Pineville: 1 recorded fatality Metal/Non-Metal

While removing a guard on a motor to measure a sheave, employee smashed left finger.

Supervisor was spraying out the throughs bin underneath the screen on top of the tower. Employee walked down to the ground level to see if material was flowing out of the chute. As EE was walking past the torch box, all the material sloughed out and knocked the torch box over and onto the employee.

While walking the area to inspect the screen a mechanical failure caused a guard to contact the employee after the flywheel contacted it knocking the employee backward into the adjacent screen.

Employee washed out bed of articulating truck in plant and did not lower bed as EE drove off the raised bed contacted the conveyor protection bridge causing the cab to lay over on its side.

While ascending the ladder on the motor grader the employees right foot slipped causing him to lose his balance and slip back to the ground resulting on a groin area strain

Employee's left hand was pulled between the conveyor belt and troughing idler resulting in a laceration.

While removing old wear plate off the bottom of the loader bucket, a piece of hot slag got into the employees ear.

Employee was crawling under the access stair platform when a piece of debris fell into his eye.

Employee was performing maintenance work on a 992C loader when he fell, causing a fracture to his wrist.

EE received seven staples at the top of his head after an air wrench from above struck him while standing underneath the grizzly bar at the primary feeder. EE was not wearing his hard hat.

EE possibly strained stomach after trying to sit up from a flat position on his back while in the pit underneath a PC 400 Rockbreaker to repair a loose wire. EE did not go to the doctor until November 21, 2007.

Employee was walking on top of rebar mat when his foot slipped into a hole in the rebar mat, causing pain to his foot & back. Did not seek medical attention until 5-1-07. Called him 5-9-07. His care is now beyond first aid.

Employee's left middle finger was contused while pushing forward to break mounting bolts loose on the turbo base. The bolt broke loose jamming his finger into the turbo.

Customer truck driver pulled up to automated ticket chute and reached into box to get ticket. The truck rolled back catching his finger between the chute and the truck mirror causing a laceration to his finger, requiring 5 stitches.

EE strained his lower back after he and a co-worker lifted a freon recovery unit onto a truck. This task should have been completed with a forklift. Employee initially went to the doctor on 11/14/06; however, restricted duty was prescribed on 12/15/06.

EE sprained his left ankle after stepping down from the #2 screen feed.

EE received burns to his upper extremities due to mechanical failure that occurred on processing equipment.

We think the EE was cutting sleeves off coveralls when he received a self-inflicted wound to his left chest; subsquently a knick to his heart.

EE was placing concrete around new office. He was showing the warning signs of heat stroke. EMS was called to give care in case EE's condition got worse. The EMS carried him to a local hospital. The hospital administered fluids and kept him overnight for observation. He was released the next day to go back to work.

Employee was visually inspecting pugmill as part of daily routine and reached to lift a piece of wood with one hand and lift an inspection plate up with the other when he felt a sensation in his back between his shoulder blades.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING OFF THE ROCK THAT WAS ON THE CONVEYOR WHEN IT STALLED OUT. METAL SHIRT BOARDS ARE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BELT. AS HE PUSHED THE SHOVEL DOWN, THROUGH THE ROCK, INSIDE THE S KIRT BOARDS, HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE SHOVEL HANDLE AND THE METAL SHIRT BOARD. CAUSED LACERATION ON LEFT INDEX FINGER REQUIRING 10 STITCHES.

EE WAS REPLACING THE TRACK ROLLERS ON THE D8 DOZER. WHILE HE WAS REMOVING THE TRACK ROLLER BOLTS HE STARTING TO FEEL A TIGHTENING IN HIS BACK. THE PAIN WORSENED OVER THE WEEKEND SO ON MONDAY, HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR TO BE CHECKED OUT.

EE WAS MOVING A PIECE OF SCRAP METAL BY HANDS TO GET TO THE BOOM TRUCK THAT WAS NEEDED IN THE PIT. WHILE MOVING THE METAL, IT CUT HIS THIRD FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND CAUSING HIM TO GO TO THE HOS PITAL FOR 2 STITCHES.

