IMI SELLERSBURG STONE CO. Metal/Non-Metal

According to the electrician, the wire came out of the lug and landed on the fuse holder causing the arc when the employee went to install the new fuse. The employee was not able to see the loose wire due to the plastic guard that keeps individuals from making contact with the live top. During the investigation it was discovered that the box was properly locked out.

While cutting legs free on a refeed hopper at the jaw, a piece of rust popped and went behind employee's PPE. Employee was seen by a physician and diagnosed with a right eye abrasion.

While an employee was carrying waterhose up the platform the nozzle came off and struck the injured employee, who was below, on the hand.

EE was helping check the finishing plant out during start of shift. EE grabbed a 2 inch water hose and when they bent over they told the foreman they hurt their lower back and could not stand up straight. The foreman brought EE to break room and asked if they need medical assistant. EE stated that they did, and then was taken to the company doctor.

We had about 1 inch of snow on the ground. The maintenance crew drug a piece of metal across the snow, which packed the snow down tight. When employee crossed the path where the metal had been dragged EE slipped and landed on elbow.

Employee was reaching in job box on truck, his hard hat fell off and he hit his head on the job box lid

The injured employee was positioning an 8" hydraulic check valve onto the forks of a fork truck. The valve slipped on the forks and the employee attempted to catch it before it fell off of the forks. The Valve pinched his left pinky and ring finger between the fork and the valve injuring those fingers.

The injured employee was clearing rock out on the discharge end of a conveyor belt. He freed the obstruction and injured his left Pinkey Finger against a skirt board.

The injured miner was removing 6-10" limestone rock from a feed chute. He moved one rock and another fell and impacted his left middle finger, fracturing the tip bone.

Employee called the shift supervisor from the pit loader and said that he was not feeling well.

Employee was pulling on a water hose. It got caught on an I-beam. He pulled harder to get it to break free and it did not. The last pull hurt his right Shoulder

Employee was spraying off concrete pad under Jaw Crusher. He said he slipped and sprained his ankle. He said he didn't need to go to the doctor, he just went on home. On 12/01/13 he reported to work and worked for several hours, then said his ankle was still bothering him, so he went to doctor the next day.

EE was using a water hose to spray off a concrete pad. He bent over to place the water hose on the ground and as he stood up he felt a pain in his lower back.

Employee was using a water hose to wash a concrete pad. He stepped off the concrete pad (3" elevation change) and lost his balance. He fell to the ground and struck his hand on a sharp rock causing a small laceration which required stitches.

Employee was attempting to adjust a dozer's track roller by striking it with a sledge hammer when a piece of metal from the roller struck him in the lower torso. The injury required 3 stitches.

Employee complained of back pain after attempting to move wooden blocks.

EE told a supervisor he felt a pull in groin. The details didn't appear to be something that could be work related so the supervisor told him he could leave. The ee told the supervisor later that he had pulled something in his groin while moving a screen. Information obtained from the doctor indicates this could be a recordable inj due to conflicting MD information.

Miner was climbing the ladder to his truck and turned to look at another miner. As he turned, he felt a "pinch" in his back. The injury was first reported by the miner as a NON-WORK RELATED INJURY. On 10/12/10, the miner claimed the injury as work related to the Safety Director.

Employee was cutting a zip-tie from a hydraulic hose and lacerated his thumb. The laceration required 5 stitches.

A maintenance employee was working with two pieces of steel when his finger became wedged. The pressure caused his finger to fracture.

Employee was walking beside a handrail and felt a stinging sensation on his finger. He looked at the finger and noticed blood dripping from a finger. He had apparently hit a metal weld burr and cut his finger.

Inspecting a screen he twisted his knee.

An employee was using a box cutter knife to cut a piece of belt and the knife cut his arm.

The employee was attempting to turn a valve and felt a "pop" in his right knee. The injury was diagnosed as a sprain.

EE COMPLAINED OF LOWER BACK PAIN & WAS SENT TO MEDICAL CENTER WHERE HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A LOWER LUMBAR STRAIN. THE SEAT OF THE LOADER HAD BEEN ADJUSTED TO A POINT WHERE THE SPRING NO LONGER PROVIDED SUPPORT.

EMPLOYEE BEGAN TO FEEL BACK PAIN ABOUT SIX HOURS AFTER THE WORK SHIFT BEGAN. HE ADVISED THE SUPERVISOR OF THE BACK PAIN AND WAS INSTRUCTED TO SEE A PHYSICIAN IF NECESSARY. HE WAS DIAGNOSED WIT H LOWER LUMBAR STRAIN.

