Berlin Plant: 102 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

EE was working on the classifier and had the steel cover opened on the station. The cover fell on and lacerated his left middle finger. EE received six sutures to his middle finger.

The office clerk injured her right wrist when she was moving a box of ticket paper into piece to feed the printer. A wrist splint was applied to support her sprained wrist.

The ee was cutting a piece of rubber with his right hand. He was cutting away from his body and out his left pointer finger (was holding the rubber in place with his left hand) Resulted in taking off distal of left pointer. Work status is restricted duty, must keep clean, dry and covered. Wear finger splint. Follow up on Monday 8/2/10.

EE was walking and did not notice he was standing on ice, the ice was covered with sand. The ice broke and he went down to his shins and jarred his back.

EE stepped in grease before mounting equipment. When EE was climbing ladder to the truck, his foot slipped on step. He held on with one arm and bumped his arm into the trucks fire extingusher holder.

A loading truck was off of the loading road and had his truck stuck in a loading area.Our loader operator was unaware of the vehicle directly behind him and as he backed was unable too see truck and made direct contact.No damage to loader still waiting on quotes for truck.The only injury was a neck strain to loader operator.

EE SLIPPED ON ICE IN PARKING LOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSIDE WORKBOAT PULLING ON POWER CABLE FOR DREDGE WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE STRIKING HIS KNEE AGAINST BOAT AND TWISTING HIS BACK.

EE WAS STEPPING DOWN OFF OF DREDGE PLATFORM AND TWISTED RIGHT FOOT ON WASH HOSE BREAKING LOWER BONE IN RIGHT FOOT.

MECHANIC WAS USING A PRYBAR TO DISENGAGE DRIVE SHAFT FROM HUB OF PARKING BRAKE ASSEMBLY. DRIVE SHAFT SPUN UNEXPECTEDLY AND EE'S FINGER WAS PINCHED BETWEEN PRYBAR AND FRAME OF LOADER. TIP OF IN DEX FINGER WAS CUT OFF.

TWO EMPLPOYEE WERE CHECKING A 125 H.P. PUMP. PUMP HAD LOST PRIME AND WAS RUNNING WITHOUT WATER. THE OTEHR EMPLOYEE TOOK VALVE BONNET OFF AND STEAM ESCAPED & BURNED THEM BOTH.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING A 125 H.P. PUMP. PUMP HAD LOST PRIME AND WAS RUNNING WITHOUT WATER. HE TOOK VALVE BONNET OFF AND STEAM ESCAPED AND BURNED HIM AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE.

EE ATTEMPTED TO CROSS SPUR 536 FROM THE DRIVEWAYOF GEOR. F. PETTINOS, INC., HE STATED HE DID NOTSEE OTHER VEHICLE WHICH WAS TRAVELING WEST ON SPUR 536 AND WAS STRUCK BROADSIDE.

EE WAS LIFTING MAN HOLE COVER OFF HEAVY WEIGHT SCALE AND HURT LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING DRAG LINE CABLE, HE TWISTED & HURT LOWER BACK.

FRONT END LOADER BEGAN TO OVERHEAT. EE REMOVED RADIATOR CAP AND HOT COOLANT BURST OUT OF RADIATOR AND SPLASHED EE ON THE FACE, ARM AND LEG.

INJURED WAS SITTING IN A MOXY HAUL TRUCK GETTIN GLOADED. THE OTHER TRUCK CAME TO GET LOADED AS HE BACKED UP HE RAN INTO THE FIRST TRUCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING CUTTING EDGES FROM A 966 CAT FRONT END LOADER HE REMOVED THE LAST BOLT & THE CUTTING EDGE FELL ON HIS RT BIG TOE EMPLOYEE CONTINUED WORKING BUT AFTER SIX HOURS ON THE JO B HIS TOE SWELLED UP EMPLOYEE THEN WENT TO HIS DOC WHO TREATED HIM FOR PAIN & SWELLING EMPLOYEE GOT XRAYS THE FOLLOWING DAY

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING BAR SAND FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER HE HIT A PIPE IN THE GOUND WITH THE FRONT END LOADER FRONT END LOADER JARRED CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO HIT HIS CENTER RT ABDOMIN ON THE STEE RING WHEEL

EE WAS ASSISTING TO PUT A 250 H.P. MOTOR ON PUMP HOUSE TRIPED OVER MOTOR CAME APART AND HIT EE IN THE HEAD.

