All MSHA-reportable accidents at Wisconsin Industrial Sand Company, LLC operations in 2000. Fatalities appear first.
THE INDIVIDUAL WAS DRILLING BLASTHOLES. HE TIED DOWN THE HYDRAULIC LEVER SO IT CONTINUED TO OPRATE (ROTATE) BY-BY PASSING A SAFETY DEVICE. HE THEN WENT IN FRONT OF THE DRILL AND STEPPED OVER THE DRILL AUGER. HE BACAME ENTANGLED WITH SOME PART OF HIS CLOTHING HE GOT PULLED INTO THE DRILL AND BECAME SO ENTANGLED THAT HE COULD NOT BREATH. THIS ACCIDENT IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION
WHILE WALKING, HE SLIPPED & FELL RESULTING IN A BRUISED SHOULDER.
TRIANGLE PIECE OF STEEL FELL AND HIT ARM CAUSING 2 PUNCTURE WOUNDS AND CHIPPING UPPER ARM BONE NEAR ELBOW.
PULLED A MUSCLE WHILE LIFTING A PART WEIGHING APPROX. 50 LBS. CAUSED SEVERE BACK SPASM.
EE WAS WALKING ON SCREENTOWER FLOOR WHICH HAD SAND ON IT. AS HE WALKED BY A WALKWAY STEP HIS LEFT KNEE TWISTED PERHAPS AS HE MOVED TO WALK AROUND WALKWAY. POSSIBLE LIGAMENT TENDON TEARS RESULT ED.
NORMAL CLEANING OPERATION CAME IN CONTACT WITH UNKNOWN OBJECT WHICH PUNCTURED LEG REQUIRING 2 STITCHES - RAILCAR CLEANING.
HE WAS REMOVING A GUARD FROM A MOTOR COUPLING WHEN IT KICKED OUT AND HIT HIM IN THE ELBOW AND FOREARM.
WAS SHOVELING SAND CLEANING CONVEYORS TAIL PULLEY, TURNED TO THROW SAND AND SOMETHING POPPED IN BACK.
RUSHING TO OPEN A SLIDE VALVE, EE STRUCK THE TOP OF HIS HEAD ON A LOW-HANGING BEAM. THE CONTACT CUT A FLAP OF SCALP, REQUIRING SIX STAPLES.