All MSHA-reportable accidents at US Aggregates, Inc. operations in 2000. Fatalities appear first.
EMPLOYEE WAS GREASING A TRUCK. ALLEGES HE WAS CRAWLING OUT FROM UNDERNEATH THE TRUCK AND TRIED TO GET UP TOO SOON AND HIT THE TOP OF HIS SHOULDER ON THE TAILGATE BAR. HE DIDN'T GO TO THE DOCTO R UNTIL 4-21-00. HE DID NOT KNOW IT WAS WORK RELATED UNTIL 4-27-00.
EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING THE FEED HOPPER. HOT SLAG GOT ON EMPLOYEE AND IT WENT THROUGH HIS COVERALLS & BURNED HIS EYE. HE USED OINTMENT FROM HOME. LATER IT BECAME INFECTED, HE WENT TO DOCTOR ON 2-23-2000.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING ROCK FROM THE CRUSHER. WHILE LIFTING THE ROCK HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LOWER STOMACH. HE WAS FIRST DIAGNOSED AS LOWER ABDOMINAL STRAIN, BUT NOW IS BEING CHECKED FOR KIDNEY STONES. EMPLOYEE IS RESTRICTED.
EE WAS STANDING ON THE GROUND GETTING READY TO GO UP LADDER TO JAW CRUSHER. HE GRABBED FOR THE HAND RAIL ON THE LADDER OF THE JAW CRUSHER AND MISSED THE HAND RAIL AND FELL BACKWARDS AND HIT HI S HAND ON THE WHEEL OF A SERVICE TRUCK THAT WAS PARKED BY THE JAW CRUSHER. EE FRACTURED HIS LEFT PINKY & RING FINGERS.
EMPLOYEE WAS ON THE DRAGLINE. HE CLIMBED DOWN THE DRAGLINE AND WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN, HE SLIPPED ON THE TRACK AND FELL. EMPLOYEE HAD A SPRAIN TO HIS LEFT KNEE AND LOWER LEG. HE WAS OFF WORK AND RETURNED TO RESTRICTED DUTIES.
EE WAS BUILDING A GATE FOR THE PIT ENTRANCE. EE WAS CLAMPING ANGLE TO TOP RAIL OF GATE, ANGLE SLIPPED OFF SMASHING HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER. HE HAD SURGERY.
WHILE HOOKING UP A BUCKET TO #121 SKID LOADER, EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING UP BUCKET PINS WITH HIS FOOTAND WHILE ADJUSTING BUCKET HE WENT THE WRONG WAYWITH THE LEVER AND BUCKET PINCHED HIS FOOT AGAIN ST FRAME OF LOADER. HE WAS GIVEN A CAST TO WEAR AT WORK BUT HAD NO RESTRICTIONS.