ASHCOM QUARRY AND MILL: 262 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

At the wash plant walking down the steps slipped on the steps which were wet and oily tried to catch self on hand rail and sprained right shoulder.

Employee was cleaning a box under a conveyor that was shoulder high. EE was using a 6-foot digging bar when EE felt a pain in EE's right shoulder requiring medical examination and lost time. Employee returned to work 9/23/2020

Changing dust screens at Wash Plant strained right knee in confined space. Employee submitted accident report on 9/16/16 but did not notify Superintendent that they were having surgery till 10/25/16. Employee is scheduled for surgery 11/3/16. Employee has been working normal job duties in the meantime.

Cleaning out silo with shovel, scraping and shoveling, strained lower right back.

Employees were flipping hammers at a horizontal crusher - STEDMAN CRUSHER. While flipping hammers, you have to move them to align them up. Employee caught middle finger under hammer with gloves on. Employee never looked till break time at approximately 9:00 to check out his finger. Employee reported right away.

Breaking concrete slabs and stepped on a piece of heavy wire and punctured right foot. Foot swelled up next day and required hospitalization.

EE jumped down from conveyor apprx. 3 ft to ground and strained back, he went to his personal chiropractor and continued to work. On 5/10 he was working at VSI and leaned back to put up angle iron and back tightened up, next a.m. he was unable to work and went to see a chiropractor and was restricted from work.

EE was walking along cat walk and slipped on ice, he tried to catch himself with his left hand and dislocated his left ring finger in the process.

Employee was stacking bags of lime and twisted lower back, which caused a strain. He is currently being treated by a chiropractor daily.

WHILE CUTTING WIRE HARNESS, KNIFE SLIPPED & CUT LEFT HAND. RECEIVED 7 STITCHES TO PALM.

WALKING DOWN STAIRS & TWISTED ANKLE.

SLIPPED GETTING OUT OF PAYLOADER. STRAINED BACK AND SHOULDER. 12-31-01 WENT TO DOCTOR AND AUTHORIZED RESTRICTED WORK.

DIGGING OUT CONCRETE WITH LOADER MADE SUDDEN MOVEMENT AND JARRED EMPLOYEE'S BACK.

EMPLOYEE TRIPPED GOING DOWN STAIRS AT PUMP IN THE QUARRY, CAUGHT SELF WITH HAND RAILS.

AFTER JACK HAMMERING EE STARTED HAVING PAINS IN HIS CHEST, BACK, AND LEFT ARM. ON 10-27-00 STARTED HAVING PAIN AGAI WENT TO E.R. AND WAS ADMITTED.

CUTTING WIRE TIES WITH PIN KNIFE & SLICED THUMB ON UPWARD MOTION.

WRENCH SLIPPED HWIE WORKING ON MOTOR AND CAME DOWN ON FINGER.

CLIMBING OUT OF TRUCK SLIPPED ON STEP AND STRAINED BACK.

CUTTING WIPER MATERIAL WITH UTILITY KNIFE KNIFE SLIPPED & SLICED RIGHT THUMB

SWINGING A 16 LB SLEDGE HAMMER, HITTING A PIN AT GROUND LEVEL AND OVER EXTENDED ARM.

EE WAS DISMOUNTING LOADER STEPPED ON UNEVEN GROUND AND TWISTED ANKLE.

WORKING ON TURNPIKE GATE REPLACING IDLER SPOOL AND SHAFT. THUMB WAS SMASHED IN BETWEEN THE GATE & SPOOL, WHILE OTHER EES WERE TRYING TO PLACE GATE IN CORRECT POSITION.

EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING PUNCH FOR OTHER EMPLOYEE AND THE EMPLOYEE MISSED THE PUNCH AND HIT EMPLOYEE'S LEFT HAND WITH A BALL PIN HAMMER.

PUSHING TURNPIKE GATE TO CLOSE IT AND PULLED BACK.

EMPLOYEE WALKED FROM QUARRY FLOOR TO EMPLOYEE PARKING AREA IN COLD WEATHER AND SLUSH. BOTH FEET AND TOES SUFFERED FROST BITE DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS AND PREVIOUS HEALTH PROBLEMS THE EMPLOYEE HAD.

WORKING AT SURGE PILE, EMPLOYEE FIXING BELT, ROLLER FELL FROM UPPER BELT, EMPLOYEE TOOK OFF RUNNING TO AVOID FALLING ROLLER AND FELL FACE DOWN AND SCRAPED FRINT SIDE OF BODY, AND TWISTED BACK. EMPLOYER NOTIFIED EMPLOYER SEEING CHIROPRACTOR ON 12/5/97.

