Bradshaw: 184 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Employee was cutting welds to remove a cover plate to access the inside of a conveyor receiving box. Employee was using a grinder with a cutting wheel when the grinder kicked back striking and knocking off his hard hat and attached face shield. The wheel then struck the employees cheek causing a laceration from the edge of his lip to his cheek approximately 2.5 inches in length.

EE had a Threshold Hearing Shift. EE was originally tested on 6/14/13 and a shift was identified. He was re-tested on 8/29/13 and it was still present.

Employee was removing a guard in order to perform required maintenance. As he pulled on the guard to remove, it sprung back pinching his left pinky finger between the guard and the mounting bolt. Employee was wearing leather gloves.

Trespasser was found in vehicle on property.

EE complaced of knee inj. after holiday weekend.

MALFUNCTION OF THROTTLE CABLE ON 16H BLADE.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON ROCK WHILE WALKING ALONG FIELD CONVEYOR. JOBSITE FIRST AID AT FIRST, EE LATER REQUESTED A DR. TO CHECK-OUT HIS KNEE.

EE WAS OPERATING 631E SCRAPER, REMOVING AND TRANSPORTING OVERBURDEN MATERIAL. THE SCRAPER HIT A ROUGH AREA OF EARTHEN FILL, CAUSING EE TO BUMP HIS HARD HAT AGAINST THE SCRAPER CAB CEILING.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGEDLY WAS BUMPED EXTRA HARD BY A PUSH CAT DOZER. EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING CAT 631 SCRAPER REMOVING OVERBURDEN.

EE USING HAND-HELD POWER TOOL WITH WIRE BRUSH WHEEL. HE WAS CLEANING OLD METAL PARTS. EE WEAR ING SAFETY GLASSES AND FACE-SHIELD FELT SOMETHING IN HIS EYE WHILE DRIVING HOME AFTER SHIFT.

EE HANDLING PIECE OF STEEL WEAR PLATE IN A CONVEYOR FEED CHUTE WHEN THE PLATE DROPPED FROM ITS POSITION AND CUT EE'S FINGER. CUT REQUIRED 5 SUTURES.

EE OPERATING VOLVO ROCK TRUCK HAULING SAND WITHIN THE PLANT. HE REACHED OVER TO HIS RIGHT & TURNED ON A CAB FAN, THEN OPENED THE CAB'S RIGHT SIDE WINDOW. SOMETHING FLEW INTO HIS EYE EITHER FRO M THE FAN OR THE WINDOW.

WATER TRUCK DRIVER PULLED HIS WATER TRUCK UNDER WATER LOAD SPOUT TO FILL 3000 GALLON TANK. HE FELL 8 FEET TO THE GROUND.

EE WAS CHANGING A FITTING IN A ROCK CRUSHER OIL TANK. THE OUTER LID AND INNER LID WERE RAISED UP AND RESTING AGAINST THE BACK WALL. THE INNER LID WAS BUMPED BY ANOTHER LABORER AND THE LID FELL , STRIKING EE'S HAND THAT WAS POSITIONED ON THE EDGE OF THE TANK. EE RECEIVED SIC STITCHES IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS RIGHT PALM.

SCRAPER OPERATOR WAS HAULING MATERIAL INTO FILL AREA. OPERATOR WAS WEARING HARD HAT AND SEAT BELT. HE DROVE INTO FILL AREA AND WAS BUMPED UPWARDS CAUSING IMPACT WITH TOP OF CAB. AFTER MEDICAL EXAM IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE OPERATOR HAD A CERVICAL SPRAIN. RELEASED FOR WORK A WEEK LATER.

EE WATCHING REMOVAL OF LIMBS FROM TREE. TRIMMING OF BUSHES AND TREES REQUIRED FOR INSTALLATION OF NEW PERIMETER FENCING. TREES HAD BEEN CUT AND WERE ON GROUND. FOREMAN EE WAS STANDING BY TREE TRUNK WATCHING THAT CUT LIMBS CAME FREE. AN OLD ABANDONED POWER POLE GUY WIRE WAS SNAGGED BY LIMBS PULLING THE RULES OVER CONTACTING FOREMAN EE.

EE SMASHED HIS RT. LITTLE FINGER WHILE REMOVING PULLEY GUARD. MOVING PARTS WERE LOCKED OUT AND TAGGED. EE SMASHED FINGER ON GUARD.

