ANDERSON QUARRY: 102 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Employee was washing under a conveyor with a high pressure hose. When he re-positioned himself, and crouched down, he lost balance and turned his foot over, causing injury to his ankle. Initial examination on 2/20, with follow-up for cast and work restrictions defined on 2/22/13

EE was prying loose a single rock that was wedged in the #3 feeder, the rock dislodged, struck the track bar that was being used, causing the bar to pinch EE thumb between the bar and feeder chute work.

LARGE ROCK FLOPPED OUT OF LOADER BUCKET CAUSING THE LOADER TO ROCK AND THE OPERATOR HIT HIS LEFT SHOULDER ON THE ROPS POST IN THE CAB.

WHILE PUTTING STARTER ON CAT 988B LOADER, THE MECHAINC STRAINED HIS GROIN MUSCLES. ACCIDENT REPORTED 8/2/02.

ROCKS SLID DOWN ONTO RT. KNEE CAUSING BRUISE, WORK RESTRICTION INJURY/INCIDENT NOT REPORTED UNTIL WED. MAY 22, 2002.

EE WAS USING A PRY BAR TO REMOVE A ROCK FROM A CHUTE. THE BAR SLIPPED & HE HIT HIS FINGER ON THE EDGE OF THE CHUTE

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING OUT OF A CHUTE WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HIS KNEE TWISTED.

FELL THROUGH JAW CRUSHER APPROX 10' MOVABLE JAW WAS NOT STATIONARY-EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A WEDGE.

WHILE CUTTING INSULATION TO INSTALL A CONDUIT BOX, THE KNIFE THAT EMPLOYEE WAS USING SLIPPED, CUTTING EMPLOYEE'S LEFT THUMB. SIX STITCHES WERE REQUIRED TO CLOSE WOUND.

WHILE HELPING TO GUIDE A CRUSHER MOTOR INTO PLACE, EE'S LEFT FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF THE CATWALK (OTHER FOOT WAS ON THE MOTOR BASE)ONTO CONVEYOR C-1APPROX 36", HIS RIGHT HAND INDEX FINGER MADE CON TACT WITH THE MOTOR BASE WHERE IT WAS STRUCK BY A LINE BAR HE HAD BEEN HOLDING

A WELDER WAS WELDING A PLATE INTO THE PRIMATY DUMP HOPPER. INJURED (THE PRIMARY OPERATOR) WAS PRESENT. HE WAS CLEANING ROCK AWAY FROM ANOTHER AREA TO BE WELDED. HE WAS APPROX 5' FROM THE WELDI NG ARC.

EE WAS USING A PRY BAR WHEN IT SLIPPED COMING UP AND STRIKING HIM IN THE EYE.

HE WAS OFF OF 980C CAT LOADER WHEN THE BOTTOM STEP BROKE CAUSING HIM TO PUT ALL OF HIS BODY WEIGH ON HIS UPPER BODY CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN HIS LEFT ARM, SHOULDER AND NECK.

EE WAS SHOVELING WHEN A ROCK BOUNCED OFF A SCREEN FALLING APPROX 50FT STRICKING HIS LOWER BACK CRACKING THREE (3) RIBS

THE OPERATOR WAS LOADING A TRUCK WHEN HE TURNE DON THE FAN CAUSING THE FAN TO PICK UP A SMALL AMOUNT OF DURT OR DUST AND BLOWING IT INTO HIS LEFT EYE.

WORKING WITH WELDER REC FLASH FROM WELD BURNS TO BOTH EYES

EMPL WAS CLEANING UP BALLROCK IN PIT. HE WAS OPERATIN D8CAT DOZER. ROCK GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN BLADE & OLLER FRAME. EMPL PULLED ON ROCK. ROCK CAME OUT EASIERR THAN HE EXPECTED. HE DID NOT HAVE GOO D GRIP ON IT., HE DROPPED IT & IT SLID DOWN LEG CAUSING LACERATION TO LEFT SHIN. ROCK WEIGHED ABOUT 40 LBS.

EMPL WALKING DOWN CATWALK AFTER UNCHOKING HOPPER AT 3" SURGE BELT.STUMBLED & FELL HITTING KNEE AGAINST KICKBOARD.THERE WERE COUPLE OF ROCKS THAT MUST HAVE CAUSED HIM TO TRIP.

