Lewisburg: 143 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Employee was cutting rock on the front splitter. A rock fell in between belt and splitter teeth. When he grabbed the rock the belt hit it and the rock turned and smashed his right thumb between rock and belt.

Working on splitter cylinder, smashed right index finger between splitter and cyinder.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING A ROCK IN THE ROCK SPLITTER WHEN HE HAD A STRONG SHOOTING PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER, THEN HE HAD TO STOP CUTTING.

Per Employee: He went to remove cap from oil drum-hand slipped and finger was cut by cap which was split.

PER EMPLOYEE: HE WAS LEAVING FOR LUNCH & WENT TO GET CIGARETTE MONEY FROM ANOTHER EMPLOYEE & HIT HIS HEAD ON A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON ON PLANT.

PER EE: "I WAS WORKING ON THE FRONT SPLITTER, ROCK WAS COMING FROM THE BACK SPLITTER ON THE TABLE. I WAS LIFTING A ROCK OFF TOP OF OTHER ROCK WHEN THE ROCK I WAS LIFTING FELL BACK DOWN & SMASH ED MY FINGER BETWEEN THE ROCK AND THE TABLE".

EE WAS TURNING A ROCK OVER ON THE SPLITTER TABLE. HE HAD ONE HAND UNDER THE ROCK WHEN IT ROLLED OVER AND PINNED HIS LITTLE FINGER. HE PULLED HIS HAND OUT AND SMASHED HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER.

EE WAS WORKING WITH ANOTHER EE STACKING SKIDS. EE SAT DOWN ON ONE OF THE SKIDS AND SAID HE WAS LIGHT HEADED. HE WALKED OVER TO HIS TRUCK TO GET A DRINK OF WATER. HE LEANED ON THE TRUCK THEN FA INTED, FALLING TO THE GROUND AND HAD SOME SORT OF SEIZURE AND WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL BY AMBULANCE.

PER EE: I WAS GETTING OFF DOZER & MY LEFT FOOT SLIPPED. MY LEFT KNEE TWISTED AS I LOST MY BALANCE AND I CAME DOWN ON LEFT KNEE AND HIP WITH ALL MY WEIGHT ON THE TRACKS OF THE DOZER.

PULLED A ROCK TO CUT AND HAD A SHARP PAIN IN LEFT TESTICLE.

PER EE HURT - I WAS HELPING CUSTOMER LOAD FEATHERSTONE ON TRUCK. ONE PIECE DROPPED & HIT ME IN THE LEG (RIGHT LEG SHIN). THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY A BRUISE & DIDN'T GO TO DR UNTIL FRIDAY 6/21 PM. MY LEG WAS SWELLED UP TO MID CALF & RED LOOKING.

PER WITNESS: EE WAS SPLITTING ROCK & WENT TO PUSH ROCK TO BACK TABLE WHEN HE THOUGHT HE CAUGHT LT. ARM ON SPLITTER TEETH WHICH CUT HIM. A LARGEROCK HE WAS CUTTING HAD BLOOD & HAIR ON SHARP CORNER SO IT WAS POSSIBLE THE ROCK HAD CUT HIM NOT THE SPLITTER TEETH. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL FOR STITCHES.

EE WAS PICKING FEATHER STONE FROM QUARRY LOCATION & A ROCK SLIPPED FROM PILE OF ROCKS & LANDED ON THE SIDE OF HIS ANKLE.

IN EE'S WORDS; HE WAS WORKING ON BACK SPLITTER TABLE & A ROCK CAUGHT ON VENEER GAUGE & RAISED END OF SPLITTER TABLE UP. HE WAS REACHING OVER TABLE TO GET STONE AS THE TABLE RAISED UP & WHEN TH E TABLE CAME DOWN IT HIT HIS KNEE (LEFT KNEE).

EE WAS SPLITTING GREY STONE WHEN PIECE OF ROCK FLEW OFF AND LODGED IN HAND.

PER EE: "I WAS TAKING A PIECE OF WEBWALL ROCK OFF THE BELT TO STACK ON SKID AND IT SLIPPED FROM MY HAND HITTING MY UPPER THIGH."

EE WAS ASKED TO GO TO SHIPPING/PLANT AREA TO SHOW LOADER OPERATOR WHAT ROCK TO LOAD ON CUSTOMER'S TRUCK & RETURN TO OFFICE. EE DECIDE TO HELP MOVE TREADS & PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK- HE DIDN'T NOT IFY EMPLOYER TIL 2/22 @ 12:00 P.M.

EE WAS REACHING FOR A ROCK ONT THE SPLITTER TABLE. HE STARTED TO PULL IT TOWARDS HIM AND FELT SOMETHING POP HE FELT PAIN WHEN HE BREATHED AND FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK, AROUND LUNGS UPPER BACK.

PER EE, "I WAS RUNNING ROCK SPLITTER, I TURNED AROUND TO CHECK ROCKS BEING DUMPED ON TABLE. WENT TO TURN ON CONVEYOR TO MOVE ROCKS AND CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN 2 ROCKS, ONE STABBED THE KNUCKLE." FINGER STARTED TO BOTHER HIM SAT WHEN HE WENT TO DOCTOR.

