BREWER SAND: 1 recorded fatality Metal/Non-Metal

Employee was checking his service truck for the day. As he exited the cab, he stepped from the top step to the lower step with his right leg, he felt a pain in his left knee.

While lowering a snubber pulley into a position where it could be broken down for repair the chain holding the drive side of the pulley slipped causing it to drop about 2" pinching employee's hand between the bearing housing and conveyor frame which resulted in his finger being fractured.

While clearing trees with a bulldozer, the employee opened the cab door to look at his track while moving when a broken tree branch struck him on his left hand. He suffered a laceration to two fingers requiring sutures. He returned to work with no restrictions.

Employee had been welding and line boring to repair a front end loader. After completion of work while cleaning up he began to experience discomfort in right eye. He went to dr 11-8-06 and had small metal fragment remove from eye.

A customer truck driver pulled his truck onto the weighout scale. He was getting out of the truck to get his scale ticket when he slipped and fell to the ground. He was later diagnosed with fractured ribs. The injured customer driver was employed by J&S, Inc.

While dismounting from the wet screen, employee slipped and caught himself, suffering a dislocated shoulder. Employee reported he had dislocated his shoulder several times in the past due to sports injuries.

Employee slipped while stepping down off a Cat 330 excavator and fell against a pickup truck parked next to the machine. He was diagnosed with a cracked rib and placed on restricted duty.

RUSHING TO WASH OUT A CLOGGED UP CHUTE, RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED, RE-GAINED BALANCE, BUT LEFT KNEE "POPPED".

KNOCKING METAL PIN OUT, WHEN PIN CAME OUT METAL DROPPED PLANT 1" AND PIPE USED FOR KNOCKING PIN OUT JUMPED UP AND STRUCK HIM IN CHIN. IT REQUIRED 4 STITCHES.

TIGHTENING TAIL PULLEY ADJUSTER NUT WITH 3/4" DRIVE RATCHET. RATCHET SLIPPED OFF OF NUT, CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO CUT PINKY FINGER ON RIGHT HAND BETWEEN RATCHET HANDLE AND ROCK ON THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS PRYING A ROCK LOOSE IN FEED HOPPER. IT ROLLED WHEN FREED AND STRUCK HIM IN LEFT KNEE.

INJURED WAS CARRYING A PIECE OF METAL TUBING TO BE USED FOR A SCALE GUARD. HE SLIPPED AND FELL AND THE TUBING (WEIGHING 60-80 LBS) LANDED ON HISLEFT HAND.

THE INJURED PARTY WAS GREASING A BEARING ON A TAIL PULLEY OF A CONVEYOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING THE TAILGATE OF A TRUCK. WHILE ASCENDING A LADDER USED TO REACH THE WELD SPOT HE BUMPED LEFT KNEE ON TAILGATE. DOCTORS RECORDS STATE THAT HE HAS BURSITIS IN THAT KNEE.

EE WAS CLEANING THE TAIL PULLEY ON THE M-70 STACKER WITH A STEEL BAR WHEN THE BAR BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN THE CONVEYOR BELT AND THE PULLEY. WHEN HIS HAPPENED IT PULLED HIS HAND IN THE PULLEY AND CAUSED THE INJURIES.

EMPLOYEE AND HIS SUPERVISOR WERE LOADING A RADIATOR ON THE BACK OF A PICK UP WHEN THE RADIATOR SLIPPED AND THE FAN SHROUD CAUGHT HIS WRIST AS IT FELL TO THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING MANUAL DUTIES AND WAS CHANGING A TROUGHING ROLLER ON A 24" CONVEYOR. HE WAS BENT OVER AND STRADDLING THE CONVEYOR AND TWISTED HIS BACK. WHILE PUTTING THE ROLLER (APPR OX 25LBS) IN PLACE. DIAGNOSED WITH CERVIALGIAL,LUMBALGIA AND FACROILAC SPRAIN STRAIN.

INJURED HAD BENT OVER TO PICK UP CONNECTED PVC PIPE (WATER LINE) INJURED HAD SEVERE LOWER BACK PAIN

EMPLOYEE WAS PREPARING TO FUEL & SERVICE HIS LOADER WHEN HE STEPPED FROM THE LOADER TO THE GROUND HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE RESULTING IN TORN LIGAMENTS THIS EMPLOYEE AT ONE TIME WAS A FULL TIME EM PLOYEE HE BECAME SEL-EMPLOYED IN APRIL OF 89 & SINCE THEN HAS WORKED 2 OR 3 DAYS ON OCCASION TO HELP US WHEN WE WERE SHORT-HANDED

APPARENT HEART 5TTACK.

WHILE STEPPING 0ROM A BOAT ONTO THE DREDGE, THE BOAT MOVED CAUSING THE OPERATOR TO FALL, THEREFORE INJURING HIS RIGHT HAND.