Salida Plant: 66 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Operator recieved cut to back of hand when drill press accidentally started up while he was changing the bit.

Employee was barring wet material plugging feed chute to crusher when bar rebounded off side of chute, hitting employee in mouth. Laceration requiring 4 stitches and 2 chipped/cracked teeth.

PROBLEM WITH FORK LIFT OVER HEATING. EE WAS CHECKING RADIATOR HOSE WITH FORKLIFT RUNNING. APPARENTLY FINGER WAS CAUGHT IN BELT PULLEY.

AFTER BEGGING, HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION AND NAGGING PAIN IN HTE RIGHT SIDE OF THE GROIN AREA. HE THOUGHT HE HAD PULLED A MUSCLE. AFTER GETTING HOM THE PAIN GOT WORSE. THE NEXT DAY HE HAD AN APPT. WITH A DR. IN COLORADO SPRINGS. THE DR. EXAMINED HIM AND FOUND HE HAD A GRADE 3 HERNIA CAUSED BY REPETITIVE LIFTING AND WILL NEED SURGERY.

EE WAS HELPING TO LOAD A VAN TRAILER WITH PALLETS OF BAGGED LIMESTONE WHEN HE PULLED HARD ON PALLET JACK HE HURT HIS BACK

EE WAS BAGGING LIMESTONE, AND WHILE MOVING BAGGED LIMESTONE FROM BAGGER TO PALLET...BACK WENT . MAY HAVE PULLED SOMETHING.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING SNOW OFF SCALES.HE TWISTED AND HURT LOWER BACK.

EE WAS IN A LIMESTONE FEED HOPPER BARRING DOWN PRODUCT, WHEN THE LIMESTONE UNDER FEET GAVE WAY-THE BAR CAME BACK HITTING HIM IN THE MOUTH. SMALL CHIPS ON 2 FRONT TEETH AND BROKE CROWN OFF 1 FRONT TOOTH. CROWN WILL HAVE TO BE REDONE

EE WAS SHOVELING FOR WATER DRAINAGE AND INJURED LOWER BACK. PULLED MUSCLES OR STRAINED MUSCLES.

EMPLOYEE WAS ROLLING A ROLL A PLASTIC SHRINKWRAP ACROSS FLOOR, WHEN IT HIT A HIGH PLACE. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL. FALL CAUSED INJURY TO LEG.

EE WAS HELPING REPLACE SPROCKET ON CHAIN ELEVATOR. WHEN CHAIN SLIPPED & MASHED EE'S MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND. INJURY REQUIRED STITCHES TO REPAIR.

EE LIFTED A 5 GALLON BUCKET CONTAINING LIMESTONE DUST. SHE LIFTED THIS OUT HER VECHILE AND CARRIED IT APPROX 50 FEET INTO OFFICE. APPROX. WEIGHT OF 50-60 LBS THIS CAUSED PAIN IN LOWER ABDOMEN, WHICH DID NOT GOT AWAY AFTER A FEW DAYS. EE FIRST SAW DR ON 10-13-95, AND AGAIN ON 10-18-95. THE DR ON 10-18-95 DIAGNOSED HER AS HAVING TWO HERNIAS FROM STRAINS.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHRINKING 5" SHAFT FOR BEARING INSTALLATION WITH LP GAS. THIS PROCEDURE WAS IN PROCESS APPROX 10 MINUTES WHENTHE GAS IGNITED BY AN UNKNOWN SOURCE INFLICTING 1ST & 2ND DEGREE BURN ON EMPLOYEES HANDS & FACE.

EMPLOYEE WAS RETURNING TO WORK AFTER LUNCH BREAK, AND HIS PICKUP STRUCK A PIPE GATE END-ON. THE END OF THE PIPE BROKE THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD AND STRUCK THE STEERING SHEEL RESULTING IN A BROKE N FINGER. THE GATE NORMALLY IN OPEN DURING WORKING HOURS, BUT IT HAD ACCID. SWUNG PARTIALLY CLOSED INTO ROAD WAY. EMP ATTENTION WAS DIRECTED BEYOND GATE INTO PLT PROP & DID NOT NOTICE IT.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING AN AIR COMPRESSOR IN COMPRESSOR ROOM AND SLIPPED AND FELL- SLIPPED ON OIL SPOT ON FLOOR. TWISTED BACK- SLIPPED VERTEBRAE IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE AND TWO OTHERS WERE REPAIRING A LARGE DRILL PRESS. WHILE RE-ASSEMBLING THE BASE SWIVEL PLATE, IT SUDDENLY DROPPED AND EMPLOYEE INJURED BACK. PULLED OR TWISTED LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBINGON TO FORKLIFT AND PERHAPS TURNED A CERTAIN WAY, HURT BACK. RESULTED INS EVERE PAINAND STIFFNESS. BED REST AND MUSCLE RELAXERS HELPED.

EE WAS CLIMBING STEPS TO CRUSHING PLANT AND TRIPPED ON STEP AND HIT CRUSHER SHACK WITH LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS DOING CLEAN UP WORK. HE WAS LOADING WASTE INTO A WHEELBARROW TO TAKE TO DUMP AREA. HE MAY HAVE LOADED WHEELBARROW HEAVIER THAN HE SHOULD HAVE. HE PULLED MUSCLE OR STRAINED LOWER B AKC MUSCLE.

