE BACKED A BOBCAT HE WAS DRIVING INTO A POLE. EE SAID HE WAS INJURED ON 8-14-03 BUT REPORTED INJURY ON 8-17-03.

EE WAS CARRYING A RAILROAD TIE WITH ANOTHER EE WHEN IT SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS FOOT. EE WAS WEARING STEEL TOE SHOES BUT RAILROAD TIE HIT THE UPPER PART OF HIS FOOT.

EE STATED HIS ANKLE WAS HURTING AND IT MIGHT OF BEEN CAUSED BY MOUNTING OR DISMOUNTING HIS MACHINE.

EE WAS WORKING MOVING OXYGEN BOTTLES HE WAS INSTRUCTRED TO GET HELP UNLOADING THE BOTTLES. APPARENTLY HE LIFTED BOTTLES HIMSELF

EE REMOVING AND REPLACING V-BOLT SHEAVES ON DRIVE MOTOR. THEY APPLIED A GEAR PULLER TO SHAFT AND PULLEY AND STARTED TO APPLY PRESSURE, A LEGE OFTHE PULLER SLIPPED OFF THE PULLEY AND THE PULLER FLEW BACK AND HIT EMPLOYEE RIGHT SIDE OF HEAD JUST ABOVE THE EYEBROW.

PULLING WIRE EMPLOYEE ASSUMED INJURY TO WORK RELATED.

EE WAS HELPING TO SHOVEL SAND NEAR TAIL OF B-3 CONVEYOR. HE STEPPED OVER CONDUIT AND TWISTED KNEE.

EE STATES WAS COMPLETING CONVEYOR BELT SPLICE. WAS PULLING BELT TO STRAIGHTEN AND FELT PAIN IN BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING EMPTY BOTTLES INTO BACKHOE BUCKET WHEN BOTTLE ROLLED OVER ONTO LEFT HAND. THE BOTTLE PINCHED HIS HAND AGAINST THE BACKHOE BUCKET.

EE STEPPED OVER A TROUGH IDLER THEN TURNED AND WITHOUT LOOKING TRIPPED OVER SAME IDLER.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A CONVEYOR DRIVE PULLEY SHAFT WHICH HAD BEEN REMOVED FOR REPAIRS. HE WAS WORKING WITH TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES. HE USED A CHOCKER SLING ON THE SHAFT BETWEEN THE GEAR BOX AND BEA RING BUT USED A CHAIN ON THE OPPOSITE END TO FORM A TWO-PART SLING. THE CHAIN SLID OFF THE SHAFT& THE SHAFT STRUCK & KNOCKED EMPLOYEE TO GROUND.HE HAD SURGERY ON SAME KNEE 3 MO. AGO (SPORTS).

EMP WAS WALKING ALONGSIDE OF BARGE WHEN HE SLIPPED. AS HE STARTED TO FALL HE GRABBED THE RAILINGON HIS RIGHT SIDE. CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HIS ARMPIT AND THE FORCE SPRAINED OR STRAINED RT SHOULDER

PUTTING DRIVER BELTS ON COUNTER WEIGHT. TURNED OVER AND PIPE WRENCH CAME OVER AND HIT FINGER.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOLDING PUNCH WITH CHANNEL LOCKS. HITTING A PUNCH, METAL CAME OFF AND HIT EMPLOYEE IN RIGHT HAND.

EE WAS CUTTING BOLS & REMOVING RUBBER FROM THE WATER (130X MAIN PLANT) AFTER TORCHING OUTTHE BOLTS HE REMOVED HIS CUTTING GOGGLES & PULLED ON THE RUBBER LINING MOLTEN RUST WHICH HAD STACK TO T HE RUBBER THEN POPPED OFF HITTING HIM IN HIS RT EYE

EE WAS USING A PRY BAR TO ATTEMPT TO DISLODGE A ROCK FROM THE TAIL PULLEY SECTION OF BAR DRY SCREEN OVERSIZE BELT. EE APPARENTLY HURT HIS BACK DUE TO HIS ACTIONS WITH THE PRY BAR. THE BELT HAD BEEN LOCED OUT PRIOR TO EE GETTING HURT.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS STEPPING UP ONTO THE BULLDOZER AND THAT HE MUST HAVE HAD MUD OR GREASE ON HIS WORK BOOTS AND THAT CAUSED HIM TO SLIP. HE PUT HIS RIGHT HAND OUT QUICKLY TO CATCH HIMSELF A ND JAMMED HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER AGAINST THE DOZER PUSHARM. HIS FINGER WAS SWOLLEN AT THE 2ND JOINT.

