VALLEY CITY QUARRY Metal/Non-Metal

EE WAS DRIVING A HAUL TRUCK & FELT CHEST PAINS. WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL WITH A HEART ATTACK. HAD BYPASS SURGERY.

AN EMPLOYEE FELL AND I BEAM ROLLED ON LEG (NO INJURY RESULTED) INJURED EMPLOYEE LIFTED THE BEAM AND STRAINED HIS BACK.

EE WAS WORKING WITH A SECOND EE TO TAKE THE PINS OUT OF THE JAW PLATE FOR REMOVAL. THEY WERE DRIVING THE PIN OUT WITH A MAUL AND METAL BAR. THE MAUL WENT OFF THE BAR AND STRUCK EE'S HAND AND S PLIT OPEN HIS INDEX FINGER. HE WAS TAKEN TO TOWNAND FINGER WAS STITCHED UP AND HE RETURNED TO WORK NEXT DAY.

EMPLOYEE WAS ADDING A SECTION OF STEEL TO I-R T4 DRILL. HE WAS HOLDING A SCREW IN CUP IN PLACE AS THE STEEL WAS MOVED INTO PLACE BY CAROUSEL. AS CAROUSEL SWUNG AROUND EMPLOYEE GOT ARM PINCHED BETWEEN FRAMEWORK AND CAROUSEL. YELLED TO OPERATOR AND HE BACKED OFF HYDRAULICS AND RELEASED ARM. EMPLOYEE GOT A BRUISED MUSCLE. THIS PIECE OF STEEL DID NOT FIT JUST RIGHT OR EMPLOYEE WOULD NO

WITH ANOTHER EMPL EMPL WAS MOVING A 55 GAL OIL DRUM INTO AN ENDLOADER BUCKET LOST HIS GRIP AND THE BARRELL FELL ON HIS L HAND CAUSING LACERATIONS ON MIDDLE TWO FINGERS

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING A SECOND EMPLOYEE WHO WAS WELDING A METALFRAMEWORK. EMPLOYEE APPARENTLY WATCHED THE WELDING BEING DONE WITHOUT GLASSES AND THAT NIGHT HE FELT A BURNING IN HIS EYES CAUSED BY THE FLASH.

EMPLOYEE WAS DOING A GRADATION TEST ON A RIPRAP PRODUCT MOVING LARGE PIECES OF ROCK WEIGHING OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS HE FELT A STRAIN IN HIS BACK WHILE MOVING ONE

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING A TRUCK DRIVER RELEASE HIS TAILGATE WHICH HAD MATERIAL PUSHED UP AGAINST IT WHEN HE RELEASED THE CHAIN ON THE RELEASE HANDLE THE TAILGATE POPPED OPEN AND THE HANDLE SWUNG BACK AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEES LEFT HAND BREAKING A BLOOD VESSEL AND CAUSING SOME SOME SWELLING IN HIS HAND WHICH WENT DOWN OVERNIGHT

EMPLOYEE'S JOB IS TO CLEAN OUT ROCK UNDER CONVEYORS. THE JAW WAS PLUGGED WITH ROCK AND BELTS WERE STOPPED, BUT BEFORE THEY CAME TO A COMPLETE STOP EMPLOYEE WALKED UNDERNEATH AN OVERHEAD CONVEY OR AND A ROCK WAS ROLLING DOWN THE BELT AND BOUNCED OFF, FALLING ABOUT TEN FOOT AND STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO PUT A CUTTING EDGE ON AN ENDLOADER. WHILE DOING SO ONE SECTION OF THE CUTTING EDGE FELL ABOUT A FOOT AND LANDED ON HIS RIGHT FOOT, CAUSING SOME BRUISING. HE WAS TAKEN T O EMERGENCY ROOM TO CHECK FOR BROKEN BONES-NONE WERE FOUND.

EMPLOYE WAS USI3G A SOCKET WRENCH TO TIGHTEN NUTS ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF A 980 LOADER. HIS HANDS SLIPPED AND HE STUMBLED AND TWEISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE. HE CHECKED THE ANKLE AT EMERGENCY ROOM TH AT NIGHT AND WA8 FOUND TO HAVE SPRAINED ANKLE. MISSED NO TIME.

CREW WAS PUTTIN1 IN A NEW CONVEYOR BELT, FOREMAN AND EMPLOYEE WERE WATCHING THE MATERIAL FLOW, THE FOREMAN SIGNALED FOR THE BELT TO BE SHUT DOWN. BEFORE IT HAD STOPPED COMPLETELY THE EMPLOYEE PUT HIS HAND O3 THE BELT AND HAD IT PULLED INTO THE PULLY CAUSING MULTIPLE LACERATIONS ON HIS LEFT HAND AND BREAKING THE LITTLE FINGER.

CREW WAS PUTTIN1 UP A NEW CONVEYOR AND HAD WELDED IN PLACE TWO STELL POSTS TO SERVE AS LEGS FOR THE CONVEYOR. EMPLOYEE FORGOT THE POSTS WERE THERE AND WALKED INTO ONE OF THEM, CUTTING HIS FOR EHEAD. HE WAS 7AKEN TO THE EMPLOYEE ROOM OF THE LOCAL HOSPITAL HAD SIX STICHES PUT IN.

EMP WAS WALKING FROM THE PLANT TO HIS QUARRY HAUL TRUCK AND STUMBLED OVER A ROCK AND FELL CUTTING THE PALM OF HIS LEFT HAND

EMP WAS WELDING ON FRAME AND STARTED TO WALK TO OTHER SIDE, LOST HIS BALANCE AND GRABBED OUT FOR A SCREEN WHICH WAS LAYING ON FRAMEWORK, WAITING TO BE PUT IN PLACE AND SCREEN FELL LANDING ON H IS RIGHT FOOT

EMP WAS USING A MALL TO STRAIGHTEN A PIECE OF METAL AND PUT A STRAIN ON THE MUSCLES IN HIS NECK

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OUT AROUND PLANT WHEN A ROCK BECAME LODGED IN JAW. A SECOND EMPLOYEE TRIED TO USE A PIECE OF STEEL TO BREAK ROCK AND FIRST EMPLOYEE TRIED TO HELP. SECOND EMPLOYEE ACCIDE NTALLY STRUCK FIRST MAN IN CHEST BRUISING HIS STERNUM.