LAKE PLACID BLUE/GREEN QUARRY: 86 citaciones de la MSHA Metal/Non-Metal

Employee was trying to lift and move a large piece of granite, approximately 110 lbs., without the use of lifting equipment. EE felt a pain in right side of back, burning knot. Sought medical treatment, taken off work. Lost time injury.

Employee alleges injury is left shoulder, said doesn't know what happened, woke up one morning & it hurt. Completed First Report of Accident 11-4-2014, he stated was working at New York quarry, standing drill steel up, steel slipped, grabbing with left arm pulled muscle. Also added he'd been treated at chiropractor two times in October.

Employee was lifting a 5 gallon pail of oil up and over the tailgate into back of truck. He strained his right shoulder. Didn't see the doctor right away, thought it would get better. Strain continued to bother him so he went to clinic.

Employee is the Corporate Quarry Manager - he was walking around the quarry, measuring and planning for 2010, a tree branch flew back and hit him under his glasses, scratching his left eye. Left eye corneal abrasion - required a prescription. No lost time from work.

Employee was pulling up sump pump out of saw pit, strained his lower back. Didn't think it was much at first but was in a lot of pain the next morning so went to doctor and received a prescription.

Employee was separating slabs, steel bar slipped and stone fell back onto bar which in turn jerked and pulled employee against direction he was pulling. This caused strain to right arm/shoulder and to right mid back directly below shoulder blade.

Employee lifted buster onto wedge and his back went out.

Employee was getting off of tractor, his pant leg got caught on brake and he fell, hitting ground, hurting left shoulder. Employee continued working. He had left shoulder surgery on 9-26-06, therefore starting losing time from work.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOOKING AT WATER SOURCE AT NEW YORK QUARRY, WALKING IN THE WOODS, GOT SOMETHING IN HIS RIGHT EYE. HE SAW A DOCTOR THE NEXT DAY AND WAS PRESCRIBED SOME EYE DROPS AND ALSO PAIN RELEIVER.

EMPLOYEE WAS MAKING A DOOR FOR 10 WIRE SAW, PIECE OF SAW DUST FLEW INTO RIGHT EYE. COLD SPRING GRANITE DID NOT KNOW OF INJURY UNTIL 5-2-02 WHEN WE RECEIVED FIRST REPORT.

EE WAS CHANGING OXYGEN TANKS AND STEPPED IN HOLE, SPRAINING HIS LEFT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING BOARDS ON BOARD SAW. HIS HAND SLIPPED AND HE RAN HIS LEFT THUMB INTO SAW, CUTTING TIP AND REQUIRING SUTURES.

EE WAS RUNNING A GRINDER TO POLISH EDGE OF GRANITE, THE GRINDER SLIPPED, CUTTING HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER KNUCKLE. HE NEEDED 3 STITCHES.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING OUT STRUCK DRILL STEEL WHEN IT CAME LOOSE IT HIT HIM IN THE MOUTH CHIPPING HIS TOOTH.

EE WAS REPLACING A CHAIN LINK IN THE LIFT RIG AND WAS TRYING TO ADVANCE THE CHAIN WHEN HE MOVED THE CONTROL LEVER THE WRONG WAY RESULTING IN HIS HAND GETTING RUN OVER, FRACTURING HIS LEFT THUM B.

EMPLOYEE WAS SPLITTING STONE IN THE QUARRY, THE GROUT TIPPED OVR AND EMPLOYEE FELL ON TOP OF IT, BRUISING HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND RIGHT HIP. MINOR MEDICAL ATTENTION WAS SOUGHT. COLD SPRING GR ANITE WAS NOTIFIED OF THIS BEING LOST TIME ON 5-22-97. DURING OUR INTERNAL AUDIT, WE FOUND THAT REPORTING OF THIS INJURY WAS INADVERTENTLY OVERLOOKED.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A 4' PIPE WRENCH TO DISMANTLE AN AIR LINE. THE PIPE WRENCH SLIPPED AND THE EMPLOYEE FELL TO THE GROUND AND BROKE HIS LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING GRANITE. HE WAS PUTTING STEEL IN THE HAMMER, HAMMER WAS TURNING AND CAUGHT HIS GLOVE, TWISTING HIS FINGER.

