HOME PIT AND MILL: 1 recorded fatality Metal/Non-Metal

Employee was standing on the third step of a 5 step ladder. He was cutting a piece of metal off a truck dump body. He used a bar to finish taking off the metal strip. When the metal came loose employee lost his balance and fell to the floor.

EE was working on a tail pulley in the shop. He was using a carbide cut off saw and the blade broke and a piece flew up and hit him in the forehead.

A pin was being removed from a crane's drive chain. The pin would not come out so heat was applied to the pin from both sides of the pin. The injured employee was told to put the torch away, while 2 other employees hammered on the pin. The injured employee returned and bent down on the other side of the track to look at the pin. The pin let go and struck the employee in the chin.

Employee was working in the shop and stepped back and tripped over a wooden block. He stopped his fall with his left wrist. He stress-fractured one of the bones.

EE was polishing a shaft for a conveyor on a lathe. He was wearing bulky welding gloves at the time of the accident. He put a strip of sand paper completely around the shaft. The paper and his glove cought on the shaft pulling and bending his wrist. Nearby employees shut down the lathe.

EE WAS STOCKPILING BANK FUN WITH A ROCK TRUCK ON A 30' TAILL PILE (ACTIVE). AFTER LUNCH HE RETURNED TO THE OB AND BACKE DONTO THE PIL EWHICH GAVE WAY. THE TRUCK OVERTURNED AND EE HURT HIS BA CK AND CUT HIS HEAD. THE DASHE RWAS DAMAGED ON TRUCK.

3 MEN WERE LOADING MATERIAL INTO A PICKUP TRUCK WHEN IT ROLLED BACKWARD PINCHING 1 PERSON BETWEEN VEHICLE BUMPER AND WATER VALVE HE WAS LOADING. THERE WAS DAMAGE TO HIS LOWER RIGHT LEG AND ANK LE. THE VEHICLE WAS RUNNING UNATTENDED SUPPOSEDLY IN THE PARK POSSION. NO INJURY OR DAMAGE TO OTHER PEOPLE OR EQUIPMENT.

TWO MINERS WERE TRYING TO REMOVE A MUFFLER FROM A MACK TRUCK. THE MUFFLER WAS STUCK AND HE WAS PULLING ON THE MUFFLER TO REMOVE IT. THE MUFFLER SUDDENLY CAME LOOSE AND HIT HIM ON THE LEFT SI DE OF THE HEAD.

THE INJURED WAS SLIDING THE AXLE OF A 966C FRONT END LOADER INTO THE HOUSING WHILE PUSHING THE AXLE IN THE PAM OF HIS HAND WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE AXLE AND THE HOUSING.THE INJURED WAS NOT USIN G THE PROCEDURES OUTLINED BY HIS SUPERVISOR WHEN THIS ACCIDENT OCCURRED.

I.NAME HAD LIFT9D THE GRIZZLY & ENTERED THE HOOPER ABOVE THE MAIN FEEDER HE WAS CLEARING OUT HOOPER SO THAT MATERIAL WOULD NOT FREEZE IN OVER NIGHT I.NAME WAS NOT WEARING HIS HARD HAT & HAD N OT CAREFULLY CL9ARED OFF THE GRIZZLY A ROCK FELL FROM THE GRIZZLY STRIKING I.NAME ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAD REQUIRING STITCHES

I.NAME WAS CHAN1ING CARRIER ROLLS ON A 60 FT CONVEYOR AS HE WAS TIGHTENING DOWN ONE OF THE ROLLS THE WRENCH SLIPPED ON THE NUT CAUSING HIS ARM TO JERK BACK HIS LEFT ELBOW HIT THE CONVEYOR FRAM EWORK I.NAME WE3T TO THE DR WHERE THEY HAD TO DRAIN SOME FLUID TO REDUCE SWELLING

HE WAS CLIMBING3DOWN THE LADDER COMING FROM THE PORTA WASH SCREEN. ON THE THIRD RUNG DOWN THE HEEL ON HIS WORK BOOT BROKE. HE SLIPPED AND FELL BACKWARDS ONTO THE CATWALK AT THE TOP OF THE LA DDER. HE LANDE8 ON HIS RIGHT ELBOW CHIPPING THE BONE.

WHILE TRYING TO LINE UP BOLTS ON A BUCKET EXTENSION ON A BOBCAT THE BOBCAT OPERATOR INADVERTATLY BUMPED A STACK OF PUNCH PLATES. THE PUNCH FELL ON THE BACK OF THE RT. LEG OF THE WORKER WHO WA S TRYING TO HELP LINE UP THE HOLES. THE PLATES STRUCK THE CALF AREA OF T HE RT. LEG CRACKING AMINOR BONE. .