GETTING IN AND OUT OF TRUCK, WHILE HOLDING STEERIGN WHEEL,FELT PAIN STARTING IN WRIST. PLEASE NOTE: ATTENDED MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF BEDFORD CO. REGULAR DR. IS DR. SLICK.

WAS GOING INTO RESTROOM STALL, WENT TO TURN AROUND TO CLOSE DOOR AND BACK SNAPPED CAUSING NERVE ON RIGHT SIDE TO BE PINCHED WHICH CAUSED NO FEELING ON THAT SIDE OF BODY. AFTER THIS OCCURED HE FELL WHILE IN THE RESTROOM STALL.

STARTED UP STEPS AND THE ROPE THAT HOLDS THE BALANCE WEIGHT BROKE, CEMENT BLOCK ROLLED DOWN ON SHOULDER, NECK AND JAW. KNOCKED HIM BACK AGAINST 55 GALLON BARRELS

WORKING ON 100 HRP MOTOR PLS PLANT. CHANGING SHIVES ON MOTOR, PUSHING WITH ARMS. STRAINED GROIN.

PUSHING ON HAMMER AT CHIP PLANT WITH LEFT LEG. EMPLOYER WAS NOT TOLD OF INJURY UNTIL 5-14 AND EE WAS DIAGNOSED ON 5-23 WITH A RUPTURED GROIN.

EE SHOVELING DUST AND STONE AT PULVERIZING PLANT TO CLEAN UP AREA AND STRAINED BACK WHILE TWISTING.

EMP WORKING AT BLACKTOP DRAG, PULLING ON WRENCH TOWARDS BODY AND STRAINED LEFT SIDE OF BACK.

EE WAS WORKING AT CONCRETE PLANT SECURING A WIREHE MISSED CLASP & HIT LEFT FOREFINGER

EE WAS WORKING ON RAM AT 50 X 60 CRUSHER, HOLDING UP ONE END OF HYDRAULIC CYLINDER. WHILE THEY WERE TRYING TO LINE IT UP, THE CYLINDER SLIPPED & FELL ON HIS LEFT FOOT. AT THE TIME OF ACCIDENT IT WAS RAINING & STARTING TO FREEZE.

LIFTING & PULLING A PIECE OF STEEL OUT OF STEEL RACK & THAT'S WHEN THE PAIN STARATED IN LOWER BACK.

OVER A PERIOD OF 18-20 YRS, EE WORE HIP OUT LOADING TRUCKS & PALLETS. TWISTING AND TURNING OF HIP WHILE PERFORMING JOB. EE HAD DRS APPT WHICH WERE JUST EXAMINATIONS, WH ICH LED TO SURGERY BEING SCHEDULED FOR 1-23-97. EE LAID OFF 12-20-96 DUE TO LACK OF WORK. NO WORK TIME LOST DUE TO SURGERY

EE WAS CLIMBING LADDER AND SLIPPED AND CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH RIGHT ARM. INITIAL VISIT TO DR. WAS JUST AND EXAM. SECOND VISIT TO DR. WAS PRESCRIBED MUDICINE AND A SLING.

EE STEPPED OUT OF EUC ONTO UNEVEN GROUND AND KNEE MOVED BACK OUT OF PLACE. EE HAS HAD PREVIOUS DR VISITS WHICH HAVE LED TO EE HAVING SURGERY ON 11-26-96

WORKING ON BLADE OF GRADER, STOOPING DOWN ON RIGHT KNEE, STRAINED KNEE WHILE WORKING.

HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO UNCLOG STALLED CONVEYOR AT PORTABLE PLANT, CRAWLED ACROSS HANDRAIL AND GRABBED FOR A HANDHOLD INTO THE CONVEYOR DRIVE BELTS. THERE WAS A GUARD ON BUT STILL ENOUGH ROOM WHE RE GLOVE GOT CAUGHT IN BELT AND PULLED LEFT HAND INTO SHIEVE BELTS.

REMOVING BALANCE WHEEL FROM SCREEN. WHILE HITTING PUNCH WITH HAMMER A SPALL FLEW FROM HAMMER ANDENTERED LEFT SICE OF THE NECK.

EE WAS REMOVING PLATE FROM STEDMAN CRUSHER, PLATE BROKE FREE AND FELL AND CUT EE ON THE FOREHEAD.

EE WAS LAYING ON BACK WORKING UNDER CONVEYOR BELT, INSTALLING WIPER, AND OVER EXTENDED ARM PULLING BACK MUSCLE. NOTE EE WAS PUT ON RESTRICTIVE DUTY AS PER DR ORDERS, HOWEVER DID NOT REFLECT ON CURRENT JOB DUTYS.

EE WAS EMPTYING BARRELS OF SCRAP METAL OFF OF PICKUP, LIFTED BARREL, CAUSING HERNIA.

