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At approximately 12:15 am while inside the bowl of crusher 2, employee was hand unloading the jammed crusher of loose rocks. Several loose pieces of rock fell from an overhead chute onto employee. The initial rock knocked employees hard hat off and other loose rocks fell and struck employee in the head and upper back.

While servicing a 773 haul truck (equip. 1389), employee was preparing to put power steering fluid in the tank, however the cap was tight. He placed his left forearm against the muffler to gain leverage to open the cap. He did not realize the muffler was hot, as a result, he sustained a burn to his left forearm.

While trying to lift a tire from the service truck (#1291) that was lying flat on the truck bed, employee felt a sharp pain to his lower right side of his back

While digging out material that backed up in crusher II, employee had to reach down with his left hand to pull rocks, transfer rocks into the right hand & reach up to pass the rocks out of the crusher. Due to the high wall of the crusher, it made it difficult for employee to position himself without stretching and twisting repetitively, causing strain to his back, neck & shoulder.

While opening the hood of the water truck (Equip# 669), the stop cables broke causing the hood to over extend and strike employee on the top of his head. Employee was wearing a hard hat.

Employee and co-worker, was carrying a acetylene tank to load onto the welding truck, when co worker let go of his side and the acetylene tank crushed injury's left pinky finger against the mounting bracket on the truck

IE & another employee were working in a large discharge chute removing rocks to clear a rock jam. Employees were casting 4" to 11" basaltic rocks out of their respective sides of the box. The other employee attempted to cast a larger size rock over the side of the box that IE was positioned. The rock did not clear over the side, fell & struck him on his left shoulder.

While clearing an area by Tower 23, employee was piling debris off to the side to make room for the crane when he threw a metal box tubing, which was part of an old walkway cage and the jagged edge cut into his right palm, leaving a deep laceration.

While working with other employee relocating 6" water hoses about 25' long, into a trench in Phase I, employee allegedly twisted and strained his back. Employee worked 8.0 hours the next day, and did not show up for work on 2/9. EMPLOYEE REPORTED THE INJURY TO THE NIGHT SUPERVISOR ON 2/9/09.

Employee was working with a crew of 6 people unloading bags of anfo and saran explosives from the container to the magazine container when he started to feel discomfort in his back. He continued working and thought that the discomfort would go away. By the end of the work day employees lower back ached. Employee sought medical attention on 11/28/08.

Employee was unloading 55 lb bags of anfo explosives from th econtainer, passing it on to employees outside the container for most of the morning. Later in the afternoon, after loading holes for a blast, he back started to stiffen and he would receive shocks of pain in his lower back when he twisted a certain way.

While carrying a screw for the diaphram up the stairs in the primary plant, employee felt his knee pop. Employee sought medical assistance on August 7, 2008.

While installing new plates in the F2 hopper with another co-worker, employee began to install the 2nd angle iron when he noticed welding debris in the area to place angle iron. EE leaned the angle iron slanted against the 1st angle iron to clean debris when the 2nd angle iron slipped and smashed his right hand middle and pointer fingers between the ledge and iron plate.

While installing pads in the F1 feeder, EE was holding one end of the pad while other employees were inserting bolts to attach pad to the links. In the process, EE's left hand got wedged between two pads causing the pad to cut and smash the tip of his middle finger.

While working with another employee changing bits on drill (2641), employee's finger tips of his right hand got caught (smashed) inbetween the seem and wrench of the drill. Employee was wearing a glove. Doctors initial reports received on 5/19/08 notes pain medication was given, therefore this is a recordable injury.

While working near crusher 4 cleaning the area, employee pulled on the water hose and strained his lower back.

While servicing the drill, the intake hose from the bag house had filled up with mud. Employee then disconnected the hose clamp and pulled the hose off of the intake housing. In the process, employee felt pain in his lower back. At the end of the day, employees back started tightening up.

While doing pre-trip or pre-check of the water truck (equipment #0668) employee alleges that the hood of the truck was stuck at the time. While pulling to get the hood open employee felt a tightness to his lower back.

While working with the powder crew on C-Rdge, they needed to move the container of explosives with a tractor. Employee was turning the handcrank to raise the container when his hand slipped causing his body to go forward and hitting his head on the crank. As a result employee sustained about a 2" laceration on his right eyebrow.

While walking up the stairs on T-23, employee was pulling a 1/4" X 95' grease hose when it got caught on an old screen lying on the ground, causing his right wrist and shoulder to jerk in a backwards motion.

EE was attempting to move an extended jack stand and in the process, he released the jack stand, the force of which caught the EE's baby finger on the way down. Injury was a laceration/contusion to right baby finger, originally a non recordable due to no lost time with a one time first aid treatment, however it should have been a recordable injury, restrictions on hand use given.

