All MSHA-reportable accidents at Wilder Construction Company operations in 2004. Fatalities appear first.
1) The employee was standing with one foot on the framework of a conveyor and the other on a ledge of a tunnel. 2) The employee was elevated off the ground. 3) The conveyor was running while performing maintenance. 4) He suffered an almost severed pinky finger, lasceration on the palm, belt abrasions and swelling on shoulder and elbow.
EE WAS OPENING A DOOR ON A GRAVEL CAR. WHEN THE DOOR OPENED, HE FELL AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
helping to unload a 6x20 screen, when removing chain binder one may have put wrist in the binder.
Repetitive motion of lifting buckets of aggregate into back of a pickup.
Ee was making adjustments to the gear box. Finger was trapped between counterweights. Skin was ripped off index finger and nail fell off. Pain and throbbing occured.
EE WAS REMOVING TEMPORARY SAFETY HAND RAILS & PLYWOOD COVERS ON GRIZZLY BARS ON DREDGE. WHILE REMOVING THE LAST OF THE PLYWOOD, HIS FOOT SLIPPED THRU THE BARS. HE USED HIS RIGHT HAND TO CATCH HIMSELF.
REPETITIVE MOTION. EMPLOYEE IS EXPERIENCING NECK AND SHOULDER PAIN THAT HAS NOT GONE AWAY.