FREY SAND & GRAVEL Metal/Non-Metal

Hearing: confirmed recordable shift - right ear.

Employee had a previous hernia (Aug 2004) which was reaggrevated and required surgical repair on 1-8-08.

RELEASING CHAIN BINDER ON GRIT BELT - HIT IN CHIN BY HANDLE, REQUIRED STITCHES.

EE STATES THAT HE WAS FILLING A FRONTEND LOADER WITH FUEL. WHILE FUELING THE EE WAS STANDING ON LOADER LADDER. FUEL NOZZLE SLIPPED OUT OF FILL OUT EE TRIED TO CATCH IT AND HE SLIPPED OFF LADDE R FALLING ONTO FUEL PUMP.

EE STATES WHILE HE WAS INSTALLING A VALVE IN THE SAND TANK HE REACHED UP OVER HIS HEAD AND FELT A TIGHTNESS AND PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK--A SITE WHERE HE HAS HAD PREVIOUS PAIN & INJURY.

MINER WAS CUTTING METAL ON A SCREEN DECK. HOSE ON ACETYLINE LINE GOT CUT BY PIECE OF SHARP METLA, WORE THRU AND FLASHED ONTO MINER'S THUMB.

EE STATES HE WAS CUTTING AN IRON PIPE WITH TORCH, HOT SLAG DRIPPED DOWN & INTO GLOVE BURNING HAND.

EE ALLEGES THAT AN INJURY WAS SUSTAINED TO HIS L SHOULDER FROM THE REPEATED MOTOR OF TURNING THE MACHINE TO THE LEFT.

EE STATES HE WAS AT A WORKBENCH GRINDING ON A 5 INCH PIECE OF STEEL PIPE WHEN THE GRINDER CAUGHT A PIECE OF THE PIPE AND PULLED IT THRU HIS FINGERS CAUSING INJURY.

EMPLOYEE STATES SHE WAS WALKING AROUND A COUNTER AREA, CAUGHT FOOT ON CORNER OF COUNTER, LOST BALANCE AND FELL- TWISTING LEG AND KNEE.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE REMOVING A 1" HYDRAULIC HOSE FROM AN END DUMP. HE WAS PULLING UP ON A LARGE WRENCH AND PULLED A MUSCLE.

EE STATES HE WAS WORKING WITH ANOTHER EE CLEARNING OVERSIZE ROCKS FROM GRATER OVER BIN. OTHER EE STRUCK A ROCK WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER PIECE OF ROCK SPLIT OFF FLEW UP AND HIT EE IN MOUTH.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS STANDING ON METAL CATWALK ATTEMPTING TO CLEAR A CRUSHER WHEN A WELD ON A PIECE OF THE CATWALK GAVEWAY EMPLOYEES LEG WENT PARTIALLY THRU CAT WALK PINCHING LEG NO FALL OR OTHER TRAUMA WAS INVOLVED DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL 070693

EE STATED THAT WHILE OPERATING SCRAPER PAN PUSHED BY RUBBER TIRED DOZER HE TWISTED AROUND TO CHECK LOAD IN PAN AND STRAINED NECK AND BACK WHEN PAN WAS PUSHED AHEAD HER DOZER.

EMPLOYEE STATES WHILE DRILLING A HOLE IN AN OVERHEAD BOX, SOME RUST PARTICLE FELL DOWN AND GOT BEHIND HIS SAFETY GLASSES AND INTO LEFT EYE.

MINER STATES HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CARRY A #120 LB BARREL OF GREASE UP A FLIGHT OF STAIRS WHEN HE FELT A "TEARING" SENSATION IN LEFT LOWER ABDOMINAL AREA.

EMPLOYEE CRAWLED INTO MICHIGAN BACK DUMP TO CORRECT HYDRAULIC LINES AND BECAME WEDGED IN EMPLOYEE WAS FREED AND DENIED ANY INJURY BUT LATER CLAIMED A WORK RELATED INJURY INVESTIGATION IN PROGR .

EMPLOYEE WAS DISMANTLING A DEWATERING SCREW. EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHILE CUTTING STEEL AND TRIED TO GRAB ONTO STEEL FOR SUPPORT. THE PIECE OF STEEL FELL ON EMPLOYEES FOOT AND HE FELL TO THE GROUN D, INJURING HIS LEFT ELVOW AS HE TRIED TO BREAK HIS FALL. EMPLOYEE WAS ADMINISTERED TREATMENT FOR BRUISES AT LOCAL HOSPITAL AND RELEASED.