EE USING 3/4" DRIVE RACHET WITH A 4 FOOT CHEATER PIPE TO ADJUST BELT TENSION NUT. APPARENTLY HIS GRIP SLIPPED ALLOWING END OF PIPE TO STRIKE HIS FOREHEAD.

CHANGING SCREENS AT PLANT. WALKED OVER TO PICK UP A PIECE OF STEEL AND STRAINED HIS BACK. STRAINAPPARENTLY WAS FELT WHEN EE BENT OVER.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED FROM ONE ELEVATION TO ANOTHER, CAUSING A JARRING TO HIS LOWER BACK. EMPLOYEE HAD A PRE-EXISTING BACK/VERTEBRATE DEGENERATION.

EE CLIMBED ON HAND RAIL & PLACED HIS HAND ON A CONVEYOR FRAME NEAR A ROTATING HEAD PULLEY. A PIECE OF RUBBER SLAPPED THE BACK OF HIS HAND

EE USING A COBBLE (ROCK) TO ADJUST A CONVEYOR TROUGHING ROLLER. WHILE DOING SO HE PINCHED HIS FINGER TIP BETWEEN THE COBBLE & CONVEYORFRAME

EE STANDING ON 3RD RUNG OF TEMPORARY LADDER HANDING TOOLS TO ANOTHER EE ABOVE. LADDER SHIFTED EVEN THOUGH IT WAS TIED OFF. WHEN IT SHIFTED IT WAS ENOUGH MOVEMENT TO CAUSE EE ON 3RD RUNG TO FALL OFF

EE WAS ASSITING WELDER FABRICATING A BUNKER. EE RECEIVED AN APPARENT ARC FLASH CAUSING UV KERATITIS WHICH BECAME NOTICABLE AFTER HE ENDED HIS SHIFT.

EMPLOYEE HAD PRIOR DISCOMFORT TO BOTH HANDS. THE DISCOMFORT APPARENTLY WAS AGGRAVATED BY THE PLANT SCREEN CHANGE WORK PERFORMED 10-14-95.

EMPLOYEEW AS USING A SMALL RUBER HOSE TO WASH OFF MAGNETIC SEPARATOR DRUM AT ROCK PLANT. THE ROTATING DRUM CAUGHT THE TIP OF THE HOSE AND DREW EMPLOYEE'S THUMB INTO THE DRUM FLANGE AREA.

ONE TON PIT LABORER S TRUCK DRIVEN BY EE WAS TRAVELING UPHILL ON AN IN YARD ROAD. A 10-WHEEL DUMP TRUCK WAS TRAVELLING DOWN HILL ON THE SAME ROAD. THE TWO VEHICLES AVOIDED A HEAD ON COLLISION HOWEVER THEY DID SIDE SWIPE EACH OTHER EE BUMPEDTHEY DID SIDE SWINPE EACH OTHER EE BUMPED HIS HEAD APPARENTLY AGAINST DOOR FRAME.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING SELF-LOADING SCRAPER STRIPPING OVERBUREN FROM SURFACE MINE PIT. SCRAPER PASSED THROUGH A DEPRESSION LEFT BY AN OLD TEST HOLE. THE OPERATOR WAS JARRED AS THE SCRAPER PASS ED THROUGH THE DEPRESSION.

LABORER EE WAS WORKING WITH ANOTHER LABORER LOADING CYCLONE FENCE PANELS ONTO A PICK UP TRUCK BED ONCE THE TRUCK WAS LOADED THE OTHER LABORER STARTED TO THE TRUCK WAS LOADED OF PANELS HE WAS S TRUCK ON THE BACK OF HIS HARD HAT THE OVER HANGING FENCE PANELS

WHILE AIR ARCING EMPLOYEE WAS INSPECTING WORK; HE ROLLED HIS HAND & ARCED THE GOUGING CARBON TO THE HEAD WHILE PROTECTIVE HOOD WAS UP.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING WATER TRUCK HE WAS IN A BLIND SPOT WHEN SCRAPER COLLIDED WITH THE WATER TRUCK

EMPLOYEE WAS TRIMMING/CUTTING EXCESS RUBBER OFF OF SCREEN FRAME.

EMPLOYEE WORKING AT ROCK CRUSHING PLANT CHANGING DECK SCREEN. EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED EYE INJURY FROM DIRT/RUST ON STEEL DECK SCREEN. EMPLOYEE HAD EYE PROTECTION AVAILABLE BUT WAS NOT USING SAFETY GLASSES AT TIME OF INJURY.

EMPLOYEE WASHIG AND IMMERSING HANDS AND SURFACE MINE ROCKS IN POND WATER FROM MINE RECYCLE PONDS.

