GLENCOE QUARRY Metal/Non-Metal

Employee was removing bolts in wear plates of Hazamag crusher. As a bolt was freed from the plate, it dropped out of worn plate spinning. It then caught employees fingers with the worn sharp edge of the head of the bolt.

Stitches were required to close a laceration to the upper right leg caused by a metal fragment from the track pin.

EE WAS WALKING AROUND DRILL. AS HE STEPPED WITH HIS LEFT FOOT, THE GROUND SHIFTED, CAUSING HIS RIGHT KNEE TO TWIST.

EMMPLOYEE AND 2 CO-WORKERS WERE MOVING SHEM TO BE ADDED BACK IN PLACE. WHILE IN MOTION EMPLOYEE LOST HIS BALANCE, KEEPING ONE HOLDING SHEM AND THE OTHER HAND AND FOREARM TO BREAK FALL. EMPLOYE E'S FOREARM MAKE CONTACT WITH METAL GUARDING. EMPLOYEE'S ARM BROKE THE FALL, BUT SLID DOWN GUARDING RESULTING IN FOREARM LACERATION. (7 STICHES).

EE WAS THROWING SWITCH IN 100 AMP MAIN FUSE BOX AFTER HE HAD COMPLETED THE WIRING UP OF DUST SUPPRESSION PUMP & MAGNET THAT WAS INSTALLED ABOVE CONVEYOR.

EE LOWERING DRILL STEEL TO GROUND FROM CARRIER RACK OF DRILL ON BOOM TRUCK; GAINED SLACK IN CABLE WHEN STEEL LAID UPPER END ON BERM OF RAMP, THEN ROLLED OFF TOWARD GROUND, TIGHTENING CABLE AND SWUNG TOWARD BOOM TRUCK. EE PUT FOOT UP TO STOP STEEL FROM HITTING THE BOOM TRUCK.

EE WAS STANDING ON BACK OF HI-RANGER TRUCK. AS EE STEPPED TOWARD THE BUCKET HE TRIPPED OVER THE SIDE OF THE TRUCK, FALLING TO THE GROUND AND LANDING ON HIS HIP.

EE WAS LOADING SHOT ROCK FOR PRODUCTION W/FRONT END LOADER HE WAS SITTING IN THE SEAT WITH JOY STICK IN EACH HAND HE WAS MOVING THE LOADER INTO THE MUCK PILE FILLING THE BUCKET W/SHOT ROCK WHE N THE LOADER BUCKET STRUCK A TOE UNSHOT ROCK AT THE BASE OF THE FLOOR THE JOLT STOPPED THE LOADER S PROGRESS AND JERKED THE EE FORWARD WHILE IN A SITTING POSITION RESULTING IN STRAINED BACK.

REMOVING HOIST CYLINDER OFF PIN WHILE BRING SUPPORTED BY CHAIN HOIST. INJURED WAS STANDING BETWEEN RIGHT REAR TIRES AND FUEL TANK. WORKING CYLINDER OFF WITH BARS AND WORKING CHAIN. CYNLINDER C AME OFF PIN AND TILTED UPWARDS WHILE HOLDING CHICHAIN. LEFT HAND ON CHAIN CAME IN CONTACT WITH CHAIN AND CYLINDER CAUSING LACERATION.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHILE TOSSING A 1/2 INCH AIR LINE AND TURNED HIS KNEE CAUSING A TEAR TO THE TENDON.

INJURED WAS USI3G A HAMMER TO DRIVE OUT A TRACK PIN ON ADOZER.A PIECE OF STEEL CAME OFF UPON IMPACT AND STRUCK MAN'S CALF OF LEG.

EMPL SQUATTED DOWN TO MOVE X-TIE AND WHEN HE REACHED FOR IT HE FELT A PAIN IN THE BACK AND FELL TO THE GROUND.HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN LOWEER BACK.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO TAKE THE SWIVEL BODY VALVE OFF THE CRANE. THE VALVE, WHICH WEIGHTS APPROX. 100 LB. WOULD COME UP SO FAR AND STOP. D.S.CAMERON WAS HOLDING IT UP FROM INSIDE GROOVES O N TOP AND R. MORRISON WAS TAPPING IT FROM THE BOTTOM WITH A PIPE AND HAMMER. THE VALVE FREED AND WENT BACK DOWN CATCHING HIS MIDDLE THREE FINGERS, ON RIGHT HAND, BETWEEN GROOVES IN VALVE AN