All MSHA-reportable accidents at Superior Silica Sands, LLC operations in 2012. Fatalities appear first.
Employee and 3 others were moving sidewall panel. While walking backwards, he stepped in a small trench. When he stepped down he jerked upwards and felt a pull in his scrotum. Went to the doctor 10/20/2012 who confirmed Scrotal Varicocele.
Employee was moving one gin pole from one sheet to another when he felt it slip. Instead of dropping it, he grabbed tighter and pulled a muscle.
Employee was attempting to move one end of a tank panel by himself. The vertical bolts got stuck on the sheet beneath the one he was attempting to move. As he jerked on the sheet he felt a pull in his back. He reported to me a few minutes later that he could feel his back hurting. I then took him to the clinic and the doctor revealed a pulled muscle.
EE was carrying a bucket of nails/bolts that weighed about 35 - 40 pounds. He slung it around his shoulder to carry and while he was walking he stepped on a baseball sized rock which made him lose his balance. He was able to stay on his feet, but in the process twisted his back.
A Customer came on site and was waiting to get loaded and started having chest pains pulled over to the office where we believed he was having a heart attack and got him stable and called 911 where E.M.S was sent and took him the Hospital.