BLAISDELL Metal/Non-Metal

Employee was shoveling sand away from belt area of screen and injured lower back. Not sure how.

Employee was removing rock from sand screen. He lost his footing, slipped and fell on rocks next to him. Sustained bruising and soft tissue contusion. Awareness of surroundings, conscious of footing and balance would help to not repeat accident.

While moving loader on site, employee had bucket too low to ground. He hit bump in surface of ground and bucket dug into ground stopping loader abruptly. Employee was thrown into windshield, lacerating forehead. Employee received stitches. Loader required repair to joystick, not parts, mechanic time only.

Employee was walking on ground going to grizzly and stepped on a rock and sprained his left ankle.

EE was walking up conveyor belt to clear any large boulders that might be stuck on shaker chute when he tripped and lost his balance from his own two feet. He hit the shaker on his left side of his chest. He got up and told his supervisor.

Operator was cleaning spoils up around jaw. Right hand door on backhoe hit a protruding iron beam on upper platform on jaw, breaking the door glass and damaging the door frame, there were no injuries. He will receive a review of task training.

Was dislodging a rock on the grizzly rock crusher, rock came loose and hit EE on the lower right leg.

Employee was using prybar to dislodge rock and when rock moved he smashed his finger between prybar and metal chute.

EE was doing routine maintenance and the wind blew debris into his right eye (conjunctivitis).

While employee was welding up on the tower on the crusher plant, he dropped the welding torch and burned his left hand.

WHILE PULLING 36" CONVEYOR BELT INTO PLACE, EE STRAINED ABDOMINAL WALL.

WHILE LIFTING A METAL BEAM WITH A CHAIN & FORKLIFT EE GRABBED THE BEAM CAUSING THE CHAIN TO COME LOOSE & THE BEAM FELL & LANDED ON HIS RIGHT FOOT.

WHILE WALKING DOWN SHAKER STEPS, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND SPRAINED HIS RIGHT ANKLE

HE STRAINED HIS ABDOMINAL WALL (UMBILICAL HERNIA) LIFTING A HEAVY STEEL FRAME. (HERNIA REPAIRED 9/29/04 PER CALL)

REMOVING BOULDERS FROM MAIN FEED BELT USING BAR WHICH SLIPPED AND HIT FINGER.

EE WAS UNCLOGGING THE OVERSIZED ROCK DISCHARGE SHAFT WITH A STEEL ROD. WHEN THE ROCKS WERE MOVED HIS HAND WAS HIT BY THE FALLING ROCKS CRUSHING HIS FINGER ON THE STEEL ROD.