Curtin Gap Quarry: 136 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Employee was descending a fixed ladder when fell from the ladder striking the handrail below with their lower back causing injury.

Employee was walking when EE slipped and fell on ice causing a fall on same level leading to a contusion of the right shoulder.

Employee recorded a shift in their hearing.

The injured employee was on the ground, as a rigger for the crane operator. EE and another employee were hooking up the crane cables to the crusher operator building platform. The injured employee stepped up onto the platform to grab the hook, when EE stepped through a hole in the platform. The edge of the expanded metal deck caused a laceration to EE's R/ shin.

slipped on screen deck put hand down to catch self fractured wrist

Struck by air hose above left eye.

He was walking across driveway toward the Lab Building after putting trash in dumpster. His right ankle rolled out from under him causing him to fall. He fractured and partially dislocated his right ankle. The driveway is level and covered with 1B stone.

While operating D9H Cat Dozer in a rocky area and working boulders out; he was backing up, when the dozer took a hard bounce and his teeth went together, cracking one of them. Tooth # 19.

EE WAS REMOVING ANVILS FROM CRUSHER ANVIL RING WITH SLEDGE HAMMER CAUSING A PIECE OF ANVIL TO BREAK OFF AND HIT VICTIM IN LEFT KNEE GIVING HIM A LACERATION THAT TOOK 3 STITCHES ON INSIDE AND 3 STITCHES ON OUTSIDE.

EE PULLED HANDLE ON 2 PC FLOP GATE AND THE GATE WAS JAMMED. HE PUSHED ON HANDLE TO RELEASE THE FLOP GATE AND PULLED ON HUNDLE AGAIN. THE GATE RELEASED AND THE HANDLE SMASHED HIS LITTLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND WHERE HE WAS HOLDING ONTO HANDRAIL

EMPLOYEE WAS SWINGING SLEDGE HAMMER TO POUND IN A WEDGE ON THE LOCKOUT POST ON CONE CRUSHER. HIS KNEE BUCKELD WHILE HE WAS SWINGING. THEN ON 10-13-94 EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UP STEPS AT JADAIR CL ARIFIER AND HIS KNEE BLEW OUT. HE WILL BE GETTING IT OPERATED ON 10-31-94. THERE WILL BE LOST TIME AFTER THE OPERATION.

EMPLOYEE WAS FUELING 475 LOADER. HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN THE LADDER WHEN HE SLIPPED ON THE LAST RUNG OF THE LADDER. HE SPRAINED HIS RIGHT ANKLE WHEN HE FELL TO THE GROUND.

HE WAS HELPING LIFT PARTS (REAREND HAVING ) FROM STORAGE BUILDING AND HE GOT A PAIN IN LEFT SIDE OF ABDOMEN.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A 5 GALLON CAN OF HYDRAULIC OIL UP ONTO THE TIRE OF A 475 MICHIGAN LOADER TO THE MECHANIC WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LWER BACK. THE TIRE OF THIS MICHIGAN LOADER IS APPROX. 6 1/2' HIGH.

OPERATOR WAS MAKING R-4 RIP RAP WITH 966B LOADER WHEN THE LOADER'S HYDRAULIC FOR STEEING SYSTEM STARTED A JERKING MOTION SIDE TO SIDE WHICH IN TURN CAUSED EMPLOYEE'S NECK TO SNAP SIDE TO SIDE CAUSING DISCOMFORT.

HAULING SHOT ROCK TO CRUSHER WITH PAYHAULER PULLED LEVER TO UNLOAD THE TRUCK PINCHED MIDDLE BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING METAL OUT OF PINNING FEEDER HOPPER WITH CUTTING TORCH HE REACHED DOWN TO PULL METAL OUT & THE METAL DROPPED APPROX 6IN PINCHING HIS FINGERS METAL WAS APPROX 3/4INX8INX6FT RT HAND INDEX FINGER WAS FRACTURED

AS CLAIMANT STEPPED OUT OF HIS TRUCK, HE TWISTED HIS LOWER BACK AND PELVIC AREA.

EMPO\LOYEE WAS TIGHTENING BOLTS ON A CRUSHER. THE EMPLOYEE TRIED TO MAKE THE BOLTS TIGHTER BY PUSHING ON A BAR WITH HIS FEET. HE HAD HIMSELF IN AN ODD POSITION. THIS RESULTED IN A STRAIN TO HI S LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A JAW CRUSHER. HE WAS SWINGING A SLEDGE HAMMER FROM AN ODD POSITION AND STRAINED HIS NECK.

EE WAS OPERATING A NORTHWEST 80D SHOVEL. WHILE OPERATING THE UNIT. THE RIGHT BRAKE PEDDLE SNAPPED BACK UNEXPECTEDLY THIS RESULTED IN PULLED RIGHT CALF MUSCLES.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING OVERHEAD WHEN A PIECE OF SLAG ENTERED HIS LEFT EYE.

INJ EMPL SITTING IN 50 TON TRUCK BEING LOADED.LOADER OPER EITHER HAD BIG ROCK IN HIS BUCKET OR ROLLED BUCKET TO DUMP IT TOO FAST.TRUCK ROCKED SUDDENLY BOUNCING DRIVER IN SEAT.TRUCK DRIVER SUFF ERED PINCHED NERVE IN NECK.

GETTING OUT OF TRUCK SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO TWIST BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP A SMALL PIECE OF STEEL IN THE SHOP WHEN HE FELT A SLIGHT PAIN IN HIS LEFT ARM. THE NEXT DAY HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR AND WAS TOLD THAT HE TODE THE LIGAMENT IN HIS LEFT BIC EP.

EMPLOYEE WAS BACKING UP A D-8 BULLDOZER TRYING TO AVOID A THREE FEET HIGH BENCH OF STONE. THE EMPLOYEE MISJUDGED AND BACKED INTO THE BENCH CAUSING THE BULLDOZER TO STOP SUDDENLY. THE EMPLOYEE' S BACK AND NECK WERE WRENCHED.

MATERIAL BRIDGED IN A CHUTE FEEDING A CONE CRUSHER A PLANT MECHANIC WAS USING A PRY BAR TO DISLODGE THE BRIDGED MATERIAL THE MATERIAL SHIFTED CAUSING THE PRY BAR TO COME UP AND STRIKE THE EMPL IN THE CHIN

EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING A NORTHWEST BACKHOE.A PIN BROKE IN THE BUCKET POSITIONER.HE HAD DISMOUNTED AND HAD WALKED TOWARDS THE BUCKET AND WAS WAITING FOR THE FOREMAN TO RETURN FROM THE SHOP WIT H THE PART WHEN3HE COLLAPSED FROM A HEART ATTACK.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON ICE, TWISTING HIS BACK, WHILE ATTEMPTING TO JUMP START A TRUCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS AS8ISTING AMECHANIC WHEN HE DAMAGED HIS FINGER BETWEEN TWO PIECES BEING FITTED TOGETHER.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTRUCTED TO UNLOAD SMALL BACKHOE BUCKETS FROM A PICKUP TRUCK USING A CHAIN AND LIFTING EQUIPMENT. HE DECIDED TO LIFT THE BUCKETS OFF THE TRUCK BY HAND AND IN THE A PROCESS H E PINCHED HIS INDEX FINGER BETWEEN TWO BUCKETS, RESULTING IN THE TIP OF HIS FINGER BEING LOST.