Syar Industries, IncMining Incidents in 2004

EE WAS HAULING SAND & GRAVEL WITH A 631E SCRAPER. EE WAS ENTERING THE STOCKPILE AREA AND ENCOUNTERED A ROUGH AREA. THE SCRAPER BOUNCED AND THE CAN DUG INTO THE GROUND AND PLOWED TO A STOP. THIS CAUSED LOWER BACK PAIN AND FRACTURE OF ONE VERTEBRAE COMPRESSION.

WHILE OPERATING 988B LOADER THE CONTINUOUS BOUNCING UP AND DOWN HURT HIS LEFT SHOULDER AND NECK AREA AND THE LOOKING BACK OVER HIS SHOULDER REPEATEDLY.

WORKING ON A CONVEYOR UNDER JAW CRUSHER, TWISTED AND STOOD UP.

PULLING BULK POWDER 2"" DIAMETER HOSE FROM HOLE TO HOLE OVER THE SHOT AREA. PAIN WAS FELT IN LOWER BACK.

BLUE ROCK JAW PLUGGED SHUT HYDRAULIC FEED OFF, LOOKED DOWN OVERSIDE OF RAILING, WENT DOWN TO NEXT LEVEL OPENED DOOR, ROCK FELL AND HIT HAND.

EE WAS BACKED INTO BY COWORKER WHO WAS DRIVING A MECHANIC'S TRUCK. COWORKER BACKED INTO EE ON THE GROUND, CAUSING RIGHT LEG INJURY.

While working on truck suspension employee began to feel pain in right knee and a burning sensation. Employee rested that night. The following day the pain was worse.

WAS HEADED TO HIS VEHICLE - GOING HOME. STEPPED IN HOLE FROM STEM IN GROUND, TWISTED LEFT KNEE.

EE BEGAN TO AIR TIRE UP. HE PLACED BEAD BLASTER TANK ONTO TIRE AND OPENED VALVE. EE FELT SOMETHING GO INTO HIS EYE UNDER HIS SAFETY GLASSES.

OPERATING 4 1/2' GRINDER FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME. FOREARM WAS SORE AND PAIN NEVER WENT AWAY.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS EXITING THE MACHINE HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE STEP. HIS LEFT LEG WENT BETWEEN THE DRILL & MACHINE. HIS MOMENTUM CAUSED HIS BODY WEIGHT TO SHIFT TO THE LEFT CAUSING PAIN IN HIS KNEE.

INSPECTING SLINGS, TURNED TO WALK AWAY & SLIPPED ON GREASE OIL.

(EE WAS OPERATING LATHE.) CHIP WOUND DOWN INTO CHIP PAN, GRABBED THE CHIPS IN PAN AND THE ROTATING CHUCK ON THE LATHE CAUGHT THE CHIPS AND PULLED THEM OUT ONTO EE'S HAND, CAUSING CUT.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN TRUCK SHOP DEBURRING PUNCH HEAD ON BENCH GRINDER. PUNCH SLIPPED OFF OF GRINDING WHEEL AND LEFT LITTLE FINGER CONTACTED GRINDING WHEEL, CAUSING ABRASIONS TO HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER.

SHAKING SKELETON BUCKET ON LOADER TO REMOVE USABLE MATERIAL FROM CLAY & MUD BALLS.

HOOKING UP BRAKE LINES TO THE BRAKE VALVE LAYING ON PLATFORM WITH SHOULDER & ARMS DOWN INTO MACHINE PULLING ON BRAKE LINE, FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

GETTING DOWN OUT OF A WATER TRUCK TO FILL IT. STEPPED OUT & FELT PAIN IN LEFT KNEE.

PLACING PIPE ALONG BERM, TURNED WRONG WITH PIPE IN HAND AND STRAINED BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A HAND HELD GRINDER ON A SPLICE WHEN THE GRINDER KICKED OUT CAUSING LACERATION ON LEFT INDEX FINGER. EMPLOYEE HAD REMOVED GUARD FROM THE GRINDER PRIOR TO STARTING THE JOB.

Climbing up and down equipment ladders, strained groin.

Working on conveyer cutting frame with cutting torch, pushed hose away and right hand ran across torch.

LOADER OPERATOR. HE THINKS GETTING OFF THE MACHINE HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK RIGHT SIDE.

Driving a bushing with a chisel when a piece of the chisel broke off and punctured left knee.

CUTTING WITH A TORCH AND A PIECE OF MOLTEN METAL BURNED THROUGH SOCK AND BURNED FOOT.

Individual was digging a hole using a backhoe, and dug up a hornet's nest and was attacked and bitten. This caused a reaction and ee started having breathing problems.

DURING PLANT REPAIRS USING 3/4"" DRILL, THE DRILL TWISTED & WENT INTO SHARP STEEL. CUT HIS RT. PINKY FINGER & HAD TO HAVE 4 STITCHES.

Ee was cleaning plant area with a water hose. He was pulling hose to move it out of the walkway when hose came apart at a splice and struck ee in the mouth, chipping a front tooth.

Grinding on excavator bucket when foreign object entered left eye.

WORKER WAS ON BLENDING PLANT OPERATION. HE WAS OPENING A GATE AND ENDED UP WITH A SMASHED AND CUT FINGER.

BACKING OFF BRAKE ADJUSTMENT NUT, WRENCH SLIPPED AND HIT HIM IN THE RIGHT EYE CUTTING UPPER & LOWER LID, KNOCKING OFF SAFETY GLASSES.

Employee was hospitalized on 9/28/04 with pneumonia and on 11/9/04 tells us the doctor says it was Valley Fever and he contacted it at work.

RIGHT HAND AND ARM HAVE BEEN HURTING, BECAME WORSE WITH HAUL OF USE, RIGHT JOINT AT BASE OF THUMB BECAME PAINFUL, TYPING SEEMED TO AGGRIVATE IT, COULD NOT USE SCISSORS. HAS BEEN ACCUMULATING, RMI.

Installing safety latch on wire rope hook using screw driver, and screw driver slipped and went across knuckle on left index finger.

EE was carrying a 8' ladder along the side of a silo scale when he slipped on a slight slope falling backward landing on a 3"" puc pipe injuring his mid to upper back and tearing ligaments and muscles around his left side rib cage.