EE'S LEG CONTACTED CONCRETE. AN IRRITATION FOLLOWED. THE IRRITATION BECAME WORSE AND BLISTERS FORMED AT CONTACT AREA. 2ND DEGREE BURNS. EE REPORTED INJURY ON 9-25-02.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON A PIECE OF STEEL AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE. HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EE WAS CHANGING CRUSHERS BARS, EE STRUCK BAR HIT HAMMER AND A PIECE OF METAL BLEW OFF THE BAR AND STRUCK THE INJURED EE S HAND. EE RECEIVED TWO STITCHES.

A PIECE OF STEEL ROLLED OFF THE FORKLIFT FORKS AND STRUCK THE EE'S FOOT. THE EE WAS WEARING STEEL TOE BOOTS BUT THE WEIGHT OF THE STEEL PRESSED THE BOOT STEEL AGAINST HIS TOE.

EE WERE REMOVING ROCK FROM UNDERNEATH THE CRUSHER. ANOTHER EE DROPPED A ROCK ON THE INJURED EE'S HAND.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON A PATCH OF ICE. HE GRABBED BUG SHIELD TO AVOID FALLING AND STRAINED HIS SHOULDER, EMPLOYEE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT UNTIL 1-27-2000.

EE WAS EXITING THE LADDER FROM THE PHOENIX BELT PRESS WEARING RUBBER BOOTS CLIMBING DOWN A METAL RUNG LADDER WALKWAY, CLIMBING DOWN WHEN HISFOOT SLIPPED OFF THE RUNG OF THE LADDER AND LANDED O N THE FLOOR, WITH GREATER IMPACT THAN USUAL CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS ANKLE.

EE WAS REPLAVCING THE BELT ON THE PHOENIX CONVEYOR SYSTEM WHEN HE TWISTED HIS BACK.

EE SLIPPED AND FELL ON AN INCLINE AND SUFFERED A LUMBOSCAL STRAIN/CONTUSION TO HIS BOTTOCKS. NOTE: THE EE DID NOT REPORT THIS INJURY TO MANAGEMENT UNTIL 5/4/99. THIS IS A QUESTIONABLE CASE - O N RESTRICTED DUTY.

EE WAS WALKING ACROSS THE SHOP LOT AND STEPPED ON A SMALL ROCK AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE. THE EE WAS NOT WATCHING WHERE HE WAS WALKING AND DID NOT SEE THE ROCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING LUG BOLTS ON THE HAUL TRUCK WHEN HIS AIR HOSE BECAME ENTANGLED AND HE SUDDENLY FELL ON RIGHT ANKLE, FRACTURING A BON EJUST ABOVE HIS RIGHT ANKLE. THE GROUND HAD SNOW A ND ICE ON IT.

EE WAS INSTALLING A SCREEN WHEN HE PLACED HIMSELF IN AN AWKWARD POSITION AND TWISTRED HIS BACK. RESULTING IN A BACK STRAIN.

MOVED THE DRILL OFF THE BLASTING SITE & WHILE WAITING FOR THE SHOOT, THE DRILLER WAS GOING TO CHANGE THE DRILL BIT. HE HAD PARKED UNDER A HIGH VOLTAGE LINE. ALSO, THERE WAS A GAS LINE ABOUT 10 ' BELOW GROUND IN SAME AREA. DRILL RIG BOOM HIT THE HIGH VOLTAGE LINE, GROUNDED AND CAUSED A GAS EXPLOSION. DRILLER SUSTAINED INJURIES TO ALL 4 EXTREMITIES.

EE AND COWORKER WERE ATTEMPTING TO DRIVE A PIN BACK INTO THE BUCKET OF AN EXCAVATOR. EE WAS SWINGING THE 10# SLEDGEHAMMER DRIVING THE PIN BACK INTO THE BUCKET WHEN A SLIVER OF METAL BROKE OFF THE EDGE OF THE PIN STRIKING AND ENTERING EE'S LEFT LEG ABOVE THE KNEE.

AS EMPLOYEE (MECHANIC) AND EMPLOYEE WERE CHANGING THE STARTER ON THE DROP BALL EQUIP. #9926, EMPLOYEE REMOVED THE STARTER AND HANDED IT TO EMPLOYEE BELOW HIM ON THE TRACK. NOT ANTICIPATING THE WEIGHT, EMPLOYEE SAID HE HAD IT SO EMPLOYEE RELEASED IT DROPPING IT INTO EMPLOYEES HANDS AND CONTINUING TO THE TRACK INJURING EMPLOYEE'S HAND BETWEEN THE TRACK AND THE STARTER.

