PLANT #2: 185 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Was shutting off water pump after filling the water tuck. Was walking back to the truck, stepped on a rock, which caused them to stumble, they felt a pop and had some pain. Told a supervisor about it, thought they had sprain an ankle. As the day went on the pain became worse and they sought medical treatment.

Was shoveling out mud out of the secondary crusher when the shovel hit the inside of the lip on the crusher causing the shovel to stop abruptly and bending their right wrist back causing immediate pain.

Was putting a drive belt on the crusher and was checking the underside to see if the belt needed to be rotated and the belt was put into reverse and EE's hand was on the belt and was pulled in between the belt and shiv, injuring EE's left hand.

Was driving a haul truck when the truck in front of EE stalled. EE got out to see if EE could help. EE climbed up on the catwalk when the brakes disengaged and started rolling backwards. EE jumped off the haul truck and in doing so strained calf muscle and upon hitting the ground strained left wrist.

Was stepping down off of a piece of equipment, had one foot on the step and one foot on the track of the loader. The foot on the track slipped and their Left knee popped.

Couple of boulders got stuck in the feeder. Employee walked up to catwalk to take a look and a rock shot out of the feeder hitting them in the chin on the right side causing a laceration.

Employee was climbing down off the loader, tried to turn around and EE's knee gave out and EE fell to the ground. Left knee is the injured area.

Miner was shoveling off the cat walk and was twisting to throw it off the machine and felt it in EE's back.

Was operating a front end loader to load the shoot. A boulder became dislodged & obstructed EE's path to the shoot. EE got out of the loader, was pushing a boulder out of the way so EE could load the shoot. Pushed on it & it wasn't enough force. EE lowered stance & when EE pushed the boulder again EE's right index finger got pinched between the boulder & another rock.

Had a bar stuffed up in the bin trying to dislodge a boulder. The bar slipped and ee jammed left shoulder.

Was pulling a 20 ton floor jack out the back of truck when ee dropped it and it landed on left foot just behind the steel toe causing a contusion.

While driving an articulating truck at the quarry, something fell into EE's left eye.

The miner was working outside in the heat. He entered the scale house complaining of being hot. He drank some water and complained of nausea and said he had stopped sweating. He was taken to K-stat to be checked out.

He was putting a V belt on the shive, when it rocked on his thumb got pinched.

Employee was changing the tooth on an excavator bucket. He was beating the pin out of tooth with a hammer and chisel when a piece of metal splintered off and struck him on the inside elbow of his left arm causing a laceration and embedding a piece of metal in the soft tissue.

Employee was power washing machinery and something got into right eye.

Employee was going down the ladder on a piece of equipment when his wedding ring caught on the ladder and hyperextended his left 4th finger and left wrist.

Employee used drive belt as a hand-hold. As employee pulled on the belt it moved; causing his hand to be caught between the belt and pulley. Equipment was NOT energized.

Employee was climbing down a ladder and slipped on a rung.

Employee was fueling a bulldozer when he fell (approx. 3 feet) to the ground.

Employee was walking down an icy access road when he slipped and fell flat on his back. He struck the right side of his low back and his head. He got back on his feet unassisted and continued to work the rest of the day with worsening pain to his back.

Employee was clearing a blockage in the drill bit of a hydraulic track drill. While unthreading the drill head, the drill stem came loose, causing the entire section to fall and crush his right ring finger.

Employee walked across parking lot when his knee went out. We did not initially submit this injury because there was much uncertainty about whether this injury was work related or personal (employee originally reported as non-work comp) and whether it happened at work or not.

Socket came off an impact wrench striking employee in the mouth.

Employee was operating a haul truck that was getting loaded with large pieces of shale. She was wearing her seatbelt, but due to the load, was getting tossed around in the truck. After that she started to develop severe back pain.

Employee was unloading powder and felt a small pain in his lower back. He had his back support on and was lifting properly.

Employee had come into the office several days prior and told us that he had been having chest pains and was going to see a doctor about it. When he experienced the pains at work he was immediatley taken to the ER. Employee returned to work the next day.

Employee started throwing up, had numbing in the face, stopped sweating, had dizziness, and was disoriented due to extreme heat. Employee did not lose consciousness and was coherent at all times.

While crawling into a screening plant, a piece of rust fell off the screen into his eye.

While attempting to release tensionon a chain boomer. The boomer released hitting EE in the lower leg breaking his leg.

Ee was climbing a ladder to add antifreeze to an engine and the ladder started to move and ee fell approx. 5' landing on a 55 gal drum.

EMPLOYEE WAS PRYING ON A BOULDER WHILE STANDING ON A LADDER. THE PRY BAR CAME LOOSE AND HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL APPROXIMATELY 4 FEET LANDING ON A ROCK.

EMPLOYEE DRIVING LOADER ACROSS YARD AND HIT A ROUGH SPOT CAUSING THE LOADER TO ROCK SIDEWAYS STRAINING HIS BACK.

WHILE BOOMING A CONVEYOR TO BE OFF-LOADED, EE STEPPED FROM CONVEYOR TO TRAILER DECK AND ROLLED HIS FOOT WHICH RESULTED IN A SPRAINED ANKLE.

WHILE SERVICING TRUCK HE WAS LOOKING UP AT THE BOTTOM OF TRUCK AND DEBRIS FELL FROM BOTTOM OF TRUCK AND A FOREIGN OBJECT STUCK IN LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE, EMPLOYED AS A MECHANIC WITH BAYER CONSTRUCTION WAS CLEANING A RADIATOR ON AN EXCAVATOR. HE STEPPED FROM THE EXCAVATOR TO THE GROUND AND ROLLED HIS ANKLE WHICH RESULTED IN A SPRAIN. .

