LOCUST POINT QUARRY: 177 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

The EE has suffered a standard threshold shift in hearing compared to their baseline. EE has been retrained on the proper use of hearing protection and has also went over the hearing conservation plan with a safety team member.

EE has suffered a standard threshold shift in hearing compared to their baseline. EE has been retrained on the proper use of hearing protection and has also went over the hearing conservation plan with a safety team member.

EE has suffered a standard threshold shift in hearing compared to EE's baseline. EE has been retrained on the proper use of hearing protection and has also went over the hearing conservation plan with a safety team member.

Employee was repairing a waste pump. While lifting a shaft employee hurt right shoulder

Employee was sitting in haul truck and another employee backed into the truck.

Employee had rock fall onto left foot.

EE was closing the gate at the enrance of the mine. EE cut hand on the Latch of the gate.

Clogged crusher.

EE was closing a gate and felt pressure in EE's stomach area. EE looked and found that EE's abdomen had a buldge

Walked on the Scale to talk to operator and fell walking off of the scale.

Employee was struck on the left side of the head with stone or dirt.

Employee was climbing up into an articulated haul truck. The employee slipped and started to fall. EE's L. Leg caught between the rungs of the access ladder and the employee fell and EE's left leg stayed in between the rungs of the access ladder.

Employee was installing drive belts on the crusher and bruised right ring finger between sheave and drive belt.

Lifting pipe cover off test tubes and strained a back muscle.

Pressure washer used to wash haul trucks.

While climbing down the ladder of a haul truck,employee's foot got stuck between ladder rungs causing the employee to fall. As a result, employee sprained/strained her left knee.

Something got in employee's eye.

Employee was in the process of tightening a conveyor belt with a come-along when the chain being used broke and struck the employee's left wrist.

Employee closed his pickup truck car door on hand causing contusion and lacerations to hand and fingers.

Employee was operating truck and drove on to berm hurting lower back.

Employee is a mechanic, while working on equipment place a large metal bar on the control panel. Employee turned and attempted to catch bar as it fell from the control panel causing his palm of hand to be between the metal bar and the equipment.

Employee was exiting a CAT 980 front end loader. His right elbow struck the upright of the ROPS.

Employee was lifting the side cutter for an excavator bucket and experienced a thoracic sprain.

Employee was driving a haul truck and after loaded with oversized rock, the front of the haul truck lifted off the ground and back to the ground. This caused the employee to have lower back pain.

EE was wiring conveyor #11 starter which was locked out. This starter was directly above a 100 amp 480 volt 3 phase disconnect for conveyor #12 hoist and travel. This disconnect was energized on the line side. Screwdriver went into the open panel past the protective barrier and crossed phases creating an electrical explosion.

Employee was shoveling off a belt, a rock fell from above hitting the employee in the lower back. Employee was wearing all required PPE and no lost time resulted from the injury.

Employee was exiting a articulated Volvo haul truck and mis-stepped on the ladder. The employee suffered contusions to the L. elbow & shoulder. A potential fracture to the L. elbow is possible, pending further examinations.

Employee cut right elbow on a piece of steel while doing maintenance work on a rock crusher. The employee needed to have 3 or 4 stitches to the laceration. The employee was released to return to work with restrictions of no lifting, pushing, pulling over 10 lbs. Keep wound clean & dry and limited use of R arm.

Employee was exiting a front end loader and slipped on the last step next to ground level.

The injured employee was standing on a pile of R-6 rocks at the North hole sump. The rocks slid and the employee fell down on the pile of rocks and into the water.

While performing mechanical work on a John Deere 800 hoe, the employee fell landing on his tail bone, resulting in a sprain.

A rock came off conveyor belt #4 and struck employee on the left hand.

Employee was using a hand operated cable hoist to hoist an electric motor into place for installation.

When the employee got injured, he was sanding a shaft to a tail pulley of a conveyor belt. The employee had the shaft proped up about two inches off the floor to sand the shaft. The shaft slipped off the prop and crushed the employee's left middle finger. Employee should have been using a different means to prop the shaft up when sanding.

EE was shoveling at #16 conveyor tail pulley and a rock from the overhead location fell and struck him behind the right ear.EE received 3 sutures.

Lost footing and fell face first into a backhoe bucket.

Employee was using a utility knife, it slipped while cutting a hose and struck his finger on left hand, causing a laceration.

Employee was using a hand grinder.

Employee was starting conveyor and moving stacker #12. No electric was noticed by employee, since the stacker did not move. The employee then grabbed the electric supply line to the stacker and an arc flash resulted because of a short in the electric cable.

Tried to turn rotor in 43x40 crusher; right foot got caught between field plate and breaker bar.

Employee was leaning over a water pump and a rock from an adjacent shaker or conveyor struck the employee's neck. The employee noticed loss of feeling in both arms and was transported to hospital by ambulance.

Using pipe wrench to adjust bolts which slipped off bolt causing him to lose balance. He fell off shaker onto ground below because he did not use fall protection equipment.

Injured employee was standing on top of a tail pulley guard servicing an adjacent conveyor when he slipped. He attempted to catch himself with his right hand, when his hand wedged between a guard and a speed reducer belt/pulley.

EE was cleaning build-up of frozen material from underside of conveyor belt, when it let loose and fell against his leg.