INJURED AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP HOSES FROM SAME PILE. OTHER EE RAISED UP WITH A STEEL TUBE, STRIKING INJURED IN THE MOUTH. HIS FRONT TWO TEETH WERE DAMAGED. ONE TOOTH WAS BROKE, OT HER TOOTH WAS CHIPPED.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEARING ROCK BY HAND THAT HAD BRIDGED UP IN THE HP700 CRUSHER, WHEN HE REMOVED A PIECE OF ROCK IT CAUSED ANOTHER PIECE TO FALL FROM ABOVE, WHICH LACERATED HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WENT TO TUNNEL TO REMOVE ROCKS THAT WERE HUNG IN THE CHUTE BELOW THE FEEDER. AS HE WAS REMOVING THE ROCKS, ONE ROCK FELL OUT OF THEFEEDER MASHING HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER AGAINST AN OTHER ROCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A KEYWAY FROM A PULLEY SHAFT USING A PUNCH AND HAMMER WHEN THE PUNCH FRACTURED PERJECTING A PIECE OF METAL IN HIS LEFT FOREARM.

EE WAS ASSIGNED THE JOB OF REMOVING THE PIT PUMP FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE PIT TO GET READY TO PULL A SHOT. EE WAS PULLING ON SOME HEAVY HYDRAULIC HOSES TO BE MOVED. AFTER HE GOT THE HOSES OUT HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

EE WAS RELIEVING HTE REGULAR STOCKPILE TRUCK DRIVER FOR HIS LLUNCH BREAK. AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT HE WAS STOCKPILING 3/4" STONE. HE WAS DRIVING UPA NEWLY CONSTRUCTED RAMP. EE HAD ALREA DY MADE ONE TRIP, THIS WAS HIS SECOND TIRP UP THE RAMP. THE TRUCK GOT TO CLOSE TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE RAMP. THE RAMP GAVE WAY UNDER THE RIGHT SIDE TIRES, AND THE TRUCK ROLLED DOWN THE EMBA

EMPLOYEE WAS BENT OVER TOSSING A BIG ROCK TO THE GROUND FROM THE CATWALK OF P-1 CONVEYER. HE PITCHED THE ROCK BETWEEN TOEPLATE AND CENTER RAIL OF HANDRAIL SIDE OF CONVEYER. WHILE IN THE MOTION OF TOSSING THE ROCK, HIS LEFT HAND STRUCK THE BOTTOM OF THE CENTER RAIL, INJURING HIS MIDDLE FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND, WHICH TOOK 5 STITCHES.

EE WAS PRYING ON THE GABION GATE WHICH IS LOCATED OVER HP700 CRUSHER AT THE PLANT, GETTING IT READY TO MAKE GABION STONE AT THE START OF THE PRODUCTION DAY. AS EE WAS PRYING HE FELT A PULL IN HIS SIDE. HE WORKED HIS NIGHT SHIFT AND WENT HOME.WHEN HE GOT UP HIS BACK HURT SO HE WENT TO THE DR.

EMPLOYEE WAS PREPARING PARTS TO INSTALL TORQUE CONVERTOR IN A LOADER. EMPLOYEE OPENED A WOODEN CRATE AND PROPPED THE LID AGAINST THE TORQUE CONVERTOR. HE TURNED AROUND WITH THE PARTS AND HIT T HE LID WITH HIS FOOT. THE LID FELL OVER AND HE STEPPED ON THE BOARD WHICH HAD A NAIL PROTRUDING FROM IT. EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON THE NAIL.

TWO COMPANY EMPLOYEES WERE WORKING ABOVE OUR EMPLOYEES WHO WERE INSTALLING SKIRTBOARDS ON THE P1 BELT. A PIECE OF 6X6X3/4 ANGLE FELL THROUGH A CRACK IN THE TEMPORARY SCAFFOLDING AND STRUCK EE ON THE BACK OF THE NECK.

