Heidelberg Materials Midwest Agg., Inc.Mining Incidents in 2024

Plant Mechanic stepped down from a Ford F-250 plant truck, and turned left ankle when EE touched the floor with their foot. There were no obstructions on the floor at the time of the incident.

Employee was entering the driver's side door of the plant maintenance truck. After sitting in down in the seat, EE was stung in the lower back by a yellow jacket. An allergic reaction ensued, and the employee was transported to the local hospital.

While exiting the loader the employee lost grip on the ladder falling 3' to the ground. EE was experiencing pain in leg and went to the hospital to be looked at. EE had a sprain of right knee.

Employee was walking to the truck to get a tool. They stepped on uneven, snowy ground and twisted their ankle.

Pulled muscle on right bicep pending MRI

The job at hand was to clean the headbox feeding a screen. Employee stood 2-3 feet to the side of the discharge end of the screen. As the other employee was cleaning the large stone, one piece bounced off of an overhead I-beam and redirected towards employee, striking EE on the left side of EE's head, directly at the left ear.

Employee was replacing screen panels. Employee was standing on top deck when EE lost footing and slipped to screen deck and then rolled to the opening where screen had been removed. Resulting in employee hitting right lower back into I beam. Employee had harness and lanyard on. Employee went to hospital from home on 3/6/2024 and had been at work until that point.

Employee was walking up a staircase @ #1primary. EE had R hand on handrail, while holding tubes of grease in left hand. EE caught foot on a step, lost balance, & struck L elbow. No material on steps, just tripped. Went to clinic, x-ray neg. Dr. placed on 10# weight restriction as precaution. Release to full duty at follow-up appt 1-6-25

Employee sustained pin-hole type lacerations on EE's abdomen caused by ruptured ANFO loading hose.

Employee went to pull the hinged ladder down to inspect the belt and after releasing the ladder while holding it with their right hand, they released the ladder which smashed their left pinky finger between the ladder and corner of the catwalk grating. Employee was wearing A4 cut resistant and impact resistant gloves at the time of incident.

The jack stand was lying down horizontally at the tailgate. EE said EE didn't notice the adjustable extension tube was approximately 6 to 8 inches above the top support surface of the jack. EE said it was fine until EE stood it up vertical. That's when the tube dropped down pinching EE's finger between the two pieces.

Employee's finger was pinched between hoist chain and cute while maneuvering a 16""x48"" piece of steel into chute. The contact resulted in the employee receiving a fracture and laceration with 12 stitches to the right index finger.

At around 4:45pm eastern time EE was exiting the WA700. As EE was coming down the ladder, EE got right hand caught on a cotter pin that was bent over at the top of the handrail and cut right hand needing 3 stitches.

Hearing test showed a reportable hearing loss in EE's right ear of 25db.