EMPL INSTALLING PIPE LINE.HE WAS BEING LIFTED OUT OF TRENCH AND SLIPPED & FELL OFF EXCAVATOR BUCKET ONTO GROUND.

EE WAS MOVING PIECES OF METAL PLATE IN SHOP IT SLIPPED AND CUT HIS LEFT HAND.

EMPL PULLING TORCH TO HOOK UP TO BACK OF PICKUP TRUCK,SLIPPED IN SAND AND IT SLIPPED AND CUT HAND.

OPER. WAS STOCK PJILING PLANT. AS HE WA> GETTING OUT OF DUMP TRUCK DOOR SHIUT ON HAND.

EMPL WAS PICKING UP STEEL BED IN SCREEN AND PULLED LOWER BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING HARD ON GEAR SHIFT TO TRY TO FREE MACHINE FROM BEING STUCK. HE JAMMED HIS RIGHT WRIST.

OPERATOR WAS ASSISTING PERSONNEL FROM MILLVILLE IRON WORKS HE WAS ON ONE END OF A 12 IN I BEAM HELPING TO LINE IT UP SO IT COULD BE WELDED WHEN EMPLOYEE PICKED HIS END OF THE II BEAM UP HE FEL T A SHARP PAIN IN HIS RT SIDE

EMP WAS ASSISTING IN INSTALLATION OF A PULLEY ON A STACKER, HE WAS GUIDING THE PULLEY INTO POSITION WHEN THE CHAIN LIFTING THE PULLEY BROKE LOOSE FROM THE BUCKET HOOK OF FRONT END LOADER

2 OPERTORS, ONE OPERATING 966 OADER ONE OPERATING A SCRAPER WAGON PARKED THEIR MACHINES SIDE BY SIDE, OPPOSIT DIRECTIONS FOR ACONVERSATION. EMP STEPPED FROM CAB OF SCRAPER ONTO STEP UP LADDE OF 966 LOADER. AFTER CONVERSATION EMP STARTED TO STEP BACK INTO THE SCRAPER CAB AND AT SAME TIME THE 966 L OADER OPERATOR STARTED HIS LOADER, IT STARTED TO

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING PUSHING OFF LARGE LUMPS OF FROZEN CLAY FROM FEED BELT CONVEYOR TO PREVENT THEM FROM GOING INTO THE WASH PLANT. A LARGE LUMP OF THE MATERIAL FELL ONTO THE EMPLOYEE S FOOT.

EMP WAS ASSISTI3G IN THE INSTALLATION OF CROWN BAR RUBBER ON SCRREN DECK. HE WA SUSING A 1/2 IN X 4 IN LONG PIECE OF PIPE TO FORCE BAR RUBBER IN P OSITION. PIPE SLIPPED AND END OF PIPE CAME UP AND HIT EMP IN 3THE MOUTH

EMPLOYEE BECAME3INVOLVED IN ROUGH PLAY WITH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE, HE FELL AGAINST THE CORNER OF WORK TABLE AND STRUCK HIS HEAD.

EMPLOYEE AND FE5LOW EMPLOYEE WERE CARRYING A VIBRTOR TO THE AREA OF THE FEED HOPPER, PREPARING FOR THE INSTALLATION OF THE SAME. EMPLOYEE LOST HIS BALANCE AND STRUCK HIS SHOULDER AGAINST THE W ALL OF THE FEED3HOPPER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CL3MBING UP THE STEPS TO ENTER THE CAB OF A 633 CAT SCRAPER WAGON. EMPLOYEE SAID HIS FOOT WAS WET AND HE SLIPPED ON THE STEPS.

