Lugoff Plant: 171 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

While using a grinder, a maintenance mechanic received a laceration on the thumb when the disc caught the bolt being cut and kicked back into EE's left hand, cutting through the leather glove EE was wearing.

Contacted on 5/08/2019 by a OTR trucking company that one of their drivers had allegedly been hurt on our site. The driver did not report the injury to anyone at the time of the incident so details are limited.

EE was stacking bags on a pallet in the bag house. As EE was finishing the top row EE felt a pop in the left shoulder and felt pain. EE notified the S&H supervisor about the injury and also informed supervisor that EE had a sports injury to the same shoulder in 2005 while EE was in high school.

While hoisting an unloaded electric chain hoist to move it out of the way, the hoist hook briefly caught/bound on a piece of machinery, popped loose, and struck the worker in the lip causing a laceration. Both upper front teeth were also chipped along the inner edge.

The employee was assisting in repacking a slurry pump. After using wrenches to loosen/tighten bolts associated with the process, he began feeling pain in his back and legs.

A mill operator was using a hand-truck to move 50lb. bags of mill media, when a bag became unstable and slid off of the hand-truck onto the ground. The employee stopped to put the bag back on the hand-truck and while lifting it, felt a pain in his back.

Employee was bagging and palletizing 50 lb. bags of sand. After positioning the bag on the pallet, he felt a pain in his back when he began to stand back up.

Employee was walking up a catwalk in the sand pit carrying a screen and slipped and twisted his right foot.

The employee slipped on a tread plate ramp and fell injuring his left shoulder.

A bolt had worked itself loose from the stabilizing guide on the loadout stairs causing it to fall down and catch on the limit chains. EE reached down to free the guide and his left hand was smashed when the stairs retracted. EE received a contusion to his left hand.

Terminated employee claims he injured his elbow on the job.

Employee was squatting on a feed bearing trunnion housing to attach a cable sling to a hoist. Employee grabbed a fence guard with his left hand and a rigid pipe with his right hand to stabilize his descent. The rigid pipe moved causing employee to lose his balance and fall 52 inches striking his chest on a handrail. Employee fractured a rib.

Employee was walking down an incline to his underground hopper when he lost his footing in loose sand and fell to the ground. Employee?s head protection came off his head during the fall. When he attempted to retrieve his headgear, he bumped his head on the conveyor frame. Employee received a laceration to the head, which required 15 stitches.

Truck driver smashed his left index finger in the tailgate latch while attempting to close the tailgate. Driver sustained a fracture of the left index finger and an open wound.

Employee was bending over and using a pry bar to close the bottom gate of a covered hopper. When he stood back up he experienced pain in his back.

UNIMIN OPERATOR WAS DRIVING LOADER W/SHOVEL LOADED ADN ELEVATED OVER 6 FT. CONSEQUENTLY, THE SHOVEL IMPAIRED HIS VISION. HE DROVE DIRECTLY INTO OUR MACK DUMP TRUCK, PLOWING INTO CAB OF TRUCK A ND ABOVE THE CAB. MY DRIVER HAD RIGHT-OF-WAY ANDBLOWED HORN ETC. THE LOADER CRUSHED CAB OF TRUCK, SEVERLY INJURING MY DRIVER.