AFTER DOING A PRESHIFT INSPECTION, EE ATTEMPTED TO CLIMB THE LADDER TOHIS CAB ON THE R-50 WHILE DOING SO, EE WAS TRYING TO CARRY HIS LUNCH BOX UP IN ONE HAND. LOSING HIS GRIP AND FALLING TO T HE GROUND, FROM APPROX 5' LANDING ON HIS LEFT WRIST. ALL TRUCKS ARE EQUIPPED WITH A ROPE FOR PULLING ALL ITEMS UP TO KEEP HANDS FREE FOR MOUNTING EQUIPMENT. EE DID NOT USE THE ROPE AT THIS

AFTER FILLING WATER TRUCK #8710 WITH WATER, EE ATTEMPTED TO CLIMB UP THE LADDER INTO THE WATER TRUCK, HAVING WET FEET. EE SLIPPED FFROM THE FIRST STEP OF THE TRUCK FALLING TO THE GROUND AND LA NDING ON HIS LEFT FOOT TWISTING HIS ANKLE.

AFTER PULLING THE LOADER WA 500 TO THE REAR OF THE SHOP EMPLOYEE ADDED HYD. OIL TO THE MACHINE. AFTER COMPLETEING HIS PRE-SHIFT INSPECTION THE EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO CLIMB THE LADDER ON HIS LOA DER, LOSING HIS FOOTING AT THE 2ND STEP & FALLING TO THE GROUND ON HIS LEFT ELBOW. AS WITNESSED BY ANOTHER EMPLOYEE. FROST WAS ON THE EQUIPMENT. A SAFETY MEETING WAS DISCUSSED ON THIS TOPIC.

EE WAS RETURNING TO THE WATER PUMP TO REFILL THE WATER TRUCK. UPON BACKING UP TO THE PIPE, EE STOPPED HIS TRUCK, SET THE PARK BRAKE, AND BEGAN TO EXIT HIS VEHICLE. CLIMBING DOWN THE LADDER HE STEPPED TO THE GROUND AND DID NOT HAVE SOLID FOOTING WHICH HIM TO TWIST HIS LEFT ANKLE.

EE WAS HELPING OTU IN THE SHOP, EE THE MECHANIC, AND EE WERE UNLOADING AIR AND OIL FILTERS FROM THE BACK OF A PICK-UP TRUCK WHEN EE PICKED UP A FILTER AND TURNED TO SET IT DOWN RESULTING IN A SPRAINED BACK.

WHILE ATTEMPTING DAILY CLEAN UP EE WAS WASHING UNDER 1A BELT, DIRECTLY UNDER 2 JAW. SPECULATION. WHILE A TRUCK WAS DUMPING HIS LOAD INTO 1 JAW FEEDER BOX A ROCK MADE ITS WAY OUT OF THE FEED BO X. OVER THE CATWALK AND DOWN TO EE LOCATION, BELOW 2 JAW, STRIKING EE AT THE BASE OF HIS HARD HAT, THEN STRIKING HIS HEAD CAUSING A LACERATION ON HIS SCALP.

WHLE RUNNING THE WASH PLANT EE ATTEMPTED TO DISLODGE MATERIAL FROM TEHH REFEED BIN. EE CLIMBED ONTO TE TOP RAIL OF THE CONVEYOR FRAM.E WHIHLEUSING AN UNAUTHORIZED TOOL TO DISLODGE THEMATERIA L, EE'S HAND BECAME TRAPPED BETWEEN THE TIP SWITCH FOR THE VIBRATOR ON THE BIN AND THE BELT RESULTING IN PINCHING EE'S HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS WASHING DOWN THE CRUSHERS AND PLANT (PLANT WAS DOWN: RAIN) ALONG WITH OTHER EMPLOYEES. AFTER WASHING THE TOP OF THE PLATFORM EMPLOYEE LAID HIS HOSE DOWN AND PROCEEDED TO THE BOTTO M OF THE PLATFORM WHERE HE PULLED THE HOSE DOWN. AS THE HOSE FELL TO THE GROUND IT STRUCK EMPLOYEE'S LEFT HAND BRUISING HIS HAND AND TENDONS.

