HUNTSVILLE NORTH QUARRY Metal/Non-Metal

Employee slipped in some mud while fueling employee's drill and twisted left knee. Employee sought medical attention on June 27, 2023 and was diagnosed with a sprain and released to full duty. Employee returned to the doctor on July 7, 2023 for a follow up and was prescribed physical therapy, continuing full duty.

Removing an oil cooler from a 775F. Employee had to attach a come-along to it to assist with lowering it out of the machine. The cooler got hung on the machine. Employee freed up the cooler, causing chain to slide to one side of the cooler. The cooler then mashed employee's finger between it and a guard.

Employee was working on a conveyor and stepped on the toe board and twisted and strained ankle. EE sought medical attention and was placed on restricted duty.

Employee was placing items into a dumpster and when employee reached up felt pain in lower back. Employee sought medical attention on November 11, 2019, prescribed physical therapy and released to full duty.

Employee exited the company vehicle to talk to supervisor, who had pulled up beside EE in their vehicle. Employee's right leg was pinched between EE's door and the other truck door. Injury became reportable on March 12, 2019 when employee was prescribed an ankle/foot orthosis.

Employee was removing the dust fan housing from the top of the dust collector when they felt pain in their lower back. They sought medical attention on 11/13/18 and is currently on restricted duty.

Employee was assisting in the removal of a counter-shaft from a 7 foot cone crusher. During the process, the counter-shaft shifted causing the employee to fall against a metal plate. Employee received a laceration to upper thigh and is currently on restricted work duty.

Employee was operating a torch to cut a wear plate for the load out bins when something blew over his PPE into his right eye. He was diagnosed by a physician with a corneal abrasion. He was treated with Alacaine drops and discharged to full duty.

EE received 1st & 2nd degree burns to L forearm & hand from an electric arc flash. Appears EE left testing wire in place on main breaker & energized the circuit; noticed during post job inspection. Did not request immediate medical attention until he was driving home (30 - 45 min. later) and the burn continuously worsened.

Employee sustained a concussion when he struck his hard hat against a welded safety strap underneath the bed of a haul truck. It occurred when he stepped up on a 30 inch ladder to grease the rear of a haul truck. The blow rendered him unconscious for a short period until his co worker woke him up. He start to go to sleep a second time but was kept awake by his co worker.

922G loader operator accidently hit the hoist dropping the bucket on the bed of injured employees truck. Employee was jarred hitting the window of the truck.

Employee had been welding metal skirting on the jaw feeder. After completing the welding the employee stood on the bumper block and pulled his leads up. When he attempted to step off the block, he slipped and fell two feet to the concrete pad.

Employee was replacing v-belt on the HP 300 crusher. When he started tightening the v-belts with the jack shaft he strained his back. Employee did not seek medical attention until 8/31/06.

Employee was removing guard off of drive shaft to work on transmission and felt pain in his groin. He did not request medical attention until 02/02/06 and was diagnosed with an inguinal hernia. Physician placed employee on restricted duty and refererred to a specialist/general surgeon. The specialist will do surgery at end of February.

Injured employee was grinding/fabricating for installation on oxygen and acetylene racks on new service truck. The 7" air grinder kicked back causing employee to receive lacereation to left hand/wrist/forearm.

Driller was cleaning drill area for preparation of drilling at the Huntsville Quarry. While using front end loader a 25' - 30' section of wall fell onto the cab of a Cat 980C loader. Employee received scratches to face and 4 sutures to left pinky finger. His left pinky finger was broken.

Employee crushed his left index finger; he was changing out a old punch plate from #1 screen. The chain came loose causing the punch plate to come down and crush the employee's finger.

Injured employee's left index finger was crushed when co-worker dropped his end of a Cat 980G loader bucket cutting edge.

EE HAD A SLIVER OF METAL TO ENTER THE PALM OF HIS RIGHT HAND WHILE HE WAS EXAMINING CLEANING THREADS ON A 1 1/4" BOLT. THE METAL WAS SURGICALLY REMOVED FROM A LIGAMENT IN THE EE'S HAND.

EE WAS DRIVING OLD BOLTS OUT OF CRUSHER WITH A BAR AND SLEDGE HAMMER. EE STRUCK THE BAR AND CAUSED A PIECE TO FLY OFF AND CUT HIM ON THE CHIN.

EE WAS PUTTING A PATCH ON A CONVEYOR CHUTE. WAS ATTEMPTING TO TIGHTEN NUT ON PATCH WHEN WRENCH SLIPPED OFF NUT CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL APPROX 6FEET BELOW ONTO CONCRETE PAD.

EE WAS SPRAYING BELT DRESSING ON THE HEAD PULLEY OF CONVEYOR. THE TURN BUCKLE BROKE LOOSE FROM CONVEYOR FRAME AND STRUCK EE ACROSS LEFT UPPER ARM.

EE WAS TIGHTENING A BOLT WITH A RACHET WHEN THE RACHET SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE PINKY FINGER ON PUNCH PLATE HE WAS INSTALLING

INJURED WAS TIEING TAKE UP PULLEY TO GROVE CRANE TO BE LIFTED HE PULLED BACK UP OUT OF THE HOLE TO LET THE TAKE UP BE LIFTED, & STRAINED HIS BACK.

