Radiant Red Quarry: 47 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Injured employee and supervisor were loading the trailer with parts when the weight shifted on the load, hitting a timber. Injured employee stepped down off the trailer quickly, injuring his knee.

Employee was exiting a loader when he stepped on a metal splice in a fuel hose on the ground causing him to roll (sprain) his right ankle.

Ee was stepping onto a piece of granite grout near a creek when the piece of grout rolled over causing him to fall thus hitting his left arm/elbow area on another piece of granite grout causing a compound fracture to his left arm/elbow. He had two plates and 14 screws implanted in his arm during surgery.

AFTER SHUTTING MACHINE OFF, EE WAS EXITING THE GALION DRILL WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL THUS HITTING HIS LEFT ELBOW, LEG AND ANKLE ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE MACHINE. HE RECEIVED A DEEP BRUISE TO HIS LEFT ELBOW AND WAS PLACED ON LIGHT DUTY.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PUT A 55 GALLON DRUM OF PETROLEUM PRODUCT ON A STEEL RACK (BARREL HALF FULL) WHEN THE CHAIN USED TO HOLD THE BARREL SLIPPED CAUSING THE BARREL TO LAND ON HIS LEFT FOOT. EV EN THOUGH HE WAS WEARING STEEL TOED BOOTS, HIS BIG TOE WAS FRACTURED. STEEL TOE DID NOT FAIL!

EE WAS USING A PRY BAR TO REMOVE A FLAT TIRE FROM HIS DRILL WHEN THE PRY BAR SLIPPED AND MASHED HIS RT HAND BETWEEN THE PRY BAR AND THE DRILL'S DUST COLLECTOR CANISTER.

EE WAS MOVING A DRILL STEEL NEXT TO A HIGHWALL. THE DRILL STEEL BRUSHED A SMALL PIECE OF LOOSE GRANITE WHICH DISLODGED AND FELL 3 FT LACERATING HIS RT FOREARM AREA THUS REQUIRING SUTURES.

A LOAF SHOT HAD BEEN MADE THE LAST THING ON 5-5-97. THE LOAF OPENED UP APPROX. 30" FROM THE WALL. THE NEXT MORNING, EE AND SEVERAL COWORKERS WERE WALKING TO THEIR WORK STATIONS WHEN EE STEPPED OFF IN THE 30" GAP AND FELL APPROX. 16' TO THE QUARRY FLOOR. EE SUFFERED A FRACTURED LEFT ANKLE. THE LIGHTS IN THE QUARRY HAD JUST BEEN TURNED ON AND WEREN'T FULL ILLUMINATED AT THE TIME.

EE WAS WEDGING OFF THE END OF A GRANITE BLOCK WHEN THE END BROKE OFF THE AIR BUSTER HE WAS SUING DROPPED DOWN SMASHING HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN THE BUSTER AND THE TOP OF THE GRANITE BLOC K.

TRYING TO REMOVE ROCK FROM DRILL CO WORKER PULLED UP ON DRILL STEEL FIGNER CAUGHT BETWEEN ROCK THE DRILL STEEL AND SIDE OF DRILL HOLE

PULLED JACK HAMMER FELT PAIN IN L SIDE

I NAME WAS USING A MACHINE DRILL TO START A HOLE IN GRANITE ROCK HE WAS USING HIS HAND TO GUIDE THE BIT ON THE START AS HE ATTEMPTED TO BACK THE DRILL OUT OF THE HOLE HE SWITCHED THE DRILL INT O FORWARD INSTEAD OF NEUTRAL & HIS HAND WAS CAUGHT BRIEFLY BETWEEN THE ROCK & THE DRILL

I NAME WAS TURNING AROUND THE SHUT OFF HIS SAW AND MISS STEPPED OVER A 4X4 PIECE OF LUMBER, CAUSING HIM TO SPRAIN HIS LEFT ANKLE.

INJURED REPORTED ON 10/3/88 THAT HE HAD BEEN OPERATING A JACKHAMMER DURING THE WEEK OF 9/26/88 THRU 9/30/88, AND THAT ON 9/30/88 HE BEGAN EXPERIENCING STIFFNESS AND AN ACHING SENSATION IN HI S LOWER BACK.

HIS HAND SLIPPED WHILE CLIMBING OFF A GRANITE BOLOCK, CUTTING HIS HAND ON A ROUGH PART OF THE BLOCK.