EE & EE WERE TAKING AN OXYGEN BOTTLE OFF THE CRANE BARGE AT THE COAL DOCK THE BOTTLE SLID OFF A TIE UP LINE THEY HAD RESTED IT ON & FELL ON EE RT FOOT

EE WAS SHOVELING IN TUNNEL W/O VENTILATION FOR A WHILE AND COMPLAINED OF LUNG AND CHEST PROBLEMS.

EMPLOYEE WAS FREEING A FROZEN REEL. THE REEL WOULD NOT TURN IN THE COLD WEATHER & INJURED & HIS FOREMAN WERE PULLING ON REEL. WHEN IT FINALLY RELEASED THE INJURED'S LEFT ARM WAS STRAINED & A N ABRASION ON THE FOREARM FROM RUBBING AGAINST ADJACENT I-BEAM.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A STICK TO LOOSEN SAND IN FEEDER (MANUAL) WHEN UNPROTECTED HAND STRUCK SIDE OF FEEDER.

EE WAS PULLING A WATER HOSE AND STEPPED BACKWARD INTO THE OPEN MANHOLE HE WAS CLEANING.

NO ACCIDENT, EE WAS PULLING MOORING LINE OUT OF WATER.

INJURED STATED THAT HE HURT HIS BACK KNEE BOARDING AT HOME PREVIOUS DAY HE THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD BE OKAY WHEN HE BACKED OVER A WINDROW HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK HE DROVE THE D8K DOWN FROM THE S TOCK PILE & WAVED FOR EE HE SAID HS BACK WAS VERY SORE SO WE CALLED THE SOUTH AMBOY FIRST AID THEY TOOK HIM TO THE HOLSPITAL TO BE CHECKED OUT

EE WAS CLOSING THE MANUAL BIN GATE IN THE B8A SURGE TUNNEL HE FIRST USED THE HANDLE PROVIDED BUT THEN THOUGHT HE COULD GET MORE LEVERAGE BY USING THE GATE IRON PART OF THE LEVER ARM. HE GRABBE D AND PULLED THAT BUT DID NOT OBSERVE THE PINCH POINT. HIS LEFT WRIST WAS BRUISED IN THE PINCH POINT.

EMPLOYEE WHERE CANGING APILLOW LOCK BEARING ON TEH RIGHT SIDE OF THE TAIL PULLEY, THEY WHERE USING A CHAIN COME A LONG TO PULL THE LOAD BACK & ANOTHER TO RAISE IT, WHILE IT WAS UNDER TENSION T HE INJURED WANTED TO RESET THE POSITION OF THE CHAIN TO ALLOW MORE CLEARANCE FOR THE BEARING. HE HIT THE CHAIN OVER WITH A HAMMER. HIS FOREARM WAS IN THE PINCH POINT EREATED FROM THE FRAME O

EE WAS CUTTING THE MOUNTING BELTS OFF OF A PILLOW BLOCK BEARING BEFORE CUTTING HE HAD PLACED A COME ALONG AROUND THE SHAFT TO HOLD IT BACK AND COMPENSATE FOR THE WEIGHT OF THE CONVEYOR BELTING THE PULL WAS IN A DIRECTION THAT ALLOWED THE BERING TO JUMP UP AND FORWARD WHEN THE BOLTS WERE CUT HIS WRIST WAS BRUISED WHEN THE LAST BOLT WAS CUT AND THE BEARINGS SLID FORWARD.

10342TOMER OF OURS SENT HIS TRUCK DRIVER IN TO FGET A LOAD OF SAND.HE WAS THERE 15 MINUTES BEFORE WE START OUR LOADERS.HE APPARENTLY RAISED HIS TANDEM DUMP BODY TO CHECK HIS BRAKES OR AIRLINES ?6855 HE LOWERED THE BODY HE LEFT THREE FINGERS ON HIS LEFT HAND(INDEX,MIDDLE ,RING)ON THE FRAME RAIL AND THE BODY CAME DOWN ON THEM CRUSHING THE TIPS.

