Fanwood Mine and Mill: 140 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

EE went to the warehouse to get new rags and when EE got there EE opened the new pallet, which was wrapped tightly, leaving the straps laying on the floor. After EE picked up the amount of rags EE wanted, EE began to walk away but didn't realize EE's foot was caught on the strap. This caused EE to trip and fall onto EE's elbow.

Employee was cutting a piece of rubber, in screen 104, and cut leg with a razor knife. Employee received two stitches.

Was cleaning the catwalk on conveyor 107A, EE fell and broke arm.

Employee was walking from car in the employee parking lot and slipped on black ice. Employee broke right ankle.

Employee was cleaning the feeder chute with a shovel, when ee hit the metal side wall of the chute, cutting the tip of ee's right thumb.

Finger got caught by log splitter.

Lifted springs for screen repair.

When using small jackhammer in a transfer chute at mill, bit got stuck in some frozen materials. While trying to pull the hammer out, it became dislodged and hit him in the nose. Received nasal fracture and five stitches.

Employee was using a power mag drill to drill holes laid out on a piece of plate. He shut the drill off but put his hand near the still spinning drill bit. His glove got caught in the moving drill bit and he injured his right index finger. His finger was cut and the bone at the tip was broken.

As a result of a hearing test on 8-28-14, it was discovered that the employee's left ear has a moderate hearing loss at some high frequencies.

Employee was replacing cutting edge on a 988 loader. While removing a plow bolt he used his hand to keep the bolt from turning. When bolt loosened it fell out of lock groove and spun, which cut his left ring finger.

Employee was out of sight of crane operator and signal man. Broken bone in left foot.

Employee was gluing PVC pipe, he finished one joint and was moving to another. Picked up tools, glue & primer can. Glue can was tipped, leaking on his coveralls & left leg. He realized this & proceeded to wipe the glue off his leg with a lit cigarette in his hand causing the glue to catch on fire. Burns to left leg, knee & hand.

While removing bolts from the counterweight of a rented Cat365C backhoe, the 20,000 lb. counterweight became dislodged from its position & fell to the ground. Employee was on a six foot ladder when the wt fell sending him vaulting through the air to the ground, about 10 feet away from the weight.

While working on the secondary reject chute the bar he was using slipped and hit him in the right cheek bone causing cut.

While removing the seal from a 55 gallon drum of oil, employee cut left hand

Employee said he tripped and fell on the cat walk

Employee is a ground man and he was cleaning mud in chute at the primary crusher. He was using a shale bar to clean mud and he twisted his right ankle.

Employee was cleaning up stuff around yard, he was moving some wooden blocks. When he picked up the wooden blocks he felt a pain in left region of lower back.

Employee was replacing V-belts on collector. Four v-belts had been replaced and he was working on the fifth; when his left pinky became wedged between the belt and the motor sheave.

Employee was welding @ mill when a welding spark went behind his welding shield hitting his left eye. Piece of weld in eye.

Employee was helping welder in screen #105 rollaway when he got flashed in both eyes. He had handed welder 2 welding rods and the reflection flashed him in both eyes.

Employee was doing winter maintenance. He was climbing over I beam and when he got home that night, he noticed lump by groin.

Employee was cleaning out stone box #103 with sledge hammer in tight quarters when he pulled his left shoulder.

On Monday 9/24/07 employee and another employee were lifting a truck tire onto back of pick up truck. The next day employee was walking up the hill to pouch in and his back tightened and became painful.

Employee was standing on the ground while tightening a bolt on the loader bucket. The wrench slipped off the bolt sending employee to the ground. Employee broke his fall with his left wrist.

Employee was coming down off an elevated shelf and he landed wrong twisting his right ankle.

Employee was using a 2 1/2 ton floor jack hammer when the handle came back and hit his head.

Employee was climbing up onto loader and slipped on the boarding ladder. He fell backwards onto the ladder fender and hit his back.

