BOX CANYON PLANT: 2 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

EE WAS WORKING ON FRONT END LOADER WHEN TH EWIND BLEW THE DOOR SHUT, HITTING HIM IN THE HEAD, BELOW HIS HELMET, CAUSING A SCALP LACERATION. WIND CONDITIONS WERE SEVERE WITH GUSTS OF UP TO 50 M ILES AN HOUR.

EE HAD BEEN CHANGING SCREENS AT THE PLANT. HE FELT PAIN IN LEFT SHOULDER & BACK BUT IT WENT AWAY. HE LATER WENT HOME & FELT SOME PAIN WHILE SHOWERING & AS THE NIGHT PROGRESSED, THE PAIN INCREA SED. HE REPORTED HIS PAIN/INJURY TO THE PLANT FOREMAN THE NEXT DAY. HE SAID HE FELT LIKE HE STRAINED HIS BACK AND LEFT SHOULDER. NO CAUSE WAS GIVEN FOR INJURY.

EE WAS REMOVING TIPS FROM LOG WASHER SHIFT AND DROPPED ONE ON HIS FOOT.

EE WAS REMOVING BOLTS FROM SPRING CAGE ON DOZER WITH AN IMPACT WRENCH. THE SPRING RETAINER WAS BROKEN AND STACKED UP. THIS CAUSED MORE PRESSURE ON THE SPRING AND IT CAUSED THE RETAINER CAP TO MOVE FORWARD AND MASH HIS HAND BETWEEN THE CAP AND THE SPRING MOUNT.

ROLLING GREASE DRUMS IN SHOP WHEN HE MASHED AND CUT HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER.

WHILE CLIMBING LADDER ON A SCREENING PLANT, SLIPPED AND APPARENTLY PULLED A GROIN MUSCLE. VISITED A DR., DIAGNOSED AS A TRUNK SPRAIN, INGUINAL. RELEASED TO RETURN TO WORK THE SAME DAY WITH SOM E RESTRICTIONS.

HELPING REMOVE A LARGE NUT ON CONE CRUSHER. THE EDGE OF THE NUT HAD BECOME RAZOR SHARP WITH THE GRINDING OF AGGREGATE. WITH NO GLOVES, EE TOOK HOLD OF THE EQUIPMENT AND THE RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER WAS CUT FROM THE MIDDLE KNUCKLE TO BELOW THE NAIL, REQUIRING SUTURES.

EE PULLED BACK MUSCLE WHILE TRYING TO REMOVE FILTER FROM LOADER. FILTER WAS STUCK AND WOULD NOT TURN. EE STRAINED PULLED MUSCLE TRYING TO UNLOOSEN THE FILTER.

WORKER WAS REPLACING FAN BELTS ON A HAUL TRUCK. HE APPARENTLY WAS USING A SCREWDRIVER TO GET THE BELTS OVER THE PULLEY AND BUMPED THE STARTER TO ROLL THE BELT ON. HOWEVER, THE MOTOR STARTED. T HE LEFT THUMB WAS SEVERED JUST PAST THE NAIL AND APPROX. ONE HALF OF THE LEFT INDEX FINGER WAS SEVERED.

HAMMERING WEDGES ON CONE CRUSHER, MISSED WITH HAMMER AND STRUCK HAND ON BRACE SUPPORTING PART OF THE EQUIPMENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A WAQTER HOWSE & LOST HIS FOOTING IN WET SOIL WHILE FALLING HE TRIED TO BREAK THE FALL WITH HIS RIGHT HAND & CUT IT ON A PIECE OF METAL LYING ON THE GROUND COVERED WITH MUD

EE LOST FOOTING AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED BETWEEN CONE CRUSHER AND CAT WALK INJURING LEFT SHIN.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMED THAT HE WAS REMOVING RADIATOR CAP FROM RADIATOR & HE FELT PAIN IN RT HAND EMPLOYEE CLAIMED THAT HIS HAND CRAMPED & COULDNT STRAIGHTEN FINGERS

ON 06-21-95 EMPLOYEE QUIT-06-22-95 EMPLOYEE CALLED AND REPORTED THAT HE HAD HURT HIS SHOULDER ON 06-17-95 WHILE WORKING ON CONE CRUSHER ON SATURDAY 06-17-95.EMPLOYEE REPORTED THAT HE HAD HURT HIS SHOULDER WHILE USING A SLEDGE HAMMER.

PLANT EMPLOYEES WERE DISMANTLING A 6IN WATER PUMP EE WAS WATDCHING EMPLOYEES DISMANTLE THE WATER PUMP HE WAS CAUTIONED BY TWO EMPLOYEES TO STAY CLEAR OF FRONT PLATE EE BRUSHED UP AGAINST PLATE & IT FELL ON HIS FOOT

BACKED D-8 DOZER OFF EDGE OF BANK.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF A EUCLID TRUCK AND LOST HIS FOOTING & HIT LEFT KNEE ON VEHICLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING A SHOUT THAT EMPTYS ON CONVEYOR BELT & STEPPED DOWN TO GROUND & TURNED HIS RT ANKLE

FEEDER STOPPED UP A WITH A CLOD OF AGGREGATE EE PICKED UP AN ADJUSTABLE WRENCH TO KNOCK OUT THE CLOD. BELT CAUGHT WRENCH AND MASHED EE S THUMB AGAINST FEEDER OPENING.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING TEETH ON L-320 LOADER BUCKET BY USING A SLEDGE HAMMER AND PIECE OF METAL FROM ONE OF THE TEETH HIT EMPLOYEE IN NECK.

WHILE GREASING THE PLANT, HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN A LADDER WHEN HE BUMPED HIS LEFT KNEE. HE REPORTED NOTING INTIL THE NEXT DAY WHEN HE CALLED INTO THE OFFICE.

WHILE PREPARING TRUCK FORSTATE INSPECTION STICKER THE INJURED STEPPED OUT OF TRUCK,TURNING HIS RIGHT ANKLE AND BREAKING IT.HE FIRST THOUGHT HE HAD JUST SPRAINED UT BUT WENT TO THE DOCTOR LATER IN THE EVENING. IT WAS DISCOVERED TO BE BROKEN.

FIXING FLAT ON TRUCK TIRE.WHEN HE PICKED UP TIRE RIM,HE DROPPED IT ON BOTH BIG TOES BREAKING THEM. M.

UNKNOWN CONDITIONS, ON MORNING OF 3/30/88 EMPL CALLED IN STATING HIS BACK WAS HURTING. HE STATED THAT HE DID NOT KNOW WHEN OR HOW HE HURT HIS BACK.

WAS SHOVELING U3DER THE TAIL PULLEY AT THE PLANT SPRAINED BACK

DISMOUNTING LOA8ER - STEPPED ON ROCK

DELIVERY TRUCK 7IRE NEEDING TO BE CHANGED.

REMOVING AIRLINE FROM TRUCK-TRACTOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING TOOLS DOWN STAIRWAY FROM STORAGE TRAILER WHEN HE TRIPPED AND FELL