Capitol Aggregates, Inc.Mining Incidents in 2009

Injured was helping remove feeder wobble bars. He got his ring finger on his left hand caught in a pinch point. The pinch point crushed his distal phalange. It had to be amputated.

While placing a seal on the bottom side of a rail car, he stepped on the track twisting his right ankle, and fell forward landing on his left knee and arm.

While working on ID-360 fan, went to stop the fan from turning, using a pipe wrench. When the wrench got the shaft the wrench also went down pinning the right index finger against the frame of the shaft housing.

Employee was pulling on a wrench to loosen a bolt that was too tight and continued to pull, he felt a strain to right shoulder.

The IP needed to retrieve a piece of HDPU from the bellypan under a screen. The IP decided to slide down the side of the bellypan. When the IP slid down the side of the bellypan, his right foot struck the side when he reached the bottom. This caused pain in his right foot. The incident was not reported until 7/30. IP went to the DR on 7/30 and was diagnosed with 2 fractures.

While positioning a large motor back into its place, he placed his left hand near a piece of tin. The motor moved up some, causing the motor to pin his left hand against the motor.

Employee was pulling out worn liners from RM-310A roller mill.

While working on RM-310, the table was hot. He received a burn to his shin on right leg, it was not severe, but he got it infected.

While assisting, removed a star feeder from its flang, he pushed the unit out of its position. It fell, striking his left wrist on bottom flang.

While cleaning a probe, he started to climb down a short ladder to the lower level. While going down, his right shoulder locked and popped. When he got to the bottom it hurt with movement and pops.

Jammed neck while walking under stairway area, walked into bottom of stairs.