EE WAS LIFTING TWO 6"X6" TIMBERS,HE SLIPPED ON ICE AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS TRYING TO RECOVER A STUCK HORIZONTAL STEEL FROM HIS DRILL. HE WAS USING A BIT KNOCKER TO ROTATE THE STUCK STEEL. THE BIT KNOCKER SLIPPED OFF THE STEEL AND STRUCK OPERATOR IN THE MOUTH, CHIPPING HIS T00TH.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING HAND DRILL, PULLED MUSCLE UPPER RIGHT SHOULDER BLADE.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING AIRLINES. HE HAD A 4" AIRLINE FALL AND BRUISE HIS LEG. EMPLOYEE DID NOT GO TO DOCTOR UNTIL 4-24-95 BECAUSE IT DIDN'T BOTHER HIM A LOT RIGHT AWAY. IT JUST GRADUALLY GOT WORSE.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING TEN WIRE SAW WIHT 9" SLABS. TWO EMPLOYEES WERE POSITIONING THE TO SLAB OF A STACK OF 6 SLABS HIGH, EMPLOYEE GOT THE TIP OF HIS LEFT RING FINGER PINCHED BETWEEN 2 SLABS. THE SLAB WAS BEING LOWEED INTO PLACE WITH AN OVERHEAD CRANE AND A 3 CUP SUCTION PAD.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVIGN HAND DRILL AND OTHER SUPPLIES. AS HE WAS CARRYING SUPPLIES, HE FELT A TWINGE IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A BUSTER; WHEN HE SET IT DOWN IT TWISTED, CAUSING A SHARP PAIN TO HIS LEFT HAND.

EE RETURNED A CAN OF BRAKE FLUID AND SLIPPED ON STEP FELL ON 3X3 AND FELL ON CEMENT. RIGHT KNEE WAS TWISTED AND BRUISED.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING A BROKEN PIN ON NOVABIT BLOCK TRIMMER. WHILE CUTTING WITH A GAS TORCH, SOME OF THE LIQUID STEEL BLEW BACK AND A FEW PIECES LANDED INSIDE HIS SHOES, CAUSING BURNS.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING HAMMER AND STEEL OUT OF HOLE; PULLED MUSCLES IN UPPER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN THE BLOCK YARD SPLITTING STONES. HE HAD JUST WEDGED A DRILL LINE ON A BLOCK. HE GOT OFF THE BLOCK AND WAS ON THE GROUND NEXT TO THE BLOCK PICKING UP A WEDGE WHEN THE RO UGH BACK FELL ON HIM CRUSHING BOTH OF HIS LEGS.

54730MOUNTING AND SECURING A WALKWAY IN THE QUARRY WHEN EMPL SLIPPED AND FELL. INJURED CHEST AND RIBS.

54736YEE WAS TAKING OFF BRAKE DRUMS FROM BACK HOE WHEN HIS EYE STARTED TO BOTHER HIM.

54736YEE WAS OPERATING GANTRY SAW. WHEN HE WAS LIFTING AN EMERY BAG HE DEVELOPED BACK PAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING A DRILL BIT ON A DRILL STEEL AND GOT HIS FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BOTTOM OF THE DRILL BIT AND LOAF OF GRANITE. THE STEEL CAME DOWN AND CUT THE END OF LEFT INDEX FINGER O FF.

EMPLOYEE WAS BRAKING STONE AND IT OPENED UP AND HE FELL ABOUT 8 FEET.

EMPLOYEE WAS BREAKING BLOCK, IN QUARRY, IT OPENED UP AND HE FELL.

EMPLOYEE WAS A PASSENGER IN A PICKUP TRUCK THAT WAS EXITING THE PROPERTY WHILE DRIVING THRU A DIP IN MINE ROAD SNOW PLOW FRAME CAUGHT A STONE FROZEN IN TOP SOIL SUDDEN STOP OF THE VEHICLE CAUS ED EMPLOYEE TO HIT THE WINDSHIELD CAUSING A NECKSTRAIN

EMPL COMING OUT OF DERRICK SHACK AND SLIPPED AND TWISTED LEFT KNEE.