He claims he jumped off #2 stacker & twisted his back- No witness- He admits he hurt his back after work while working on a friend's auto- Did not report "off" for work until we called him & ordered him to go to listed medical provider as state law requires for all w/c claims.

Shoveling under belt and lifted screen guard, guard fell back into his leg causing laceration.

WHILE WORKING ON CONVEYOR HEAD PULLEY, IT SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HANDS & FELL ONTO HIS LOWER LEG AREA.

WHILE WALKING ON EMBANKMENT, MATERIAL GAVE WAY & HE TWISTED HIS KNEE WHILE REGAINING HIS BALANCE.

WHILE SHOVELING UNDER CONVEYOR, HE STEPPED BACKWARD ONTO UNEVEN SURFACE & TWISTED KNEE.

WHILE WORKING ON THE MOTOR A PIECE OF ROCK WAS JAMMED IN THE MOTOR. WHEN HE SHOOK THE ROCK LOOSE, THE COUNTERWEIGHT PULLED THE BELT AND HIS FINGER INTO THE PULLEY.

EE WAS OPERATING A DROP BALL ATTACHED TO A TRACK DRIVEN SHOVEL. WHILE MOVING A LEVER IN PREPARATION TO MOVE SHOVEL THE LEVER JERKED FROM EMPLOYEE'S HAND CAUSING STRAIN TO LEFT SHOULDER.

EE PULLED WATER TRUCK UNDER FILL PIPE. HE DID NOT APPLY PARK BRAKE OR HAVE TRUCK IN GEAR. THE TRUCK STARTED TO DRIFE AND EE RAN AFTER TRUCK, SLIPPED AND FELL, INJURING HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND A RM.

SHOVELING AROUND PLANT AREA DN BEGAN TO HAVE CHEST PAINS AND DIFFICULTY BREATHING.

SLIPPED OFF (STOPPED) CONVEYOR BELT AND FELL ONTO BUCKET OF LOADER PARKED BELOW.

USING POWER SHOVEL AS DROP-BALL OPERATION. OPERATOR STOPPED AT EDGE OF APPROXIMATELY 15 FT. HIGH WALL, FORGOT TO SET BRAKE AND THE SHOVEL DRIFTED OVER THE EDGE, FALLING INTO THE PIT BELOW.

WAS IN ROLL-OVER VEHICLE ACCIDNET, BUT NOT INJURED IN ACTUAL ACCIDENT. WHEN VEHICLE STOPPED, IT LANDED ON RIGHT SIDE HE WAS USING SEAT-BELT ASSEMBLY & WHEN HE UNFASTENED IT, HE FELL FROM DRIV ER'S SEAT AGAINST RIGHT SIDE (NO ON BOTTOM) OF VEHICLE & ACTUALLY WAS INJURED FROM THE FALL.

ROLLIGN AROLL OF BELTING MATERIAL IT ROLLE DBACKWARD INTO HIS FOOT, BENDING SAFETY TOE SHOE UP AND BACK AGAINST HIS FOOT.

SHOVELING ICE AND SNOW OFF TRAILER.

DOING MECHANICAL REPAIRS TO TRAX MACHINE OVERHEAD DIRT DISLODGED & FELL INTO FACE, SOME ENTERED RIGHT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING HAULAGE TRUCK, BACKED TOWARD HIGH WALL WHEN ROCK BROKE LOOSE AND FELL, STRIKING TRUCK IN LEFT REAR JOLTING DRIVER IN SUCH A WAY AS TO TWIST HIS BACK AND NECK. DRIVER CO NTINUED TO WORK UNTIL MID MORNING ON 10-07-92 WHEN PAIN BECAME UNBEARABLE.

EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN SHOVELING WHEN HE BEGAN TO COMPLAIN OF PAIN IN THE LOW BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A CRUSHER SHOE DURING CLEAN-UP WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS GROIN. EMPLOYEE WAS NOT ASSIGNED TO THIS DUTY AT THE TIME THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED. HE JUST THOUGHT HE'D HEL P OUT.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING SH-42 SHOVEL AND BEGAN COMPLAINING OF PAIN IN THE BACK. NO SPECIFIC ACCIDNENT OCCURRED THAT CAUSED THE INJURY.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A PIECE OF GRATING. WHEN IT WAS DROPPED IT CAUGHT THE EMPLOYEES FINGER MASHING SAME.

INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS TESTING TENSION ON FAN BELT WITH FINGERS. MECHANIC ATTACHED BATTERY CABLES AND FAN ACTIVATED, CATCHING FINGERS BETWEEN BELT AND PULLEY.

CHIPPING SLAG FOR WELDER. NOT USING PROTECTION FROM FLASH.

REMOVING WOODEN CRIBBING FROM UNDER PRIMARY CRUSHER WHICH IS BEING NEWLY INSTALLED CRIBBING SLIPPED, PINCHING HANDBETWEEN CRIBBING AND METAL ELECTRIC CONTROL BOX ATTACHE%D TO CRUSHER FRAME.

EMPLOYEE WAS GE7TING READY TO RELIEVE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE OPERATING A JACKHAMMER.WHEN WALKING TOWARD EMPLOYEE OPERATING JACKHAMMER,A PIECE OF STONE FLEW INTO THE AIR AND HIT HIM IN THE LEFT EYE.