WHILE EXCAVATING THE OPEN PIT MINE EMBANKMENT,THE LOADER OPERATOR WAS EXPOSED TO APPARENT SOLVENT-TYPE CONTAMINATION.FUMES IRRITATED THE RESPIRATORY TRACT OF EMPL.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A 980 CAT. LOADER LOADING TRUCKS WITH A.B. ROCK. TWISTING NECK AND TORSO WHILE OPERATING LOADER.

EMPL STANDING ON ELEVATED PLATFORM FEEDING CABLE AROUND ROCK CRUSHER.EMPL JUMPED DOWN 3' TO MAIN CRUSHER DECK.INJURED RIGHT KNEE.

REPAIR CREW ADJUSTING ROCK CRUSHER.HAD TO USE CHABLE CONNECTED TO DOG EAR ON CRUSHER.PULLED BY LOADER TO LOOSEN THREADS.DOG EAR BROKE AND WAS POROPELLED THRU AIR STRIKING EMPL.

EMPLOYEE WAS LEANING OVER OLD WATER BOTTLES TO GET FILLED WATER BOTTLE. HE STARTED TO FALL AND TRIED TO BRACE HIS FALL. HIS HAND WENT THROUGH A WINDOW IN THE TRAILER WHERE THE BOTTLES WERE STO RED OUTSIDE. AS THE WINDOW GLASS BROKE, IT CUT HIS LEFT WRIST, SEVERING A TENDON.

COLD MORNING AT SURFACE MINE WHEN EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO WALK UNDER A CONVEYOR WHEN HE BENT OVER HIS MUSCLES WERE APPARENTLY COLD CAUSING A STRAIN TO EMPLOYEES LOWER BACK MUSCLES

EMPLOYEE HAD CLIMBED UP LOADER MOUNTING LADDER AND HAD GOTTEN INTO CAB. HIS WINDOWS WERE FOGGED INSIDE & OUT SO HE STEPPED OUT OF CAB ONTO DECK. HE THEN SLIPED OFF THE DECK AND FELL 6 OR 7 FEE T TO THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON ROCK CRUSHER DECK ASSISTING OTHER WORKERS REPLACING A LARGE CRUSHER PLAPART THE CRUSHER PART WAS BEING LOWERED INTO PLACE BY A 30 TON CRANE WHILE LOWERING THE PART THE CRANES AUXILLARY WHIP LINE DOWN WEIGHT BALL FELL AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE ON HIS HARD HAT

EMPLOYEE REMOVING A SUMP MANHOLE COVER. WHILE DOING SO, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ALLOWIG THE STEEL MANHOLE COVER TO DROP ON HIS SHIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A WIRE MESH SCREEN WHEN SLIPPED. THE SLIP CAUSED A BARE WIRE TO STRIKE AND CUT HIS LEG REQUIRING SUTURES.

EMP WAS CRAWLIN1 UNDERNEATH A CONVEYOR FRAME

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CUT PLASTIC CHUTE LINER WITH A KNIFE. THE BLADE OF THE KNIFE BROKE AND LACERATED EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT FINGER ANDTHE END OF HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER. SUTURES 3 REQUIRED.

EMP WAS REPLACI3G CONVEYOR ROLLER EMP STEPPED ON A ROLLER AND FELL WHEN HE CAUGHT HIMSELF HE STRAINED HIS BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS AT7EMPTING TO LIFT A LARGE STONE FROM A FEED HOPPER. HE DROPPED THE STONE AND IT SMASHED HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER AGAIN THE HOPPER WALL. THE HOPPER WAS NOT IN OPERATION AT TIME.

EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING 631 SCRAPER STRIPPING SURFACE MINE OVERBURDEN WHEN THE SCRAPER HIT A SOFT SPOT IN ROAD JARRING EMPLOYEE .

EMPLOYEE WAS LI0TING A 6" X 8' I-BEAM WEIGHING APPROX. 136 LBS.HE WAS BEING AIDED BY A FELLOW EMPLOYEE.

STEPS THAT EE C5UGHT HIS FOOT ON WERE LEGAL & IN GOOD REPAIR. INATTENTION ON THE PART OF I.NAME & BEING IN A HURRY CONTRIBUTED TO THE ACCIDENT.

EE WAS IN A HUR9Y TO CATCH A RIFE HOME AT THE END OF T HE SHIFT. WAS NIGHT SHIFT SO IT WAS DARK.