Lisbon Pit: 118 citaciones de la MSHA Metal/Non-Metal

Miner was laying down changing a plate on the bottom of the screens on our plant. It is a very awkward position to change them and EE twisted wrong, causing pain in EE's back.

Miner slipped walking in mud and hit head on a concrete block.

Miner was using big bar on conveyor belt of rock crusher machine, rock wedged on machine, worker went to remove wedged rock, right hand slipped, smashing finger against a rock.

EE was having neck pain due to a massive boulder being loaded into EE's AT2 from another loader. The loading of this boulder caused the AT2 to jerk, causing whip lash to EE resulting in major neck pain.

The employee was pulling a piece of removable catwalk out of an HSI and EE pivoted the wrong way and twisted right knee. The knee is swollen.

EE was moving lines under a 100-ton conveyor. The Allen key EE was using to hold the bolts, wrapped around EE's glove and twisted EE's pinky finger resulting in a sprain to the finger.

The employee was replacing the angle iron brace on a metal door. The employee was in a man lift and the door swung down and hit them on the head and the top of the bar on the man lift.

Climbing into a slurry tank and lost footing causing the employee to fall 5 to 6 feet landing on elbow

Climbed over feeder onto the metal lip between feeder and box and foot got stuck

While repairing a fender in the shop, EE missed the fender while breaking it loose with the sledgehammer which caused EE's hand to strike the fender. This caused an injury to EE's left pinky nail.

EE states EE was assisting to clear a flocculent line when EE noticed that the hose line was starting to move as if it was about to fail. EE states EE abruptly turned to run and shut off the air feeding the line, when EE heard the line pop EE turned back to see the extent of the failure. EE believes when EE abruptly turned one way then back the other EE damaged EE's knee.

EE was welding in the HSI crusher. After welding for approximately 4 hours, EE states that a rock "the size of a softball" became dislodged from the crusher above EE and struck EE on head.

While building a temporary staircase at the Lisbon Scale House, EE stepped off the stairs onto unstable gravel. EE caught the edge of the stairwell with EE's left hand for balance, but then slipped another 2', causing EE to strain EE's left shoulder. EE immediately had pain when attempting to rotate EE's shoulder in any direction.

Miner was maneuvering wooden blocks away from a dozer receiving service, using a hand truck. EE's angle for moving the wooden blocks required EE to duck under some equipment and as EE did so, EE felt pain in EE's lower back.

Two Miners and one supervisor were installing 24" x 25' plastic pipes. Normally equipment is used to place pipes, but this was impossible due to the location of this specific section of pipe. Miners were physically moving the pipe into place by hand. Miner felt lower-right back and leg pain while lifting and pushing pipe into place.

Moving a board over his head, sliding it, then a big couple of popping noises came out of his arm and then it felt like something tore in his forearm.

Cutting a piece of metal with a cutting torch the piece fell and EE swung his arm down watching the piece fall and torch burned his shin.

EE was standing on the deck of a loader and was cleaning off the snow from the hood. His right foot slipped out from underneath him and he left shoulder fell against the hood of the loader.

EE was splicing a cord (straight line down & away from himself with a circle cut around cord at the end) and he grabbed the cord to pull it off. He was pulling the cord off & towards himself the knife in hand. His hand slipped off cord, & the knife cut his thumb & 1/3 of his tendon. EE got a few stitches on the tendon about 9 on the outside.

Pushing in a catwalk on a Hitachi backhoe and tore the muscles in his shoulder.

WAS ON A LADDER AND LADDER SLIPPED AND FOOT WAS PLANTED. HE WENT TO TURN AND TWISTED KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING WET SAND IN OUR SUSSEX PIT AND WENT TO TURN SIDEWAYS AND THEN FELT SOMETHING PULL IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS TORCHING RETURN WELDERS ON A CONVEYER. WENT TO MOVE AND SWIPED THE FLAME OF THE TORCH ACROSS THE BACK OF HIS RIGHT HAND AND THUMB.

EE WAS WORKING W/COWORKER TO REPAIR THE CON CRUSHER. EE WAS HOLDING A METAL BAR SLAB WHILE COWORKER POUNDED ON IT WITH THE SLEDGEHAMMER. COWORKER MISSED THE BAR AND HIT EE'S LEFT ARM. EE DID N OT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION AT THIS TIME. EE WENT TO SEE THE DR. ON 8-31-98 AFTER FEELING MORE PAIN & BRUISING OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS.

EE WAS CHECKING THE RADIATOR ON THE KOMATSU LAODER. EE CLIMBED UP THE BACK OF THE LAODER AND STOOD ON THE LEDGE. EE SLIPPED OFF THE BACK LEDGE OF THE LOADER AND FELL TO THE GROUND. EE INJUR ED HIS LOWER BACK. EE WAS TAKEN TO MEDICAL ASSO AND DIAGNOSED WITH LOWER BACK STRAIN.

EE WAS USING A POWERSAW TO CUT ONE 2 X 4 PIECE OF WOOD TO USE FOR ATTACHING HIS TARP TO HIS DUMP TRUCK. EE WAS NOT WEARING HIS SAFETY GLASSES WHEN CUTTING THIS ONE PIECE OF WOOD. AS A RESULT H E NOTICED AFTERWARDS THAT HE MUST HAVE HAD SOMETHING IN HIS RT EYE AND WENT TO SEE A DR. THE DR CONCLUDED AFTER AN EXAM THAT HE HAD A CORNEAL ABRASION ON HIS RT EYE, PROBABLY FROM SAWDUST.

WHILE IN OPERATION IN USING LOADER, BACK PAIN HAS OCCURRED. REPORTED SYMTPOMS OF COLD. FLUE HAS RESULTED IN HE WEAR OF HEAVY OEPRATION USE. A POSSIBLE SPRAIN TO THE BACK IS BEING TREATED AT A CHIRO CLINIC.

SLIPPED WHILE GETTING OFF LOADER. CAUSED LEG CONTUSION. CALL IF PROBLEMS.

EE WAS SHOVELING OFF CONVEYOR BELT THERE IS A WOODEN EDGE WHILE SHOVELING HE GOT A SLIVER OF WOOD IN THE LEFT ARM THE SLIVER HAD TO BE REMOVED WITH A SCAPER AND ONE SUTURE.

67591TOR SLIPPED ON LOADER AND FELL INTO LOADER.

WORKING PUTTING BELT ON CONV CAUGHT FINGER IN PULLEY

EMPL WAS LATE FOR WORK. EMPL WAS REPARING & CLAIMS WHILE LIFTING STEEL HE STRAINED BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING ENDLOADER WHEN THE DRIVE SHAFT FELL ON HIS HAND INJURING HIS FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING UP THE CONVEYOR TO HELP REMOVE WIRES FROM THE ABANDONED CONVEYOR.WHILE ON THE CATWALK THE BOARD SHIFTED CAUSING LEG TO FALL BETWEEN BOARDS TWISTING HIS ANKLE CUAING A SPR AIN.