EE WAS WORKING ON CRUSHER BOWL LINER WHEN HE WAS BACKING OUT OF OVERHEAD LIFT HE TRIPPED ON WOODEN BOX CAUSING HIM TO FALL HITTING HIS BACK ON CONCRETE BLOCK

EMPLOYEE COULD NOT TELL WHEN HIS BACK PROBLEM STARTED. HE REALIZED HE HAD PAIN WHEN HE DIS-MOUNTED THE LOADER HE WAS RUNNING.

EE WAS INSTALLING A SCREEN CLOTH & RETAINER BAR AND HE HIT HIMSELF IN THE RIGHT KNEE WITH A HAMMER.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A PRY BAR TO LOOSEN SCREEN CLOTH ON #1 SCREEN AND THE BAR SLIPPED AND HIT HIM ON THE NOSE CAUSING A LACERATION REQUIRING FOUR STITCHES.

EE WAS CLEANING TAIL SECTION OF 12TH BELT WITH A SHOVEL AND HE PULLED HIS GROIN.

EE WAS INSTALLING STEEL LINER IN PRIMARY FEEDER; HE WAS TAKING OUT THE WEDGE & HE GOT HIS FINGER CAUGHT.

EE WAS USING A COMEALONG TO OPEN ROLLAWAY CHUT AND HE STRINED HIS BACK.

EE WAS FLASHED WHILE WORKING ON THE PRIMARY CRUSHER JAW PLATES. AND WENT FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT ON 11-17-01 MISSING 4 HOURS FROM WORK. RETURNED FOR REGULAR DUTY ON 11-18-01.

EE NOTICED BACK DISCOMFORT ON 10/31 ON 11/2 HE STILL HAD DISCOMFORT TRIED TO WORK IT OUT. ON 11/6 EE COULD HARDLY GET UP. OUT OF BED HE WENT FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OUT A CLOGGED HOPPER WITH A POKER BAR. EMPLOYEE HAD HIS LEFT HAND ON END OF THE BAR. AS HE RETRACTED BAR FOR ANOTHER SWING HIS HAND WAS PINCHED BETWEEN A STEEL WALL AND T HE POKER BAR SQUASHING HIS FINGER IN BETWEEN.

EE WAS CLEARING AREA WITH BOBCAT LOADER, THE BUCKET STRUCK AN OBJECT BELOW THE SURFACE AND CAME TO AN ABRUPT HALT. THE EE STRUCK THE SAFETY BAR WITH HIS CHEST.

EE TRIPPED ON A STONE AS HE WAS WALKING UP INTO THE MILL. WHEN HE TRIPPED ON THE STONE HE THEN FELL TO THE CATWALK AND SPRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS OPERATING A LOADER & EXPERIENCED SEVERE PAIN IN HIS LOWER LEFT SIDE

EE & CO WORKER WERE WALKING TO QUARRY WHEN AN OUTSIDE TRUCKER BACKED HIS TRUCK UP & HIT OUR EE & KNOCKED HIM TO THE GROUND. HIS COWORKER PULLED HIM OUT OF THE WAY BEFORE THE TRUCK RAN OVER H IM.

EE WAS GRINDING STEEL ON A LIENCH GRINDER WHEN IT SLIPPED AND HIS HAND WENT INTO GRINDER.

WHILE EE WAS INSIDE IRON SCRAP CONTAINER LOADING IT WITH SCRAP IRON LOADER CABLE PULLED HIM FURTHER INTO CONTAINER HURTING HIS LEFT SHOULDER AND RIB.

WHILE TAKING OUT THE SHELVES, EE STEPPED ON A BOARD WITH NAILS IN.

WHILE EE WAS DISMOUNTING HIS TRUCK, HE TWISTED HIS LEFT LEG

WHILE WORKING IN THE QUARRY A PLATE OF STEEL FELL ONTO HIS RIGHT FOOT BREAKING HIS TOE.

WHILE WORKING AT THE QUARRY, WIND WAS BLOWING AND EE GOT SOMETHING IN HIS EYE.

