Tarrant Quarry: 43 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

MALE WAS FLEEING FROM POLICE FROM A ROUTINE SAFETY CHECK. HE RAN ACROSS ABC COKE PLANT'S ROAD & CLIMBED OVER A FENCE ONTO OUR PROPERTY. SRM AGGREGATES NOTIFIED POLICE TO ADVISE THEM THAT THERE WAS A MAN HANGING OFF OF OUR HIGHWALL. DETECTIVE CAME TO OUR PROPERTY. THE MALE HAD MOVED & THE OFFICERS BACKED OFF. THE MALE WAS SPOTTED AGAIN. ADVISED THE MALE HAD FALLEN FROM THE HIGHWALL.

EMPLOYEE WAS HITTING THE BELT SKIRT TO PUT IT BACK ON THE INSIDE OF THE CONVEYOR BELT. HE WAS USING A HAMMER, HOLDING THE HEAD AND USING THE HANDLE TO HIT BELT SKIRT. HE DID NOT PAY ATTENTION TO WHERE HIS HAND WAS AND STRUCK HIS 4TH FINGER ON HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE ROLLER FRAMEWORK REQUIRING 9 SUTURES.

WHILE HAULING ROCK FROM THE PIT TO THE PRIMARY JAW IN THE 465 ROCK TRUCK, EMPLOYEE HIT A BUMP AND JARRED HIS LOW BACK.

EE HELPING TO MOVE A BARREL OF ANTIFREEZE ONTO RACK WHILE PUSHING BARREL L KNEE POPPED OUT OF JOINT

LOADER BACKED INTO MANLIFT CAUSING PERSON TO FALL OUT. HE LANDED ON THE CAGE ON MANLIFT.

STEPPING DOWN FROM TRUCK, TURNED RIGHT ANKLE.

OPERATOR WAS BREAKING LARGE ROCKS WITH HYD. HAMMER WHEN A FRAGMENT OF STONE BOUNCED OFF THE BOOM OR BOOM CYLINDER AND HIT THE RIGHT REAR SIDE GLASS. BREAKING THE WINDOW. OPERATOR SAID BE WAS F INE BUT RIGHT EYE SEEMED RED IRRIATED. HE WAS TOOK OUT TO DR. AND FOUND TO HAVE DUST AND FOREIGN MATERIAL, NOT GLASS, IN EYE. RETURNED TO WORK IN 2 HURS SAME DAY. MACHINE ALREADY HAS EXTRA LE

EE WAS AT FUEL TANK TO REFUEL LOADER. WHILE PULLING THE HOSE UP THE LADDER, THIS MACHINE HAS STAIRCASE TYPE STEPS, HE HIT HIS ELBOW AGAINST HANDRAIL.

EE WAS UNLOADING TRUCK & SLIPPED ON STEP WHILE LEAVING TRUCK CAB.

EE LEFT JOB AT 3P.M. TO SEE HIS DOCTOR ABOUT PAIN IN LEFT HIP AND LEG. HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT TIME OR DAY PROBLEM WAS CAUSED UNLESS RIDING IN ROCKTRUCK SEAT STARTED SORENESS. SEAT HAD BEEN CK BY MAINTENANCE AND FOUND TO BE OK. EE IS STILL UNDER MEDICAL EVALUATION.

EE WAS PARKING TRUCK AT END OF SHIFT IN PACKING LOT ON LEVEL GROUND. WHEN COMING DOWN LATTER AND TOUGHING THE GROUND HE HURT HIS BACK. EE SAID HE DID NOT MISS A STEP ON THE TRUCK NOR DID HE ST EP ON ANYTHING ON THE GROUND. ALSO KEPT THREE POINTS OF CONTACT WITH LATTER.

EE WAS CUTTING RUSTED NUTS OFF WITH A TORCH. THE HIGH HEAT LOOSENED TO DIRT AND RUST AND CAUSED SOME TO GET IN HIS RIGHT EYE. THE MATERIAL CUASED A CUT ON HIS PUPIL. NO PERMANET DAMAGE EXPECTE D.

