All MSHA-reportable accidents at Heidelberg Materials Northeast-LLC operations in 2010. Fatalities appear first.
Employee was assisting on blast crew as a driver & laborer. He was attempting to exit the rear of a straight van truck. He was using the rear door and door frame as hand holds & was reaching with foot to use ICC bumper as a step when his foot slipped. He fell to the ground injuring his right knee dan right shoulder.
EE was lifting an empty oxygen bottle off of the welder truck when he felt pain in his right shoulder. Initially this was reported as first aid however after testing was performed it was determined that surgery was required. EE surgery is scheduled for 12/15/2010.
EE was pushing a wheel barrel and was too close to an Ibeam. He bumped into it and hit his hand.
Employee reported on 3-1-2010 he felt pain in right groin while assisting in lifting a steel plate..he did not request medical treament at the time of report. 12 days later he did seek medical treament and was diagnosed with a hernia and scheduled for surgery on 3-26-2010 and estimated to be off work for 4 weeks.
Employee was coming down the ladder on a 988 Cat loader. He had fueled the machine up and had the nozzle in his hand. He had three points of contact & he thought he was on the bottom step and realized he wsn't. He missed the bottom step and hurt his right knee. He said it didn't really hurt at the time but the next day it was swollen up.
After cutting bushing off of shaft of speed reducer, he leaned over to look at the work, and while holding torch in left hand inadvertently moved torch over his lower right arm causing burn.
While installing speed reducer on head pulley conveyor 26, EE pushed the speed reducer onto shaft. Injured had his hand on back side wiggling the reducer for it to slide onto shaft. When it shot on, EE's right hand fifth finger got smashed between the speed reducer and a piece of angle.
Employee was doing maintenance on a crusher and caught his finger between bar and side of crusher