EMPL & LOADER OPERATOR WERE CLEARING BOULCERS FROM HIGHWALL PRIOR TO BLASTING BY LOADING BOULDER ON TRUCK & DUMPING ELSEWHERE. LOADER DUMPED BOULDER IN TRUCK JARRING INJURED CAB OF TRUCK. INJ URED WEARING SEATBELT. INJURED FELT SOME INITRIAL PAIN BUT SOON FELT MORE SEVERE PAIN. SENT TO DR WHO DIAGNOSED INJURY AS ACUTE BACK STRAIN. GIVEN MEDICATION & SENT HOME. THERAPY UNDERWAY.

EE WAS CLEANING UP IN THE SHOP. HE STARTED FEELING PAIN IN THE LOWER LEFT GROIN AREA THERE WAS NOTHING SPECIFIC THAT CAUSED IT. HE HAD SURGERY FOR A HERNIA IN THE RIGHT GROIN AREA JULY 24TH, L 989. THIS SEEMS TO BE A WEAK AREA.

WELDER WAS WELDING TOO NEAR ANOTHER WELDER HE HAD BEEN USING A ROSEBUD TO HEAT THE SHOVEL BUCKET BEFORE STARTING TO WELD HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES WHILE USING THE ROSEBUD HE WORE PROPER EQ UIPMENT WHEN HE WAS WELDING HE BURNED HIS EYES BY BEING TOO CLOSE TO ANOTHER WELDER HE GOT THE BACKFLASH

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING CABLE ON THE 80D DROPBALL.HE STEPPED ON THE CABLE TO HOLD IT WHILE HE TIED A KNOT.WHEN HE STEPPED ON THE CABLE THERE WAS A PIECE OF THREAD STICKING UP.THE THREAD WENT TH ROUGH HIS BOOT AND INTO HIS RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING THE OIL IN THE PUMP.THE PUMP WAS MOUNTED TO A BARGE.HE STEPPED DOWN FROM THE BANK OF THE SERVICE TRUCK ONTO THE BARGE.WHEN HE DID HE SLIPPED WHICH CAUSED HIM TO HIT HIS L ITTLE FINGER ON THE BARGE.THE BARGE WAS SITTING IN MUD WHICH CAUSED IT TO BE SLIPPERY.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING UNDERNEATH THE SCALES. HE WAS USING A HAND SHOVEL WHEN HE STARTED FEELING PAIN IN THE LOWER RT SIDE GROIN AREA. HE FINISHED THE SHIFT OUT AND DID NOT REPORT ANYTHING THA T DAY. MONDAY JULY 10TH HE CAME IN AND REPORTED IT. HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR AND WAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVING A HERNIA. THE DOCTOR DID NOT PRESCRIBE ANY MEDICATION.

EMPLOYEE WAS PREPARING TO MOVE SHOVEL TO ANOTHER LOACTION. THE HOIST BRAKE HAD BEEN IN A LOCKED POSTION OVERNIGHT. EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO ENGAGE BRAKE. BRAKE RELEASED AND HIT EMPLOYEE IN RIG HT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING NUTS ON BELT SKIRT BRACING USEING 15/16 OPEN END WRENCH. EMPLOYEE DID NOT HAVE WRENCH PROPERLY ON NUT, WHEN PULLED TO TIGHTEN, WRENCH SLIPPED OFF CAUSING OTHER END TO STRIKE EMPLOYEE IN THE LEFT SIDE OF MOUTH BREAKING 3RD. TOOTH FROM MIDLINE OFF EVEN WTH GUM. TOOTH WAS PULLED AND MORE DENTAL WORK IS REQUIRED. SAFETY MEETING HELD ON CORRECT USE OF HAND TOO

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING DROPCORD TO ELECTRICIAN WORKING ON ROOF OF TRAILER. HE STEPPED ON 1/32" THICK FIBERGLASS SKYLIGHT UNDERLAID WITH STYROFOAM. HE FELL THROUGH ONTO FLOOR OF TRAILER HITTING BACK OF HEAD AND LEFT SIDE ON CONTACT WITH FLOOR. RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS FOR ABOUT 20-3- MINS DURING WHICH TIME WAS TRANSPORTED TO HOSPITAL.

