ROCKY GAP QUARRY, LLC: 113 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Employee was walking down a slope behind our electrical building when ee stepped on wet leaves and mud, ee slipped and fell landing on left elbow shoulder area causing chronic irregularity of the clavicle from old injury ee had before EE came to work for us.

Employee was performing maintenance on #2 screen. Using a pry bar on counter weight when bar slipped. Felt the right shoulder pop. Employee is the superintendent for the welding team. At the time of the accident they had no lost time or restrictions. Later MRI was done and found a torn rotator cuff. Surgery on November 28, 2018.

Employee suffering from symptoms of diabetic trauma, contacted EMS for transport to Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Reported later that employee has infection in employee's foot from a prior amputation of toe.

Plant operator was cleaning out around overloaded screen unit. While doing the clean out a rock fell on their finger. Plant supt. transported to Bluefield Regional Medical, treated and released. No stitches or sutures.

Employee was operating end loader on quarry pit, hydraulic hose ruptured and bucket dropped to pit floor. Operator states was "jarred'. Operator requested hospital check up and went to Bluefield Regional Medical Center. On workers compensation at this time.

Individual is scale clerk, operating truck scales, observed by highway truck drivers of being incoherent and unresponsive. Emergency Response contacted and individual transported to Bluefield Regional Hospital, ER started treatment for Stroke. Later same day he was air lifted to Roanoke, found individual had stroke, heart attack, high blood pressure, diabetic and a hernia.

Perfroming maintenance, piece of metal hit left foot. Swelling later after going home. Hospital treted and released same evening.

WALKED DOWN GABION BELT CATWALK TO UNSTOP GABION CHUTE. PICKED UP 8-LB. SLEDGE HAMMER WITH RIGHT HAND. ATTEMPTED TO STEP FORWARD AND DOWN TO METAL BOX LOCATED AT BOTTOM OF GABION CHUTE AND ONTO THE GABION BOX LEDGE WHICH IS APPROX. 12 INCHES IN WIDTH. STEPPED DOWN APPROX. 8-10 INCHES ONTO THE BOX LEDGE - LEFT FOOT CURLED AND TWISTED ANKLE.

SHOVELING PACKED MATERIAL FROM UNDER TUNNEL CONV. BELT USING A LONG-HANDLED ROUND-POINT SHOVEL. MATERIAL PACKED VERY TIGHTLY AND EE HAD TO USE THRUSTING MOTION & GREAT EFFORT TO DISLODGE, IN ORDER TO SHOVEL & CLEAN. DURING THRUSTING MOTION, THE PACKED MATERIAL BROKE LOOSE & CAUSED EE'S RIGHT WRIST AREA TO STRIKE THE CONVEYOR STRUCTURE. MINE SUPT. FIRST INFORMED OF ACC. 5/21.

ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE 3" PIPE COUPLING FROM FRONT OF WATER TANK MOUNTED ON PETERBILT TRI-AXLE WATER DISTRIBUTION TRUCK. STANDING BETWEEN TRUCK CAB & MOUNTED TANK WITH LEFT FOOT ON TRUCK FRAME & RIGHT FOOT PRESSING ON THE HANDLE OF A 36" PIPE WRENCH, JAWS SLIPPED CAUSING LOSS OF BALANCE & FALLING, BUTTOCKS/ PELVIS HITTING TRUCK FRAME FIRST THEN LANDING IN SITTING POSITION ON GROUND.

MOVING BELT ROLLERS IN STORAGE SHED TO GET TO SPARE TIRES; BELT ROLLER HIT DOOR (WEIGHING APPROX 45-50 LBS) (SIZE 30" X 48") CAUSING LEANED DOOR TO FALL AND STRIKE EMPLOYEE ON SIDE OF LEFT HIP .

CHANGING AIR OPERATED OIL DISPENSER/PUMP FROM ONE TYPE OF OIL TO ANOTHER. PROCEEDED TO DRAIN EXCESS OUT AND STARTED TO PUMP UNWANTED OIL OUT. HELD DOWN TO WASTE OIL BUCKET AND PULLED TRIGGER C AUSING AIR BLAST TO SPLASH BUCKET OIL INTO LEFT EYE.

WHILE IN PROCESS OF REPAIRING AIR COMPRESSOR, MECHANIC OPENED UP SIDE DOOR ON INGERSOLL-RAND AIR COMPRESSOR DID NOT SECURE DOOR WITH SAFETY LATCH, WHICH HOLDS DOOR OPEN STRONG WIND BLEW DOOR A ND DOOR STRUCK MECHANIC IN MID AREA ON LEFT SIDEOF HEAD.

