Employee failed to make sure that their foot was clear of an Impactor Bar when they pulled out the lock out safety device. The Bar rotated and struck their Steel Toed boot causing 2 hairline cracks to the foot bones and 1 to the Tibia bone. EE was treated and released from FHN Hospital, but further examination of the foot is going to require mechanical immobilization.
Spread 1Metal/Nonmetal
Conmat Inc., dba Helm Materials · Surface
Controlled by Helm Group Inc
Freeport, Stephenson County, IL · Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1101575
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 2001–2019
- Latest incident
- Jun 2019
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file2019 · 1 incident
Struck by powered moving object
2008 · 1 incident
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Employee pulled the pins from a removeable transport dolly tongue. The dolly tongue fell to the ground onto the employee's right foot steel toed boot. The impact caused the right side front part of the steel toe to push down through the sole of the boot resulting in a fracture of the right foot big toe.
2002 · 1 incident
Struck by flying object
WARMING UP AN AIR STARTER ON AN ENGINE OF A POWER UNIT, NOTICED ETHER CAN ON TOP OF IT, SO REACHED TO TOSS IT OUT OF THE WAY. CAN RUPTURED & CUT FINGER.
2001 · 1 incident
Fall to the walkway or working surface
EE WAS WALKING ACROSS QUARRY WHEN HE STEPPED ON SOME ICE, SLIPPED AND BROKE HIS ANKLE.