West Sand: 156 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Employee was lifting an air compressor off a pick up truck when employee slipped and fell. Employee's back hit the side of the truck and the compressor landed on employee's right leg.

Employee got out of truck, while walking to office stepped on a stone and twisted right knee. Employee refused treatment until 10/30/19.

I was walking through some brush to take a water sample and a branch/plant brushed my eye.

Employee was cutting wrapping material with a razor knife away from the head shaft on the 4 1/4 cone crusher when they sliced their thumb.

Employee was lifting a 5 gallon bucket of paint and strained back.

Employee was descending a wet plant stairway when the employee slipped and lost footing. Employee leaned back and wrenched shoulders trying to prevent self from falling.

EE was backing a 35 ton Terex haul truck up to the hopper at the rock plant. EE was leaning out the window looking to the rear when the left front tire exploded. The force of the blast blew EE back into the cab and lifted EE off the seat. EE injured EE's neck, arm and left side and may have hit EE's head.

Employee was climbing off a Cat D8 that was in the shop for repair. When ee stepped off the machine, ee rolled ankle and had a hard landing on the shop floor. The following day ee went to the doctor's to have it examined. EE has a broken fibula and torn ligaments.

Employee was on a walkway on the crushing plant. EE ducked down to walk under a conveyor, and when ee stood up ee felt a "pop" in knee. It didn't bother ee until ee got home, when ee felt pain when trying to bend leg.

Mechanic had just completed brake job on company 3/4 ton GM van. He had removed the jack stands from the rear axle. He had the hydraulic jack under the center of the axle. He was lying on a creeper and turned the handle to release the jack. The jack came down fast and the handle smashed his wrist onto the shop floor.

The employee was pulling on a lever to release the fifth wheel and lost his footing. He slipped and bashed his chest on the fender of the tractor, knocking the wind out of himself and tearing cartilage from a rib.

Cut finger while installing inner air filter on Liebherr 586 loader.

Employee was in the woods gathering stone for a stone wall and contacted poison oak.

Cut finger with razor knife while stripping a wire.

Employee was putting a piece of pipe on a chain binder and the pipe slipped and hit him in the head.

Employee was working shoveling material out of in-ground truck scale. He was climbing ladder out of scale and twisted knee.

While using a weed whacker employee, who was wearing safety glasses, got a piece of metal in his eye. Abrasion to the eye.

Employee was cleaning stone out of a screen with a pry bar. The bar jammed and the chisel end of the bar cut through his glove and into his hand.

PLANT OPERATOR WAS CLEANING WALLS OF HOPPER, HE SLIPPED & FELL INTO THE HOPPER.

CRUSHED FINGER WHILE WORKING ON #3 SCREEN.

LOOSENING FROZEN DIRT FROM UNDER CONVEYOR USING SLEDGE HAMMER. RIGHT INDEX FINGER BECAME PINCHEDBETWEEN HAMMER HANDLE AND ANGLE IRON.

PUTTING SHAFT IN SCREEN HOUSING- STAND FELL OVER AND HIT KNEE.

WORKING ON PORTABLE PALNT. HIT HEAD UNDER PLANT. CUT HIS EAR REQUIRING 10 STITCHES. EE WAS WEARING A HARDHAT.

WORKING ON LOADER, REPLACEMENT PART SLIPPED & HIT RIGHT HAND.

BACKING UP TO SURGE PILE. EDGE GAVE WAY. TRUCK ROLLED OVER BACKWARDS OFF THE SURGE PILE.

CLIMBING DOWN FROM TRUCK, SLIPPED ON STEP, HELD ON TO BRACE TO KEEP FROM FALLING.

WAS CLIMBING OUT OF THE TUB FOR THE MASON SAND SCREWS, SLIPPED AND FELL BACK INTO THE TUB INJURING LEFT KNEE.

DRIVER WAS SITTING IN TRUCK WHILE BEING LOADED, ROCK OFF LOADER BUCKET CAME THROUGH WINDOW AND STRUCK LEFT ARM.

WORKING WITH PIECE OF IRON BAR FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN BENCH & IRON BAR DISABILITY STARTED 03-30-90

WATCHING CONVEYOR, NOTICED A LARGE STONE, GRABBED QUICKLY TO REMOVE IT, FINGER BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN ANGLE IRON STRUCTURE OF CONVEYOR BELT AND STONE.

SLIPPED AND FELL OFF SIDE OF TRUCK TRAILER.

LIFTING STEEL PLATE