Oshkosh Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Employee had pulled on a wrench to tighten a hex head nut. He then took a last pull to cinch tighten the nut, when the wrench slipped off the grade 5 nut. The employee fell back to the same level injuring buttock.

Poor equipment design and poor lubrication practice led to unsafe acts of positioning and securing suspended object. Unsafe acts compounded by failure to recognize the hazard.

HE WAS LIFTING A HOSE FILLED WITH PRODUCT UP AND DOWN THE HOLES IN A WET SHOT. THE HOSE WAS FROM THE BULK TRUCK. HE STARTED FEELING LOWER BACK PAIN ABOUT 15 MINUTES LATER.

EE WAS POSITIONING A SWING WRENCH WHILE ANOTHER EE WAS APPLYING FORCE TO THE WRENCH WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER. THE HAMMER GLANCED OFF AN OIL LINE, STIKING THE (FIRST) EE'S HAND. THIS RESULTED IN A FRACTURE TO A METACARPAL BONE IN THE RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE DRILL. HE OPENED THE CAB DOR AND WHEN CLOSING IT, HE CAUGHT HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER ON THE DOOR LATCH. THE LLACERATION REQUIRED 4 STITCHES.

AT AN UNKNOWN TIME, PRESUMABLY EARLY MORNING HOURS, A 19-YEAR OLD MALE TRESPASSER TOOK HIS OWN LIFE BY JUMPING OFF A 70-FOOT HIGH WALL AT A REMOTE AREA OF THE LIMESTONE QUARRY. THE TRESPASSER CROSSED OVER A 5-FOOT HIGH FENCE AT THE POINT THAT THE POINT THAT POLICE INDICATE HE ENTERED MINE PROPERTY. CORONER JUDGES THE INCIDENT AS SUICIDE.

NON EE , NON CONTRACTOR TRUCK DRIVER PICKING UP A LOAD OF STONE FOR A CUSTOMER WAS DUMPING THE OVERWEIGHT PORTION OF HIS LOAD AT A STOCKPILE WHEN A SECTION OF THE PILE SLUFFED OFF COVERING THE DRIVER UP TO HIS NECK AND PINNING HIM AGAINST THE TAILGATE PAN FOR 15-20 MIN. HE NEVER LOST CONSCIOUSNESS. THE DRIVER WAS RESCUED BY VULCAN EE AND IS BEING TREATED AT MERCY HOSP. FOR PELVIC

HE BELIEVES HE WAS ROTATING THE DRILL STEEL ON THE DRILL RIG WHEN HE LEANED FORWARD AND HIS SHOULDER HIT THE LEVER THAT SPINS THE DRILL. HIS RIGHT THUMB WAS CAUGHT BY THE DRILL STEEL AND THE U PPER PART OF THE RIGHT THUMB WAS TORN OFF AND THE SKIN OF THE RIGHT THUMB WAS TORN OFF DOWN TO THE HAND.

EE WAS INJURED WHEN HE FELL APPROX 7' THROUGH A CATWALK THAT COLLAPSED UNDER HIM. HE WAS EXAMINED & RELEASED HAVING SUFFERED ONLY BRUISES & ABRASIONS TO HIS ARM & ELBOW. ON 7/17/95 AFTER REEXA MINATION HE WAS INSTRUCTED TO STAY OFF WORK FROM7/17 THRU 7/20/95.

EE WAS IN PROCESS OF SERVICING HIS LOADER. AFTERDRAINING AXLE HE PROCEEDED TO MOVE A BARREL OF OIL THAT WAS APPROXIMATELY 1/4 FULL [30 GAL]. WHEN HE LIFTED THE BARREL & PIVOTED LEFT TO MOVE TO WARDS LOADER, HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER RIGHT SIDE OF BACK.

