HAMMERING A CHISEL, THE CHISEL SLIPPED AND BOOMERANG'D BACKWARDS STRIKING EMPLOYEE ABOVE EYE
Oak QuarryMetal/Nonmetal
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 12
- Years on record
- 2001–2015
- Latest incident
- Nov 2015
Reportable incidents
12 on file2015 · 1 incident
2010 · 1 incident
2008 · 3 incidents
bent over chiseling a rock block, glasses slipped down on nose and debris entered right eye
Operating heavy equipment - cabin cooling fan cataputed insect into left ear canal.
2006 · 2 incidents
Repetitive lifting of heavy hammers, crow bars and rock caused a lower back strain (lower lumbar strain)
2005 · 2 incidents
Smashed Finger with Flagstone at work has laceration first finger (left hand index finger)
EMPLOYEE WAS BANDING A PALLET WHEN HE MOVED HIS HAND BACKWARD AND CAUGHT HIS HAND ON THE BANDING, CUTTING THE BACK PART OF HIS HAND. EMPLOYEE WAS SENT TO THE DOCTOR TO SEE IF HE NEEDS STITCHES.
2001 · 3 incidents
EE WAS USING A HAMMER & CHISEL. HE HAD REMOVED HIS SAFETY GLASSES. WHEN HE STRUCK CHISEL WITH HAMMER, A FOREIGN BODY ENTERED HIS EYE. EVEN THOUGH INCIDENT OCCURRED ON 8/11 HE DID NOT NOTIFY EMPLOYER UNTIL THE LATE EVENING OF 8/14/01.
EE WAS ASSISTING IN PLACING THE COMPRESSOR TRAILER TONGUE ON THE PICKUP HITCH. THE COMPRESSOR TRAILER TONGUE SLIPPED, FALLING TO THE GROUND AND STRIKING THE EE ON THE TOP OF HIS RIGHT FOOT.
LIFTING A BLOCK OF STONE, EE STRAINED HIS BACK. EE NOTIFIED EE ON JAN 13, 2001.