All MSHA-reportable accidents at Heidelberg Materials, Southeast Agg., LLC operations in 2006. Fatalities appear first.
Electrical power pole caught on fire and could not be extinguished until the power company came out and de-energized the line to this pole. Did not involve any property owned by Hanson, but took more than 30 minutes to put out.
The dry grass along the public highway caught fire and spread to the mine property. The fire was reported it to mine management. A dozer cut a fire break through the woods and the company water truck was utilized to prevent the fire from becoming a real hazard. The local fire department arrived and put the final touches on extiguishing the smoldering remains of the fire.
Employee was manually clearing rock from the cavity of a 7' cone crusher when he suffered a muscle strain in his lower back.
Field Service Technician had air hose running from truck to excavator. When walking back to his truck, he tripped over air hose and caught himself on the excavator's track. This resulted in the technican fracturing his right wrist.
Employee was operating rubber tired loader and drove through a pothole. This jarred his head in a side to side motion and poped his neck. Soon after he began to experience pain in his neck.
While removing a stuck access door on the back of a vibratory screen deck, the door suddenly released, causing the employee to strain his left arm when he tried to catch the falling door. He was diagnosed by a physician with a hyperextension of his arm. He was returned to work on restricted duty.
Haul truck was backed in position to be loaded by pit loader. An upper section (20?) of the 50 feet pit wall fell and struck the right side rail of haul truck bed. This damaged the side of the haul truck bed and jarred the operator. The rock that struck the haul truck bed was approximately 3 foot in diameter. The truck was still operational after incident.
Employee pulled muscles in his left shoulder when he opened the water valve to fill the water truck.
Pit Loader Operator was filling up the grease canister on his 990 loader. As EE reached up to connect the grease line from the shop, to the line that runs to the tank on the loader, his hard hat fell off, to the ground. As EE was on his way down off of the loader his head made contact with the loader fender.
A Hammer Operator breaking a boulder in the pit. The boulder was large and his point was approximately 6 feet off the ground. When the hammer point broke through the rock, the base of the hammer hit the edge of the rock, jarring the excavator and the operator. The operator expressed that his neck hurt and was taken to the doctor. He was diagnosed with a strained neck.
Rubber tired loader operator was running the machine with malfunctioning electrical magnetic locks on the hoist and tilt controls. In the manual mode more effort is required and the operator strained his right arm.
Loader operator was digging into plant area material stockpile. In doing so the rear end of the machine came off the ground. In bringing it back down to the ground it jarred his neck and strained it.
On Thursday 4/27/06 employee was taken to doctor and it was determined that he had a sprain of his left ankle. He stated his left foot slipped off a rock and turned his ankle.
On November 18, 2006, IE had tripped while walking to his truck, striking knee on a rock, requiring first aid treatment. IE began suffering swelling to knee, and had fluid drained from knee by doctor on January 26, 2007. He returned to full duty on Monday, January 29, 2007.
Employee had been welding and line boring to repair a front end loader. After completion of work while cleaning up he began to experience discomfort in right eye. He went to dr 11-8-06 and had small metal fragment remove from eye.
Contractor crane operator stepped down from crane to help crew rig a steel plate. The plate slipped out of operator's hand, cutting the right index finger at the top. The laceration required fourteen stitches to close. Gloves were not used when rigging the plate.
Employee donned gloves to grease his loader, and shortly thereafter felt his left hand itching. He removed his glove and saw his hand was beginning to swell. He was apparently bitten by some type of insect. He was examined by the company physician and administered medications to control inflammation.
A plant maintenance welder was welding in a confined area at our jaw crusher feeder box when he was subjected to welding flash. Due to the precarious position he was in, his helmet got hung up on a support beam above him as he was flipping it down to cover his face. Subsequently striking an arc and receiving enough ultra violet rays to cause some cornea burns of the left eye.
Employee was using a Cat 226 Skid Steer loader to stem a shot. Upon getting out of the loader he lost his balance causing one of his feet to hang up on the bucket twisting his right foot and ankle.
Three employees tilted the rock over the conveyor edge where it dropped against frame and caught employees right thumb between the rock and conveyor idler.
Employee was adjusting the finger gates on a discharge chute from the vertical to horizontal postition. He had lowered two of the gates and was working on the third, which was stuck. The gate finally broke loose, catching the employee's finger between the third gate handle and second gate handle. He suffered a minor laceration of the finger which required sutures.
While moving a piece of screen cloth, employee cut hand on edge of cloth, which required 4 stiches to close.
A customer truck driver pulled his truck onto the weighout scale. He was getting out of the truck to get his scale ticket when he slipped and fell to the ground. He was later diagnosed with fractured ribs. The injured customer driver was employed by J&S, Inc.
Customer truck/trailing had backed up to the screenings stockpile to dump a full load of similar material. The dump trailer was at full extention and material hung in the upper portion of the bed and caused the truck and trailer to turn over. M&H Grading Contractor LLC 1025 Winterville Rd. Athens, GA 30605 Owner - John Hobson 706/540-3166
Customer truck driver had the truck bed back gate close on his middle finger of his right hand. The injury required stitches to close cut.