CLERICAL EMPLOYEE LOST GRASP OF PENCIL AS SHE ATTEMPTED TO REGAIN CONTROL SHE PUNCTURED HER RT PALM WITH THE PENCIL POINT WHICH BROKE OFF IN HER HAND DEBRIEDING & ONE STUTURE WAS REQUIRED

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE SHOP CHANGING THE BUCKET ON FRONT OF A SKID LOADER.ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE CONTROLS OF THE CASE SKID LOADER(UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE INJURED EMPLOYEE),SO THAT A SAFETY CATCH ON THE FORKS THEY WERE ATTACHING,COULD BE SECURED.THE INJURED EMPLOYEE PLACED HIS RIGHT HAND IN A PINCH AREA AS THE OTHER EMPLOYEE OPERATED THE CONTROLS,CRUSHING THE EMPLOYEE'S

EMPLOYEE WHILE WELDING ON A BLASTING PROTECTION SHIELD STEPPED ON A SPENT WELDING ROD WHICH WENT THRU HIS BOOT AND INTO HIS TOE. HE WAS SENT TO THE PHYSICIAN FOR TREATMENT. EMPLOYEE WAS RELEAS ED FOR URESTRICTED WORK THROUGH THE NEXT DAY. ON 11-21 HE RETURNED TO WORK, BUT IN THE AFTERNOON HE WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM. THE PHYSICIAN PRESCRIBED ANTIBIOTICS FOR INFECTION AND CRUTCHES

EMPLOYEE WAS ADJUSTING MOTOR ON ROLL PLANT AS HE PUT HIS RT FINGER UNDER THE ROLL CRUSHER TO CHECK FOR CLEARANCE OR OBSTRUCTION MOTOR SLIPPED & CAME DOWN ON HIS FINGER RESULTING IN A NAIL AVUL SION

EMPLOYEE WAS AT THE PRIMARY CONVEYOR WHERE HE AN ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE GOING TO REPLACE A WING PULLEY. HE WAS HOLDING THE PULLEY IN PLACE WITH HIS FOOT WHEN THE PULLEY SLIPPED AND WENT UNDER T HE FRAME, SQUEEZING HIS FOOT BETWEEN THE SAFETY CHAIN AND THE CONVEYOR FRAME.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A BACKHOE HAMMER WHEN A STONE FLEW UP & STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD WHICH REQUIRED STITCHES

EMP WAS WELDING3UNDER 8X2/ SCREEN AND CHANGED RODDS, HE DROPPED USED ROD ON CONVEYOR BELT WHICH WAS STILL HOT AND WHEN HE RESUMED WELDING HE PUT HIS LEFT ELBOW ON CONVEYOR AND HIT THE HOT RO HE TREATED IT A8 ANOTHER BURN AND DID NOT REPORT IT UNTIL 8 2 87 WHEN HE COMPLAINED OF IT BEING SORE AND WENT TO THE DR

EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING CRANE AND GOT OFF TO HELP MOVE A PIECE OF IRON OUT OF THE WAY,NOT KNOWINGVERY HOT,RESULTING IN 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO RIGHT HAND -TWO FINGERS

INJ HAD BEEN DR3VING THE WATER TRUCK, APRKED AND BEGAN WALKING TO THE MILL. THE OTHER EMPLOYEES HAD GONE UP TO THE MILL TO GET A USED SCREEN DOWN TO M AKE UP A TAILPULLEY GUARD FOR THE NEW PLA PLANT. AT THE S5ME TIME THEY THREW THE SCREEN OUT THE INJ WALKED UNDER STRIKING HIM ON HIS HEAD. CRACKING HIS HARD HAT, INJURED HAD STITCHES BUT NO CONCUSSION WAS FOUND

EMPL ATTEMPTING TO UNCLOG BREAKER BY PRIMARY CRUSHER.EMPL PUT WEDGE BETWEEN STONE AN DBREAKER TO DISLODGE STONE,WEDGE JERKED MAKING EMPL TWIST BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING UNDER STEPS, BY CRUSHER, SCOOPING UP LIME WHEN SHE FELT A PULL IN HER BACK.