Portable Crushing Plant #205 Metal/Non-Metal

Employee twisted knee while fueling truck due to uneven ground. Was seen by physician on 5/5/22. Diagnosed with sprained knee. Employee was released to work with no restrictions and no medical treatment was given. On 5/23/22 employee was seen again by physician. Was placed on restricted work duty due to continued issues with knee. Injury became reportable as on 5/23/22.

Snowy conditions lead to truck sliding during turn and tipping onto side.

Employee was repairing engine on secondary crusher. Upon exiting the working platform employee tripped over extension cord, causing employee to lose balance and fall down steps, landing on the ground at bottom of steps. Fall resulted in bruising to employee's right side/back and two cracked ribs on right side.

Employee was working on a shot bench and twisted their knee.

Employee was cleaning around crushing plant with the skid loader and hit a big bump causing employee's head to hit the roof of skid loader. Told supervisor 9/28/2017 what happened. Did not go to doctor because employee did not think it was a big deal until headache would not go away. 10/16/2017 went to the doctor.

Was pulling electric cords and hanging them in the rack on a bin. Thought that is was a pulled muscle. On 8/10 went to doctor and said do physical therapy. On 9/6 was placed on light duty because no progress. On 11/9 reached out of dump truck to shut lime bin off and got pain in shoulder. Had MRI same day and on 11/10 was diagnosed with left torn rotator cuff. Surgery 12/13.

Washing the plant shack with a power washer. Stepped backwards and tripped on the hose. Fell on right shoulder. Original injury report was 12/17/2015. The employee was under evaluation until it was determined on 02/01/2016 that the right rotator cup was torn and needed surgery. Thus needed to be reported as an accident.

He was removing a dump truck tire from the tire rack. While pulling the tire out of the rack he felt a pull in his left shoulder. This was last day of work week and was decided to see how shoulder felt the following week. On 8/5/14 he was sent to occupational health because shoulder was still bothering him. He was placed on light duty. 8/12/14 recheck sent to therapy.

Hearing loss of 25 dBa in right ear.

Changing bucket tooth on Caterpillar 988F. After removing the pin that holds the tooth, he hit the edge of the tooth with a hammer to loosen the tooth from the adapter when a piece of metal chipped off. The piece of metal struck the right inner thigh of his right leg.

Kneeling on floor sliding crusher liners, when he felt a pop/sharp pain in his back.

Driver of stockpile truck was getting out of truck when his shirt sleeve caught on the door handle as he was getting out of the truck. Causing a muscle strain to right forearm.

Putting skirt boards on piggy back conveyor of surge bin. Was reaching out and lifting in an awkward position and pulled something in his back.

Went to exit cab of dump truck and pushed down on door handle. The handle broke, cutting his hand.

Attempting to take the baffle off the 60' conveyor that was feeding the screen plant when the baffle slipped and cut the top of left hand.

Attempting to hook the fuel wagon to a pick up, when the tongue fell off of pickup hitch and hit top of right foot.

WAS GRINDING THE ROUGH EDGES OFF THE GRIZZLY BARS ON THE IMPACT FEEDER WHEN THE GRINDER SLIPPED & CUT HIS KNEE

STRONG WIND BLEW DEBRIS IN LEFT EYE WHILE RUNNING AGGREGATE SAMPLE.

AFTER DETACHING THE CHAINS PROPERLY FROM THE CONVEYOR, EE WAS CLIMBING OFF THE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. THE LOADER OPERATOR SAW EE'S FOOT HIT THE GROUND AND STARTED TO BACK AWAY. APPERENTLY THE D RAIN BECAME SNAGGED IN THE CONVEYOR FRAME. THE STUCK CHAIN MOVED THE CONVEOR IN A WAY THAT MADE EE FALL TO THE GROUND WHEN HE PUT HIS ARMS OUT TO BREAK HIS FALL.

HE WAS PICKING UP HEAVY DECKS AND REMOVING THEM FROM A MACHINE. CHANGING SCREENS.

INSTALLING A BEARING IN A ROLLER. HAMMERING THE BEARING IN WITH A PIECE OF SHAFT WHEN HE MISSED AND HIT HIS FINGER.

STEPPED ON REAR OF DUMP BOX & SLIPPED ON STEEL SURFACE & FELL TO GROUND, WHILE SPRAYING AN ANTI-FREEZE MATERIAL IN BOX TO PREVENT FREEZING.

CLIMBING A LADDER TO GET A MEASUREMENT OFF THE SOFFET OF THE SHED, LADDER WAS ON UNEVEN GROUND &FELL OVER, INJURING THE EE'S R ANKLE WHEN HE HITTHE GROUND.

LOOSENING SCREW JACK BY PUSHING AGAINST A BAR WITH HAND AND RIGHT SIDE OF CHEST WHEN FELT SOMETHING POP.

TRIMMING A PIECE OF SKIRT RIBBER WITH A KNIFE INSIDE THE HOPPER BENEATH THE SCREEN ON THE SECONDARY CRUSHER. THE KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT THE TISSUE ABOVE THE RIGHT KNEE.

HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM A LOADER WITH A GALLON JUG INHIS HAND. HE LOST HIS BALNCE CAUSING HIM TO FALL BACKWARDS LANDING ON HIS BACK ANDHITTING HIS HEAD.

ADDING A PIECE OF WATER PIPE. HE WAS LIFTING IT BY HAND AND STRAINED HIS BACK. THIS CAUSED LOWER BACK MUSCLE STRAIN-POSSIBLE TORN.

CHANGING HAMMER IN SECONDARY CRUSHER. HE LIFTED OUT HAMMER AND TURNED TO THE LEFT TO HAND TO ANOTHER MAN AND STRAINED HIS BACK.