PER EE WORKING ON SPLITTING ROCK AT SPLITTER TABLE. WENT TO SPLIT GREY STONE A PIECE OF ROCK APPROXIMATELY 6" IN DIA NOT THICK FLEW OFF OF SPLITTER TABLE AND ROCK BEING SPLIT. IT HIT HIS SAFET Y GLASSES, AND THEN HIS FOREHEAD UNDER HARD HAT.

EE GRABBED A ROCK THAT WAS ABOUT 10# PAST GUAGE, GOT THE ROCK PROPPED UP AND IT ROLLED BACK TOWARD CYLINDER GUAGE (SPLITTER FINGERS). CYLINDAR CAME DOWN AND CRUSHED FINGER AGAINST ROCK AND GUA GE.

EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP STONE FROM TABLE TO HAVE RECUT. WENT TO THROW STONE BACK ONTO TABLE AND JAMMED HIS FINGER BETWEEN TABLE AND ROCK; RING FINGER WAS BROKEN.

EMPLOYEE WENT TO THROW A ROCK AND FELT SOMETHING POP HE WAS AT THE BACK SPLITTING TABLE WHEN THIS OCCURRED.

DURING NORMAL WORKING HOURS AT APPROX. 4:40 P.M., WHEN A ROCK FELL BACKWARDS, PUSHING EE'S HAND UNDER THE CONVEYOR BELT.

EE WAS MOVING BUILDING STONE FROM ONE PILE TO ANOTHER PILE, HE HAD A ROCK IN HIS HANDS, TURNED COWORKER HAD A ROCK IN HIS HANDS, HE THREW HIS AND IT HIT EE'S HAND WHICH HE WAS STILL HOLDING A ROCK IN ANDIT CUT HIS RIGHT THUMB AND MASHED IT.

HE WAS CARRYING A SLAB OF ROCK WITH ANOTHER GUY AND HE WAS WALKING BACKWARDS AND TRIPPED OVER TWO ROCKS, FELL BACK AND HIT THE BUCKET ON THE LOADER WITH HIS BACK.

EE WAS MOVING ROCK BY HAND ON CONVEYOR BELT, GETTING READY TO CUT ROCK, MOVED A ROCK THAT WAS ON TOP OF ANOTHER ROCK, WHEN HE MOVED IT, IT BOUNCED OFF OF CONVEYOR BELT. EE TRIED TO CATCH THE R OCK BUT IT FELL THROUGH HIS HANDS AND LANDED ON RIGHT FOOT, WHICH BROKE THE RIGHT FOOT.

EE WAS HELPING ON THE STONE SPLITTER WHEN ANOTHER EE PUSHED A ROCK ONTO THE BELT AND ONTO HIS HAND.

SEE ATTACHED PAGE. THE CONDITION DESCRIBED ON THE ATTACHED SHEET IS TOTALLY THE WORDING OF THE EE. I TYPED THE REPORT WORD FOR WORD AS WAS WRITEN BY THE EE. EE WAS DRIVING A LOADER DOWN A HILL . GOING SLOW. LOADER DIED & IT STARTED GOING FAST. TRIED TO STOP IT, TURN IT, BUT IT WOULDN'T DO ANYTHING. JUMPED OUT BEFORE IT WENT OVER THE EDGE. HIT SOME ROCK & HURT LOWER LEFT LEG.

SEE ATTACHED SHEET. THE CONDITION DESCRIBED IS TOTALLY THE WORDING OF THE EE. I TYPED THE REPORT WORD FOR WORD AS WAS WRITTEN BY THE EE. EE & CO-EE WERE USING THE CAT 966 TO PICK UP WEB WALL. THE BRAKES WEREN'T WORKING PROPERLY. WE MADE SEVERAL TRIPS UP & DOWN THE HILL. THIS TRIP THE MOTOR DIED. NO BRAKES. TRIED TO TURN LOADER. NO LUCK. WE BOTH JUMPED OUT BEFORE IT WENT OVER EDGE.

EE WAS HELPING SET STONE FOR SPLITTING. THE STONE SLIPPED CATCHING THE RING FINGER BETWEEN 2 PIECES OF STONE. ***SEE ATTACHED SHEET***

EE WAS PICKING UP BUILDING STONE FROM THE QUARRY, AND HE REPORTED HE PICKED UP A ROCK WEIGHING ABOUT 100 TO 125 POUNDS. HE GOT SOME PAIN IN THE LOWER PART OF HIS BODY, IN THE GROIN AREA.

WAS WORKING ON THE BACK TABLE PULLING OFF CUT STONE WHEN ANOTHER EE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TABLE PICKED UP A CUT STONE AT THE SAME TIME EE WAS. BOTH ROCKS WHERE END TO END. EE STARTED TO PICK THE ROCK UP AT THE SAME TIME OTHER EE DID AND HIS ROCK FELL ON MY ROCK WITH MY HAND IN BETWEEN THEM APPROX. 80 LBS. IN RESULT THUMB ON LEFT HAND WAS CRUSHED.