EE WAS GETTING INTO GRADER AND SPRAINED LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS EMPTING DUST BINS AT BLACKTOP PLANT #1. WHILE GETTING BACK INTO TRUCK SLIPPED, INJURING RIGHT KNEE. SPRAINE DLIGAMENTS.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFING A STEEL PLATEINTO A SYNTRON FEEDER, AND TWISTED HIS BACK. DR. WARNER RD 1 BEDFORD, PA. 15522

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING BAGS OF LIME AT PULVERIZING PLANT. PULLING A MUSCLE IN GROIN AREA. THIS INJURY LATER FOUND OUT TO BE DOUBLE HERNIA. KR. VINCENT MENDEX, RD 1, EVERETT, PA. 15537

A LOADER HAD BEEN BROUGHT TO THE SITE AND WAS BEING PUT TOGETHER. THE CRANE OPERATOR WAS STACKING BLOCKING WHEN A BLOCK OF WOOD FELL AND STRUCK HIM IN THE FACE.

EE WAS CLEANING THE SHOP USING A WHEELBARROW GOT HIS FINGERS BETWEEN WHEELBARROW AND WELDER, SMASHING LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND, REQUIRING NINE SUTURES.

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING CRUSHER APART WAS IN CAGE OF CRANE HAD DUST PIPE HOOKED IN CAGE WHILE BEING LOWERED TO THE GROUND IN CAGE DUST PIPE BECAME CONNECTED WITH CRANE HOOK & UNHOOKED CAGE FROM CR ANE EMPLOYEE FELL APPROX 10 TO 15FEET

WAS IN QUARRY, WORKING ON CRUSHER, USING A WRENCH AND TWISTED HIS BACK.

WAS GETTING OUT OF CRANE AND MISSED THE STEP; GOING DIRECTLY TO THE GROUND. DISLOCATED RIGHT KNEE.

OPERATING PAYLOADER AT BLOCKTOP PLANT. FROM YEARS OF CONSTANT USE OF HIS HAND AND ARM OPERATING HTE LEVERS, WRIST AND FINGERS SWELLED AND BECAME IMMOBILIZED. SURGERY 10-23-90.

WAS MOVING BAGS OF LIME AT PULVERVIZING PLANT AND TWISTED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHILE PERFORMING MAINTENANCE ON A DOZER, FELL DOWN AND TWISTED RIGHT KNEE.

MAN WAS STANDING ON GROUND & WAS HOOKING PIECE OF STEEL GRATING FOR WALKWAY WHEN CRANE STARTED TO LIFT IT INTO AIR WHERE IT WAS TO BE PLACED. HOOK SLIPPED OFF OF GRATING CAUSING IT TO FALL ON GROUND HITTING MAN'S LEFT FOOT PINING HIM TO GROUND.

WHEN GRINDING ON A STEEL BEAM, A PIECE OF METAL BECAME IMBEDDED IN THE LEFT EYE.

MAN WAS CHANGING TIRE ON DUMP TRUCK WHEEL HAD SOME ICE ON INSIDE & WHEN MAN TRIED TO PULL WHEEL OFF HANDS SLIPPED OFF ICE CAUSING HIM TO LOSE BALANCE & TWISTED BACK INJURING IT.

DRIVER WAS GETTING OUT OF TRUCK WITH HIS LEFT FOOT AND HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED ON STEEL ON CAB WHEN HIS FOOR SLIPPED AND OPERATOR FELL TO GROUND DISLOCATING LEFT SHOULDER.

MILL OPERATOR WAS ATTEMPTING TO TURN PULVER IN A MILL WITH A BAR WHICH WAS TIGHT ER T HEN USUAL & MAN STRAIN HIMSELF CAUSING A HERNIA TO LOWER RT.SIDE OF BODY

DRIVER WAS STANDING ON PLATFORM & WAS GOING TO PUT SOAPY AGENT IN TRUCK BED TO KEEP BLACKTOP MATERIAL FROM STICKING TO BED. HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON SPLATFORM & DRIVER FELL WITH RIGHT SHOULDER HIT TING TRUCK BED.

EMPLOYEE REGULAR JOB WAS A BHATCHMAN OF CONCRETE AT THIS TIME OF DAY WE HAD NO CONCRETE ORDERS AND HE WENT OVER TO THE PULVERIZING PLANT TO HELP THE MEN WORKING THERE LOADING 100 LB BAGS ONTO PALLETS. WHILE LIFTING SOME OF THESE BAGS FROM CONVEYOR TO PALLETTS HE TWISTED HIS BODY CAUSING A HERNIA ON HIS LEFT LOWER PART OF ABDOMEN EMPLOYEE WILL GO INTO HOSP 4/6/89 FOR OPERATION WILL

INJURED HAD THE ORIGINAL ACCIDENT ON 4-7-88 AND DID NOT COME BACK TO WORK UNTIL 9-19-88. HE WORKED AT HIS REGULAR JOB UNTIL 10-3-88 WHEN HIS BACK STARTED TO HURT HUM MORE SEVERELY THAT HIS D R TOLD HIM TO STOP WORKING WHICH HE IS STILL OFF FROM HIS REGULAR JOB. HIS DOCTOR TOLD HIM HE COULD DO LIGHT WORK BUT COULD NOT OPERATE HIS TRACTOR-TRAILER.