EE SLIPPED ON ICE SURFACE AT BASE OF THE EE LOT STAIRCASE.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON THE ICE AT THE BASE OF THE EMPLOYEE PARKING LOT STAIRCASE.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS USING SLEDGE HAMMER ON THE CRUSHER SOMETHING POPPED IN HIS FINGER CAUSING IT TO SWELL UP.

WHILE CLEANING BLOW BARS AND LINERS IN THE CRUSHER, EE CAUGHT HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN THE WRENCH AND THE CRUSHER HOUSING.

WHILE SHOVELING STONE IN THE MILL, EE HURT HIS BACK

EMPLOYEE SUFFERED ABRASIONS TO HIS NOSE IN THE COURSE OF USING A SPADE/SHOVEL.

EMPLOYEE WAS BUILDIN GA STAIRWAY FRO THE NEW GASOLINE TANK, HE WAS FLASHED BY TH EWELDER'S ARC CAUSING BURNS TO HIS EYES.

EE WAS LIFTING A HEAVY PLATE WHICH LINES A CRUSHING OPENING WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EE TRIPPED ON A CRUSHER PART IN THE GARAGE & SPRAINED HIS RIGHT FOOT.

SHOVELING, HURT LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OUT A STONE CHUTE WITH A BAR AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE CHUTE AND THE BAR SMASHED HIS LEFT FOREFINGER.

WHILE RETURNING AN ELECTRICAL MOTOR BACK TO THE WAREHOUSE EE SLIPPED AND DROPPED MOTOR ON HIS RIGHT HAND.

EE WAS REINSTALLING A CONVEYOR GROUND AND SQUASHED HIS FINGER HOOKING A GUARD ON THE STATIONARY GUARD HOOK.

WHILE CLEANING MUD FROM THE FEEDER PAN, EMPLOYEE'S THUMB WAS HIT BY THE FEEDER AND SQUASHED IT. TORE THE SKIN ON TOP OF IT AND ON THE SIDE. NEEDED STITCHES

EE WAS BURNING BOLTS LOOSE FROM A SCREEN PANEL AND HOT SLAG BURNED INTO HIS SHIRT AND BURNED HIS LEFT ELBOW.

EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING A CLEANUP MACHINE WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELL BACKWARDS ONTO LOADER BRUISING HIS RIGHT SIDE RIB CAGE.

WHILE LIFTING CRUSHER BLOW BAR, HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING A CRUSHER MAIN SHAFT WIPER RING & HIT THE RING WITH THE BACK OF HIS HAND & CUT IT ON A SHARP SURFACE DEEP CUT ON LEFT HAND

WHILE WORKING ON A CONVEYOR INT EHMILL, SOMETHING GOT INTO HIS EYE.

WHILE LIFTING ASTEEL PLATE FROM TEH GROUND TO THE RAPP PLANT LOCATED SOMETHING POP IN HIS ELBOW CUASING PAIN. HE WAS UNABLE TO STRAIGHTEN HIS ARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING THE WINDOWS ON A 988 B LOADER. HE SLIPPED OFF THE LEFT FRONT FENDER ONTO THE GROUND. LANDING ON HIS RIGHT SIDE.

EE WAS OPENING THE TAILGATE OF THE TRUCK HE WAS OPERATING AND DISLOCATED HIS SHOULDER. HE INITIALLY LOST NO TIME. HIS SHOULDER CONTINUED TO BOTHER HIM AND HE HAD ORTHOSCOPIC SURGERY ON 12-1-94 TO CORRECT HIS PROBLEM. HE WILL BE OUT OF WORK FOR APPROX. THREE MONTHS. HE HAS NOT RETURNED TO WORK YET.

EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING AS A PASSENGER IN A COMPANY PICKUP TRUCK ON COMPANY PROPERTY & WAS INJURED WHEN PICKUP STRUCK A LARGE ROCK IN QUARRY (VEHICLE DAMAGED) INJURYING EMPLOYEE PASSENGER

AS EMPLOYEE WAS CLOSING THE DOORS ON THE UTILITY SHED AT END OF SHIFT A PIECE OF PLYWOOD OVERHEAD FELL STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE BEHIND THE KNEE ON RT LEG

EE WAS HOLDING A PIECE OF STEEL WHILE ANOTHER EE WAS DRILLING IT THE DRILL PEPETRATED THE PIECE OF STEEL AND WENT INTO EE S RIGHT PALM.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING WITH A WELDER, WHEN THE FLASH FROM THE WELDERS ARC CAUSED A BILATERAL CORNEAL ABRASION (ARC WELDERS KERATITIS).

EMPLOYEE WAS DESCENDING A LADDER WHEN HE SLIPPEDAND FELL HURTING HIS BACK & LEFT SIDE.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING DIRT AND STONE IN MILL, CLEANING IN BENT OVER POSITION. SPRAINED HIS BACK.

WHILE EE WAS DEICING THE CONVEYOR BELTS SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS THE CONTAINER HOLDING SOLUTTON OF CALCIUM CLORIDE SPILLED AND SPLASHED ONTO EE S FACE AND BODY. A SMALL PORTION OF SOLUTION WE NT INTO HIS MOUTH.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING A PIECE OF STEEL IN DRILL PRESS.PIECE WAS NOT CLAMPED.DRILL BIT SPUN PIECE CAUSING IT TO HIT RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER SLIPPED & FELL CAUSING GROIN INJURY

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING BUILT UP MATERIAL FROM SLIDE HOPPER UNDER SCALPER SCREEN. WHILE SWINGING A PICK, THE EMPLOYEE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LWOWER RIGHT BACK. TREATING DOCTOR DIAGNOSED INJU RY AS A TORN LIGAMENT. EMPLOYEE WAS INSTRUCTED NOT TO RETURN TO WORK FOR AT LEAST 3 WEEKS.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A SLEDGE HAMMER TO LOOSEN CRUSHER PART. SPRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEES WERE PLACING PARTS ON WORK PLATFORM NEXT TO CRUSHER.ONE OF THE HEAVY STEEL BARS SLIPPED FROM ITS POSITION STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN CALF OF LEFT LEG CAUSING SEVERE LACERATION AND CONTUSIO N.

EMPL ROLLING FULL 55-GAL OIL DRUM WHEN DRUM SLIPPED AWAY AND TIPPED OVER.TRIED TO HOLD IT BACK AND HURT LEFT SHOULDER.

EE WAS MOVING A LADDER WHEN THE BACK OF HIS LEFT HAND HIT ON A PALLET CAUSING A LACERATION REQUIRING 15 STITCHES.

WHILE CHANGING AN ALTERNATOR ON A LOADER, EMPLOYEE'S FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE PART AND THE FRAME OF THE MACHINE FINGER IN PINCH AREA WHEN ALTERNATOR WAS REMOVED SUSTAINING A SMASHED RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER.

EMPL REMOVING LOOSE STONE FROM TRUCK TAILGATE TRACK.TAILGATE SWUNG CLOSED CATCHING MIDDLE FINGER RIGHT HAND.

WHILE WORKING AT PLANT, EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO PICK UP SOMETHING AND STRAINED HIS BACK.

REPAIRING STONE CRUSHER, EE STEPPED AWAY FROM CRUSHER ON NARROW PLATFORM AND LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL 8 FT TO GROUND BELOW. LANDED FACING GROUND ON FACE AND HANDS.