INJURED WAS DRIVIGN HAUL UNIT 8706 UPTO THE JAW FROMT HE IT WAS INJURED DRIVING UNIT 8735 RETURNING FORM THE JAW GETTING READY TO REMOVE A ROCK FROMT HE HAUL ROAD. HE EXITED HIS EQUIPMENT, WA LKED OVER TO EMPLOYEE AND SQUATTED TO HELP HIM. ATT HIS TIME BEFORE EXERTING ANY FORCE INJURED TOLD EMPLOYEE THAT HE PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS BACK.

EE WAS OPERATING THE PIT LOADER LOADING PIT TRUCKS, WHEN A PIECE OF DUST BROKE FREE FROM THE AIR CONDITIONING VENT ABOVE HIS HEAD AND BLEW INTO HIS EYE. EE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES AT THE TI ME OF THE ACCIDENT.

EE WAS LOADING A TRUCK IN AN AREA WHERE ANOTHER TRUCK HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN LOADED; A SMALL PILE WAS LEFT FROM THE PREVIOUS TRUCK, THE LOADER BACKED UP OVER THE PIPLE CAUSING HIM TO JERK HIS NEC K UNEXPECTEDLY CAUSING A NECK STRAIN.

INJURED AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE INSTALLING SOUND PROOFING MATERIAL IN DROP BALL LOCATED INT EHPIT. HENEEDED SOME MATERIAL WHICH WAS LOCATED ONT EH GROUND. WHEN DISMOUNTING THE EUQIPMENT HE STEPPED OUT OF TE QUIPMENT ONTOT HE TRACK AND HOPPED TO THE GROUND TWISTING HIS ANKLE. A STEP LADDER WAS ALSO AVAILABLE AT THE DROP BALL.

EE WAS GRINDING A PIECE OF METAL OVERHEAD, WHEN A SLIVER OF STEEL CAME FROM THE METAL & EMBEDDEDIN HIS RIGHT EYE. EE WAS WEARING EYE PROTECTION AT THE TIME OF ACCIDENT.

A CRANE OILER FOR A CONTRACTOR WHO WORKED ABOUT THREE HOURS THIS DAY, WAS PREPARING TO LEAVE THE MINE SITE. HE WAS ON A FLAT BED TRAILER BOOMING DOWN A CRANE BLOCK WHEN HE FELL OFF TEH SIDE OF THE TRAILER. HE FELL ABOUT FIVE FEET INJURING HIS BACK AND HIP.

EMPLOYEE WAS WATCHING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE REMOVE AN OIL DRAIN PLUG OUT OF A SCREEN BEARING. THE WRENCH BROKE, CAUSING A PIECE OF METAL TO CUT THE EMPLOYEE'S NECK. THIS INJURY WAS TO THE EMPLOYEE THAT WAS WATCHING, REQUIRED STITCHES.

A LOADER HAD BEEN WORKING WITH THE DROPBALL CRANE LOADER WENT TO LOALD A HAUL TRUCK WHILE THE LOADER WAS GONE THE DROPBALL CRANE OPERATOR MOVED THE CRANE THERE WAS A ROCK IN THE PATH OF THE CR ANE THE CRANE OPERATOR TRIED TO MOVE A 198 LB ROCK OUT OF THE CDRANES PATH BY HAND INSTEAD OF WAITING ON THE LOADER THIS CAUSED A LUMBER SPRAIN TO THE CRANE OPERATORS LOWER BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A LARGE ROCK FROM HAUL ROAD ROCK WAS TOO LARGE FOR ONE MAN EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A HERNIA BECAUSE OF THE LIFTING OF THE ROCK

TRI-AXLE DRIVER WAS LOADED WITH APPROX. 20 TONS OF DIRT LOADED WITH A HITACHI TRACKHOE. THE DRIVER THEN PROCEEDED ALONG THE HAUL ROAD TO A 90 DEGREE LEFT TURNAT EXCESSIVE SPEED. THE TRUCK TURN ED OVER ON THE RIGHT SIDE AS THE DRIVER NEGOTIATED THE LEFT TURN. DRIVER WAS NOT WEARING A SEAT BELT AT THE TIME OF ACCDIENT. HE WAS THROWN AGAINST CENTER POST OF WINDSHIELD.

EMPL WAS SPOTTING TRUCK SO TRACKHOE COULD LOAD THEM. LOADED TRUCK PULLED AWAY WITH TAILGATE OPEN. EMPL RAN UP TO STOP TRUCK WHILE TRACKHOE LOADED ANOTHER TRUCK. TRACKHOE SWUNG AROUND & OPERATO R STOPPED WHEN HE SEEN TRUCK SPOTTER. BALL OF DIRT ROLLED OFF BUCKET STRIKING SPOTTER ON LEG BRUISING LEG & KNEE.

