#7-300 Crusher C PortableMetal/Nonmetal

Employee changing metal screen section from aggregate screening trailer. While pulling metal screen (6'x8' @ 60 lbs) employee sufferred muscle tissue pain in right forearm.

Employee descending fabricated steel ladder to grade. As employee stepped from the last rung of the ladder with his left foot he stepped upon a rock on grade at the ladder's base. Employee mildly strained his left knee.

Employee inside impactor cutting bolts with an acetylene/oxygen torch. Employee lit and used torch without event when suddently the torch flared. Employee either: 1. pinched the gas lines and then un-pinched the lines which resulted in a gas surge, or 2. accidently opened the acetylene valve on the torch. Employee burned - 2nd degree - on left side of his face.

EMPLOYEE IS A GROUNDMAN ON A PORTABLE CRUSHER. DUE TO SPILLAGE OF PROCESSED AGGREGATE FROM EQUIPMENT AND CONVEYORS, HE HAD TO ACTIVELY PERFORM SHOVELING AS PART OF HIS SHIFT DUTIES. DUE TO FR EQUENT SHOVELING HE SUFFERED A PINCHED NERVE IN HIS NECK WHICH REQUIRED CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT.

EE PERFORMING MAINTENANCE ON NON-OPERATING FEED HOPPER/ JAW CRUSHER. ACCESS TO WORK AREA RESTRICTED REQUIRING EE TO STOOP AND CRAWL. UPON ENTERING THE WORK AREA THE EE STOOD UP, STRIKING ONE O F THE 4"" BY 4"" HORIZONTAL TUBE STEEL SUPPORTS OFTHE FEED HOPPERS WINGS. EE WAS WEARING A HARD HAT AND SAFETY GLASSES. EE SUFFERED ABRASIONS AND CONTUSIONS TO HIS FACE, AND LACERATION R EYE.