Employee struck left hand with a hammer while performing winter plant maintenance.
COLARUSSO QUARRY COMPANYMetal/Nonmetal
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 17
- Years on record
- 2000–2025
- Latest incident
- Dec 2025
Reportable incidents
17 on file2025 · 3 incidents
Employee slipped and fell while walking around equipment during fueling. Employee's left wrist was injured breaking the fall.
After welding on the Omni Short Head crusher, employee was grinding down the weld when a piece of metal slag flew behind EE's safety glasses and landed in the right eye.
2024 · 2 incidents
Employee strained EE's lower back lifting 4 inch steel square stock tubing off the ground to place onto a block.
Employee was using an impact wrench with a 1 1/4 inch socket when the socket came free from the wrench and struck the employee in the mouth breaking a top, front tooth.
2022 · 1 incident
The employee was making repairs to an excavator bucket, removing excess welds and slag with a hammer and chisel. When struck, the chisel broke free from it's holder and struck the employee in the mouth cutting EE's upper lip and breaking EE's right front tooth in half.
2021 · 1 incident
Employee was removing a large nut from a cone crusher tramp cylinder with a large air gun and heavy socket that fits the nut. When the nut came to the end, the socket fell over onto the employee's finger.
2020 · 1 incident
Employee was sitting on bench in break area before shift started. Employee stood up to punch in and turned wrong causing a strain to back. Employee stated that employee sustained an injury to back in the military a few years ago and this aggravated that old injury.
2019 · 1 incident
Employee stood up after working on short head crusher. Started walking around the catwalk carrying a wrench in right hand. Right ankle gave out and fell to catwalk causing sprain to right ankle. Walkway was dry and clear of obstruction. There were no slip/trip hazards.
2017 · 1 incident
Employee stated was changing screens at the 8x24 location in the plant and felt something in the back as EE was maneuvering the screens into position. * Please note this injury was not reported until July 7, 2017.
2015 · 3 incidents
Employee was dismounting from loader to refuel at the end of the day. He thinks his foot slipped as he stepped onto the last step (approximately 18 inches from the ground), lost his balance and fell to the ground.
Employee was raising dump body of dump truck to empty load. Body was approximately 75% raised when hydraulic line burst and dump body slammed back down causing jolt to employee sitting inside the cab.
Employee was unloading steel plate from forklift when he felt discomfort in lower back during the task.
2012 · 1 incident
Employee was holding pin punch by handle while second employee used sledge hammer to strike pin to remove master pin from spare excavator track. Employee felt foreign object break skin and enter left forearm when pin punch was struck.
2009 · 1 incident
Tripped over floor mat while weighing truck at the counter
2000 · 2 incidents
PUSHING ON GENERATOR GUARD, HE INJURED HIS LEFT SIDE.
CLIMBING DOWN FROM BULLDOZER, HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF PUSH ARM; HE FELL ON MUFFLER HE HAD REMOVED.