While climbing the stairs carrying a return idler weighing approximatly 40 lbs, employee felt a pop in his left knee followed by pain shortly thereafter.

While repairing the master screener, employee was loosening the fitting valve when it popped loose causing his right arm to jerk back and hit the frame of the machine.

Employee was working on conveyor 7 pulling the belt over the head pully when the belt ripped causing employee to hurt his lower back. Employee filled out a injury report but did not seek medical assistance until April 3, 2007 and has been off work since.

While climbing into crusher 2 chute, Employee strained his left elbow.

While walking down the stairs from the mansand room EE felt pain in his left heel. EE did not report incident and thought the pain would go away but it got worse. Reported incident on 12/22/06.

While working with the powder crew getting ready for an afternoon shot, EE carried two powder bags (30 # each) placed it on the gound container floor. When he turned, his back started to hurt, his legs gave way and he fell to the floor. EE had a hard time standing up, so an ambulance was dispatched.

While working on the grating walkway on S-31, EE was positioned at the bottom of the walkway coiling up the welding lead when another worker began lowering the welding cable. The rope broke causing cable and stinger to strike EE, who was positioned directly below, on the right shoulder.

EE was loading metal plates to repair a chute onto his welding truck when one of the metal plates fell onto his left pinky finger causing a deep laceration.

While checking screens in the screen room in the tertiary, employee picked up an old rusted screen, whcih fell apart and landed on his right foot. The sharp rusted edge punctured his boot and into this big toe.

While helping the welders remove guard on the driver fan, EE removed the bolt and kicked the guard with his left foot to loosen it. As a result his big toenail hooked onto the safety shield guard in his rubber boot and ripped the toenail back.

The feeder plate from conveyor 1 fell and blocked up the bypass chute behind conveyor 2 and material started to back up. Employee went into the chute to push the feeder back onto the conveyor and in the process, employee strained his lower back.

WHILE WORKING ON THE LOWER LEVEL OF THE PRIMARY PLANT TO INSTALL A NEW TAIL PULLEY GUARD FOR C-1, EE NEEDED TO CLEAN THE TAIL SECTION OF THE MATERAIL THAT SPILLED OFF THE CONVEYOR BELT. WHEN HE TURNED ON THE HIGH PRESSURE WATER HOSE, THE RUBBER GROMMET ON THE HOSE WAS WORN AWAY THUS CAUSING THE WATER NOZZEL TO FLY OFF AND LACERATED HIS LEFT SHIN

While working with another employee under scale #2 installing new load cell and brackets, EE strained his lower back while moving heavy jacks and curbing to jack up scale platform. Manuvering space was limited to where EE's could not stand up straight.

While removing the pump head from the air operated grease pump, employee scraped his right hand, as a result, received a lacerated wound.

While working up on tank 22, EE was lowering tool bags down with a rope when it got stuck on the lower concrete ledge. Leaning over the hand rail, EE began to push and pull on the rope to free tool bags. After work, EE started to feel his back tightening up.

While assembling the crusher components, EE was hitting hte head lock nut with a heavy metal ram and twisted his right wrist.

EE was putting the bit for a rockbuster on Equipment #2514 back on. EE was physically reinstalling without the aid of operator. While lifting the bit into the rockbuster housing, EE pulled muscle in lower back.

EE was working on a rockbuster #2514 when a low back sprain occurred.

While EE was changing screens on S-11, he pulled his shoulder muscle.

EE was pulling wrench to tighten conveyor belt when he felt a strain in his groin area.

Employee was loading powder. While carrying an ANFO bag (55 lbs) from loader bucket, ee twisted his back while lowering bag to the groung.

AMERON PROVIDES A YEARLY HEARING TEST TO ALL EMPLOYEES AND A HEARING BOOTH IS USED. EE OFF LOADED HEARING BOOTH FROM TRUCK AND PLACED BOOTH IN MAIN OFFICE; STRAINED RIGHT SIDE OF LOW BACK/HIP MUSCLE.

WHEN REMOVING WORN TOP PLATES OFF AS-1 TABLE, EE TRIED TO STOP A SECTION OF THE PLATE FROM FALLING; CUTTING HIS RT 5TH FINGER FROM PALM TO FINGERTIP.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING BELT ON SNATCH BLOCK PULLEY. CHAIN SEPARATED FROM BLOCK, CAUSING PULLEY TO FALL ON RIGHT ARM.

Employee strained his lower back when off-loading steel plates from pick-up truck to hazemag crusher located up flight of stairs. Originally reported as a minor incident; treated with painkiller from first aid cabinet.

EMPLOYEE REACHED INTO TRUCK TO REMOVE TOOLS. HE MOVED UNNECESSARY TOOLS ON THE SIDE. WHILE MOVING THE TOOLS, HE FELT A "CLICK" IN HIS LOWER BACK.