EMPLS HAD JUST FINISHED SPLICE IN B6B CONVEYOR...I.NAME GRABBED ONE END OF IDLER WHILE COWORKER GRABBED THE OTHER.STOOD THE IDLER UP AND I.NAME ACCIDENTLY PUT THUMB UNDER IDLER AND IT GOT PINC HED BETWEEN IT AND THE CHANNEL FRAME OF CONVEYOR. THIS CAUSED A BAD BRUISE EVEN THOUGH GLOVES WERE WORN.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS SPLICING 1 1/2 DIAMETER POLYPRO ROPE. WHEN DONE HE WAS CUTTING THE TAPE FROM END OF ROPE. HE ACCIDENTLY PLACED HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER UNDER KNIFE WHILE CUTTING AND CUT HI S LEFT INDEX FINGER ON THE DORSAL SIDE.

INJURED WAS OPERATING D-8K BULLDOZER ON RAW SAND PILE.ONE OF THE HEATER HOSES TO THE CAB FLOOR HEATER SUDDENLY RUPTURED.THE HOT ENGINE COOLANT SPRAYED UP ONTO THE BACK RIGHT LEG OF THE INJURED AND CAUSED 1ST DEGREE BURN FROM THE MID-CALF TO LOWER THIGH ON BACK OF RIGHT LEG.

INJURED WAS HANDING A TORCH TO CO-WORKER HE REACHED UP AND HIS HARD HAT FELL OFF.EMPL STATES THAT INSTEAD OF WAITING FOR THE INJURED TO GET HIS HARD HAT AND GET CLEAR OF THE AREA,HE IMMEDIATEL Y CUT THE 5/8 BOLT HOLDING THE SCREEN TENSIONER ,THE TENSIONER WHICH WEIGHS ABOUT 1 POUND FELL ABOUT 4' AND HIT INJURED ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD.HE RECEIVED SEVERAL STITCHES AT SOUTH AMBOY HOSP

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS CHECKING SECO SCREEN FOR HOLES IN SCREEN CLOTH. INSTREAD OD USING THE STEP LADDER PROVIDED THE JUMPED 3' TO WALKWAY LEVEL. HE DIDN'T REALIZE THE GUARD WAS BY HIS LEFT SI DE AS HE WAS LOOKING RIGHT. HE HIT HIS ELBOW ON THE EDGE OF THE GUARD. ELBOW WAS BRUISED. EMPLOYEE DID NOT REPORT THE ACCIDENT FOR 2 DAYS.

CLIMBING UP ON CONVE GRABBING MOTOR GUARD L FOOT ON SAND LOST BALANCE FELL IN CONV FRAME WITH L ARM EXTENDED ARM DRAWN IN TO PULLEY

EE STATES HE WAS WALKING TOWARDS END OF CARFLAT. ENTIRE AREA WAS DAMP FROM THE RAIN. A FUEL TRANSFER HOSE HAD BEEN LEFT LAYING ON DECK WITHOUT DUST CAP ON END ABOUT 1 PINT OF FUEL COLLECTED AT END MAKING AREA SLIPPERY. EE DIDNT SEE SLIPPERYSPOT AND LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL.

WHILE SHIFTING VESSEL FORWARD, THE SPRING LINE POPPED (WITHOUT BREAKING) STRIKING HIM ABOVE RIGHT ANKLE BREAKING BONE ABOVE ANKLE. LEFT LEG RECEIVED BRUISES TO CALF.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS WORKING IN 66" SCREW MOST OF SHIFT, HE STATES HE HAD NO IDEA SOMETHING WAS IN HIS EYE BUT THAT IT WAS BOTHERING HIM SLIGHTLY BY THE END OF HIS SHIFT. HE DID NOT REPORT T HE OCCURANCE UNTIL 8:00AM THE FOLLOWING DAY. THE SPEAK MAY HAVE BEEN AIRBORN AND RUBBED INTO EYE FROM AN IMPACT GUN HE WAS USING, HE DOES NOT KNOW.

EMPL STATES HE WAS STANDING IN PINCHPOINT OF 2 SAND SCOWS FORMED BY RAIL SECTIONS. AS 2 SCOWS DRIFTED TOGETHER HIS ABDOMEN WA SPINCHED BETWEEN 2 SCOWS CASUING CONTUSIONS TO STOMACH AREA

EMPLOYEE STATED HE HAD BEEN DRIVING CAT 416 BACKHOE, HE COMPLETED JOG HE STOPPED MACHINE AND STEPPED OUT. HE DID NOT JUMP BUT RATHER DISMOUNTED PROPERLY. HE PUT HIS WEIGHT ON RIGHT KNEE AND FELT A SHARP PAIN ALONG OUTSIDE OF RIGHT KNEE, WHICH HE AS A PRE-EXISTING CONDITION ON.