PROPERTY DAMAGE.. LOADER OPERATOR CHECKED THE ENGINE OIL, WATER AND HYDRAULIC ON HIS LOADER. MOVE IT SANT TO THE BAGGING FEED HOPPER AND CLEANING UP THE DRAIN PILES UNDER THE SHAWS. HE DECIDE TO PARK THE LOADER HE WAS OPERATING AND GO TO LUNCH.SMALL LOADER DROVE SLOWLY TOWARD THE DRYER CONTROL ROOM AND APPLIED THE BRAKES. NO BRAKES. IMMEDIATELY TRIED TO PUT THE LOADER IN REVERSE.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING CEILING TILE IN BREAKROOM. HE WAS REMOVING OLD TILE, MEASURING OPENING, CUTTING NEW TILE TO REQUIRED SIZE, PLACING IT IN GRID HANGERS. EMPLOYEE DOESN'T KNOW WHEN PARTICL E ENTERED EYE. HE NOTICED IRRITATION AT LUNCH. EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSED WITH SIDE SHIELDS.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING METAL WATER LINE IN FLOT PLANT. THE JOB REQUIRED HIM TO CUT OUT OLD PIPE WITH OXYGEN AND ACETYLENE CUTTING TORCH, GRIND DOWN TO NEW METAL AND WELD IN NEW PIPE. EMPLOYEE ISN'T SURE HOW OR WHEN METAL GOT INTO EYE. HIS EYE DIDN'T BOTHER HIM UNTIL LATER THAT NIGHT. SAFETY GLASSES WERE WORN.

INJURED WAS BUILDING A GUARD. HE REMOVED HIS SAFETY GLASSES AND RUGGED HIS LEFT EYE WITH HIS WROK GLOVES SMALL PIECE OF RUST WAS REMOVED FROM HIS LEFT EYE BY A DOCTOR.

68935 MOVING EIGHT FIFTY POUND BAGS OF GRINDING MEDIA FROM OUTSIDE TO INSIDE THE WEIGHT SHIFTED. RESULTING IN A STRAINED BACK MUSCLE.

WHILE REMOVING ACID LINE FROM PUMP, ACID SHOT UP RIGHT ARM CAUSING BURN. EMPLOYEE WAS UNAWARE THERE WAS PRESSURE ON THE LINE. EMPLOYEE WAS NOT WEARING ANY PROTECTION.

EE WAS SPLITTING SAND SAMPLES IN LAB HE RAKED HIS LOWER LEFT ARM ACROSS THE CORNER OF SPLITTER. HE WAS SENT TO THE DR 6-14-91. HIS LEFT ARM NEEDED SEVEN STITCHES.

EMPLOYEE WAS NOT AWARE OF POSSIBILTY OF WELDING FLASH FROM A REFLECTION HE SHOULD HAVE CLEARED THE AREA ESPECIALLY SINCE IT WAS A CONFINED AREA THIS IS THE MOST FEASIBLE EXPLANATION SINCE THE EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE HAD SAFETY GLASSES ON

THE EMPLOYEE DID NOT USE PROPER TOOL FOR THE JOB AND WAS NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT HE WAS DOING. HIS FINGER WAS LACERATED AND CRACKED.

EMPLOYEE AND FELLOW EMPLOYEE WERE POSITIONING GEAR BOX TO BE HOOKED UP TO A HOIST AND LOWERED TO NEXT FLOOR. INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING GEAR BOX WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN RIGHT SHOULDER. SAW DR. ON 2-11-91 WHO CONFIRMED PULLED MUSCLE IN RIGHT SHOULDER AND PRESCRIBED PAIN MEDICATION.

I.NAME STEPPING OUT BACK DOOR OF DRYER CONTROL ROOM ONTO JASPER STONE AND TWISTED KNEE.REPORTED,HOWEVER MEDICAL ATTENTION NOT NEEDED.ON 6-3-91 REPORTED TO OFFICE THAT KNEE WAS SWOLLEN AND HURT ING FROM INCIDENT IN DEC.WAS SENT TO DR 6-4-91.

INJ REQ STIT CHES, LACK OF SAFETY EQUIP AND MIND NOT ON JOV

A MAN HOLE COVER WAS LEFT OPEN BY AN OUTSIDE CONTRACTOR DOING SOME WELDING IN THE MILL BUILDING WHEN THE INJURED WALKED BY THE MAN HOLE HE FELL INTO THE HOLE AND CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HIS ELBOWS THE MAN HOLE INTSELF IS ABOUT 5 FT DEEP THE INJURED MAN CRACKED HIS RIB AND BRUISED HIS ELBOWS WE DID NOT KNOW HE HAD CRACKED A RIB UNTIL 9-15-88