WHILE USING A CHAIN HOIST, PUTTING THE BEARING AND HOUSING BACK ON THE MAIN SHAFT, THE RIGGING CAME LOOSE, LETTING THE BEARING DROP ABOUT 3 FEET ONTO HIS RT FOOT.

WHILE WALKING OVER PLANT AND UP LIME CONVEYOR, EMP DROPPED POCKET KNIFE INTO THE LIME PILE BELOWTHEN TRIED TO FIND KNIFE (BLADE OPEN) BY RAKING HAND THROUGH STOCKPILE. WAS CUT ON RT HAND WHEN HE CAME ACROSS THE KNIFE BLADE. ANOTHER EMP WAS WITH EMP WHEN THIS TOOK PLACE. CONDITIONS NORMALWITH NO APPARENT DEFECTS PRESENT. EMPS WERE MAKING INSPECTION PRIOR TO PLANT REPAIR/MAINTENANCE.

TRUCK WAS POSITIONED ON ~20-25 DEGREE INCLINE, ALLIGNED TO TAILPULLEY, SCOTCHED LEFT TIRES. AFTER CUTTING BELT AND BEGINNING TO ROLL UP BELT ONTO WINDER, TRUCK ROLLED UP/OVER SCOTCH. WINDER SH IFTED ONTO EMPLOYEES (L) FOOT. CONDITIONS CONTRIBUTING: EMERGENCY BRAKE NOT SET, FAILURE TO SECURE 4 POINTS ON WINDER, PINCH POINT-DIDN'T APPLY OUTRIGGERS TO KNUCKLE ROOM, INCLINE & INEXPERIE

WHILE HAULING SHOT ROCK TO PRIMARY CRUSHER, EMPLOYEE PULLED UP TO DUMP AREA WHERE ANOTHER TRUCK WAS PARKED (AWAITING SIGNAL). EMPLOYEE PULLED UP, TURNED LEFT AND HIT PARKED HAUL TRUCK. INJURY "BEGAN" AS AN ALLEGED BACK INJURY.

38505MPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE THE DOOR ON THIS SAND CLASSIFIER TO CHANGE FAN BLADES. THIS EMPLOYEE AND ANOTHER WERE ATTEMTPING TO OPEN THE DOOR (SEE ATTACHED, DOOR MAKRED IN BLUE) TO G 57195 REPAIRS. THE FEED TO THE MACHINE WAS STOPPED AND THE MACHINE WAS LOCKED OUT BUT THE EMPLOYEES FAILED TO ALLOW TIME FOR THE INTERNAL FANS (SEE ATTACHED, FANS ARE MARKED IN YELLOW) TO "CO

95149ED WAS POSITIONING DRILL STEEL ONTO BIT MOVEMENT OF DRILL STEEL CAUSED THE GUIDE BUSHING TO DISLODGE AND FALL APPLY 4 FT.STRIKING THE LEFT MIDDLE AND INDEX FINGER CAUSING LACERATIONS TO B 638?0

THE EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING OVERSIZE FROM SURGE STOCKPILE. HE WAS REMOVING A LARGE STONE WHEN THE ONE ABOVE HIM MASHED HIS FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING FLUID LEVEL IN SPEED REDUCERS AND SAT ON MID RAIL TO REMOVE PLUG.THE MIDRAIL PULLED OUT OF SOCKET CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL 8-10 FEET.

WHILE REMOVING A PIECE OF STRUCTURAL BRACING, EMPLOYEE STRUCK WITH A HAMMER CAUSING THE BRACE TO STRIKE HIS LEFT FOOT. EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING SAFETY BOOTS WHICH PREVENTED SERIOUS INJURY. MEDICA L X-RAY REVEALED NO PROBLEMS. ONLY INJURY WAS A BRUISED FOOT.

WHILE USING A CUTTING TORCH TO CUT A PIECE OF METAL A PIECE OF MATERIAL WENT UNDER SAFETY EYE NEAR INTO EYE

A CLIP WELDED O3TO A PIECE OF SHEET METAL BY THE INJURED FAILED WHILE BEING LIFTED STRIKING INJURED EMPLOYEE ARM

EE WAS ATTEMPTI3G TO PASS A STEEL BAR TO ANOTHER EE WHILE REPAIRS WERE UNDERWAY ON A PAN FEEDER THE BAR BECAME OVERBALANCED CATCHING EES RING FINGER ON AN H BEAM. RESULTING LACERATION REQUIRED SUTURES. 3

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING OTHER PERSONNEL IN REMOVING A WORN CHUTE LINER AFTER THE LINER WAS LIFTED OUT OF THE CHUTE.IT WAS LONEBED FOR REMOVAL.WHEN THE WEIGHT OF THE LINER WAS RELEASED BY THE HO OIST IT UNEXPECTANLITY MOVED STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING HAUL UNIT, FROM QUARRY TO PRIMARY CRUSHER. ON RAMP TO CRUSHER, FRONT RIGHJT TIRE STRUCK ROCK, DIRVER LOST CONTROL OF UNIT. UNIT WENT OVER SIDE OF HAUL RAMP AND OVERTURNE D APPROX 20 FT BELOW.