EE WAS WORKING ON PUTTING TOGETHER A CRUSHING AND SCREENING PLANT, HIS HAND SLIPPED WHEN HE REACHED UP TO HOOK SCREENER ONTO BOOM TRUCK IN ORDER TO LIFT UP ONE END OF SCREENER, AND HE FELL ABO UT 7 OR 8 FT TO GROUND. HE CUT HIS HEAD ON BACK BRUISED RIGHT SHOULDER, LEFT HIP AND LEFT KNEE.

EE WAS BAGGING LIMESTONE IN 50 LB BAGS. AS HE TURNED TO PLACE A FULL BAG ON THE PALLET HE FELT A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK STRETCH.

REPORTED TO CALCO 06-30-91-EMPLOYEE SAID THIS TIME HIS BACK PROBLEMS STARTED AS EARLY AS MARCH 1,1991.HE SAID WHENEVER HE WAS PUT ON BAGGER IT CAUSED HIS BACK TO HURT.INJURED HAD BACK SURGERY IN 1990 AND BAGGING 50 LB BAGS OF LIMESTONE MAY HAVE AGGRAVATED THIS PREVIOUS CONDITION.

EE WAS HELPING TO INSTALL A SWECO SCREEN WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE. HE FELL ABOUT 30 INCHES TO METAL DECK. HE INJURED HIS LEFT KNEE IN FALL BUT WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE WORK. ABOUTA WEEK LATER, HE SAID HIS RIGHT KNEE WAS HURTING HIM, WAS SORE, AND HE CONTRIBUTED IT TO FAVORING HIS LEFT KNEE SINCE THE FALL. AFTER WORKING FILLING SPOT HOLES AT HIS HOME OVER THE WEEKEND HE WAS UNABLE TO CO

EMPLOYEE WAS BEATING ON AND AROUND BIN CONE WITH AHMMER TO DISLODGE MATERIAL WHILE LOADING BULK QUICKLIME INTO PNEUMATIC TRAILER.HIS SHOULDER HIT HE AIR LEVER CAUSING THE JAW TO CLOSE PREMATUR ELY.JAW CLOSED ON FINGERS.RING FINGER ON RIGHT HAND WAS CRUSHED AND MIDDLE FINGER WAS PINCHED.

EMPLOYEE HAS PA9TIAL LOSS OF HEARING WHICH HE FEELS IS DUE TO WORKING AROUND LOADER AND DOZER EMPLOYEE HAD WORKED WITH HEAVY EQUIPMENT FOR SEVERAL YEARS PRIOR TO COMING TO WORK FOR CALCO IN 10 -82 DR VERIFIED3PARTIAL LOSS OF HEARING AND SUGGESTED HEARING AID IT WAS DETERMINED THAT LOSS IS DUE TO WORKING AT CALCO AS MAY HAVE OCCURRED OVER SEVERAL YEARS NO HEARING TEST WAS GIVEN AT T

EMPLOYEE WAS PU8HING ROTOR ON 16-A ATRITOR AND TWISTED LOWER BACK.

EE WAS LIFTING 9OTAR PARTS & SOMEHOW CAUSED HERNIA TO BECOME SEVERE PARTS WERE NOT HEAVY. EE TELLS US THIS IS FROM INJURY 5 YEARS AGO HELPING LIFT DIFFERENTIAL INTO LOADER AT W ORK.

EMPLOYEE WAS LI0TING AUGER PARTS FROM BACK OF PICKUP TRUCK AND PLACING ONTO FLATBED TRAILER AND HURT BACK.PARTS WERE NOT ALL THAT HEAVY,BUT EMPLOYEE SEVERLY STRAINED BACK.HE DID HAVE A PREVIOU S BACK INJURY,A3D MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO STRAIN.

RAILROAD JACK. WHEN JACK WAS RELEASED, THUMB WAS MASHED IN JACK. BROKEN RIGHT THUMB AND 3 SUTCHERS AT KNUCKLE OF RIGHT THUMB.

EMP WAS PULLING HEAVY INDUSTRIAL VACCUUM CLEANER ACROSS UNEVEN FLOOR AND TWISTED KNEE AND INJURED IT PERSON HAD SIMILIAR INJURY TO KNEE LITLE OFER A YEAR AGO BUT WE DID NOT KNOW IT AT THE TIM HE HAD BEEN EMPLOYED WITH CALCO LESS THAT ONE MONTH AT TIME OF ACCIDENT

EMPLOYEE WAS EMPTYING DUST FROM KILN DUST BIN. AT SAME TIME, ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING THE KILN REJECT SYSTEM AND DUST FROM THE REJECT SYSTEM BLEW IN WIND INTO AREA WHERE DANNY WAS WORKING AND GOT INTO EYE AND BURNED EYE AND EYELID.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ACROSS FLOOR AND SLIPPED ON UNEVEN PLACE AND SPRAINED LEFT ANKLE REQUIRED CAST TO BE APPLI/ED AND FEW DAYS OFF WORK EMPLOYEE SAID HAD TWISTED SAME ANKLE ON 070483 WHILE OF F DUTY AT HOME