EE WAS TRYING TO KEEP HYDRAULIC HOSE FROM BEING CUT BY RAM ON 7' CRUSHER. THE RAM WAS RETRACTING AND I PUSHED HTE HOSE DOWN AND OUT OF THE WAY WITH MY LEFT HAND AND STABLEIZED MYSELF WITH MY RIGHT HAND ON THE RAN AND IT CAUGHT MY RIGHT LITTLE FINGER AND PULLED THE SOFT TISSUE FROM IT.

EE WAS CLIMBING ON HIS LOADER FIRST THING MONDAY MORNING IT HAD BEEN RAINING & WAS STILL DARK HIS FOOT SLIPPED & HE FELL FROM HIS LOADER LADDER TO THE GROUND FROM THE TOP OF THE LADDER HE HT THE TIRE & SKINNED HIS KNEE AS WELL AS TWISTING IT HE ATTEMPTED TWO DIFFERENT TIMES TO PROCEED TO WORK BUT HIS KNEE CONTINUED TO GET WORSE HE THEN WAS TAKEN TO ARROWOOD MEDICAL CENTER FOR A DI

WORKING AS A MECHANIC TO CENTRAL SHOP, THE INJURED AND FELLOW MECHANIC HAD COMPLETED CHANGING THE FUEL PUMP AND TURBOCHARGER ON THE 992C CATERPILLAR LOADER ENGINE. THEY HAD INSTALLED THE AIR C LEANER SUPPORT BRACKET WITH THE SHOP OVERHEAD HOIST. THEY THEN NOTICED THE THROTTLE CABLE WAS NOT IN THE PROPER LOCATION; THE FELLOW MECHANIC LEANED ACROSS THE ENGINE TO LOOSEN CAPSCREWS IN T

WHILE KNEELING BY THE TRACK TO REACH THE CHAIN, EMPL TOOK 2 PRY BARS & PULLED THE CHAIN TOGETHERTHE HELPER WAS STANDING BY TO PUT THE PIN IN THE LINK AS EMPL PRYED ONE BAR SLIPPED, CAUSING THE CHAIN TO MOVE QUICKLY & CATCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE SIDES OF THE LINKS. HE TOLD HIS HELPER TO TAKE THE TENSION OFF THE CHAIN TO RELEASE HISFINGER. HE WAS TAKEN TO MERCH S FOR MED ATTENTIO

OPERATOR GOT OFF MACHINE TO CHECK BUCKET BANK SLUFFED OFF. ROOT BALL WAS HIDDEN IN DIRT & PINNED OPERATOR TO BUCKET.

I.NAME PICKED UP NEW BIT FROM SIDE OF DRILL AND CARRIED IT OVER TO FRONT OF DRILL AND SET IT DOWN ON THE GROUND. FELT A PINCH IN LOWER BACK. WENT TO CAB AND COME OUT OF THE HOLE. STEPPED UP TO GO INTO THE CAB AND FELT SEVERE PAIN. THEN CALLED FOR HELP TAKEN IMMEDIATELY TO HOSPITAL.

EE WAS HOLDING A HAMMER WRENCH ON A NUT DURING THE TIGHTING OF JAW WEDGE BOLTS. DEFLECTED OFF OF A PIECE OF CHANNEL IRON AND STRUCK EE ON THE LEFT INDEX FINGER.

INJURED WAS AT THE #2 DIESTER SCREEN DISCHARGE AND WELDING A PLATE ON THE FLOP GATE.INJURED WAS POSITIONED IN THE DISCHARGE END HOPPER WELDING ABOVE HIS HEAD WHEN A PIECE OF WELDING SLAG FELL INTO HIS LEFT BOOT,BURNING HIS LOWER LEFT LEG WITH 2ND AND 3RD DEGREE BURNS.

EMPL WAS IN PROCESS OF CHANGING COMPRESSOR BREATHER FILTER & CLEANING DUST PAN. HE WAS DOING THIS WHILE DRILL WAS SET UP OVER HOLE & THERFORE RAISED IN AIR ON ITS STABILIZERS. HE NORMALLY PERF ORMS THIS WHILE DRILL IS ON ITS TIRES & HE CAN STAND ON GROUND. AS EMPL ATTEMPTED TO GET OFF DRILL HE SLIPPED & STRUCK RIBS ON FRAME.