BREAKING STONE WITH WEDGES STRAINED MIDDLE BAC K WHILE LIFTING BUSTER IN PLACE

EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING A PIECE OF GRANITE WHEN A FOREIGN BODY ENTERED HIS RIGHT EYE.

EE WAS OPENING A SEAM IN A BLOCK WITH WEDGES, WHEN ANOTHER SEAM BEHIND THE ONE HE WAS OPENING OPENED UP UNDER HIS FEET CAUSING THE BLOCK TO SHIFT AND THROWING TIME TO THE GROUND CUTTING HIS LE FT ARM, SHOULDER AND HEAD ON THE TOP OF THE BLOCK.

EMPLOYEE WENT TO SHUT OFF THE AIR ON THE AIR HAMMER AFTER DRILLING A STONE WHEN HE TURNED ON ANOTHER AIR HOSE WHICH FLEW UP AND HIT HIM ACROSS THE NOSE AND ABOVE THE RIGHT EYE.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THAT WHILE STANDING BY THE LEDGE, WATCHING TWO FELLOW EMPLOYEES, A ROCK UNDER HIS FEET COLLAPSED CAUSING HIM TO FALL ABOUT 6 TO 7 FEET UNTO HIS BACK AND SIDE OF FACE. AFTER INV ESTIGATION BY QUARRY SUPERVISOR, THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF A FALL AT THE ALLEGED ACCIDENT SCENE.

EMPLOYEE WENT TO CHECK A HOLE CONTAINING BRISTAR AND IT BLEW OUT INTO HIS FACE CAUSING CHEMICAL BURNS TO FACE AND EYES.

A DRILL STEEL GOT STUCK SO EMPLOYEE PUT A BIT CHANGER ON IT AND TRIED TO GET IT LOOSE. HE LEFT THE ROTATION ON AND WHEN THE DRILL STEEL CAME LOOSE THE BIT CHANGER SWUNG AND HIT THE EMPLOYEE RI GHT KNEE.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING STEEL OUT OF A HOLE HE PINCHED HIS RIGHT HAND MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN THE STEEL AND THE SLIDE OF THE TRACK DRILL CAUSING A CRUSH INJURY TO THE FINGER.

PULLING DRILL STEEL OUT OF STONE,EMPL HURT LOWER BACK.

WAS PRYING PIECE OF GROUT STONE TO FREE CHAIN UNHOOKED CHAIN GROUT ROLLED PUTTING FULL WEIGHT ON BAR PULLED BACK MUSCLES BOTH SIDES OF BACK BONE

WAS TAKING PIN OUT OF KEY LEWIS SLIPPED ON STONE FELL DOWN BENDING RIGHT WRIST BACK.

WAS BOOMING DERRICK DOWN TO GROUND LEVEL CABLE WAS OFF SHEAVE CUT CABLE ALLOWING BOOM TO DROP PULLED LEWIS OUT JUST PRIOR TO ACCIDENT WHEN MAN CHECKED CABLES APPARENTLY MISSED THE ONE OFF SHEA VE

MAN STEPPED DOWN FROM ONE STONE TO ANOTHER, FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING MAN TO FALL ON KNEE - CUT KNEE AND FRACTUARED BONE.

MAN WALKED AROUND BEHIND FORKLIFT AND WAS LEANDING ON 2 SPOOLS WIRE SAW WIRE WHEN DRIVER TURNED STEERING WHEEL TO GO AHEAD CAUGHT MANS KNEE BETWEEN TIRE AND WIRE SAW SPOOL

WAS LOADING GROUT PIECES ON TRUCK. STEPPED DOWN AROUND STONE ON LOAF TO HOOK UP HOOKS TO TURN STONE. WAS HANGING ON TO THIN EDGE OF STONE, STONE EDGE BROKE OFF CAUSING MAN TO SLIP ON ICEAND SL IDE OVER EDGE OF TRENCH TO BOTTOM OF HOLE.