Van Buren Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Shop area - employee was carrying part of a steel blocking when his right knee popped.

Employee was tightening a bolt on excavator bucket with 3/4" impact wrench. His finger got caught between bolt and h-link causing a gash on left middle finger. Employee was taken to the nearest hospital where his finger was stitched.

Employee was putting the guardrail back on a loader. The rail slipped and cut the employee's left index finger.

Cutting on El-Jay screener - a piece of slag fell down into left top of boot causing a burn to the ankle area. Removed boot, administered first aid and employee was taken to the doctor.

Employee was cutting a screen with a grinder. The grinder slipped and cut his finger.

Employee was cleaning up floor pit with a loader. He hit a rock which stopped the loader - seat belt came lose and the employee hit his head on the windshield and his stomach hit the steering wheel causing some bruising.

Employee was replacing O-ring of steering cylinder with 14mm wrench and it slipped off bolt, right hand jerked back hitting against the corner edge of metal frame on the loader. Employee could not open his hand afterward and was told to go to the doctor.

Employee was driving a loader and hit a pothole and claims his back hurts. He went to the doctor but has continued working full time.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CLEAN UP A PISTON ON THE WIRE WHEEL SIDE OF THE SHOP BENCH GRINDER. THE TOOL REST WAS BROKEN OFF & ONE WAS ON ORDER. THE GRINDER SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN USED. EE WAS HOLDIN G PISTON BETWEEN HIS 2 HANDS & PISTON GOT CAUGHTIN THE WIRE BRUSH & CAUGHT THE TIPS OF HIS FINGERS

TURNING A LOADER WHEEL OVER- FLANGE OF WHEEL SLIPPED - FINGER GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN FLANGE AND WHEEL AND RIGHT FINGER WAS LACERATED.

OPERATOR USED HIS FOOT TO TRY TO MOVE A STUCK PIECE OF ASPHALT AND IT KICKED BACK AT HIM PINCHING HIS ANKLE EITHER BETWEEN TWO PIECES OF ASPHALT OR BETWEEN THE SIDE OF THE FEEDER AND THE ASPHA LT.

THE WELDER WAS USING ELECTRIC GRINDER AND A PIECE OF FOREIGN MATERIAL GOT INTO HIS LEFT EYE.

EE STEPPED OUT OF HIS TRUCK HE TOOK A COUPLE OF STEPS AND WENT DOWN AT THE TIME HE WENT DOWN HE COMPLAINED OF PAIN SHOOTING DOWN HIS LEG LIKE HIS HIP WENT OUT OR HIS LOWER BACK WENT OUT.

ADJUSTING A TAIL PULLEY AND WRENCH CAME OFF AND GOT ON TAIL PULLEY THEN HTI MY HAND.

MOVING STEEL BEAMS, TURNED AND SEEMED TO TWIST LEFT LOWER BACK.

CHAIN SADDLE ON BUCKET OF LOADER PULLED ON CHAIN TO ALIGN SADDLE W/PICK POINT BUCKET APPROX 10' OFF GROUND WHEN CHAIN SADDLE PEEPLED OFF BUCKET EDGE AND FELL TOWARDS HEAD AREA AND IN THE PROCE SS OF WARDING OFF THE BLOW W/RIGHT ARM ELBOW WAS IMPACTED RECEIVING THE DAMAGE.

LIFTING AN DINSTALLING HYD MOTORS ON 980 C WHEEL LOADER IN TIGHT CONFINED AREA.

A MACHINE WAS BEING DISMANTLED WHEN A PIN CAME LOOSE. SCREEN AT THE MACHINE SHIFTED UNEXPECTEDLY& SWUNG INTO THE VICTIMS ARM ON THE RIGHT SIDE A SAFETY CHAIN HAS BEEN ADDED TO ELIMNATE ANY UN SUSPECTED MOVEMENT IN THE FUTURE

DRIVER NOTICED THAT SOME ASPHALT MATERIAL WAS NOT CLEANED OUT OF THE TRUCK BOX FROMA PREVIOUS JOB & JUMPED ONTO THE TRUCK BOX & STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK. INITIAL BACK INJURY ON A PREVIOUS INJUR Y WITH ANOTHER COMPANY

EE WAS INSIDE A SCREEN DECK LIFTING 1" X 6" BAR, HE STOOD UP & HIT HIS SHOULDER ON A CROWN BAR. WE WERE NOT NOTIFIED OF THE INCIDENT. WE FOUND OUT ABOUT TI 5/11/98. EE SAID AT THE TIME IT WAS NO BIG DEAL. HE HAS BEEN INFORMED THAT IT IS.

FLASH BURN TO THE EYES--WORKING NEAR WELDER WORK UP NEXT DAY WITH BURNS.