INJURED WAS FLIPPING THE FLOP GATES ON THE #3 SREEN.THE WIND WAS BLOWING HARD AND BLEW A PIECE OF ROCK PARTICLE IN HIS RIGHT EYE.

THE OPERATOR ALLEDED THAT THE LOADER SEAT WAS NOT OPERATING PROPERLY AND OVER A PERIOD OF TIME CAUSED HIS BACK TO HURT.

WELDING IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO OTHER WELDERS; POSSBILE BURNS INCURRED FROM THEIR ARCS, AND/OR ACCIDENTAL STRIKING OF HIS ARC.

HE WAS AIR ACRING OLD WELDS ON THE EUCLID AND A PIECE OF METAL FLEW FROM THE ARC SURFACE BEHIND HIS WELDING HOOD INTO HIS LEFT EYE. HE WENT TO DOCTOR TO HAVE METAL REMOVED.

EMPL WAS LIFTING TONGUE OF PORTABLE DIESEL PUMP WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN BACK. EMPL FINISHED SHIFT & CONTINUED TO WORK FOLLOWING DAYS BUT PAIN PERSISTED. ON 11/8/89 HE WENT TO DR.

I NAME WAS ON THE TOP DECK OF NORDBERG SCREEN CHANGING SCREEN CLOTH AS I NAME WAS PULLING AND SLIDING THE SCREEN CLOTH INTO POSITION HE FELT A PULL IN HIS GROIN AREA I NAME KEPT DOING HIS JOB UNTIL HIS SHIFT WAS OVER THE NEXT MORNING I NAME NOTICED THE PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA HAD GOTTEN WORSE SO HE WENT TO THE DR

BARREL WAS SIDEWAYS IN JAW CRUSHER SO WROKERS COULD STAND ON IT WORKING ON JAW.I.NAME WENT IN JAW TO REMOVE BARREL.AFTER HOOKING CHAIN HOOK ON EACH LIP OF ENDS OF BARREL,OVERHEAD HOIST USED TO PULL BARREL OUT.I.NAME RIDING BARREL WHILE BEING HOISTED...BARREL CAME UNHOOKED AND I.NAME FELL INTO BARREL.

I NAME WAS IN CRUSHER HANDING OUT BIG ROCKS =CRUSHER HAD CHOKED A FEW MINUTES EARLIER AS I WAS REACHING TO GRAB ANOTHER ROCK THAT WAS ABOUT THE SIZE OF A FOOTBALL IT ROLLED OVER & CAUGHT MY FI NGER BETWEEN THE ROCK & THE BOWL LINER OF THE CRUSHER

GRADING PIT HAUL ROADS WITH MOTORGRADER BACKING UP TO MAKE ANOTHER PASS. TURNED AROUND TO SEE WHERE HE WAS BACKING PARTICLE OFMETAL OR RUST APPARENTLY FORM MUFFLER OF GRADER FLEW INTO EYE.

I,NAME WAS UNDER THE PRIMARY JAW CRUSHER UNSTOPPING THE CHUTE. I,NAME IN AN AWKWARD POSTION SWING A 10# SLEDGE HAMMER TRYING TO UNSTOP THE CHTE WHEN HE FELT A PULL IN HIS BACK. AT THE TIME OF THE PULL I,NAME DID NOT THINK IT WAS TO SERIOUS BUT ON MONDAY I,NAME HAD TO GO TO DOCTOR.

THE SEAT OF I.NAMES R-50 EUCLID HAUL TRUCK WAS NOT WORKING PROPERLY AND OVER A ERIOD OF TIME I.ANAMES BACK SUFFERED A STRAIN FURTHER INVESTIGATION INDICATED THE FOLLOWING THE SEAT WAS PURCHASE D NEW IN 1988 I.NAME DUE IN PART TO HIS LIGHT BODY WEIGHT WAS NOT ABLE TO SATISFACTORILY ADJUST THE AIR SHOCK MECHANISM TO ADEQUATELY ABSORB ROAD SHOCK AND STILL MAINTAIN PROPER DRIVING POSIT

