Grayson County Quarry: 1 recorded fatality Metal/Non-Metal

Miner lost footing in loose material while standing on top of finish screen deck during maintenance project. Miner was attempting to dismount screen via fixed ladder mounted permanently to the screen hood and lost footing as miner turned to descend. Miner was restricted for one day to no work the next day (Thursday.)

Employee was detaching trailer from truck. When the trailer hitch disconnected from truck ball the trailer shifted forward, pinning the employee's right foot to the truck's bumper.

Employee had been sanding motor shafts, turned to walk away and tripped over a saw horse and fell onto hands. Fractured Left Wrist.

Employee was re-spooling a cable winch. Employee was using left hand to guide the steel cable onto the spool. EE's left thumb got too close to the spool and was pinched by the cable and spool, causing a tear/laceration to the left thumb.

Helping install a hold-down roller on a conveyor. Employee was watching co-worker use a hammer and chisel to seat a bearing onto the roller shaft. As the co-worker struck the chisel with the hammer, the employee was struck in the right eye by a flying object (small piece of metal)

The injured miner bent over to pick up a pry bar, turned and tripped on a rock and fell onto left shoulder.

Changing hammers in HSI crusher, employee was using a hammer to drive wedge out . . . struck his own left index finger with the hammer.

Our T371A CAT haul truck was hualing rock from underground mine to a stockpile located at the surface. While backing up to the stockpile the haultrucks brake chamber failed causing the truck to roll back a slight grade into the stockpile. The driver complianed of back pain, but finished out his shift.

Accident occurred while removing brush from beaver dam at quarry lake drain, slip and fall causing back pain the next day.

LOADER BUCKET EDGE STRUCK CORNER OF PILLOW H 20 WEST TURNING LOADER SHARPLEY TO RIGHT, TWISTING OPERATOR IN SEAT.

EE WAS PUTTING WATER ON HEADER 15 EAST WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL ABOUT 10 FOOT STRIKCING HIM ON SIDE OF HARD HAT AND STEEL TOE BOOT. THE AREA WAS INSPECTED AND NOTHING WAS FOUND EARLY IN THE S HIFT.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO BACK A 769 CAT 35 TON TRUCK UNDER A RAISED LOADER BUT FAILED TO STOP BEFORE STRIKING A LIME STONE PILLER, NO DAMAGE WAS DONE TO TRUCK.

EE ALLEGES THAT WHILE BACKING TRUCK UNDERGROUND, BRAKE SYSTEM FAILED CAUSING PAIN TO NECK AND SHOULDER. WE CONTEST THIS ACCIDENT!!

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER ON BACK DUMP WHEN HE SLIPPED AND SMASHED SMAL RIGHT FINGER IN DOOR.

FACE C-8 N. WAS DRILLED & HOLES LOADED. FACE C-7W.(ADVANCING TOWARDS & PERPENDICULAR TO FACE C-8N.) WAS THEN DRILLED. THIS FACE WAS ALMOST FINISHED WHEN LOWER LEFT HOLE BEING DRILLED INTO FACE C-7 W. INTERSECTED A LOADED HOLE IN C-8 N. A PREMATURE DETONATION OCCURRED. ROCK WAS THROWN TOWARDS ATLASCOPCO DRILL BREAKING FRONT WINDOW. FACEC-8 N. BARRICADED & EVACUATED. NO INJURIES OCCU

MOVING INTO AREA ALL READY DRILLED FOR ROOF BOLTING. ROCK WAS SEEN FALLING, WAS ABLE TO GET UNDER STANDING ROOF BOLTS IN BASKET.

EE WAS INSTALLING A HOSE CLAMP ON ANFO HOSE, THE SCREWDRIVER SLIPPED, PUNCTURING HIM AROUND THE WRIST AREA.