EMPLOYEE WAS BR9AKING UP AND DISLODGING LARGE CLAY LUMPS IN THE SYNTRON FEED BOS HIS RT FOOT WAS POISITIONED BETWEEN A CLAY LUMP AND A BAR IN THE SYNTRON FEED BOX A FELLOW EMPLOYEE ASSISTING I N THE BREAKING 6P OF THE LUMPS APPARENTLY PRESSURED THE LUMP AGAINST I.NAMES FOOT CAUSING IT TO BE PINCHED BETWEEN THE LUMP AND THE BAR

EMP WAS ASSISTI3G IN CLEANING OUT OF HEAD FEED BOX. A LARGE TREE STUMP HAD BEEN FED INTO THE BOX. WITH ASSISTANCE OF FELLWO EMP THEY HAD PLACED THE STUMP ON THE NEARBY WALKWAY, AS THEY START TO PUCH THE STU4P OVERBOARD, PART OF THE STUMP PROJECTING OUT HIT EMPLOYEE

EMPLOYEE AFTER 7LEANING OUT THE SIMPLICITY SCREEN HEAD BOX WAS PREPARING TO TURN ON A WATER VALVE.FELLOW EMPLOYEE WITHOUT WAITING FOR AN ALL CLEAR SIGNAL,TURNED ON THE POWER TO THE FFED BELT O N WHICH THE EMP5OYEE WAS STANDING AND CAUSED THE EMPLOYEE TO LOSE HIS BALANCE AND THREW HIM INTO THE FEED BOX.

EMPLOYEE WAS LO5DING A 4'X12" PIECE OF H-BEAM INTO A BUCKET OF A FRONT END LOAER.AFTER THROWING THE METAL IN THE BUCKET, IT BOUNCED BACK AND DROPPED TO THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS RE4OVING A BOLT FROM A CABLE CLAMP WITH A RATCHET WRENCH.THE WRENCH SLIPPED OFF THE BOLT AND CAME UP AND HIT EMPLOYEE,STRIKING A FORNT TOOTH.

EMPL FREEING HA3DLE OF VISE AS HE PULLED ARM BACK HE FELT SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS MO5ING A 6'X20' TABLE INPOSTION UNDER A HOIST TO MAKE REPAIRS ON A PULLEY. WHILE MOVING THE TABLE HE STEPPED ON A PIPE LAYING CLOSE BY AND HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND TWISTED HIS LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS CU7TING A 10 INCH DIA PIPE WITH A TORCH STANDING ON A WALKWAY ABOUT 11 FT ABOVE GBRXX GROUND. PIPE WAS ON THE SAME LEVEL AS WALKWAY. EMPLOYEE HAD ALREADY CUT A SECTION AT A LOVER LEVEL. THE PIP9 SECTION WITH 1, INCH DIA VALVE ATTACHED STARTED MOVING TOWARDS EMPLOYEE AND THEN PLUNGED TO THE GROUND. EMPLOYEE REALIZING THE PIPE STARTED TO MOVE SIDESTEPPED ON THE WALKWAY,

I.NAME WAS STOC5PILING CONCRETE SAND MATERIAL. HE LOOKED TO THE LEFT & THE RIGHT, BUT NOT IN THE REAR. WHEN BACKING UP THE LOADER HE STRUCK A ARTICULATED DUMP TRUCK THAT WAS PASSING BY ON TH E PLANT ROADWAY1 STOCKPILE IS APPROX 36' FROM ROADWAY

EMPLOYEE SITTIN1 ON AN I-BEAM,ATOP A STEEL STRUCTURE,USING AN ACETYLENE TORCH.CUTTING OUT PIECES OF STRUCTURE.EMPLOYEE'S FOOT SLIPPED AND KNOCKED ACETYLENE TORCH AGAINST HIS LEFT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WORKIN1 ON THE DISMANTLING OF STEEL STRUCTURE. FOREIGN OBJECT FLEW INTO EMPLOYEE'S LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE REACHE8 INTO TOOL DRAWER FOR A WRENCH & JAMMED LEFT HAND.

