New Enterprise Stone and Lime Co., Inc.Mining Incidents in 2017

Employee strained lower back lifting a turbo onto an engine manifold. Note: Employee received initial medical treatment on 12/07/2017.

The employee was struck on the left arm by a piece of steel while hammering on a loader bucket tooth with a steel hammer during maintenance.

Employee was swinging a 3lb hammer overhead to loosen the stone box feeding the syntron on the tunnel belt at plant #1 and strained a muscle in EE's right side.

Employee was operating a Volvo A35D Articulated truck when the truck slid in a tire rut. The operator had right hand on the wheel and left hand on the grab rail. The sudden movement jerked employee's body to the right causing pain in left shoulder.

While hauling shot material to the stock area the operator hit a bump in the haul road and the seat bottomed out, causing a sharp pain in lower back. The employee did not seek medical attention until 08/31/2017.

Employee was welding on a radiator guard for a D8R when the cribbing block kicked out allowing guard to topple over on employee.

Employee was putting feeder pads on primary feeder. Contusion of right hand-palm below thumb.

The crew was installing a bearing on the stacker conveyor. A maintenance worker used a 6 foot pry bar to lift up the shaft to access the bearing. The pry slipped off the shaft and the worker's right shin struck the toe board below. Note: The injured employee received initial treatment for the injury on 11/16/2017.

A maintenance worker lost control of a small hammer. The hammer slid down the screen deck and bounced off the deck, striking a second employee in the nose, causing a laceration that needed sutures to close.

Employee was removing rust from the #8 chute when some rust landed on EE's eyebrow and safety glasses prior to getting into EE's right eye.

while helping to remove a bearing off of a screen shaft, an employee was using a hammer and struck the bearing causing a piece of metal to fly striking injured employee in the lip it was thought to be a laceration, but was later found to be imbedded in injured employee's lip

A non-employee caught their fingers in the tailgate of their dump truck while cleaning it prior to getting loaded with stone. The local EMS was called to transport the non-employee to a local emergency facility for treatment. The driver works for Rittenbaugh Transport.