STEERING LOADER WITH LEFT ARM LOADNG ROCK TRUCK DAILY ALSO MOVEMENT OF LAODER JARRING SHOULDER.

TIED DOWN A LOAD OF TIRES ON LOWBOY WITH 4" NYLON TIE STRAP. STRAP CAME LOOSE AND STRUCK FOREHEAD.

DRILL MAINTENANCE IN PROGRESS. EE LIFTED 3 GAL OIL CAN TO ABOVE WAIST.

THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHILE MOVING ASKID MOUNTED 6 INCH PUMP. THE PUMP WAS BEING MOVED INTO THE WATER'S EDGE TO ALLOW IT TO CONTINUE PUMPING. AS THE P&H CRANE BEGAN RAISING THE PUMP THE CRAN E LOST GROUND AND TIPPED FORWARD, STRIKING THE PUMP. THE VICTIM LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL FROM THE PUMP PLATFORM INTO APPROX 2' OF WATER, LOSING HIS HARD AND THEN STRIKING HIS HEAD.

POURING CHEMICAL IN TANK IT SPLASHED IN R EYE

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING A PIECE OF STEEL IN THE BACK OF A PICK UP TRUCK BY HAND AND HE THREW THE PIECE OF PLATE STEEL INTO THE BED OF THE PICKUP TRUCK AND THE PIECE OF PLATE HIT THE TAILGATE OF T HE TRUCK AND BOUNCED BACK CATCHING THE CENTER TWO FINGERS ON HIS RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE STEEL AND THE TRUCK AND CUT THE FINGER.

LOADER OPER GOING TO CLIMP UP LADDER TO GET BACK ON HIS LOADER.TOOK ONE STEP UP LADDER AND KNEE POPPED,STARTED HURTING SOME.HURTING NOT BETTER BY MONDAY 3-5 SO WENT TO DR.

SOMETIME DURING THE DAY SOMETHING GOT INTO ONE EYE AND LEFT A SCRATCH ON HIS EYE. THE EMPLOYEE DID NOT ANY PROBLEMS UNTIL THE NEXT MORNING JAN.11, 1990. HE GOT OUT OF BED AND HIS EYE WAS HURTI NG AND IT HAD SWOLLEN UP REAL BAD. THE MAN CAME TO WORK AND THEN WENT TO THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE.

GOT PIECE OF DIRT OR SAND IN EYE WHILE CLEAN UP AROUND PLANT WAS BEING PERFORMED.

MAN WAS CHIPPING CONCRETE WITH SMALL HAMMER AND PIECE OR CHIP OF CONCRETE FLEW OUT AND GOT IN HIS RIGHT EYE.

MAN WAS CUTTING A PIECE OF BELT WITH HIS POCKET KNIFE AND THE BLADE OF KNIFE FOLDED OVER AND CUT HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND. THE KNIFE WAS NOT ONE WITH STUCK OUT BLADE. IT WAS JUST A SMAL L POCKET KNIFE.

MAN WAS WORKING IN AREA WHERE ELECTRIC WELDING WAS BEING PERFORMED & HIS EYES GOT BURNED BY FLASH FROM WELDER.

MAN WAS LOWERI3G A STEEL BENT WITH OVERHEAD CRANE AND ONE OF THE HOOKS SLIPPED CAUSING ONE END OF STEEL BENT TO COME DOWN AND SWING AROUND SOME. MAN JUMPED OUT OF WAY AND FELL ON FLOOR AFTER TRIPPING OVER T2E LEG OF A STAND. HE TWISTED RT KNEE AND ANKLE

GUIDING WATER P6MP DOWN AS CRANE WAS LOWERING PUMP.LOST FOOTING AND FELL OFF EDGE OF OPEN PIT FALLING 15' TO FLOOR OF PIT HITTING FACE AND HANSDHANDS AND KNEE.

MAN WAS CUTTIN1 REBAR LOOSE IN OLD CONCRETE THAT WAS BENT OVER & WHEN HE CUT ONE LOOSE ANOTHER ONE SPRANG UP & HIT MAN ON SIDE OF FACE CAUSING A CUT