EE WAS HOLDING 5 4'X3' PIECE OF LINATEX WHILE ANOTHER EE WAS CUTTING OUT A PIECE OF LIATEX FOR CHUTE LINING. THE KNIFE SLIPPED FROM EES HAND & LANDED ON EES AHND.

EMPL ASSTING IN3REMOVAL AND INSTALLATION OF SET OF CONVEYOR ROLLERS ON ASPHALT HORIZONTAL CONVEYOR.

FOUR SCRAPERS W5GONS WERE TRAVELING THE PLANT HAUL ROAD, 3 WERE GOING NORTH, ONE GOING SOUTH. THE THIRD SCRAPER SIDESWIPED THE ONE SCRAPER TRAVELING SOUTH. CONDITIONS AT TIME WERE DUSTY BECAUS E OF HEAVY EQUI1MENT RAISING THE DUST. THE THREWW SCRAPER WAGONS TRAVELING NORTH WERE OUTSIDE CONTRACTOR.

EMP WAS ASSISTI3G IN REMOVING A P12438HE25 BEND PULLEY AFTER REMVOING THE BOLTS EMP WAS PULLING THE BEND PULLEY FROM THE CONVEYOR FRAME BY GRASPING THE BEARING END OF THE PULLEY THE PULLEY DRO DROPPED SUDDENL2 AND PINNED EMPLOYEES LEFT HAND AGAINST THE FRAME AND BEARING OF BEND PULLEY

TWO EMPLOYEES, I.NAME & I. NAME 2 WERE CLOSING THE PLANT GATE. I.NAME WAS PROPELLING THE PIPE STYLE GATE BY WALKING & PUSHING WITH HIS BACK NEXT TO THE GATE. I.NAME 2 WAS BENDING OVER PICKING UP THE CHAIN & LOCK T O SECURE THE GATE. AS THE GATE WAS CLOSING IT STRUCK I,NAME 2

OPERATOR WAS STOCKPILING USING A FRONT END LOADER, WIND HAD BEEN BLOWING AND PICKED UP SOME GRIT AND THE GRIT BLEW INTO OPERATORS RIGHT EYE AND THE EYE BECAME IRRITATED

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING THE DREDGE OPERATOR IN THE LOADING OF A ROW WORK BOAT ON TO A \80 CHEV. PICK-UP TRUCK. I.NAME LOST HIS FOOTING ON THE UNEVEN GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS BURNING OFF BOLTS OF A 966 CAT FRONT END LOADER CUTTING EDGE. WHEN STARTING TO BURN OFF THE LAST BOLT, THE BOLT SNAPPED ANDTHE CUTTING EDGE FLEW OFF & STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON THE RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS TURNING THE V-BELTS OF A SHAFT ON A 66" SAND SCREW BY HAND TO GET TO BOLTS THAT WERE TO BE REMOVED FOR NEEDED REPAIRS. EMPLOYEE STRAINED HIS BACK IN SO DOING.

I NAME USING A CUTTING TORCH WAS CUTTING OFF A 18 DIA SHEAVE OFF A 3-7-16" SHAFT A PIECE OF HOT METAL OR SPARK FELL ON I NAME S LEG SHOE AND BURNED THROU ONTO HIS INSTEP.

EMPL ASSISTING INSTALLATION OF NEW SCREEN DECK FOR 48\\ X 12\ TRIPLE DECK VIBRATING SCREEN.FELLOW EMPL I.NAME SAW I.NAME FALL BUT DOESNT KNOW WHY HE FELL OR WHAT CAUSED HIT TO FALL. I.NAME FEL INTO RECEIVING HOPPER AT BASE OF SCREEN.