MOUNTING HAMMER HYDRAULIC TO BACK HOE BASE HAMMER SET IN SIX INCH OPERING OF FEEDER WITH TRUCK CRANE TRUCK CRANE DISCONNECTED MOUNTING BASE FORM HAMMER MOVED IN POSITION BELT HOLESS ON HAMMER WOULDNT MATCH UP TO BASE HAMMER TURNED SLIP PINNING F FT BREAKING BIG TOE

EMPL WAS TURNING ROTOR ON STEDMAN IMPACT CRUSHER BY HAND AT END OF SHIFT FOR DAILY INSPECTION EMPL GOT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN BLOW BARS & SIDE LINER BREAKING RING FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.

CUTTING BOLTS OUT OF HEAD PULLEY SCRAPER WITH TORCH WHEN THE WIND BLEW SPARKS BACK INTO HIS FACE AND ONE WENT INTO HIS EYE CASUING IT TO BE BURNED WEARING HIS SAFETY GLASSES AT TIME.

EMPL WAS STANDING ON STEPS BETWEEN BOOM ARMS OF LOADER SERVICING MACHINE WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL BETWEEN LOADER BUCKET AND FRONT AXLE INJURING HIS R SHOULDER

EMPL OYEE WAS STANDING 25 FEET FROM AN ELECTRICAL 480 VOLT SERVICE,WHEN THE 480 VOLT DISCONNECT GROUNDED OUT CAUSING A BASLL OF FLAME AND SPARKS,THE EMPLOYEE TURNED TO RUN AND FELL TO THE GROUND SPRAINING HIS LEFT WRIST.THERE WAS HEAVY RAIN AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CHANGE SCREEN PANELS ON SHAKER SCREEN WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE & FELL FROM DRIVE GUARD OF SCREEN TO CATWALK WHICH IS ABOUT 4FT.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING AN ELECTRIC RT.ANGLE HAND HELD SURFACE GRINDER TO GRIND AWAY A BOLT THAT HELD A HOOD SHOCK ABSORBER ON AN INTERNATIONAL DUMP TRUCK SINGLE AXLE GRINDING WHEEL ON GRINDER WEDG ED BETWEEN BOLT & STEEL PLATE BELOW BOLT CAUSING GRINDER TO KICK BACK TOWARD EMPLOYEES FACE EMPLOYEES KNUCKLES & HANDLE OF GRINDER HIT HIM ON LEFT CHEEK BONE CHEEK BONE WAS CRACKED & LEFT HAN

THE EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED A BACK INJURY WHILE MANUALLY LIFTING A SIXTY LB TRUCK IDLER ROLLER FOR A D-8 CATERPILLAR BULLDOZER FROM GROUND LEVEL TO PLACE IT IN THE BACK OF A PICK UP TRUCK DAMAGE WA S DESCRIBED AS A L-5 DISC PROTUSION WITH PAIN IN LEFT LEG.

THE MAN WAS SETTING UP THE CRANE TO MOVE FUEL TANK, GETTING PADS OUT TO PUT UNDER THE STABILIERS WITH ASSSISTANCE OF ANOTHER MAN WHEN HE STRAINED MUSCLES IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

DRIVE SHAFT DRO1PED OUT OF HAUL UNIT CAUSING OIL TO SPRAY ON EXHAUST SYSTEM, WHICH IN TURN CAUSED A FLASH FIRE. EMPLOYEE PANICED AND JUMPED FROM HAUL UNIT.

EMPLOYEE WAS WA3TING INSIDE OF HAUL UNIT TO BE LOADED.A BIG ROCK WAS DUMPED INTO THE BED OF THE HAUL UNIT,CAUSING IT TO BE THROEN TO ONE SIDE AND AT THE SAME TIME CAUSING THE DRIVER TO BE THRO WN AGAINST THE 9OOF OF THE CAB RESULTING IN A BACK INJURY.

EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING A GRAVITY TAKE UP PULLEY WITH A LONG HANDL SCRAPER. THE SCRAPPER BECAME CAUGHT IN THE PULLEY AND PULLED THE EMPLOYEES HANDINTO THE AREA BETWEEN THE BELT AND PULLEY.

ROCK FELL FROM 7ONVEYOR STRICKING EMPLOYEE ON LEFT HAND.