TELFORD QUARRY & PLANT Metal/Non-Metal

EE WAS SITTING IN BED OF PICKUP TRUCK HOLDING DOWN A DRUM OF OIL. THE OPERATOR OF THE PICKUP RAN OVER A POTHOLE IT CAUSED THE EE TO COME UP AOFF THE FLOOR OF THE REAR BED AND LAND BACK DOWN ONTO HIS BUTTOCKS(COCCYX BONE) WHICH GAVE HIM SOME PAIN THROUGHOUT THE DAY. THE NEXT DAY EE TOOKHIMSELF TO HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT. HE WAS RELEASED WITH NO RESTRICIONS.

A LOADER OPERATOR, AFTER LOADING A 10-WHEELER DUMP TRUCK, ASSISTED THE DUMP TRUCK DRIVER IN FREEING A STONE WHICH WAS JAMMED BETWEEN THE BED OF THE TRUCK & THE TAIL GATE. AFTER FREEING THE STO NE, THE TAIL GATE PINCHED THE LOADER OPERATOR'S RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER. NO SUTURES WERE REQUIRED. THE HOSPITAL GAVE HIM SOME LIGHT PAIN MEDICATION.

EE WAS REPAIRING A 20 FT VIBRATING FEEDER (WHICH WAS TAGGED OUT & LOCKED OUT FOR SERVICE) & WHILE PULLING ON THE DRIVE BELT WITH HIS RIGHT HAND HIS LEFT HAND POINTING FINGER GOT PINCHED BETWEE N THE DRIVE PULLEY & THE BELT.

WAS WORKING ON TOP OF CRUSHER AND WAS BENDING OVER RAIL TO PULL A BUCKET OF TOOL UP WITH A ROPE AS HE WAS PULLING THE ROPE HE STRAINED HIS BACK WHICH HE HAD ALBREADY INJURED FROM A PREVIOUS IN JURY AT ANOTHER PREIVOUS EE . EE CAME BACK TO WORK ON 2-28-02 BUT WENT TO HOSPTIAL ON 3-5-02 FOR TREATMENT. WAS OFF SIDE 3- & 5-02.

EE WAS STEPPING DOWN OFF OF THE EUCLID DUMP TRUCK AFTER CHECKING THE ANTI FREEZE LEVEL IN THE ENGINE. HE STEPPED ONTO THE BUMPER AND THEN ONTO THE STEP AND LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL ONTO THE G ROUND. HE STATED THAT HE WAS HAVING PROBLEMS WITH HIS KNEE AND IT WAS POSSIBLE HIS KNEE GAVE OUT.

HE WAS COMING OUT OF THE HOLE AND THE CENTRALIZER GOT STUCK ON THE DIRLL STEEL AND RAISED WITH IT. THE OPERATOR SAW THE CENTRALIZER GOING UP WITH THE STEEL BUT FORGOT ABOUT IT AND PLACED HIS HAND ON THE BIT. THE DRILL STEEL BROKE LOOSE AND FELL DOWN HITTING HIS TWO FINGERS ON THE BIT AND CUT THE TIPS OFF THEM OFF.

STARTING HAMMER AT JAW CRUSHER GETTING READY TO RUN ROCK A PIECE OF STONE FLEW OUT HITTING HIM IN THE RIGHT EYE.

HELPING MECHANICS WITH SETTING A PINION GEAR IN REAR OF A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT WHEN A PIECE OF SHEET METAL (STEEL PLATE) THEY WERE USING FOR MEASURING PURPOSES SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS FOOT.

HE WAS GREASING BROOM TRUCK SMALL STREET SWEEPER WHEN HE FELL BACKWARD.

WHEN GETTING INTO TRUCK HE LOST HIS FOOTING, SLIPPED AND FELL TRYING TO STOP HIMSELF WITH RIGHT ARM.

LOW BACK STRAIN FROM DRIVING QUARRY TRUCK DUE TO SEAT.