EMPL WAS HELPING LOOSEN & REMOVE WEDGE FROM CONE CRUSHER PINS. SECOND EMPL WAS TAKING TURN STRIKING WEDGE WITH S LEDGE HAMMER. SECOND EMPL STRUCK WEDGE THAT WAS ALREADY LOOSEDEN & WAS MISS ING ITS RETAINER. WEDGE POPPED OUT OF ITS SLOT & STRUCK INJURED ON FOOT CAUSING BRUISE & SWELLING. FIRST AID APPLIED AT PLATNT. EMPL WORKED NEXT 3 REGULAR WORKING DAYS BUT SELLING & PAIN

EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING TO REPOSITION A HYDRAULIC HAMMER AT THE JAW CRUSHER WHEN HE STEPPED ON THE END OF A PACKING CRATE BOARD THAT WAS LEFT AT THE HOB SITE.THIS BOARD HAD A NAIL IN IT AND WHEN THE EMPLOYEE ST9PPED ON IT,THE NAIL PENETRATED HIS BOOT SOLE AND PARTWAY INTO THE SKIN OF HIS LEFT FOOT.DAMAGE TO THE FOOT WAS MINOR,BUT EMPLOYEE WAS SENT TO COMPANY DOCTOR FOR A TETANUS SHOT.

EMP WAS KNOCKIN1 OUT A STUCK PIN ON THE BRAKE ASSEMBLY ON WATER TRUCK USING HAMMER AND BRASS ROD. HAMMER HAD SLIGHTLY ROUNDED HEAD. WHEN EMP STRUCK RAS ROD WITH HAMMER, THE SLIGHTLY ROUNDED HE HEAD MISSTRUCK 7HE BRASS ROD AND HIT EMP ON LEFT HAND CAUSING SOME SOFT TISSUE DAMAGE TO HAND

SERVICE TRUCK D9IVEN BY ANOTHER EMPLOYEE FOLLOWING VICTIM STRUCK VICTIMS TRUCK IN REAR CAUSING VICTIM TO STRAIN NECK BACKWARDS FROM IMPACT HE WAS NOT PREPARED FOR, SERVICE TRUCK DIDNT HAVE GOO D STOPPING ABIL3TY SINCE WELDER ON R EAR OF TRUCK LESSENED THE FRONT ENDS CONTACT WITH ROAD, TRUCK VICTIM WAS OPERATING MADE TO TURN, STRIKING TRUCK WAS TOO CLOSE ALSO, LESSENED BRAKING POWER

I,NAME WAS REMO5ING A WATER PIPE. IN DOING THE JOB HE SAT DOWN IN A PATCH OF POISON AOK A FEW DAYS LATER HE BECAME INFECTED &3 ITCHING.

I NAME WAS HAUL3NG ROCK OUT OF QUARRY A BEE FLEW IN THE EUCLID AND STUNG HIM HS HE IS ALLERGIC TO BEE STINGS

PIPE WRENCH SLI1PED WHILE REMOVING FILL PIPE ON GAS TANK. BECAUSE OF THE SLIP, HE FELL BACK ON HIS RIGHT HAND CAUSING AESULTING IN A SPRINED WRIST. THE WRENCH FELL ON HIS CHEST CAUSING A BRUIS ED RIB. 3

CHANGING SCREEN REMOVING SCREEN FRAME WHICH REQUIRES SOME LIFTING CAUSING MUSCLE SPASMS IN SHOULDERS.

I NAME HE WAS GETTING OUT OF TRUCK WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED OF STEPP PULLING HIS LEFT SHOULDER OUT OF PLACE WHEN HE FELL OFF OF TRUCK.

I NAME WAS UNDER A CONVEYOR SHOVELING WET SAND. STRAINED RIGHT HAND.

THE INJURED WAS CLEANING UP AROUND PLANT THROUGHING TRASH IN TRASH BARREL. PICKED UP A PIECE OF PIPE, STIRRED FIRE UP LAID PIPE DOWN & STOOD ON IT CAUGHT THE BOTTOM OF PANTS LEG ON FIRE BURNING THE BACK OF LEG.

JERRY WAS NOT WATCHING WHERE HE WAS GOING WITH DRILL BACK IT INTO A PILE OF ROCKS ON SIDE OF SHOT THE OPERATORS STEP DISLODGE A ROCK IT ROLLED DOWN HITTING JERRY ON BACK OF LEGS

WAS OPERATING TRUCK WHEN SHOVEL BUCKET ACCIDENTLY HIT TRUCK BODY THAT GROVE WAS OPERATING CAUSING A WHIP LASH TO HIS NECK

REACHED DOWN TO PICK UP CHAINS THAT GO TO DROP BALL MACHINE.FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS BACK.

TIGHTING BOLTS ON CRUSHER