Yellow Medicine Quarry: 77 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Employee's hand was pinched between a plate of steel and a block of wood resulting in a laceration approximately 2.5 cm that required stitches.

Employee was cutting peaned material from some boltholes, when slag blew back hitting him in the chest and going around his face shield and safety glasses. He reported feeling something in his right eye, went to a doctor and had an embedded object removed from his right eye.

Injured employee was helping change urathane screens when a coworker pounding wedges lost his grip on a hammer. The hammer struck the injured employee in the nose causing a nose bleed and immediate swelling. A follow up appointment with an Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist on 5/27/2008 determined as the swelling went down that there was a hairline fracture to the tip of his nose.

Employee presents a claim for long term hearing loss

EMPLOYEE WAS WASHING EQUIPMENT IN THE WASH BAY. HE WAS STANDING ON A PLATFORM LADDER HOLDING A WAND FOR WASHING. HE STEPPED BACK THINKING THAT THE METAL WAS THERE AND THERE WAS NONE. IT WAS FO GGY AND HARD TO SEE WITH GREASE AND DIRT COMING OFF THE MACHINE. HE FELL TO THE FLOOR AND LANDEDON SIDE. HARD TO BREATHE, CUT HIS EAR.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CHANGE TIRES ON LOADER. HE WAS MOVING THE JACK STAND AND PIN FELL OUT OF THE STAND, PINCHING THE POINTER FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND. PIN SMASHED FINGER TIP, REQUIRING 6 STITC HES.

EE WAS STANDING ON A PLANK WELDING EYE BOLTS ON THE CONVEYOR OF THE CRUSHER THE PLANK BROKE AND EE FELL INTO THE CRUSHER STRAIGHT DOWN SOMETHING HIT HIM IN THE NEED WHEN HIS HARD HAT FELL OFF. REQUIRING S STITCHES. HE IS SORE-HIS REMOVED HIS STITCHES AND HE DID NOT MISS ANY WORK.

EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING A PIECE OF STEEL ON THE BENCH GRINDER. THE PIECE OF STEEL WAS ABOUT 2" WIDE BY 4" LONG. THE REST WAS CLOSE BUT CAUGHT THE STEEL AND TIPPED IT, CAUSING THE GRINDER TO GRAB THE PIECE OF STEEL AND PULL IT DOWN ALONG WITH HIS GLOVE. THE METAL WAS FOR MOUNTING THE HORNS ON HIS LOADER.

CONTRACTOR EE WAS ON OUR MINE SITE TO MOUNT A SPARE TIRE. WORKING ALONE, HE WAS PUTTING PRESSURE IN TIRE WHEN TIRE MECHANISM CAME APART. HE WAS THROWN BACKWARDS WITH TIRE PARTS FLYING UPWARDS. NO ONE WITNESSED ACCIDENT UNTIL AFTER IT WAS OVER. HE INJURED HIS RIGHT ARM AND LEG.

EE WAS WALKING DOWN THE STEPS FROM THE STORE ROOM. HE WAS NOT CARRYING ANYTHING, DID NOT TRIP ORSTUMBLE. DOUBLED OVER, THINKING HIS HIP WENT OUT. LIMPED SOME BUT WAS NOT LIMPING WHEN HE LEFT F ROM WORK. SAID THAT HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS UPPER RIGHT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING CUTTING EDGES INTO BUCKE TWITH CO-WORKER. THE CO-WORKER LET GO AND EE DID NOT PINCHING INDEX FINGER OF RIGHT HAD BETWEEN STEEL AND BUCKET OF LOADER. HE CAM EINTO OFFICE WITH BLOOD BLISTER ON INSIDE OF FINGER AND BLOOD UNDER NAIL. FIRST AID WAS ADMINISTERED WITH BLOOD DRAINED, ANTIBIOTIC AND CLEANING. FINGER WAS THEN WRAPPED. ADVISED EMPLOYEE TO WATCH AND

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING FROM THE SHOP TO THE WAREHOUSE WITH A PART IN HIS ONE HAND AND KEYS IN THE OTHER. WE HAD A LIGHT DUSTING OF SNOW LAST PM AND HE DID NOT SEE THE ICE UNDERNEATH. HIS FEET WENT OUT FROM UNDER HIM, HIS HARD HAT FLEW AND HIT HIS HEAD HARD ON THE ICE AS WELL AS HIS HIP HE HAS A HEMATOMA ON HIS HIP AND WHIPLASH TO THENECK. HE IS VERY SORE NOT BREAKS.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO MOVE WATER PIPING IN THE PIT. HE STATED THAT ON JULY 25TH HE WAS PULLING ON BLACK PIPING TO MOVE IT OUT OF THE WAY FOR A SHOT. HE STATED THAT WHEN HE PULLED ON THE PIP E, HE FELT A PULL IN HIS RIGHT SIDE. THERE WAS SOME DISCOMFORT BUT HE DID NOT REPORT INJURY. WHEN THE PAIN CAME BACK LATER ON, HE WENT TO THE DOC. AND WAS TOLD HE HAD A SLIGHT TEAR (HERNIA).

EMPLOYEE WAS HOOKING ROCK IN JAW CRUSHER. HE WAS RUNNING THE CONTROLS THAT RUNT HE WINCH/HOOK. HE WAS GUIDING THE CABLE WITH HIS LEFT HAND AND RUNNING THE CONTROL WITH HIS RIGHT. HE LOWERED THE CABLE, AND WITH SLACK IN THE CABLE THE ROCK SHIFTED, HITTING THE HOOK AND SNAPPING BACK. THE FORCE OF THE CABLE PUSHED HIS WRIST IN. THE RADIUS OF HIS LEFT ARM IS BROKEN IN 2 PLACES WIT

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A PORTABLE, HAND HELD, ELECTRIC GRINDER. HE WAS GRINDING OFF AN OL.D WELD IN THE FEEDER OF THE CRUSHER. HE WAS WORKING IN A CORNER AND IT KICKED BACK, CUTTING HIM ON THE I NSIDE, PALM SIDE, OF HIS LEFT WRIST. THE CUT WAS NOT VERY LONG, BUT WAS DEEP REQUIRING 16 STITCHES.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A DRILL. IT WAS ON A HILL AND HE STEPPED AND TURNED AT THE SAME TIME, TEARING LIGAMENTS IN HIS LEFT KNEE. IT POPPED AND WAS SORE BUT DID NOT GO IN FOR MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL 8-14-90.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON THE DIFFERENTIAL OF OUR 988 LOADER. HE KNELT DOWN TO GET UNDER THE LOADER AND TURNED AT THE SAME TIME. HE IMMEDIATELY HAD SHARP PAINS IN HIS KNEE AS IT POPPED OUT. THE PAINS PERSISTED BUT HE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION RIGHT AWAY. HE LIMPED AND FAVORED IT THINKING IT WOULD GET BETTER. HE ENDED UP AT THE DOCTOR WHEN IT POPPED OUT AGAIN AND IS PRESENTLY IN

WE HA DHIRED TWO INDEPENDENT CRANE CONTRACTORS TO COME IN AND HELP SET UP OUR NEWLY DESIGNED ATACKING CONVEYOR.THE ONE CONTRACTOR WAS EXTENDING HIS BOOM AND JIB CAME LOOSE FROM HOLDER SWINGING OUT FROM THE BOTTOM.THE JIB APPROX 15' IN HEIGHT AND WEIGHING APPROX 2000 LBS STRUCK PLANT MANAGER FROM THE BACK ON THE RIGHT SIDE.HE FELL TO THE GROUND AND THE JIB WENT ON TO HIT FOREMAN WHO