CHILDERSBURG QUARRY Metal/Non-Metal

EE WAS LIFTING A WOODEN PALLET INTO THE BACK OF A PICKUP FOR DISPOSAL. EE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK WHEN HE WENT TO PLACE PALLET IN TRUCK.

VICTIM WAS WALKING BANK OF FOUR MILE CREEK AT ENTRACE TO PLANT LOOKING FOR POSSIBLE SINKHOLES FROM RECENT HEAVY RAINS. HE HAD REMOVED HIS DARK LENS SAFETY GLASSES DUE TO OVERACAST CONDITIONS & RAIN, BUT HAD NOT REPLACED THEM WITH THE CLEAR GLASSES HE WAS CARRYING IN HIS LUNCH BOX. VICTIM BRUSHED AGAINST AN OVERHANGING TREE LIMB WHICH SPRANG BACK & STRUCK HIM IN THE RIGHT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A WEDGE TO DISLODGE LARGE STONE AT JAW CRUSHER. A SLIVER OF METAL EJECTED FROM WEDGE AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN NOSE. TWO STITCHES WERE REQUIRED.

A ROCK BRIDGES OVER THE TOP OF THE JAW CRUSHER.THE EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON THE PLATFORM ABOVE THE CRUSHER,HOLDING A CABLE ATTACHED TO A WEDGE.THE WEDGE WAS LOWERED INTO THE MOVING JAW AND ROC K WHEN THE JAW CLOSED BETWEEN THE ROCK AND WEDGE A FRAGMENT OF ROCK OR METAL EJECTED AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE.

WORKING ON DOZER TO REMOVED ROLLERS,A JACK SLIPPED CAUSING ROLLER TO FALL ON EMPL FINGER.

ATTEMPTING TO REPAIR A HOLE IN A HOSE SUPPLYING WATER TO CONVEYOR OUT SPRAY WHILE TRYING TO SECURE A HOSE CLAMP TO HOSE BY USING A BARRDING TOOL THE EMPLOYEE MISSED CLAMP & STRUCK HIS HAND W/H AMMER

WHILE USING A LOADER TO CARRY STEMMING MATERIAL ALONG A HAUL ROAD EMPLOYEE HAD THE ENGINE STOP CAUSING HIM TO LOSE STEERING CONTROL HE LOWERED THE BUCKET TO THE GROUND AND JUMPED FROM THE MACH INE CAUSING A SPRAIN TO THE RT FOOT THE LOADER CAME TO REST AGAINST THE ROAD BERM WITH NO DAMAGE

EMLOYEE EXPERIE3CED HEART ATTACK AND DIED AT HOSPITAL. NOT WORK RELATED

EMPL SLIPPED ST9PPING DOWN FROM WATER TRUCK STRAINING HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS AT7EMPTING TO FREE A ROCK JAM GOING INTO THE PRIMARY CRUSHER FEEDER HOPPER WHEN A ROCK UNEXPECTANTLY MOVED STRIKING HIS RIGHT FOOT BEHIND THE STEEL TOE OF HIS SAFETY SHOES.