Uvalde Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Employee was operating a Loader when they drove over uneven ground, causing pain to their lower back. They were diagnosed with a back strain and issued restrictions.

Annual audiogram showed employee experienced hearing loss that could allegedly be related to EE's position as a lead man.

Employee was using a wrench to remove bolts from the U-joint of a loader when he experienced pain in his left elbow. He sought medical attention and is currently on modified duty.

While cleaning a plugged chute and screen bellypan, material struck employee's left knee. He did not wish to seek medical treatment at that time. On 7-25-12 employee was taken to local clinic, who referred him to a specialist. On 8-13-12 specialist diagnosed a fracture.

Boom slipped on a dewatering pump & caught right finger/hand (surgery 6/17/10).

While removing a rock from the counter weight pulley the employees foot became caught between the pulley, the belt and a pry bar.

While greasing, employee removed part of a guard. Employee's glove got caught in tail pulley and pulled his hand into a pinch point. Employee received broken bones and lacerations to the left hand.

Employee dropped the screen on top of his hand which was on top of another screen.

Miner was adjusting the fork on the forklift - left hand was smashed on the frame. Improper hand placement resulted in this injury.

Employee was clearing a rock jam on the primary crusher discharge chute. He laid a pry bar he was using on a hand rail and preceded to adjust his body position. As he reached for the pry bar, a rock slid down the chute and struck the pry bar. The bar end struck the employee's upper lip which took four stitches to close the wound.

Employee was standing on a ladder that was leaning into a raised up and blocked up loader bucket. As employee was welding, the ladder slipped. Employee tried to break his fall and struck his left elbow on the loader bucket in the process. Employee continued working for another hour or so before realizing that the injury was going to need to be looked at.

[Late report by employee. Employee did not tell employer and tried to cover this via a chiropractor under his health insurance] Employee alleges that he was taking a short cut to his haul truck and while trying to vault over some rail cars, slipped and contused his tail bone. It was found out just this week that he actually has a hairline fracture of the coccyx region.

EE's feet got tangled up in the drawing table stool legs (causing him to lose his balance). He tried to catch himself by grabbing the back of a nearby desk chair. The chair (which was on casters) shot out from under him. He kept a hold on the chair as he fell to the floor. His right hand ring finger was smashed between the chair back and the floor.

Employee was shoveling on a pad located below the secondary crusher while it was running. Dust got past his safety glasses and into his left eye when he looked up for a moment. His eyeball was scratched which required medical attention.

**Note: This occurred back in January as a "report only" case, but injured received no treatment, so we held off on submitting this report until he actually received treatment on 11/02/05. INJURED SELF WHILE CLIMBING OUT OF PRIMARY CRUSHER, WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED. HE FELL AND LANDED ON HIS RIGHT HAND.

Employee was ducking under a section of channel iron in the plant . He rose up prematurely and struck his right shoulder on the channel iron. He suffered a strain and contusion from the incident.

Euclid r-65 haul truck he was backing up along the rail road, track on the side road, when the truck started to slide down the 5' high embankment and the truck overturned. ee did not seek, request or need medical attention until 4/19/04 ee wen to dr office complaining about pain in r. shoulder and neck and ee had worked the whole week his normal job drove truck ground.

EE WAS REMOVING AN IDLER GUIDE ON AN OVERLOAD \ CONVEYOR BELT INSIDE THE GUARDS. THE TAKE UP PULLEY ROLLED ON RAIL. EE HAD FOOT ON RAIL WHEN PULLEY TROLLEY ROLLED PINNING RIGHT FOOT BETWEEN WHEEL & VERTICAL PIPE.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING INSIDE OF THE PLANT'S FORD PICK-UP TRUCK, HAD HIS HAND ON THE SEAT WHEN AN INSECT BIT HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER.

EE WAS PULLING CABLE FROM THE PUG MILL SIDE - WHEN HE SLIPPED ON ROCKS CAUSING HIM TO HIT HIS LEFT ARM ON THE CABLE - LACERATING HIS LEFT WRIST & FOREARM. HE RECEIVED 9 STITCHES.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PUNCH A H9OLE IN A PIECE OF METAL PLATE. THE PUNCH DIE SHATTERED AND A PIECE OF METAL HIT THE EE IN THE CHEST AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS FILLING BLASTING HOLES WITH ANFO FROM A CONVERTED READYMIX TRUCK. WHILE MONITORING THE FLOW OF ANFO DOWN THE CHUTE, THE SPRING LOADED CHUTE BECAME UNLATCHED AND PREMATURELY TRIED TO FOLD ITSELF UP. THE CHUTE HIT EMPLOYEE ON THELIP AND CHIN CUTTING HIM. STITCHES REQUIRED.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING FROM THE FOREMANS OFFICE TOTHE SECONDARY PLANT. HE SLIPPED REINJURING HIS BACK (1993 INJURY). EMPLOYEE REPORTED THE ACCIDENT BUT DID NOT SEE DR UNTIL LATER THAT MONTH. WAS SEEN BY DR & OFF WORK 1-29-96.

EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK ON THE RIGHT EAR BY ANOTHER WORKER WIELDING A HAMMER, AS HE HELD A ROD. THEY WERE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A STEERING CYLINDER PIN.

THE HOSE OF THE EE GREASE GUN WAS PULLED BETWEEN A TROUGHING IDLER AND CONVEYOR BELTING. BEFORE HE COULD LET GO THE EE ARM GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE IDLER AND BELTING QUICKLY RETRACTING HIS ARM H E RECEIVED AT A LACERATION ABOVE HIS ELBOW.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING TWO 5 GAL. BUCKETS OF USED OIL TO THE WASTE OIL TANK WHEN HE FELT A "TWINGE" IN HIS BACK. HE WENT TO SEE A DR 9/13/93 BECAUSE HIS BACK WAS STILL BOTHERING HIM. THE DOCTOR ASSIGNED 1 WEEK. LIGHT DUTY.

EMPL USING A CUTTING TORCH TO CUT TENSION NUT OFF A SCREEN SUPPORT CABLE. WHEN THE NUT RELEASED THE SPRING FLEW UP STRIKING EMPL IN FACE.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED FROM A MOVING RAILCAR HE FELL TO THE GROUND & WAS STRUCK BY THE CARS TRUCK BEARING ASSEMBLY

HAULING AGGREGATES IN 60 TON CAT 773 TRUCK, TRUCK HIT POTHOLE CAUSING SUDDEN IMPACT INSIDE CAB. EMPL FELT PAIN AROUND WAIST AREA.

CUT AND BRUSE LEFT CALF. EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING ON LOCOMOTIVE HELPING OPERATOR SWITCHING CARS TO CAR DUMPER. THEY HAD A 4 X 4 X 9 POST ON LOCO FLOOR, WHICH ON TIMES, THEY USE LOCO AND POST TO M OVE CARS. THEY DIDN'T NOTICED POST STICKING OUT OF LOCO SIDE, AS THEY WERE TRAVELING ON OTHER TRACK AMONG SIDE OF PACK RR CARS, POST CAUGHT CORNER OF RR CAR, PINCHING EMPLOYEE WITH POST AND L

OPER DOOR TO CRUSHER TO CHECK POSTION OF BOULDER. HAD HALF OF BODY INSIDE THE DOOR TRUNED HEAD L TO LOOK UP AT BOULDER, FELT PAIN IN NECK

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A COTTON SWAB IN HIS RIGHT EAR WHICH HAD AN ITCH. THE EMPLOYEE TURNED HIS HEAD TO THE RIGHT WHEN HE THOUGHT SOMEONE HAD CALLED HIM, HITTING A FIRST AID BOX WITH THE SWAB IN HIS EAR, PUSHING THE SWAB FURTHER INTO THE EAR.

WAS RESTACKING A RAILROAD CROSSTIE BACK ON THE FORKLIFT-IN DOING SO A TIE SLIPPED & I.NAME TRIED TO HOLD IT IN PLACE CAUSING A PAIN IN HIS STOMACH

EMP. WAS HELPING PUSH 5 EMPTY CARS TO GET THEM IN MOTION IN ORDER TO MOVE THE M TO THE PLANT FOR LOADING. IN T HE PROCESS, HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND GOT PINCHED BETWEEN THE RAIL AND THE CAR WHEE L.

CLEANING UNDER TAIL PULLEY OF SURGE PILE- OUT BELT AT SMITH QUARRY. EMPLOYEE WAS IN A CROUCHED POSITION, RAISING UP AS HE UNLOADED SHOVEL, FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING SCRENE METAL GUARDS INTO A PICK UP BED AND CAUGHT TIP OF LEFT HAND RING FINGER BETWEEN TWO GUARDS.

I,NAME A PLANT 4ECHANIC WAS HELPING ON TAKING OUT A SHAFT FROM A PULLEY. THEY WERE USING SPACES (METAL PLATES) TO LIFT & LOWER PULLEY. WHEN THEY WERE DONE & LOWERING THE PULLEY THE STARTED REM OVING PLATES & 1LACING THEM ON A TABLE. I,NAME CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN PLATES WHEN PLACING THEM ON THE TABLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS DI8MOUNTING A FRONT-END LOADER WHEN HE SLIPPED FROM THE BOTTOM STEP OF THE ACCESS LADDER AND FELL.