WHILE USING A PRY BAR TO DISLODGE A PULLEY THAT WAS BEING CHANGED, EMPLOYEE STATED HE HURT HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ALONG WALKWAY AND STATED THAT HE TRIPPED OVER THE HEAD OF A BOLT IN PLANKING. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL AGAINST THE RUNNING CONVEYOR AND HIS ARM WAS ABRAIDED BY THE CON VEYOR BELTING.

EMPL TAKING CHAIN GUARD OFF DRIVE CONVEYOR #B6B. TOP HALF WAS REMOVED WITHOUT INCIDENT HOWEVER LOWER HALF SLIPPED WHEN BEING REMOVED AND LANDED DIRECTLY ON I.NAME LEFT BIG TOE ON LEFT FOOT.

EMPL WAS USING A BOATHOOK TO TAKE A MOORING LINE OUT OF THE WATER HE HAD THE MOORNING LINE IN ONE HAND AND TOSSED THE BOATHOOK WITH THE OTHER THE STEEL HOOK END OF THE BOATHOOK BOUNCED UP AND HIT HIS R WRIST

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING PIECE OF FIBER ROPE FROM THE CENTER OF WIRE ROPE DURING A SPLICING OPERATION. WHILE HE WAS CUTTING THE ROPE, THE WIRE SHIFTED AND HE CUT INTO HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

EMPLOYEE REACHED DOWN TO PICK UP A TIRE WHICH WEIGHS APPROX 40 POUNDS AND HE APPARENTLY PULLED UP AT AN IMPROPER ANGLE AND EXPERIENCED A MUSCLE SPASM.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS WALKING TO THE CONTROL ROOM UP A STAIRWAY,WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING.HE HELD FAST TO THE HANDRAILS AND FELT A STRAIN IN HIS ABCK.HIS BOOTS WERE WET AND MAY HAVE BEEN MUDDY .

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AROUND THE SECO SCREEN TO OBSERVE THE FLOW OF OVERSIZE INTO BINS.HE STATED HE SLIPPED ON GRAVEL AND LANDED ON HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A SHAFT MOUNTED REDUCER AND TAPPING IT WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER.THE ELECTRICAL MOTOR WAS NOT BOTTOMED DOWN.THE VIBRATION MADE THE MOTOR SLIDE AND STRIKE THE EMPLOYEE.

WHILE CLIMBING OUT OF A CHUTE,EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON SCREEN AND SLID AND HIT S SPRAY BAR.

WHILE CUTTING CHUTE RUBBER WITH RAZOR KNIFE,KNIFE PULLED THROUGH RUBBER AND CUT THIGH.

WHILE CLIMBING FROM THE ARTHUR SCOW TO THE SCOW #70 EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS ABCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS JUMPING TO A SAND SCOW AND LANDED ON THE MOORING LINE AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

WHILE CLEANING UP AROUND THE PLANT, DISCHARGE SAND FROM THE BOB CAT BUCKET WENT INTO HIS EYE.

WHILE PICKING UP CABLE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING BACKWARDS PULLING THE CABLE AND SLIPPED AND WRENCHED HIS SHOULDERS.

WHILE LIFTING WOOD RAILROAD TIES, THE END DROPPED ON HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

WHILE TOWING SCOW, THE PORT LINE SNAPPED AND HIT THE EMPLOYEE IN THE GROIN AREA.

WHILE HE WAS CLEANING ALONG PULLY ALONG B-4 CONVEYOR, HIS SHOVEL KICKED BACK AND HIT HIMSELF IN THE HEAD.

WALKING DOWN A PLANK, PLANK MOVED AND TO AVOID FALLING IN THE WATER HE JUMPED TO SHORE AND FELL ON HIS WRIST.'

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON THE DECK OF A SCOW AND FELL AND HIT HIS LEFT HAND ON A STEEL ANGLE.

WHILE LIFTING A PUMP FROM THE PAIR TO PUT IT ON THE BARGE HE FELT SOMETHING LET GO IN HIS BACK.

THROWING 3 INCH NYLON ROPE TO A VESSEL FROM THE SHORE HE THROUGH OUT HIS BACK.