martin marietta - blue ridge quarry Metal/Non-Metal

The miner was walking down a 5 foot staircase from the MCC to the ground, when his foot caught the top stair slightly causing him to lose his balance and fall to the bottom of the staircase. The only injury acquired was a 1 inch cut to his upper lip from contact with the ground.

Employee was cutting holes in a steel plate under the D8 Dozer, when a gust of wind blew a piece of molten slag into his ear, burning his ear.

Employee was descending the ladder from his haul truck when he stepped onto the ground he stepped on a rock about the size of a salt shaker. The rock rolled causing the employee to twist his ankle and fall. As he fell he tried to catch himself with his left hand, causing a sprained wrist and elbow contusion.

Employee was replacing the lid onto the impact crusher, as he turned the lid into place it pinched his finger causing a laceration.

THE INJURY OCCURRED TO A CONTRACTOR EE WHO HAD BEEN HOLDING A STEEL PIN STUB WHILE ANOTHER EE DROVE THE STUB INTO THE GROUND WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER. THE STUB HOLDER THOUGHT THE STUB WAS IN THE GROUND WELL ENOUGH. THE SLEDGE HAMMER USER DID NOT, THE HOLDER PUT HIS HAND ON TOP OF STUB AND OTHER EE WAS SWINGING HITTING THE HAND OF THE HOLDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING OUT TRUCKS WHEN THE SECURITY ALARM WENT OFF. HE CAME DOWN THE STEPS GOING TO SHUT OFF AND SPRAINED HIS ANKLE.

WAS BENDING A PIECE OF METAL 8"X2"X1/8" WHEN THE METAL CAUGHT THE RIGHT INDEX FINGER BEHIND THE NAIL AND PINCHED THE TIP OF THE FINGER OFF.

WAS PUTTING SCREEN CLOTHE IN SCREEN WHEN THE CLOTHE CAUGHT ON SOMETHING CAUSING SCREEN TO COME BACK AND MASH FINGER.

EES WERE SPREADING STONE WHEN SOME OF THE STONE BECAME STUCK IN THE TAILGATE. WHEN THE JAMMED ROCKS WERE DISLODGE, TAILGATE RELEASED AND EE'S FINGER GOT CAUGHT.

EE WAS CHANGING OUT A CARBON DIOXIDE TANK AT 1:30 PM. AT ABOUT 5 PM, HE FELT HIS BACK TIGHTENING UP.

EE WAS PUSHING ON A GATE WITH 2 OTHER EES. ABOUT 15 MINUTES LATER, HE WAS SWEEPING THE FLOOR AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EE WAS PICKING UP A 5 POUND PIECE OF METAL IN THE SHOP WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE WENT TO DOCTOR AND THEY SAID IT WAS MUSCLE SPASMS AND PUT HIM ON 3 DAYS OF LIGHT DUTY IN WHICH HE COULD NOT LIFT ANY MORE THAN 20 LBS.

EE WAS TURNING INTO ENTRANCE OF COMPANY OFF RT. 460 EAST--WAS HIT IN REAR OF PICKUP BY TRACTOR-TRAILER, CUT ONB ACK OF HEAD WITH 12 SUTURES--TRANSPORTED TO HOSPITAL BY RESCUE SQUAD.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS PUTTING WATER ON LIME BINAND STEPPED OFF BELT LINE, TURNED LEFT ANKLE, STRAINED LEFT ANKLE.

EE WAS CHECKING ENGINE OIL LEADK ON LOADER, CAUGHT 2 MIDDLE FINGERS ON LEFT HAND IN FAN BLADE.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS WALKIGN DOWN CAT WALK AT PLANT AND FELT KNEE TIWST, AND NUMBNESS IN FOOT WITH CONSTANT PAIN IN BACK OF LEG.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS WORKING ON CABLE ON 988-B WHEEL LOADER AND GOT OFF OF LOADER, PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK ON THE LEFT SIDE.

EE STEPPED ON A ROCK AS HE WAS GETTING OUT OF A TRUCK AND TWISTED ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO WASH SCREEN OUT AT MAIN PLANT AND THE HOSE BURST, THROWING WATER ON FOREHEAD AND EYES WITH FORCE.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO BREAK LOOSE STEEL WHICH WAS STUCK. THE JAWS WHICH HELD STEEL KEPT SLIPPING. HE THEN STOPPED ROTATION & TRYED TO APPLY PIPE WRENCH, WHICH KEPT FALLING, OFF WHEN ROTATION W AS STARTED. HE THEN STARTED ROTATION GOT OUT OF DRILL TO APPLY PIPE WRENCH. WHEN PIPE WRENCH GRABBE DIT PINNED LEFT INDEX FINGER AGAINST BRACKET.

