All MSHA-reportable accidents at Heidelberg Materials, Southeast Agg., LLC operations in 2015. Fatalities appear first.
While striking stud end of jaw wedge bolt with a ¼ swing action, IE struck right index finger against stud of adjacent wedge bolt. No medical treatment did not seem necessary at the time of the incident. Continued discomfort in the employee's finger prompted medical attention on 07/06/2015. Employee had finger surgery on 9/15/2015.
Employee was checking his service truck for the day. As he exited the cab, he stepped from the top step to the lower step with his right leg, he felt a pain in his left knee.
Accident occurred while employee was descending a 24 ft. ext. ladder after having removed crane rigging from a steel weldment. After descending ladder to 9 ft. above ground, right side of ladder sank causing ladder to roll resulting in employee falling onto a small pile of dried concrete and breaking lower right leg.
Employee stated he was stood on the side of the crusher and the canopy over the redundant air compressor which is 23 inches above the floor tightening a bolt. When completed the employee hopped off the 23 high ledge onto the broken 3 bolt which had been left in the work area on the floor, twisting his right ankle. An x-ray showed a fracture of the right ankle.
Employee was tightening the cheek plate bolts on the Primary Jaw crusher with a slug wrench and a 4lb hammer. Employee struck the frame of the crusher causing the hammer to glance off of the frame striking his left hand. Employee was wearing proper PPE (gloves and safety glasses)
Pond sand pipe clogged up. Using a pipe to unstop the pipe. the pipe was approximately 10 feet long with a 90 degree bend in it 18 inches long. When ee was done with the pipe he threw it across his body to keep pipe from getting covered up in the material. The pipe twisted and made contact with his left foreman requiring 14 stitches.
Employee was loading sizing screen material, allowing screen to slip through his hands. A protruding metal burr caused a laceration to the palm of his hand. Injury resulted in stitches to the hand