All MSHA-reportable accidents at Lehigh Hanson ECC, Inc. operations in 2016. Fatalities appear first.
Employee was inspecting conveyors belts, found a froze idler, found a bar and tapped the frame of the idler several times and the bar slipped after several attempt, catching the tip of the bar on the next roller downstream, approx. 18"" away, started to pull the bar in and the bar was forced upward into the frame which smashed the employees thumb between the bar and the frame.
Hurt back, bending over, while loading a shot
Employee was removing a lower air slide from under hopper when it slipped and fell onto EE's hand smashing it between the air slide and pipe below.
Employee was working in the finish mill building cleaning out a blockage in FM1 step chute for approximately 10 hours using a jackhammer. Jackhammer caused dust to stir from the material they were working on. The employee had cleaned self off several times and changed clothes twice throughout the day. Employee noticed the burn the next am before work.
Employee was sampling cement from the air slide on FM 2 with safety glasses, hardhat and dust respirator on when there was a pulse of material through the air slide. Material flew out of the port and into the face of the employee, getting into right eye. EE immediately washed eye out and went to the ER for treatment.
Employee was helping pull a breaker out of a panel when the bucket release became stuck and employee jerked upward and strained employee's back. employee was checked out at clinic and returned to full duty.