MAN, NOT AN EE, HAD PURCHASED 2 DESKS WITH GLASS TOP, FROM BLUE RIDGE STONE CORP. ONE OF THE GLASSES HAD A CRAK IN IT, AND MAN DID NOT WANT IT. SO HE WAS PUTTING IT INTO THE DUMPSTER BEHIND TH E OFFICE AND IT BOUNCED BACK LACERATING HIS LEFTARM.

EE WAS STRAIGHTENING OUT A BELT HANGER BY HITTING IT WITH A HAMMER. THE HAMMER HEAD CAME OFF OF HAMMER AND HIT THUMB ON RIGHT HAND.

T WO VEHICLE COLLIDED HEAD ON ON COMPANY HAULROAD EE HEAD STRUCK T HE WINDSHIELD HE REQUIRED SEVERAL STITCHES IN HIS FOREHEAD

AS PAUL WAS EXITING THE DM30 OPERATOR'S CAB, THE RIGHT PORTION OF THE STEP BROKE AWAY FROM THE DRILL FRAME WHERE IT WAS ATTACHED. THIS BREAK ALLOWED THE STEPS TO SWING AROUND CAUSING PAUL TO LOSE HIS FOOTING. HE HELD ON TO THE LEFT SAFETYRAIL AND PULLED HIS LEFT SHOULDER SOCKET AND MUSCLE AS HE TRIED TO PREVENT THE FALL.

HEALTH SCREEN-X-RAY PERFORMED 6/93 B READER INDICATED SMALL OPACITIES RATING LESS THAN 1/10'. PHYSICIAN HAS INDICATED POSSIBLE SILICOSIS; HOWEVER NO OTHER X-RAUYS CONFIRM A RATING OF 1/10 OR G REATER; EMPLOYEE HAS CHOSEN TO FILE WORKERS COMP FIRST REPORT. THIS REPORT IS NOT AN ADMISSION OF 1 UNESS.

INJURED AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE OPENING A GATE.THE WRENCH SLIPPED AND PINNED HIS THUMB ON HIS LEFT HAND AGAINST METAL BREAKING BONE IN LEFT THUMB.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING TAILGATE ON DUMP STRUCK TO RELEASE STONE WHEN FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN TAILGATE AND TAILGATE CHAIN CAUSING LACERATION TO RIGHT RING FINGER.

EMPL HOLDING WRENCH WITH LEFT HAND.CO-WORKER HITTING WRENCH WITH HAMMER,EMPL HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN WRENCH AND PIECE OF METAL,FX THUMB.

EMPL HOLDING CYLINDER WHILE ANOTHER EMPL WAS ADJUSTING IT.DURING THIS PROCESS,CYLINDER SLIPPED CAUSING LACERATION TO FINGER.

EMPLOYEE'S TRUCK WAS BEING LOADED WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING IN TRUCK AND DURING THIS PROCESS A FOREIGN OBJECT GOT INTO RIGHT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING MATERIAL FROM BIN, ROCKS SLIPPED FROM UNDER FEET CAUSING HIM TO FALL. LEFT LEG STAYED ON TOP OF ROCKS, RIGHT LEG WENT UNDER EUCLID.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRAINING OIL FROM AIR COMPRESSOR INTO A CUT OFF DRUM, DRUM SLIPPED CAUSNG EMPLOYEE THUMB TO SLIDE ACROSS TOP. EMPLOYEE RECEIVED LACERATION TO LEFT THUMB.

EMPL WAS PUSHING BIG ROCK WITH DOZER BLADE SLIPPED OFF ROCK THROWING EMPL INTO SHIELD OF DOZER CUTTING EYE BROW

EMPL ALLEDGED HE WAS RAISING WINDOW IN EUCLID AND PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING RADIATOR FAN OFF LOADER (L-5) AND CUT MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND- 3 SUTURES.

WHILE FILLING UP EQUIPMENT IN QUARRY WITH DIESEL FUEL EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON STEP OF FUEL TRUCK CAUSING HIM TO FALL LACERATION TO LEFT ARM

EMP. WAS PUTTING UP DOORS ON RAIL CARS. HE WAS USING A CROWBAR, AND IT WAS WEDGED UNDER CAR, AS HE PULLED THE BAR OUT, HE RECEIVED LACERATION TO RIGHT FOREFINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING POWDER INTO HOLES HE STOOD UP REINJURING BACK.

OPERATOR WAS DRIVING TRUCK DOWN TOQUARRY FLOOR WHEN THE BRAKES FAILED. EMPLOYEE JUMPED HURTING HIS RIGHT WRIST AND BACK.