EE SLIPPED OFF TRUCK AND DISLOCATED RIGHT KNEE AND STRAINED LEFT KNEE. EE IS A TRUCK DRIVER WITH A HISTORY OF WEAK KNEES DATING PRIOR TO HIS EE WITH AGGREGATES WEST, INC.

EE WAS CHANGING SCREEN AND TIGHTENING 60' OF SCREEN WHEN HE PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS SHOULDER.

EE WAS SWINGING A SLEDGE HAMMER. THE HAMMER SLIPPED. EE HIT HIS LEFT HAND ON PIECE OF MACHINERY CAUSING A BRUISE.

RUNNING LOADER AND TURNING HEAD QUICKLY CONTINUOUSLY FOR EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME CHECKING TO MAKE SURE NO ONE IS BEHIND LOADER, RESULTED IN NECKAND SHOULDER PAIN. CHIROPRACTIC CARE SOUGHT ON 9/4/97.

EMPLOYEE WAS HANDING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE A BELT UP ON A CONVEYOR WHEN SOME ROCK DUST AND PARTICLES FELL INTO HIS FACE. A ROCK PARTICLE WAS REMOVED FROM THE LEFT EYE LATER THAT DAY.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING CHUTE WITH LOADER AND BOOM. HE SPUN AROUND ITNO THE CORNER OF THE BOOM WHICH CAUSED A CUT OR PUNCTURE ON HIS HEAD.

EE WAS GRINDING A PIECE OF METAL AND A SMALL PARTICLE OF METAL WAS THROWN UNDER HIS SAFETY GLASSES. EMBEDDED IN HIS RT EYE.

EE BUMPED HIS HELMET & IT FELL OFF THE CRUSHER, CRACKING THE LENS. EE BEGAN WELDING (ARC) AND CONT FOR SOME TIME BEFORE HIS RIGHT EYE BECAME SORE. THE CRACK IN THE HELMET WAS ON THE SIDE (RIGHT) ALLOWING LIGHT THRU TO FLASH BURN HIS RIGHT EYES.

EWE WAS UNDER WASH PLANT CHANGING SCREENS, HE HOISTED HIS BODY UP WITH ONLY HIS ARMS TO SUPPORT HIM AND PROCEEDED TO PUSH HIS WAY OUT FROM CONFINED SPACE FEET FIRST. THE WEIGHT AND MOVEMENT MA DE HIS RIBS SORE SHORTLY AFTERWARD. HE TOLD THE FOREMAN OF THE SORENESS, BUT SOUGHT NO TREATMENT UNTI 6-12-97. EE WENT TO CHIROPRACTOR TO RIBS PUT BACK IN.

EMPLOYEE WAS AT A CAR WASH, WASHING HIS DUMP TRUCK AND TRAILER.HE WAS STANDING ON THE TRAILERS FENDER,AND THEN JUMPED OFF INTO THE GROUND.HE APPLIED MOST OF THE WEIGHT TO HIS LEFT FOOT, CAUSIN G IT TO SWELL AND BECOME PAINFUL.HIS FOOT WAS A APARENTLY STAINED NOT BROKEN.

EE PULLED A SCREEN OUT AWAY FROM A CONVEYOR FRAME, BUT THE SCREEN PULLED BACK CAUSING EE'S FINGERS TO GET SMASHED BETWEEN THE SCREEN AND CONVEYOR FRAME. WHEN EE REMOVED HIS HAND HIS LEFT MIDDL E AND RING FINGERS WERE DEEPLY CUT, REQUIRING STITCHES.

FREEZING WEATHER CREATED ICE ON A LOADER. EE WAS GREASING THE UPPER ARMS OF THE LOADER FROM THE BUCKET, WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL ABOUT 4' TO THE GROUND. HE HIT HIS BACK ON THE BUCKET ON THE WA Y DOWN AS WELL AS HURTING HIS LEFT FOREARM. HE WAS COMPLAINING OF LOWER BACK PAIN AND A SORE LEFT FOREARM.

V-BELTS ON A CONE CRUSHEER STARTED ON FIRE. WHEN THE CONE CRUSHER STOPPED THE MOTOR KEPT GOING, CAUSING A FRICTION FIRE. EE TRIED TO PUT THE FIRE OUT WITH A FIRE EXTINGUISHER, BUT INHALED TH E EXTINGUISHER FUMES.

EE CLAIMS HE FELL AFTER TRIPPING ON DIRT CLODS WHILE WALKING AROUND THE END OF THE SCREENER.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO BREAK UP SOME HARD CLAY FROM UNDER EQUIPMENT USING A STEEL BAR AND HAMMER WHEN HE STRUCK HSI FINGER WITH HAMMER ON ONE OF THE SWINGS.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO POSITION COVER PLATE ON ROCK CRUSHER. WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EE WAS WORKING ON SOME METAL PARTS AND A PIECE OF STEEL CAME LOOSE AFTER STRIKING IT WITH A HAMMER AND IT LODGED IN HIS PALM.