SECTION OF DRAW ROCK APPROX 6-18" GTHICH FELL OUT OT INTERSECTION. ROOF BOLTING HAD BEEN DONE IN THIS AREA. HOWEVER SECTION OF ROOF IN FRONT OF ROOF BOLTING FELL OUT TO THE ROOF BOLTING LINE. NO BOLTING WAS BEING DONE AT THE TIME OF ROOF FALL.

GETTING OFF DRILL PINCHED A NERVE

DURING OFF SHIFT, THE POWDER TRUCK APPARENTLY CAUGHT FIRE RESULTING IN DETONATION OF BLASTING AGENT. NO ONE PRESENT AT QUARRY SITE AT TIME OF INCIDENT.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING BELOW CRUSHE RA ROCK FELL FROM JAW CRUSHER'S SHAKER AND LANDED ON EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT FOOT CAUSING SEVERE CONTUSION.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING UNDER CONVEYOR NEAR MAIN CRUSHER. THE SURFACE WAS SLIPPERY AND EMPLOYEE SLIPPED.

EMPLOYEE STATED AS HE WAS CLEANING CONVEYOR BELTS HE SLIPPED AND LANDED ON HIS RIGHT LEG AND HIP.

CLEANING BOTTOM HOLES ROCK FELL FROM CEILING

EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING HIS PIECE OF EQUIPMENT HE WAS ON THE BOTTOM STEP WHICH WAS A CHAIN STEP WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO TEAR LIGAMENTS IN HIS LEFT ANKLE

EMPL STATES THAT HE WAS CLIMBING OUT OF POWDER TRUCK WHEN HE CLOSED VEHICLE'S DOOR ON FINGER.

PUSHING OIL WAGON BARRELL SLIPPED AND CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN BARREL AND RAIL.

PULLING MINE CABLE AND TWISTED BACK

WHILE CLOSING THE DIRECTOR DOOR IN THE PLANT A ROCK FELL FROM THE CHUTE AND STRUCK THE INDEX FINGER ON THE LEFT HAND THE NAIL WAS REMOVED AND STITCHES WERE REQUIRED

EMPLOYEE WAS PE9FORMING ROUTINE MAINTENANCE ON 988 CAT LOADER. EMPLOYEE SLIPPED OFF THE BACK OF THE LOADER AND LANDED ON HIS BUTTOCKS CAUSING COMPRESSED FRACTURE TO THE 5 TH LUMBAR VERTEBRA. A LSO FRACTURED L9FT WRIST.

EE WAS IN SHOP3PAINTING A TRUCK. PAINT GOT ON RIGHT ARM CAUSING IT TO BLISTER.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED FROM THE BACK OF POWDER TRUCK TO THE GROUND AFTER LOADING BAGS OF ANFO ON TRUCK EMPLOYEE SUFFERED BRUISE TO HIP BONE

EE WAS WORKING ON THE PRIMARY CRUSHER USING AN OXYGEN-ACETYLENE CUTTING TORH. A PIECE OF HOT METAL SLAG FELL EE DROPPED THE TORCH RESULTING IN 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO LEFT LOWER ABDOMEN.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLOSING DOOR ON RAIL CARS, GOT IN WRONG POSITION, AND STRAINED HIS BACK ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL FOR TESTS ON 9-5-84

EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING JUMBO DRILL, SLIPPED ON STEP STRAINING LEFT SHOULDER WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REGAIN BALANCE.

EMPLOYEE WAS DESCENDING FROM MINE IN A LOADED R-35 LOADED EUCLID HAUL TRUCK. APPARENT MECHANICAL MALFUNCTION CAUSED EMPLOYEE TO LOOSE CONTROL. TRUCK VEERED BACK INTO MINE WALL, OVERTURNED THRO WING EMPLOYEE CLEAR. AFTER FINAL EXAMINATION, THE U-JOINT AND DRIVE SHAFT OF EUCLID HAD FAILED TO FUNCTION AND CAUSED ACCDIENT.

EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO CLIMB LADDER INTO EUCLID TO DEGIN WORK STRAINED RIGHT SHOULDER.