Employee was cleaning up around the crusher. Employee's hard hat blew off his head. It was a windy day and he had a sweatshirt hood on under his hard hat so it wasn't properly secured. The employee's hat rolled under a conveyor and when he retrieved it and was exiting from underneath the conveyor, he hit his head on the metal frame of the conveyor.
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April 9, 2009
PA · Metal/Non-Metal
haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver
OTHER
Rohrer's Quarry Inc · Struck against stationary object
Rohrer's Quarry Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
EMPLOYEE WAS RIGGING A NEW CONCRETE MIXER DRUM TO A CRANE. THE NEW DRUM WAS BEING LIFTED WHEN WIND CAUGHT IT AND PUSHED IT INTO THE OLD DRUM ON THE GROUND; EMPLOYEE'S LEFT ARM AND HAND GOT SMA SHED BETWEEN THE TWO DRUMS AT IMPACT, SUSTAINING 8 FRACTURED BONES IN HAND AND WRIST.
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