Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects
Worker on conveyor tail pulley on maintenance shop floor knelt down on left knee, grabbed pulley and pushed forward with right hand when something in left lower back popped.
Northwest AggregatesMining Incidents in 2007
All MSHA-reportable accidents at Northwest Aggregates operations in 2007. Fatalities appear first.
- Fatalities in 2007
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Year
- 2007
Top incident classifications
- 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS4 incidents
All incidents in 2007
Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee was positioning a jackstand under a trailer. While his right hand slipped allowing the head of the jackstand to fall and pinch his left index finger. Employee received 5 stitches and returned to work his following shift.
Struck by falling object
While working with hard hat off, underneath hazard causing exposure, unaware of unsafe conditions and being careless, employee was assisting the shop foreman installing a transmission. The rear cross member was resting on a jack, it slipped and fell striking him in the lower forehead.
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Delivery dump driver was in the process of unhooking and dropping off the rear trailer near the office and in the process of lowering the jack on the trailer's tongue EE strained his lower back.