LOST FOOTING WHILE INSPECTING IMPACTOR

CHEST PAIN AND SHORTNESS OF BREATH.

HOLDING A PUNCH TO DRIVE OUT A PIN.

MANUALLY PUSHING A 4' LONG TIMBER UNDER A CONVEYOR BELT (Q76) EE'S LEFT ARM PAINED & FINGER NUMB

WORKING WITH A VISE AND A PIECE OF HEAVY METAL OF WHICH THE VISE WAS NOT FASTENED DOWN.

HAMMER MILL (Q9) WAS BEING MOVED OUT OF THE LINE. THEY WERE PULLING IT WITH A CHAIN HOOKED TO A LOADER. WHEN FINISHED PULLING THE HAMMER MILL.EMPLOYEE WAS UNHOOKING THE CHAIN. THE CHAIN SNA PPED LOOSE AND HIT EMPLOYEE IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF FACE IN JAW AND TEETH AREA.

PUSHING ROCK BOULDERS WITH LOADER JOLT OF LOADER CAUSED INJURY WHEN BOULDER FELL INTO LOADER BUCKET.

INSTALLING CATWALK FROM CRUSHER TO HOUSE BRUISED LEFT KNEE WHEN INSTALLING BOLTS TO CATWALK.

CHANGING HAMMERS ON ROLLER. EE HAD REMOVED ON HAMMER. WHEN HE TRIED TO TURN ROLLER TO REMOVE REMAINING ROLLER, ROLLER WAS OVERBALANCED AND ROLLED ON THE LEFT FOOT.

CLIMBING DOWN FROM Q9 HAMMERMILL AND FELL TO GROUND.

WAS WELDING IN SHAKER, PART OF THE ROCK CRUSHER. VICE GRIP SBEING USED ON A PIECE OF METAL, PREPARATORY TO WELDING, SLIPPED OFF AND STRUCK EMLOYEE IN FACE. LEFT EYE TOOTH BROKEN. THIS A RE PORTABLE ACCIDENT.

EE WAS USING A CHAIN TO HELP MANEUVER TWO SCALES TOGETHER IN TANDEM. THE BOOMER HE WAS USING SNAPPED BACK AND HIT HIS RIGHT HAND, LACERATING HIS INDEX FINGER.

FELL FORM LADDER OF 769B QUARRY TRCK (Q77) BRISED BACK, LEFT HIP, ELBOWS. HIT HEA ON GROUND.

WAS WORKING ON RADIATOR OF CONE SECONDARY PLANT (069) ACCIDENTLY HIT HIS LEFT HAND WITH HAMMER BACK OF HAND BRUISED

IDLING DOWN A GASOLINE MOTOR ON WELDER. AS HE WAS ADJUSTING THE THROTTLE , HIS GLOVE CAUGHT IN THE MOTOR FAN. INDEX FINGER RIGHT HAND LACERATED TO BONE- REQUIRING SKIN GRAFT. THUMB AND TWO O THER FINGERS CUT. (RIGHT HAND)

EE WAS LOOSENING BOLT ON A BRACE ON A CONVEYOR EE DID NOT RECOGNIZE THAT THERE WAS PRESSURE BEING EXERTED ON THE BRACE CAUSED BY A LOADER BEING USED TO LIFT THE CONVEYOR. WHEN THE BOLT WAS REL EASED BY EE THE BRACE SWUNG OUT AND HIT HIM IN THE MOUTH. HE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPTIAL EMERGENCY FOR STITCHES TO UPPER LIP. A TOTAL OF 14 STITCHES WERE REQUIRED.

ON THE LOADER EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING, TIRE HIT A DEEP RUT IN ROAD AND LOADER PITCHED TO SIDE, TWISTING EMPLOYEE'S LOWER BACK. X-RAY SHOW COMPRESSED NERVE IN BACK.

ANOTHER EMPL WAS STRIKING STEEL SHAFT WITH SLEDGE HAMMER. EMPL MISSED STEEL SHAFT WHICH WAS BEING HELD BY EMPL. SLEDGE HAMMER HIT EMPL IN MOUTH CAUSING STITCHES TO BE NECESSARY. UPPER TEETH L OOSENED.

EMPL IS LOADER OPERATOR AT STEVENS QUARRY. HE DOES NOT KNOW WHEN ACCIDENT HAPPENED. HE REPORT THAT ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO WHEN HE WAS OPERATING LOADER SOMETHING SNAPPED IN BACK & THAT EVER SINCE BACK HURTS HIM WHEN HE WALKS OR STANDS. HE HAS SEEN DR & HAS HAD XRAY TAKEN OF BACK. IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED AT THIS TIME WHETHER OR NOT INCIDENT IS JOB RELATED,

INJURED WAS HELPING TO CHANGE A SCREEN ON OUT EL JAY SCREENING PLANT.HE WAS WORKING FROM A CAT WALK ALONG SIDE THE PLANT.THE CATWALK STEPS DOWN WITH 2 12" STEPS AT THE END OF THE SCREEN.HE WAS BACKING ALONG THE CATWALK AS HE WAS TIGHTENING THE BOLTS.HE WAS MOVING IN THE DIRECTION OF THE STEPS AND SIMPLY BACKED INTO THE STEPS AND FELL AT THIS POINT,TO THE CATWALK AT THE TW0-FOOT LOW

HAMMERING A PIN OUT OF A SHOVEL BUCKET AND A SLIVER OF STEEL ENTERED THE RIGHT EYE.

EMPL WAS HOOKING CHAIN AROUND AN ENGINE BEING LIFTED OUT OF AN IMPACTOR BY A CRANE THUMB ON L HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN CHAIN AND ENGINE WHEN CRANE OPERATOR BEGAN TO LIFT THE ENGINE