All MSHA-reportable accidents at GCC Rio Grande, Inc. operations in 2014. Fatalities appear first.
Contracted employee was cleaning the tower and was looking up into the tower for buildup when the tower puffed out. Dust was blown underneath his face mask. Employee entered the control room and stated he got burned. He had already flushed the area with water and applied wet rags. Employee was transported to the emergency room.
Operating back hoe on uneven ground. (This is under investigation due to previous underlying degenerative discs)
Truck parked by bottle cage behind warehouse in gravel. Planted left leg/knee, swung right leg into pickup truck. Left leg gave out as employee was getting into truck. He started to fall but caught himself on truck floorboard. Felt a pop in his knee and a twist.
Employee climbed on top of the truck to grab the wheel chocks. He jumped off the rear bumper landing on both feet. He did not feel pain at the time, until 4 days later.
Employee sprained his left wrist while using a sledge hammer for a starvation on #22 gyp feeder. He was put on restrictions 10/6/14.
He was jackhammering a concrete block. He had one leg behind the other to get good leverage on the jackhammer. When he stopped and stepped back and stood up straight, his hip felt like it got stuck and felt a sharp pain in his right hip and could not walk.
Fell over cable tray installed on the ground hitting left knee
A piece of material got into employee's eye. The material got past his PPE that he was wearing (safety glasses with side shields and a face mask that is connected to the hard hat he was wearing).
Employee was doing routine oil checks on loaders and water trucks. It was muddy and slick due to rain. He unlatched the hood of the water truck, put his left foot on the standing area and used both hands to open the hood. It didn't open so he leaned forward and pulled harder. As it started to come up his left foot slipped and he fell to the ground.
Employee was cleaning the tower. The dust on his hard had fell inside his shield. When he looked up it fell inside his safety glasses. Eyes became irritated.
Cutting holes to clear material from baghouse screws. Dust on cutting shield got into left eye when shield was lifted up.