Turner Brothers Stone Quarry: 145 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

There was no specific incident. Employee's right foot started hurting him around mid-morning while at work. We sent him to the doctor, who x-rayed his foot and diagnosed his problem as a bone spur on his heel.

While two employees were lifting a 1 inch thick sawed slab onto a saw table for further fabrication, one of them felt a pull in his lower back. He reported the injury the next day, but did not feel he needed to go to the doctor. The next work day it was still bothering him, so we sent him to the doctor, who diagnosed the injury as a lower back sprain.

Contractor was waiting to remove stone from discharge table of stone splitter. When the stone rolled on the discharge table after being split, he had his right hand resting on the table and the stone rolled onto his middle finger. When he reacted and pulled his hand away, he pulled the skin off the tip of his finger, requiring sutures to his right middle finger.

Employee was using a hammer & chisel to pitch stone. He missed the chisel and the hammer hit his left arm, causing a cut. Employee was sent to the doctor and received several sutures to close the cut and returned to work the same day.

On 1/10/08, 3:35pm, employee reported that his left knee was bothering him. He did not know how or when he hurt his knee, but it started bothering him when he was driving the forklift around 1:00pm the previous day. He wanted to give it a few days to see if it got better. On 1/15/08 he wanted to go to the doctor. The doctor's diagnosis was a sprained knee.

Employee was placing a sawed stone slab onto the cutting table with a vacuum lift at the same time he was placing a hand tool onto the table when the stone released from the vacuum and fell onto his left hand. His left index finger was broken and cut as well as a cut to the base of the left middle finger, both cuts required sutures.

Contractor was placing piece of stone into stone splitter. While lowering top jaw of machine, the stone fell forward. The Contractor tried to stop stone from falling out of position. The splitter teeth then contacted his fingers. When he felt pressure on his fingers, he jerked his hand back, pulling the skin off the tips of two fingers. The two fingertips required sutures.

Operator was moving the trackhoe from one work area to another, went over crest of hill and when hoe leveled off, it bumped the ground and he felt a slight tightening in his back. Pain increased over next 2 days and he reported the accident on 1/12/07 and was sent to the doctor. The doctor's diagnosis was "low back pain/strain".

Employee was palletizing 4"x8" cobble stones and noticed he had mild pain in his back. He did not feel he needed to go to the doctor until 2 days later. The doctor's diagnosis was "low back pain/sprain".

Moving piece of stone & it slipped from his hand, landing on left foot, behind the steel toe plate. Caused contusion/abrasion of foot.

Employee and co-worker were palletizing stone. Employee got right pinkie finger caught under stone and when he pulled his finger out he tore the skin, requiring several sutures.

Sawing a pallet, piece of metal went into his eye.

Lifting bag of grit, felt lower back pull resulting in lower back sprain.

Hit right knee with hammer causing knee sprain.

Employee was trying to get the hose to the drill unhooked from a rock. When he freed the hose from the rock the hose twisted around his right hand and tore and burned his skin on his right hand.

EE WAS WALKING A PIECE OF STONE OVER TO A PALLET. THE STONE SLIPPED ON ANOTHER ROCK ON THE FLOOR AND FELL DOWN ONTO THE TOP OF EE RIGHT FOOT, WHICH FRACTURED A BONE ON TOP OF FOOT

EMPLOYEE WAS WEIGHING A PALLET OF STONE AND WHEN HE WENT TO PUT THE WEIGHT ON TOP OF THE PALLET HIS LEG HIT A ROCK ON SIDE OF THE PALLET AND CUT HIS LOWER LEG.

EE WAS DRIVING FRT END LOADER DOWN A HILL & TILETED THE BUCKET BACK SO HE COULD SEE BETTER. WHENHE DEADHEADED THE HYDRAULIC PUMP IT KILLED THE ENGINE & EE RAN LOADER OFF THE ROAD LAYING IT OVE R ON ITS SIDE Y

EE WAS TURNING STONE OVER TO MAKE A CUT ON IT & HAD A PULL IN THE GROIN AREA

EE WAS USING A PIECE OF LUMBER TO RAISE A PIECE OF STONE IN ORDER TO GET LIFTING BELTS UNDER THE STONE IN ORDER TO LIFT STONE WITH A HOIST. WHILE PULLING DOWN ON LUMBER, HE APPARENTLY SET HIS RIGHT FOOT ON A SMALL OBJECT WHICH CAUSED HIS ANKLE T TWIST AND HIS WEIGHT AND PULLING DOWN MOTION BROKE HIS LEG AT THE ANKLE.

EE WAS STRAIGHTENING PALLET OF STONE & LOWERED STONE CATCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE STONE & PALLET. THE LEFT INDEX FINGER RECEIVED A SLIGHT FRACTURE ON THE END OF THE FINGER & THE SKIN WAS BROKEN

EE AND INDIVIDUAL HURT WERE MOVING A PIECE OF STONE ON YARD WHEN INDIVIDUAL FELT PAIN IN ABDOMEN AREA. WORKER REPORTED INJURY THE NEXT DAY AND WAS SENT TO DR. DETERMINED TO HAVE LEFT INGUINAL HERNIA AND SURGERY WAS SCHEDULED.

CAUGHT FINGER UNDER STONE AND MASHED & LACERATED MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND, 3 STITCHES REQUIRED.

UNLOADING STONE FROM SAW, SLIPPED AND FELL, HITTING POST.

STONE.

LACERATION RIGHT FOREARM CAUSED BY PIECE OF STONE TURNING OVER.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A PIECE OF STONE - STONE SLIPPED MASHING 2ND & 3RD FINGERS OF RIGHT HAND.

WAS MOVING SAW CARRAGE AND FOOT SLIPPED AND ICE CAUSING FALL BRUISING LOWER BACK

FOOT SLIPPED OPERATING RUB BED AND STRAINED BACK.

HE WAS SAWING STONE ON A WIRE SAW- A SPRING NEED SOME ATTENTION & IN TAKING CARE OF IT IT SLIPPED & CAUGHT HIS FINGER MASHING IT.

HE WAS CARRYING A PIECE OF STONE AND STUMBLED THUS INJURY WAS CAUSED TO HIS SIDE PULLED MUSCLE

HE WAS SHARPENING A CUTTING TOOL ON A GRINDER USING A EMERY WHEEL. THE TOOL SLIPPED AND HIS THUMB STRUCK THE EMERY WHEEL AND ALMOST SEVERED IT.