I NAME HAD A HERNIA OPERATION FROM AN ACCIDENT THAT OCCURED ON 12-9-87 AFTER HIS OPERATION FOR THIS HERNIA HE WAS OFF TILL 2-29-88 WHEN HE CAME BACK TO WORK ON 10-3-88 HE WAS LIFTING BAGS THA T WEIGHED 100 LBS WHICH WAS TO HEAVY FOR HIS BODY TO STAND AND HE RUPTURED HIMSELF AGAIN THIS HERNIS WAS AT THE SAME PLACE ON HIS BODY WHERE HE WAS OPERATED THE FIRST TIME EMPL IS STILL WORKIN

TRUCK DRIVER WAS PULLING ON TARP STRAP USED TO COVER LOAD WHEN STRAP BROKE CAUSING TRUCKER TO LOSE HIS BALANCE AND FELL TO GROUND BRUISING HIS SHOULDER AN D HURTING THE LWER PART OF HIS BACK.

NO NARRATIVE RECEIVED.

WAS LOADING #503IN BAG ONTO WOODEN SKIDS WHEN MAN FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER LFT OF ABDOMEN.

LIFTING ON GEAR3BOX.

MAN WAS SHOVELI3G BELT DROPPINGS ONTO BELT IN TUNNEL.

DRIVER WAS STAN8ING ON FENDER OF EUCLID TRUCK CLEANING HIS WINDSHIELD AND CHECKING ENGINE OIL. ERIVER WAS STEPPING AROUND SIDE MIRROR AND HIS RIGHT FOOT STEPPED ON SOME WET MUD AND GREASE CAUS E FOOT TO SLIP 8RIVER TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF WITH HIS ONE HAND BUT IT SLIPPED OFF IRON BAR AND DRIVER FELL TO THE GROUND CRACKING LEFT RIBS, AND BRUISING HIP, SIDE AND LOWER BACK LEFT SIDE.

OPERATOR WAS ST5RTING TO CLIMB DOWN A MATEL LADDER ALONG SIDE OF DUST TANKER, WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON RUNG AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND.

ACICIDENT HAPPE3ED ON 05/07/86,BUT EMPLOYEE DID NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT UNTIL 07/23/86.WHEN IT STARTED TO BOTHER HIM.HE WENT TO THE BEDFORD CO.MEMORIAL HOSP.WHERE HE WAS EXAMINED BY A DR.AND HIS INJURY WAS 8IAGNOSISED AS MUSCLES PULLED & PINCHED NERVES.HIS SHOULDER STILL BOTHERED HIM AND ON JAN.30,1987 HE WAS OPERATED ON HIS RIGHT SHOULDERFINDING DAMAGE FARTHER DOWN IN SHOULDER.

MAN WAS FUELING A EUCKID TRUCK AND AFTER HE WAS DONE WAS STEPPING DOWN TO THE GROUND AND TWISTED LEFT ANKLE THROWING MAN TO GROUND.

MAN WAS STANDING ON A PALLET WITH BAGS FILLED WITH STONE MATERIAL FROM THIS PILE HE WAS LEANING OVER TO STRAIGHTEN UP A BOX OF EMPTY BAGS THAT WAS THE 3RD BOX HIGH WHEN HE STARTED TO PUT PRES SURE AGAINST IT HE TWISTED BACK

MAN WAS WORKING ON GROUND PUTTING CATWALK TO A CONVEYOR. I NEEDED SOME MORE BOLTS WHICH WERE IN FOREMAN\S TRUCK. IS STARTED TO WALK TOWARDS HIS PICKUP PASSING SOME FORMS THAT WELDERS WERE WORK ING ON. SOMETHING HIT ME ON THE HEAD A PIECE OF STEEL ANGLE IRON.

MAN WAS CLIMBING UP A LADDER INTO A TRUCK BED, WHEN HIS ONE FOOT SLIPPED OF EDGE ON TRUCK BED CAUSING MAN TO LOSE HIS BALANCE AND HE FELL TO THE FLOOR FALLING ON HIS RIGHT HAND & ARM.

MAN WAS SHOVELING STONE THAT HAD FELL OFF CONVEYOR. WHILE SHOVELING MAN TWISTED HIS BACK IN THE LOWER SECTION.