CORPORATE MAINTENANCE EE MAKING REPAIRS TO OFFICE ROOF CAME IN CONTACT WITH FIBERGLASS INSULATION WHICH CAUSED ALLERGIC REACTION

SHOVELING SPILLED CRUSHED MATERIAL FROM UNDER SURGE CONVEYOR BELT, (BENDING, TWISTING, LIFTING MOTION) FELT PULL IN BACK.

DURING PERIOD OF DRIZZLING RAIN, MUDDY CONDITIONS, MECHANIC STEPPED UP ON SIDE OF DOZER TO REMOVE SEAT, HIS FOOT SLIPPED FROM SOLID FOOTHOLD AND HIT ANOTHER FOOTHOLD CAUSING ANKLE SPRAIN.

OPRATING 980 CAT END LOADER IN QUARRY PIT-LARGE BOULDER SLID DOWN MUCK PILE AND HIT SUSPENDED LOADER BUCKET RAISING REAR OF LOADER OFF GROUND AND SLAMMIGN VIOLENTLY TO GROUND JARRING OEPRATOR. OEPRATOR EXPEERIENCING STIFFNESS AND SORENESS, ESPECIALLY IN RIGHT SIDE AND LOWER BACK.

DESCENDING WOODEN STEPS FROM DUST BUSTER BUILDING TO LOWER CRUSHING PLANT STEPPED FROM BOTTOM STEP FELL & TWISTED KNEE

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING IN CONVEYOR BELT REPLACEMENT, STANDING ON CONE CRUSHER STRUCUTRE, GUILDING BELT ONTO CONVEYOR, SLING CHAIN ON BELT HANGER LSIPPED, SIDE OF BELT DROPPED, CAUSED EMPLOYEE TO LOSE BALANCE AND FALL APPRXO 7' TO THE GROUND ON FLAT OF BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS BEATING ON A ROCK WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER WHEN HE MISSED THE ROCK CAUSING HAMMER TO TWIST HIS WRIST CAUSING IT TO POP. DR EXAM SHOWS NO BRUISING NO SWELLING AND NO CREPITUS. DIAGNO SIS: STRAIN RIGHT WRIST. (THE EMPLOYEE HAS PINS IN HIS RIGHT WRIST FROM A PREVIOUS ATUOMOBILE ACCIDENT).

EMPLOYEE WAS SPRAYING WATER TO CLEAN PUG-MILL, WHEN A LARGE COULDER ROLLED OFF OF HILL BEHIND HIM AND STRUCK HIM IN THE BACK. EMPLOYEE WEAS IN A SQUATTING POSITION AT THE TIME. EMERGENCY ROOM PHYSICIAN DIAGNOSED A SEVERE CONTUSION TO LOWER BACK AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING PIECE OF METAL WHEN A DROP OF HOT SLAG FLEW INTO HIS RIGHT EYE, BURNING EYE AND EYELID.

THE MECHANIC WAS TAKING OFF OLD GEARS FROM SHOVEL. HE HAD REMOVED TWO BOLTS ( THE GEAR HA DTHREE BOLTS) AND WAS GETTING READY TO REMOVE THE THIRD BOLT WHEN THE GEAR FELL UPON HIS ARM. THE TH IRD BOLT HAD BEEN BROKEN PREVIOUSLY WHICH WAS UNKNOWN TO THE VITIM.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO SET SAFETY BLOCKS UNDER TRAILER TONGUE WHEN IT SLIPPED CAUSING INJURY TO RIGHT RING FINGER. BROKE FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS WO9KING ON HAMMERMILL. HE AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE MOVING PART OF THE HAMMERMILL GRATE WHEN THE OTHER EMPLOYEE DROPPED HIS END THEREBY CAUSING HIM TO SMASH HIS FINGERS BETWEEN T HE GRATE AND TH9 HAMMERMILL.

EMPLOYEE WAS WE5DING INSIDE THE HAMMERMILL. PIECE OF SLAG BROKE OFF AND FELL IN BOOT. EMPLOYEE COULD NOT GET OUT FAST ENOUGH TO AVOID GETTING BURNED ON THE LEG.

EMPLOYTEE STATE8 THAT HE NOTICED THAT HIS BACK WAS BEGINNING TO HURT WHEN HE STARTED TO DO SOME REPAIR WORK ON ONE OF THE EUCLIDS. DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE MIGHT HAVE DONE TO CAUSED HIS BACK TO HURT. 3

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE CLIMBED INTO THE BED OF HIS TRUCK SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE DAY TO PUNCH LIME DOWN FROM THE BIN WHEN BY THE END OF THE DAY HE NOTICED THAT HIS BACK WAS GETTING WEAKER HE DID NOT THINK THAT THE PROBLEM WAS SERIOUS UNTIL THE NEXT MORNING WHEN HE TRIED TO ARISE