INJURED WAS HOLDING A PISTON CASING WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING THE PISTON OUT OF THE CASING EMPLOYEE STRUCK A STRIKING BAR FROM A DRILL WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER AND A PIECE OF METAL FROM THE STRIK KING BAR FLEW OFF AND EMBEDDED ITSELF IN THE SKIN ON INJURED'S ABDOMEN THE STRIKING BAR WAS PARTIALLY INSIDE OF THE CASING SO THAT WE COULD DRIVE THE PISTON OUT OF THE CASING

I,NAME WAS IN THE PIT RUNNING THE CRANE IN A NORMAL MANNER WHILE DROP BALLNG ROCK. FOR A REASON DETERMINED LATER TO BE LOW BLOOD PRESSURE, I,NAME BLACKED OUT WHILE ON THE CRANE. WHEN HE CAME T O SOME TIME LATER, HE WAS LYING ON THE PIT FLOOR. HE HAD SOME ABRASIONS TO THE HEAD RESULTING MOST LIKELY FROM CONTACT WITH ROCKS OR THE PIT FLOOR.

I. NAME AND W. NAME WERE INSID THE NORDBERG SCREEN HANDLING AN OLD PIECE OF SCREEN CLOTH OUT TO NAME AND NAME WHILE HANDLING THE OLD SCREEN OVER THE TOP OF SIDE OF THE NORDBERG CREEN IT BEGAN TO SLIDE DOWN THE SIDE OF THE SCREEN I. NAME TRIED TO GRAB THE SCREEN BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IT MIGHT HIT THOSE BELOW THE SCREEN THE MOMENTUM OF THE DCREEN DRUG I. NAME HAND AND CAUGHT IT BETWEEN

THE INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET OUT OF A SMALL CRANE THAT WE HAD BORROWED TO REPAIR A BELT AT THE PLANT.WHILE HE WAS CLIMBING OUT OFTHE CRANE,HIS FOOT CAUGHT ON THE EDGE OF THE CAB.HE LOST H BALANCE AND FELL TO THE GROUND STRIKING HIS FOOT ON THE GROUND AND TWISTING IT.

GRIZZLEY FEEDER3BOX HAD BECOME CLOGGED DUE TO BRIDGING OF THE ROCK JAW OPERATOR HAD SHUT OFF FEEDER & WAS RUNNING THE BELT CLEAN IN ORFDER TO SHUT OFF THE BELT TO CLEAR THE BOX I.NAME WAS STA NDING ON PLATFO9M AT THE BASE OF THE JAW XRUSHER WITH HIS LEFT LEG PROPPED UPON THE LOWER RAILING OF THE HANDRAIL AROUND PLATFORM HE WAS WAITING FOR THE BELT TO STOP TO UNCLOG FEEDER BOX A RO

I NAME WAS FINI8HED DRILLING A HOLE AND WAS CLOSING THE STEEL RACK AND DUE TO THE DRILL SETTING UNLEVEL I NAME HAD TO PUT HIS FOOT ON STEEL RACK TO KEEP IT FROM TURNING. STEEL RACK TURNED QUICKLY PINNING3HIS LEFT FOOT BETWEEN THE RACK AND THE CHAIN GUARD CAUSING IT TO BE MASHED

POSITIONING HYD1 CONSOLE ON CRUSHER PLATFORM WHEN WEIGHT SHIFTED TRAPPED EMPLOYEES FINGER UNDERNEATH CONSOLE.

I NAME WAS REMO5ING THE CABLE FROM THE FOUR WAY BLOCK.LARRY PULLED THE CABLE THROUGH THE WEDGE SOCKET AND IT CAME OUT STRIKING LARRY IN THE MOUTH CHIPPING HIS TWO FRONT TEETH.

I.NAME HOLDING 7HAINS IN PLACE TO LET CRANE TAKE OUT SLACK.CRANES CLUTCH GRABBED WHEN HE WENT TO TAKE UP SLACK KNOCKING I.NAME OFF BALANCE CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO TRAILER FLOOR ON LOW BOY.