Quikrete Construction Materials, LLCMining Incidents in 2023

Employee was stuck in man lift on silo 18. Rescue retrieved miner without injury

An electrician was working up in a manlift basket that would not return to the ground. The Field PCS and the electrician on the ground attempted to bring the lift down on battery power it would not work. After verifying it is safe to jump the lift battery, the electrician was safely brought to the ground under the lifts power. It took about one hour.

At 6:05am on 3/22/23, a call reporting the elevator was not working was made to the control room. Elevator company was called immediately. At 6:16am it was realized that there were 3 people stuck inside. They were released at 07:15am.

During kiln outage 3 contractors in PH tower passenger elevator when it stopped moving between ground and 1st floor. When evident it would be >30 min, MSHA called between 1115 and 1120 pm per supervisor making call. Constant communication maintained until elevator repair person arrived on site and extracted employees at 1245 am

Failure to maintain 3 points of contact while exiting the truck.

Employee was traveling through the walkway by the bypass waste fan when EE stepped off the clear sidewalk and reinjured left ankle. This was EE's first day back after injuring the same ankle on 7/30/23.

Employee was cutting in the raw mill when a piece of slag came off and burnt through their pants falling into their boot and burning their heel.

Maintenance was working on the bypass fan to remove the cap on the bearing. A maintenance technician began to hit the top of the cap with a hammer to loosen it up. The cap popped off the bearing and flew up hitting another maintenance technician in the left wrist as EE used EE's left arm to block EE's face.

Employee's hand was holding a liner clear of the bolt, the bolt caused the liner to jump causing employee's hand to move towards the spinning bolt which cut through EE's leather glove and into the base of EE's left palm.

Employee was working on repairing the cutting edge of the dozer. EE struck the sledgehammer on the cutting edge and a piece of metal broke off and went through EE's glove into EE's finger.

Strained elbow working on kiln baghouse dust collector

Employee was getting ready to replace belt on reclaimer when the employee injured left ankle when employee lifted left leg to step over a 24""+ high concrete wall. Employee was unable to support own weight and had to be assisted with walking.

Process Attendant was checking the rejects magnet, the PA observed a piece of metal stuck to the magnet. When the PA had the piece of steel outside the plane of the door, PA attempted to remove the steel from the doorway when a rock came in contact with the piece of steel debris and PA's right thumb.

Employee was helping another employee replace the cutting edge on a loader bucket. They were both lifting one end of the cutting edge to get it into place to attach it to the bucket. When they were lifting the cutting edge, it raised up until it hit the bucket then it stopped abruptly. The employee felt pain in EE's back at that moment.

While assembling a mobile crane, employee stumbled and fell forward catching full body weight with left arm causing shoulder injury.

Employee was moving vibrator from railcar when they had stiffness in their lower back.

Production Assistant was operating a buggy that was indicating is was overheating. The PA took the buggy to an area where they could put water in radiator, they did not allow vehicle to cool down before opening radiator cap. PA had hot fluid spray on their hand and face causing 2nd deg burns to face.

At 3:30 am Shipping Attendant was monitoring the bagging operation when the employee heard an air leak. EE found a broken hose inside the applicator control cabinet. After isolating the source of air and attempting to repair ruptured hose, the knife EE was using slipped and cut EE's left ring finger causing a laceration. Stitches were required for medical treatment.

The worker was struck in the shoulder with a 150-200lb bearing that was suspended from a nylon strap that was holding the load. The strap broke and the load fell & bounced approx. 18-20 ft and traveled approx. 11-15 ft before striking worker. The work above was being conducted by another contractor PAR

EE described what EE thought was a strain slight shoulder pain after cleaning a clogged chute with air lance, after prolonged pain went to doctor.

Picking up a busted bag of cement, miner dropped bag and dust went under their safety glasses and got in left eye.

The individual has experienced a MSHA reportable hearing shift/loss in left ear. Test results received Feb. 14, 2023.