Hood County Sand Plant: 40 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

A Stelter & Brick employee arrived at the mine site to perform a bi-annual inspection of the dryers. The employee went to the field office and sat down and complained of chest burning. The employee took 2 aspirins and shortly afterwards fell on the floor. CPR was given to the employee until EMS arrived and was turned over to them.

Employee was walking from the time shack to the field office when he slipped on some ice and fell on his left side. Employee fell on his left arm and left chest area causing him pain.

Employee was exiting a 262C skid steer, the employee stated that he had proper footing while stepping off the skid steer and felt his back pop. Employee then stated his lower back was hurting. Employee was taken to the hospital and treated for an acute lumbar strain. The employee was off for 5 days and returned to work on 12/09/2013.

IEE was assisting supervisor cleaning out the buzz screen at the discharge end of the #1 dryer when IEE lost his footing and slipped on a small platform area of the clean out causing pain/injury to his lower back. EE was taken to the Glen Rose Medical Center Emergency Room for treatment.

Uneven surface, improper footing, be aware of surroundings, loose material.

Worker was stepping down off of load out scales and twisted his ankle. He suffered a sprain.

Shift repairman was pulling on dredge discharge hose. He was changing the discharge hose from one dredge to another. Felt a pull or strain in upper left arm.

Employee was operating a fork lift in order to carry a pallet of parts to job site to make repairs. A bearing housing was starting to slip, so employee stopped the fork lift, lowered the pallet and got off to secure the load. While pushing the bearing housing back on to pallet, he mashed his finger between the housing and the pallet. This caused his finger to be mashed.

Two repairmen were removing bearing from housing. Tools used were punch bar and hammer. One repairman was holding punch bar while the other used hammer to drive bearing out. Sliver of metal flew off bearing race and penetrated other repairman's arm through long sleeve shirt.

EE was drilling hole in poly float when drill hung, when un-hanging the drill it flipped 360 degrees and hit the EE on top of his hand. X-ray showed small bone behind knuckle was broken.

The injured was painting structural steel. He was climbing a ladder and slipped and fell. He claimed that his boots were slippery. He fell 9' to the floor. His co-workers, who did not witness the event, provided first aid to a cut on his forehead. A coworker took him to a local hospital, where he was found to have a punctured lung and broken rib.

EE was working in load out area loading trucks when he noticed his hand swelling. EE was taken to the Emergency Room due to swelling.

Employee was running the dredge and while sitting in the cab he felt something on his hand. When he looked to see what it was, he saw it was a black widow spider but before he could knock it away, he was bitten by the spider. He was kept in the hospital over night for observation and was released to go home the next morning and was instructed to rest for 2 days.

Injured EE and another EE were changing out pressure gauges on fines tower. Injured EE stepped to move down to the next gauge and twisted his ankle. He said he was in a awkward position to step, causing his foot to slip.

Employee was loading a bottle of oxygen onto mait. truck and pulled muscle.

Acting as firewatch for welder. Received flash burns to both eyes as a result of reflection from welder inside dryer.

Backing loader down ramp, loader hit uneven surface jarring employee causing neck sprain.