I NAME WAS SHARPENING A TOOL BIT WITH A BENCH GRINDER. IN ORDER TO PUT A PROPER EDGE ON THE TOOL BIT HE PLACED THE TOOL BIT TO THE GRINDING WHEEL AT AN ANGLE FROM THE SIDE OF THE GRINDER THE TOOL BIT KICKED OFF TO THE SIDE MASHING HIS FINGER INBETWEEN THE TOOL AND GRINDING WHEEL.

I NAME REACHED 7O PICK UP A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT WHEN SLIPPED AND FELL TO THE GROUND SAME LEVEL HE APPARENTLY SLIPPED ON A SMALL ROCK. ACCIDENT WAS REPORTED 8-24-87 AND LOST TIME BEGAN 8-27-87.

UNKNOWN, HE INF2RMED THE COMPONY 8-18-87 THAT HIS BACK WAS BOTHERING HIM. AT THIS TIME HE STATED THAT HE DID NOT KNOW IF IT WAS JOB RELATED OR NOT. ON 9-8-87 THE COMPANY RECEIVED A LETTER FR OM HIM CLAIMING3HE WAS INJURED ON THE JOB. THIS CASE HAD BEEN TREATED AS A GROUP INSURANCE MATTER PRIOR TO THE RECEIPT OF THIS LETTER.

THE INJURED COM1LAINED OF EYE IRITATION AND WAS SENT TO A PHYSICIAN.PERSPIRATION AND DUST APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN AT LEAST PARTIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONDTION OF HIS EYES. THERE WAS NO FOREIGN MATTER FOUND I3 HIS EYES UPON EXAMINATION.COMPLAINT BY THE INJURED WAS MADE ON 07-15-87 THAT HIS EYES HAD BEEN BOTHERING HIM.

ABNORMALLY STRO3G WIND GUSTS BLEW GRANITE DUST INTO FACE OF INJURED.GRANITE DUST REACHED RIGHT EYE DESPITE WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.FOREIGN DEBRIS REMOVED FROM SURFACE OF HIS EYE AND THERE WAS N O EMBEDDED MATT9R.

THE CONDITIONS 7ONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT ARE UNKNOWN, HE NOTIFIED HIS SUPERVISOR SEVERAL DAYS AFTER HE BECAME AWARE OF DISCOMFORT IN HIS L EYE. HE WAS UNAWARE OF HOW ANY DEBRIS GOT INTO HIS EYE DESPITE WEA9ING SAFETY GLASSES. UPON EXAMINATION OF HIS EYE, NO METALLIC DEBRIS WAS FOUND, THE DIAGNOSIS GIVEN WAS RUST RING ON L EYE (CORNEA)

THE EE WAS TRAN8FERRING 5 STEEL WEDGES WEIGHING APPROX 40# COMBINED AS HE WAS WALKING HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN THE MIDDLE BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS HA3DLING THE HOOKING ASSIGNMENT ON A LARGE SCRAP PIECE, WHILE REMOVING THE PINS AND OTHER LIFTING APPARATUS, HIS FEET BECAME PINNED WHEN PART OF THE ROCK BROKE OFF.

2 EMPLOYEES WER9 DRILLING A LIFT HOLE INTO A GR ANITE STONE. THE INJURED EMP WAS GUIDING THE DRILL STEEL WITH A GLOVED HAND WHEN THE DRILLER AND DRILL SLIPPED OFF OF THE STONE MASHING THE EMP LOYEES FINGER B9TWEEN THE DRILL AND THE STONE. THE INJURED EMP LEFT MIDDLE FINGER WAS CRUSHED WITH AN ACCOMPANYING BONE FRACTURE OF THE FIRST JOINT

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO PICK UP A JACK HAMMER. WHEN HE LIFTED THE JACKHAMMER HE FELT A SHARP PAIN TO HIS LOWER BACK.

SUBJECT LIFTING OXYGEN BOTTLE AND PULLED LOWER BACK MUSCLE.

SUABJECT WAS BARRING ON SOME SHALE WHEN THE BAR SLIPPED AND HE FELL BACKWARD OFF A 3 FT. EMBANKMENT AND LANDED ON SOME LOOSE ROCK.

SUBJECT WAS WORKING WITH A JACKHAMMER. WHEN IT STARTED TO FALL HE TRIED TO STOP IT AND HURT HIS BACK