Heidelberg Materials Midwest Agg., Inc.Mining Incidents in 2008

The ee was sitting in a 771 haul truck being loaded with a 988 loader with spoils from the pit floor to be hauled to the dump. EE said that the truck rocked and he heard a pop and felt a pain go in his back.

EE assisting 2nd EE in lowering lever to close safety gate. The lever slipped from grasp of 2nd EE causing full weight to force injured EE to floor impacting & twisting his right knee. EE refused medical attention at TOI, but later went to Hospital. On 12/30/08, we were notified verbally that MRI was performed & surgeon had recommended surgery making this injury reportable.

EE was pushing pile of dirt with the D8T dozer, he had his coat hanging in the back of dozer which created a blind spot, he went into reverse and backed up about 10 feet, when he back up he didn't see other ee coming in the A40D hual truck with a load of dirt to unload, he backed up into the haul truck, which caused the tracks of the dozer, to collide with front end truck.

The injured miner bent down to pick up a belt splicing tool (approx.30lbs) and states he felt something pop in his left hip. The diagnosis was a strain to the left hip.

EE twisted her knee while climbing onto a haul truck.

Four men were threading bowl of 1560 crusher into mainframe. While pushing on spud bar, the injured employee fell forward, hitting railing and fell backward to decking landing on his back. Unknown if bar slipped or crusher moved.

Slipped on 990 platform while opening access door. He caught himself jamming right shoulder

While working under haul truck, he lost his balance and fell with all his weight on the left knee landing on a small rock. Never reported because he did not believe it would still hurt 1 1/2 months later. Treatment received 10/3/08 making this now reportable.

Employee was manually removing material from C3A Conveyor beltline. Employee performed job and after job was finished said that his back was tight. Employee said Monday at work he had no complaints and back felt better. Monday evening approx. 6:30pm his back started hurting badly. He reported the injury to his supervisor on Tuesday August 5, 2008 in the morning.

Pulling electrical cable with pick-up truck for relocation, employee's right ankle became entangled, causing compression fracture to right ankle.

While using a 6' step ladder, he leaned against the clean burn furnace. The ladder bottom moved out causing employee to fall 3.5' - 4' striking left shoulder/arm on anti-spin device from omni cone crusher which was laying on the shop floor.

Bent over cutting up old conveyor truss with a cutting torch and a piece of rust popped up and went behind employee's cutting shield and safety glasses getting into his right eye, treated with eye drops.

Employee was freeing a lodged flat rock from a head box with a sledge hammer, when a small piece of rock deflected off the top of his safety glasses and hit him on the forehead above his safety glasses, causing a one inch cut above his right eye.

Injured employee slipped on a rain soaked step and fell, resulting in a laceration to his left elbow which required 3 stitches.

Employee was grinding a bore hole on a standard crusher mainframe. The employee put the grinder down, picked up the polisher, looked up to not hit his head on the mainframe and steel fell off his grinding shield. The steel fragments went behind safety glasses and into employees right eye.

The slip was caused by the employee not paying attention to his foot placement and not maintaining 3 points of contact.

EE was in the pep screen chute. As he was climbing down the chute, a strong gust of wind came up through the chute and blew sand under his safety glasses and into his right eye. The sand entered his right eye and he was not able to flush all of it out with water. The decision was then made to go to US Healthworks to have his eye flushed.

Knelt down on shop floor, felt burning sensation that went away after 5 minutes. Knee then swell over the weekend causing pain.

Contributing conditions unknown-employee had heart attack while on the job.