OPERATOR WAS LOADING A TRUCK AT THE STRIP OPERATION,GOT OUT OF CAB OF LOADER AND SLIPPED FROM THE WALKWAY AND FELL TO THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEE STEPPE8 UP TO GET IN A BETTER POSITION TO WORK (SEE & WHEN HE STEPPED BACK A PC.OF METAL CAUGHT HIS BACK & CUT THE BACK IN THE LOWER AREA REQUIRING 5 STITCHES

EMPLOYEE WAS LI0TING A LOG WHEN HE HURT HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS UN8ER CORE DRILL TRUCK TRYING TO TIGHTEN THE CHUCK. WHILE IN TWISTED POSTION,EMPLOYEE PUSHED UP ON CHUCK,PULLING MUSCLE IN BACK.

I.NAME WAS PULL3NG WIRE AT #2 CONVEYOR FIGNERS CAUGHT BETWEEN WIRE & CONDUIT CAUSING LACERATIONS TO 3 FINGERS ON LEFT HAND MASHING & FRACTURING THE RING FINGER AT THE 1ST JOINT.

EMPL COMING OUT3OF TUNNEL NEXT TO JAW CRUSHER IN QUARRY AND SLIPPED ON MUD HURTING BACK.

WHILE CHANGING 7ONTACTS IN HIGH VOLTAGE STARTER, THE POWER WAS NOT TURNED OFF, UPON GOING INTO THE MOTOR, ELECTRICAL CURRENT ENTERED BODY THROUGH FINGER AND CAME OUT THE SAME FINGER.

EMP WAS ON UPP9R FLOOR OF MAINPLANT SHOVELING HE WENT TO BEND OVER AND THE MIDDLE OF HIS BACK BEGAN TO HURT

EMPLOYEE WAS CH5NGING STEEL ON DRILL AND WAS GOING TO SIT DOWN TO REST AND PASSED OUT, HITTING HEAD AGAINST ROCK AS HE FELL TO GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS WO9KING AT 5 1/2 FT CRUSHER IN QUARRY HE WAS LIFTING STEEL PLATES INTO THE CHUTE AND HE ALLEDGED THAT HE PULLED MUSCLE IN LEFT SIDE OF BACK ABOVE WAIST

EMPLOYEE STATES3THAT HE WAS DRILLING BELOW JAW CRUSHER AND WAS COMING UP OFF GROUND WITH 4 PIECES OF STEEL HE WENT TO PUT PIECE OF STEEL ON DRILL AND IT SLIPPED AND HIT RT SHOULDER HE STATED I T DID NOT HURT 2IM THAT MUCH AT THE TIME BUT WHILE HE WAS EATING LUNCH HE BEGAN TO REALLY HURT

EMPLOYEE WAS BR9AKING UP FROZEN STONE AND DIRT MIXTURE UNDER THE 5 1/2 FT CRUSHER WITH A BAR HE HIT RT HAND AGAINST A STEEL CHANNEL AND FRACTURED FIFTH FINGER ON RT HAND

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO BEAT OUT CAB OF TRUCK WITH A HAMMER AND HIT INDEX FINGER ON RIGHT HAND AGAINST CAB LACERATING IT

EE INJURED INDEX FINGER ON LEFT HAND WITH A DRILL WRENCH WHILE HELPING TO REMOVE DRILL STEEL ON BEETLE DRILL.

EE WAS DRIVING ACROSS 460 E WHEN STRUCK BY EAST BOUND VEHICLE. THE EE\S VISION WAS PARTIALLY BLINDED BY A DUMP TRUCK ENTERING THE QUARRY. WEATHER WAS A FACTOR BECAUSE OF RAIN & FOG.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING TRUCK AND WAS DIGGING TO GET BUCKET OF AROCK AND WHEN HE HIT ROCK, LOADER STOPPED SUDDENLY, CAUSING HIM TO TWIST FORWARD HURTING BACK.

EMPLOYEE CALLED INTO OFFICE THURSDAY AUG 18 1983 AT APPROX 0700AM AND ALLEDGED THAT HE HAD HURT BACK AND ALSO STATED THAT HE DID NOT KNOW HOW HE WAS ABSENT FROM WORK 8/18,19,22,23 WHEN HE RET URNED ON AUG 24TH HE HAD DOCTOR STATEMENTS AND ALLEDGED HE HAD INJURED BACK ON JOB

EMPLOYEE WAS STOCKING #10 STONE AND BACKED UP TOO FAR AND THE STOCKPILE CAVED IN CAUSING THE TRUCK TO TURN OVER BACKWARD

EMP WAS HELPING DISMANTLE CRUSHER AND WAS BURNING INTER LINING AND A PIECE OF LINING CAME UP AND HIT RT SIDE OF NOSE