Employee was using a 1/2"" drive breaker bar and socket to remove a nut from a bolt attaching a hopper wing extension that was in a bind with spring like tension. When the nut came off the bolt stored energy was released through the hopper wing sending the socket end of the breaker bar into the employee's face.
Portable #1Metal/Nonmetal
Alderbrook Quarry, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by John R Moerke
Chehalis, Lewis County, WA · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4503387
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 5
- Years on record
- 2002–2016
- Latest incident
- Jan 2016
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file2016 · 1 incident
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
2015 · 1 incident
Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Turned and hopped from step/rail approximately 2 feet high and back went out.
2003 · 2 incidents
Struck against a moving object
DUMP TRUCK TIPPED OVER EDGE OF STOCKPILE LANDING ON ITS SIDE. DRIVER HIT HEAD CAUSING SCALP CONTUSION, MILD CERVICAL STRAIN.
Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects
SHOULDER STRAINED WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CLEAR JAM IN CONE. SAW DR ON 4-7-03. LIMITED LIFTING WITH LEFT ARM FOR 7 DAYS.
2002 · 1 incident
Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects
SHOULDER WAS STRAINED WHILE WRENCHING ON A BOLT ON THE CONE. DR. PRESCRIBED PRESCRIPTION ANTI-INFLAMMATORY & LIGHT WORK, NO LIFTING OVER TEN POUNDS FOR 7 DAYS.