AN EMP WAS TAKING BUILDING STONE OFF THE CONVEYOR BELT AND PUTTING IT IN LOADER BUCKET. INJURED EMP STEPPED IN BUCKET TO GET TO WORK STATION ON OTHER SIDE OF BELT. EMP HANDLING STONE DID NOT L OOK AND THREW 40LB STONE INTO BUCKET. ROCK LANDED ON INJURED'S LEFT FOOT, BREAKING HIS BIG TOE IN THREE PLACES. INJURED WAS WEARING STEEL TOED BOOTS.

INJURED WORKER WAS GETTING TOOLS TO WORK OF THE UKE TRUCK. HE WAS WALKING TO A CO-WORKER'S TRUCK& SLIPPED ON THE ICE, HURTING LEFT ARM & HIP. REASON OF REPORTING LATE: THIS ACCIDENT WAS NOT RE PORTED SOONER BECAUSE EE HAS BEEN REGULARLY WORKING & IT DIS NOT APPEAR VERY SERIOUS. BECAUSE OFPAIN THIS AM THE DOCTOR TOOK HIM OFF WORK FOR A WEEK.

EE WAS WORKING AT THE TABLE OF THE STONE SPLITTER, WHEN TWO ROCKS FLEW UP AND PINCHED HIS FINGER.

EE STARTED TO PICK UP A ROCK FOR BUILDING STONE. A PIECE OF THE ROCK BROKE OFF AND FELL ON HIS RT FOOT.

EE WAS PICKING UP BUILDING STONE & THROWING IT INTO THE LOADER BUCKET HE THREW ONE PIECE INTO THE BUCKET & IT KNOCKED ANOTHER PIECE OUT LANDING ON HIS LEFT FOOT

EE WAS PICKING UP A ROCK FOR BUILDING STONE, AND A ROCK FELL OFF THE TOP OF THE STACK OF ROCKS AND HIT HIS RIGHT HAND.

HE WAS FEEDING THE CUTTER AND A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OFF AND HIT HIS THUMB.

ON 8-10-93 HE WAS TURNING A STONE OVER ON THE FLAT SIDE TO MAKE SPLIT STONE. HIS RIGHT HAND GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE ROCK AND THE ROLELRS ON TEH STONE SPLITTER. THIS INJURY IS A RE-INJURY OF T HE THUMB ON THE RIGHT HAND. THE THUMB WAS SHOWING SIGNS OF SWELLING.

CAUGHT HIS HAND BETWEEN THE ROCK & STONE SPLITTER & BELT

HE WAS TURNING A STONE OVER ON THE FLAT SIDE TO MAKE SPLIT STONE. HIS RIGHT HAND GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE ROCK AND THE ROLLERS ON THE STONE SPLITTER.

I.NAME STARTED TO GET OUT OF LOADER MACHINE AND SLIPPED ALMOST FALLING.STARTED TO BRACE HIMSELF WITH HIS ARM,THREW ARM IN A BIND.

STEPPING UP ON LOADER,FOOT SLIPPED AND FELL ON RIGHT ELBOW.PAIN HAS INCREASED SINCE INJURY.WENT TO DR 2-18-92.

EE WAS PUSHING A ROCK INTO THE STONE SPLITTER. THE ROCK HAD A SHARP EDGE HE HIT HIS FINGER REQUIRING 6 STITCHES CAUSED BY THE SHARP EDGE ON STONE.

ON 01-15-91 HE FELL OUT OF THE LOADER BUCKET AGGRAVATING THE KNEE INJURY OF 10-22-90 ON 03-276-91 HE WENT TO T HE DR BECAUSE HIS KNEE WAS SO PAINFUL THIS INJURY WAS REPORTEDF 10-24-90 BUT DID

REOCCURANCE OF BACK PROBLEMS FROM 10/89.

EMPL LIFTING A BIG STONE OFF BUILDING STONE SPLITTING TABLE AND TWISTED HIS BACK.STILL RESTRICTED AS OF 11-26-90.

EMPL JUMPED OFF PILE OF BUILDING STONE & TWISTEDKNEE.

I.NAME TWISTED KNEE PICKING UP ROCK...INJURY REPORTED 10-24...

INJURED WAS PICKING UP A ROCK AND FELT A MUSCLE PULL IN HIS BACK. AT THE TIME HE DID NOT THINK IT WAS SERIOUS BUT REPORTED IT TO THE OFFICE AND CONTINUED WORKING. HE WAS PUTTING ROCK ONTO TH E CUTTING TABLE FOR BUILDING STONE. ON JULY 30, 1990 AT APPROXIMATLEY 10:00A.M. HE REPORTED HIS BACK WAS HURTING AND WAS TAKEN TO THE DOCTOR.

REOCCURANCE OF BACK PROBLEMS FROM 10-10-89.

EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING STOEM IN CHUTE WHEN HE PICHED UP A STOE A SHARP PAIN WENT THRU HIS BACK.