EE WAS SWINGING A 16 LB SLEDGE HAMMER WHEN HE SEVERELY STRAINED MUSCLES IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A PIECE OF METAL SCREEN. HIS HAND SLIPPED AND ONE OF THE SCREEN WIRES TORN THE SKIN ON HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER.

EMPLOYEE'S WERE USING A LOADER, BOOM AND CABLE TO MOVE PART OF A CONVEYOR. CABLE BROKE ON THE BOOM AND BOOM LANDED ON EMPLOYEE'S ARM.

EE WAS UNLOADING SCREENS OFF OF A TRAILER ONTO THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEES FOOT CAUGHT ON LOADER LADDER WHILE HE WAS GETTING DOWN OFF THE LOADER.HE FELL AND LANDED HARD ON HIS HIP ON THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED DOWN FROM A FRONT END LOADER STEPPED ON A ROCKAPPROX 1 1/2IN & HURT FOOT LATER IN AFTERNOON NOTICED THAT THE FOOT HAD SWELLED WENT TO THE DOC & FOUND OUT THE FOOT WAS FRACTURE D

EE JUMPED DOWN OFF A LOADER, LANDED ON ONE FOOT AND TURNED AND TWISTED HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS INSPECTING FILTERS ON A FRONT END LOADER. HE SLIPPED AND FELL OFF THE TIRE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING OFF LADDER OFF SCREENER - STEPPED ON A ROCK. HIS FOOT ROLLED TO THE SIDE OFF THE ROCK - BREAKING THE RIGHT LEG. HE WENT TO THE GROUND IN PAIN - LEG BROKEN BEFORE HE WENT DOWN.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING LARGE OIL CANS. WHEN MVOING ONE THAT WAS ONLY 1/2 FULL. TWISTED HIS BACK AND FELT A PULL. THERE WERE NO WITNESSES AND EMPLOYEE WAS NOT REQUESTED BY EMPLOYER TO MOVE THE CANS.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO CARRY METAL PLATE TO CONE CRUSHER WITH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE. HE BANGED HIS KNEE ON PLATE AS HE WAS CARRYING IT.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING IN A CAT 980B LOADER BUCKET. HE HAD A WRENCH IN EACH HAND AND WAS TRYING TO TIGHTEN A BOLT ON THE COUNTERWEIGHT ON THE CEC PORTABLE SCREENER. WRENCH SLIPPED AND HE FELL B ACKWARDS INTO THE LOADER BUCKET.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING ON A JAW CRUSHER WITH A PORTABLE WELDER.HE WAS WEARING A WELDING SHIELD BUT DID NOT HAVE IT PULLED DOWN OVER HIS EYES-BOTH EYES WERE FLASH BURNED.

EMPLOYEE WAS BUILDING A STOCKPILE ROAD WITH A 980B LOADER HE GOT OUT OF THE LOADER TO CHECK THE EDGE OF THE PILE SLIPPED & DROVE HIS LEFT KNEE CAP INTO THE LOADERS FRONT LIFT RAM

EMPL WAS CHANGING SCREENS ON EL RUSS WASH PLANT. HE NOTICED PAIN IN RIGHT ELBOW WHILE TIGHENING BOLTS. PAIN HAS REMAINED SINCE EVENT & HAS PROGRESSIVELY GOTTEN WORSE.

EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING A JAW BOLT ON GRAVEL CRUSHER AND WRENCH SLIPPED-SLAMMING LEFT THUMB INTO RUSTY SIDE PLATE.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING SAND/AGGREGATE AND BEGAN TO NOTICE A SORENESS IN HIS RIGHT FOREARM. HE CONTINUED PERFORMING HIS USUAL DUTIES THROUGHOUT THE DAM AND INTO THE WEEK. ARM BECAME SORER. HE W ENT TO A DOCTOR AT THE END OF THE WORK WEEK ON SATURDAY. NO TIME LOSS AWAY FROM WORK.

WAS HOSING DOWN SHAKRE SCREEN SHOOT WHEN EMPLOYEE HIS LITTLE FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE SHOOT & A ROCK EMPLOYEE CONTINUED WORKING UNTIL 130PM OF SAME DAY AT WHICH TIME HE LEFT TO SEE A DOCTOR EMPLOYEE DID NOT REALIZE FINGER HAD BROKE

CLIMBING DOWN FROM CONE CRUSHER AFTER MAINTENANCE.BENT KNEE TOO FAR AND FELT & HEARD TEARING IN LEFT KNEE.WITNESS WHO WAS BEHIND,HEARD KNEE POP & TEAR.