All MSHA-reportable accidents at Alleyton Resource Company, LLC. operations in 2018. Fatalities appear first.
The over the road gravel hauler was helping a coworker dump overloaded material near the scale house by letting the coworker know how much to dump. After dumping, employee reached hand in to latch the tailgate when hand got caught & lacerated requiring stitches. Employee did not realize it had an auto latch tailgate unlike employee's truck which has a manual latch.
EEs were performing a full log washer paddle change, all were properly LOTO in the MCC. Logs were secured with a come along to prevent the weight of new paddles to spin the logs. The come along slipped, EE became pinned between paddles and the wall of the log washer, EE was freed quickly. The accident caused abdominal contusions, EE was prescribed pain medication and light duty.
The employee was cutting a stockpile with a front end loader when a large chunk of frozen road gravel fell from the top of the stockpile onto the front of the loader and into the cab. The employee suffered minor cuts on the right hand and lower back pain from removing material from their lap in order to exit loader.