SLIPPED IN WET AREA UNDER MILL AND SPRAINED L ANKLE

BEING LOADED AT FACE OF QUARRY EMP IN CAB CAT HAUL TRUCK LG ROCK BOUNCED IN TRUCK BODY CAUSING JOLT IN CAB BANGED HIS LEFT ELBOW ON DRIVERS SIDE DOOR

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING DUST FROM UNDER #3 TAIL PULLEY WHEN HE TWISTED HIS BACK CAUSING A BACK SPRAIN

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A STARTER OUT OF CAT LOADER WHEN HE FELT A PULL IN HIS RIGHT ARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING TO SIDE OF MACHINE FACING AWAY MACHINE OPERATOR SWUNG HYDRAULIC BOOM TO HIS RIGHT AND BUCKET ON END OF BOOM STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN RIGHT SIDE OF HEAD AND RIGHT EAR. EMPLO YEE RECEIVED CONCUSSION AND STITCHES TO RIGHT EAR.

EMP. WAS RUNNING AN AIR TRACK DRILL AT BASE OF STONE QUARRY, HE STARTED TO DRIL HOLE, WHEN ROCKS FELL DOWN FROM ABOVE. ONE STRCUK HIS MIDDLE FINGER OF LEFT HAND. HE FELT PAIN, SHUT OFF DRI LL, REMOVED HIS GLOVE AND SAW TIP OF FINGER WAS SEVERED OFF. TAKEN TO HOSPITAL BY QUARRY MANAGER.

WHILE WORKING O3 THE CRUSHER BLOW BARS, THE OPERATOR WAS USING A HAMMER TO ADJUST THE BAR POSITION. HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER WAS TO CLOSE TO IMPACT AREA OF THE HAMMER AND WAS HIT.

EMPLOYEE PARKED3HIS QUARRY HAUL TRUCK ALONGSIDE SIMILAR TRUCK WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO STEP ACROSS TO OTHER CAB HE DID SO BUT AS HE WAS STEPPING AROUND RADIATOR HE SLIPPED AND FELL TO CONCRETE P AVEMENT APPROX 10 FT

EMPLOYEE WAS BR9AKING UP WOODEN PALLET WITH SLEDGE HAMMER. PIECE FLEW UP STRIKING EMPLOYEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING BEHIND, AS ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS BACKING UP A PICK UP TRUCK. HE ATTEMPTED TO JUMP CLEAR WHEN HE SAW TRUCK BACKING UP, BUT WAS STRUCK AND KNOCKED TO GROUND.

DOING REPAIRS IN SCREEN DECK IN CROUCHED OVER POSITION FOR PROLONGED PERIOD. RECEIVED LOWER BACK SPRAIN.

HOOK HOLDING CABLE BLOCK BROKE LOOSE AS EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO MOVE ROCK AT PRIMARY CRUSHER DUMP, BLOCK STRUCK EMPLOYEE A GRAZING BLOW TO RT. HAND & FRACTURED HIS RT THUMBN

DRIVER OF EUCLID HAUL UNIT STEPPED DOWN FROM VEHICLE MISSED BOTTOM STEP AND TWISTED LEFT KNEE CAUSING SEVERE SPRAINED LIGAMENTS.

ASSISTING IN CARRYING HEAVY WOODEN BOX OF PARTS UP FLIGHT OF STAIRS FOR MILL REPAIRS. EE LOST HIS GRIP & CORNER OF BOX LANDED ON HIS LEFT THUMB.

EMPLOYEE REMOVED SMALL STONES FROM TAILGATE OF DUMP TRUCK SO GATE WOULD CLOSE TIGHTLY TAILGATE CLOSED ON INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGER OF LIFT HAND CAUSING A CRUSHING BLOW

EE HOLDING PIECE OF STEEL PLATE & STRIKING IT WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER, PLATE SLIPPED & EE STRUCK INDEX FINGER.

EMP WAS ASSISTING IN ASSEMBLY OF CRUSHER FRAMER BEING BOLTED TOGETHER AND HELD IN PLACE BY OVERHEAD CRANE ATTAHED TO CHAINS ONE OF THE CHAINS SNAPPED CAUSING FRAME TO DROP STRIKING EMP IN THE BACK KNOCKING HIM TO FLOOR THEN STRIKING HIS LEFT FOOT