DUE TO BRIEF BU7 HEAVEY RAWS EARLIER IN THE DAY DEBRIS HAD WASHED OVER A SECTION OF RRTRACK WHEN THE 25TON LOCOMATION PULLING 2 LOADED CARS TO THE RAIL SCALE REACHED THE AREA IT JUMPED THE TRA CK.THE LOCOMOTI5E OPERATOR,FEARING THE ENGINE WOULD TURN OVER,JUMPED.

EMPLOYEE WAS SH3FTING R.R. TIES ON A FORKLIFT ON A FORKLIFT WHEN ONE TIE ROLLED CATHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN TWO TIES.

EMP WAS CLEANIN1 UP BEF ORE CLOCKING OUT AT THE END OF TWO EIGHT HOUR SHIFTS WHEN HE BEGAN HAVING TROUBLE BREATHING AND COMPLAINING OF CHEST PAINS

EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG A POCKETKNIFE TO CUT TOPS OFF OF THE WATER GELL PACKAGES HE WAS LOADING INTO BORE HOLES.

EMP WAS INVOLVE8 IN THE QUARRY CREWS SCHEDULED SASTURDAY CLEAN UP AND MAINTENANCE. THIS INCLUDES SHOVELING UP AGGREGATE THAT HAS SPILLED OFF THE CONVEYOR BELTS DURING THE PREVIOUS WEEK

EMPLOYEE WAS AP1ROCHING THE OVER BURDEN MUCKPILE WHEN HIS HAUL TRUCK HIT A BUMP. THE EMPLOYEE WAS THROWN FROM THE SEAT THEN LANDING, BACK IN THE SEAT, FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS NECK AND BACK.

EMPL HELPING SP5ICE SECTION OF CONVEYOR BELTING.BELTING STARTED TO ROLL DOWN CONVEYOR SO EMPL GRABBED BELTING AND TRIED TO PULL BELT UP CONVEYOR BY HIMSELF.

EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING PICK UP A PIECE OF STEEL PLATE TO BE USED IN THE FABRICATION OF AN AGGREGARTE CHUTE

EMPLOYEE WAS IN5OLVED IN A SCREEN REPAIR JOB A GUARD AROUND THE SCREENING UNIT HAD BEEN REMOVED FOR ACCESS LEAVING A HOLE IN THE FLOORING EXPOSED THE EMPLOYEE STEPPED IN THE HOLE AND FELL

EMPLOYEE WAS AP1LYING HAND BRAKE ON RAILCAR HE HAD ONE FOOT ON DRAWBAR WHEN THE CAR COUPLED WITH ANOTHER THE EMPLOYEES FOOT WAS CAUGHT IN THE DRAW BAR

EE WAS STANDING3ON WET R/R RAIL RELEASING THE BRAKES ON A R/R CAR WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE RAIL.

EE SLIPPED WHILE DISMOUNTING A FRONT END LOADER. HE FELL TO THE GROUND LANDING ON HIS SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING OFF A FORKLIFT WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE STEP. THE EMPLOYEE FELL FROM THE FORKLIFT LANDING ON HIS RIGHT KNEE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING HIMSELF INTO A READY MIX TRUCK USED TO LOAD PRILL WHEN HE FELT A HARP PAIN IN HIS BACK.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN OFF A HAUL TRUCK WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL AGAINST THE LADDER INJURING HIS LEFT RIB CAGE.

AFTER GREASING A CONVEYOR HEAD PULEY THE EMPLOYEE REACHED BETWEEN THE PULLEY AND ITS GUARD WHEN THE GREASE GUN BECAME STUCK ON THE FITTING HIS GLOVE BECAME CAUGHT ITS GUARD WHEN THE GREASE GUN BECAME STUCK ON THE FITTING HIS GLOVE BECAME CAUGHT IN THE CONVEYOR PULLING HIS HAND BETWEEN THE GUARD AND THE EDGE OF THE HEAD PULLEY

THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AROUND A RAILCAR WHEN ANOTHER EMPLOYEE TOSSED A CAR SCRAPING BAR FROM INSIDE THE CAR ON THE GROUND. THE BAR BOUNCED OFF THE GROUND AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE ON THE CH EST.

EMP WAS PASSING BETWWEN TOW SCREENING UNITS WHEN HE TRIPPED FALLING AGAINST A PLANT SUPPORT BEAM IN SO DOING HE STRUCK THE SUPPORT WITH HIS LEFT SHOULDER