ROCKS BECAME JAMMED IN CRUSHER. CRUSHER SHUT DOWN. FOUR MEN WERE WORKING TO LOOSEN THE ROCKS, SEVERAL PIECES FLEW OUT AFTER BECOMING DISLODGED, ONE STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON END OF HIS FINGER. WAS WEARING GLOVES.

WORKING WITH OTHERR MEN TRYING TO UNJAM CRUSHER. WHEN ROCKS WERE LOOSENED, SOME PIECES FLEW OUT ONE OF WHICH LANDED ON HIS HAND.

WORKING AT CRUSHER, TRYING TO UNJAM THE JAW, USING A STEEL PRY BAR TOLOOSEN A PIECE OF ROCK, BAR CAME BACK HITTING HIS CHIN.

PERFORMING MAINTENANCE ON CONVEYOR BELT, SHUT FELL HITTING LOWER LEG (CALF AREA).

EMPLOYEE WAS AT OUR HARLEYSVILLE PLANT, USING THE BROOM SWEEPER (ROAD SWEEPER) AND WAS RETURNING TO TELFORD TO CLOCK OUT, WHEN HE WAS REAR ENDED IN A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT, IN HIS OWN VEHICLE.

WORKING WITH HAND GRINDER ON PIECE OF STEEL FOR NEW CRUSHER,PULLED GRINDER BACK,CAUSING LACERATION TO LEG.

WORKING FROM A PLATFORM ON A H-REACH CRANE,CHANGING BELTS ON CONVEYOR,EMPLOYEE STRAINED HIS ABCK.NO OTHER INJURY.NO UNSAFE CONDITIONS.EMPLOYEE BACK TO WORK MON FEB 15,1988.

WHILE SHOVELING STONE, A PIECE OF DIRT FLEW UP UNDER SAFETY GLASSES, WENT INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.

CARRYING A STEEL BEAM, WHICH WAS BEING PUT AT BASE OF PLANT. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND THE BEAM HE WAS HOLDIGN HIS ANOTHER BEAM WHICH WAS STANDING UPRIGHT, JAMMING HIS FINGER.

WORKING ON JAW OF CRUSHER, SHUT DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE, USING A SLEDGE HAMMER TO BREAK GEARS FREE. MAN ABOVE NEEDED SLEDGE, WHICH WAS PASSED TO HIM. IT SLIPPED FROM HIS GLOVED HANDS, FELL HITTIN G HIM ON SIDE OF HIS HEAD. HE WS WEARING A HARD HAT. HE RECEIVED A LACERATION TO HEAD FROM HAT PUSHING DOWN- NO OTHER INJURY.

NON INJURY EMPL2YEE WAS HIRED AS A LABORER LATER BECAME A MECHANIC HE USES HIS HANDS CONTINUALLY USING A WIDE RANGE OF TOOLS ETC HE HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED AS HAVING BILAT (BOTH HANDS) CARPAL TUNNE L SYNDROME A CO1Y OF DOC.LETTER IS ATTACHED

DRIVING UKE IN 0UARRY, LOADED WITH STONE, COMING UP INCLINE ROAD OUT OF QUARRY, FRONT WHEELS SHIFTED SLIGHTLY CAUSING TEMPORARY LOSS OF STEERING, MAN JUMPED FROM TRUCK, LANDING HARD ON LEFT LE G (HE PANICKED)1 FRACTURE OF FIBULA (SMALL BONE OF LOWER LEG) NEAR CALF AREA.

UTILITY MAN PUT7ING OIL IN TRUCK, SLIPPED OFF THE STEERING BAR HE WAS STANDING ON, GRABBED FOR GROOVED STEPS, CAUGHT RING (LEFT RING FINGER) ON STEP, PARTIALLY AMPUTATED FINGER WHICH WAS SURGI CALLY RE-ATTACH9D.