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Hurricane Florence water went over dam and we have a few washed out areas.

Contractor was working on 500 Komatsu. Jumped off and cut hand on mirror.

EE was working on bagging machine when he got up from repairing he slipped and fell backwards and hit his head.

Employee was changing return roller in boom truck and got hand pinched between roller and bucket on boom.

EE was trying to replace stretch wrap that had pulled off and got his finger caught between the pallet and the roller.

Worker was trying to remove rock obstruction from conveyor belt.

EE went to change top sheet roll, after lifting roll, felt pain in lower back. EE's should always use 2 men to pick up and replace roll.

An employee received a broken ankle and crushed foot when an all-terrain forklift went onto their right foot. This was caused when the employee stepped into the path of the rear end swing.

Employee stepped between two pallets about 5-6" apart to retrieve bags for hand bagging. Employee twisted ankle between the pallets while stepping away from pallets.

Employee was dismounting the Stationary ladder on an open top railroad car, he lost his grip or footing and fell approx. six feet. He landed on his left wrist and left hip, this fall fractured his left wrist.

Employee was using a disc grinder to clean metal and grinder caught and deflected into his left arm.

Employee was mowing lawn and holding tree branches back with one hand and tractor tire hit diviot and pulled steering wheel from his other hand.

Co-worker was using a punch to drive a bearing off of a shaft; injured was standing near him when he hit the punch with the hammer. A small piece of metal (about the size of a BB0) broke off the punch and hit injured in the neck. This piece of metal stuck in his neck.

Employee was adjusting fork setpoint on palletizer setpoint. When locknut was loosened the fork slipped and pinched his right thumb.

A MACHINE JAMMED AND EE PRESSED THE E-STOP AND TRIPPED THE SAFETY SWITCH PRIOR TO ATTEMPTING TO UNJAM THE MACHINE. WHILE REACHING INTO THE MACHINES JAMMED AREA, EE BUMPED A BOLT WHICH WAS STICKING IN THE AIR CAUSING A LACERATION BELOW THE THUMP ON RIGHT HAND

Employee was enlarging pilot hole in a guard he was building with a electric drill when bit caught and forced drill from his hand. The drill spun around and the handle struck his right wrist. He broke his 4th Meta carsal bone in his right wrist.

Four man work crew was manually moving a steel door into position when the hinge caught on the edge of a saw horse momentarily and then gave way sliding suddenly. The right index finger, of the injured party, was caught between the hinge and plates.

Snow covered plastic tarp and was unable to see end and walked on snow covered tarp and slipped. Employee has had previous hip injury outside work.

He was stepping up into loader when the bottom cable step broke, caused him to hit his right side ribs on the ladder. He was ask to go to the doctor and he felt he was alright. Then on 1/4/2005 he felt a need to go. The doctor said he had bruised only.Then contacted him later saying he had fractured a couple of ribs. No lost time, he put a wrap around his ribs for a few days.

Employee was to install a new spout on a bagger and it slipped from his grip and hit him in the mouth. It cut the upper lip on his mouth. He went to the doctor and got 3 stitches in his lip and a Tetanus shot.

EMPLOYEE WAS COMPLETING A NORMAL TASK OF FUELING HIS EQUIPMENT WHEN HE LOST STABILITY OR BALANCE CAUSING HIM TO FALL FROM THE BOTTOM RUNG/STEP LEADING TO THE CAB OF THE LOADER. EE FELL APPROX. 2' ONTO HIS BACK. HIS RT. HEEL IMPACTED THE GROUND CAUSING A FRACTURED HEEL.

Constant pulling & pushing on the emulsion eventually caused shoulder & elbow discomfort.

Lifted the roll locking mechanism. Locked it by tightening bolt. Applied new rolls. While sliding on the second roll, the lock mechanism fell down pinching his hand between roll and lock.

Attempting to scale down a large piece of rock. She reached out with bar to pry down a piece of roof and felt a pop in her back.

When grinding a bushing apparently a piece flew up and cut Mike in the neck, just below his chin. Mike had a laceration 1 1/2" long which required 9 stitches.

Twisted left foot while turning on a muck pile.

Ee was using pry bar to loosen lid on Fuller Kenyon< his bar was placed, when the lid broke loose, his body was in an awkward position and he hurt his back. Dr said it was a pulled muscle and recommended physical therapy.

Truck driver employed by Hildebrandt Tkg. Inc., Contractor ID #7DD, was strapping down his load on Oldcastle Stone Products property and was struck by a forklift operated by an Oldcastle employee in the right thigh.

EE LIFTED A SNOW COVERED PIECE OF PLYWOOD FROM A DOUBLE STACKED FALLETS OF BAGGED LIME. APPROX. HEIGHT 6 FT. WHILE LIFTING THE PLYWOOD TWISTED HIS RIGHT WRIST. HAS HAD SLIGHT PAIN UNTIL 3/20. PAIN INCREASED, HE WENT TO EMERGENCY ROOM. EMERGENCY ROOM REFERED HIM TO FAMILY DR. INSTRUCTED TO WEAR BRACE & PRESCRIBED PREONIZONE. DID NOT LOSE ANY TIME

CREW NEEDED TO CHANGE DUST COLLECTOR BAGS. DOOR HAD FROZEN MATERIAL AROUND EDGES. AFTER CHIPPING ICE AWAY WITH BAR EE TRIED TO OPEN DOOR. THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH MATERIAL REMOVED AND HE DECIDED T O DROP DOOR. DOOR DROPPED AND THE BAR EJECTED INTO HIS LEG AND THEN INTO HIS EYE.

JUMP STARTING EUCLID TRUCK ONE OF THE CABLE CLAMPS ACCIDENTLY SHORTED OUT AGAINST FRAME AND BATTERY EXPLODED.

EE BENT TO GRIP LID AND STARTED TO LIFT UP TO CLOSE & FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LEFT LOWER BACK. LID WAS ON TOP OF RAIL CAR.

EE OBSERVED AN ELECTRICAL TRACKING ON THE LINE SIDE OF THE DISCONNECT, TRIED TO CLEAR BY TAPPING ON IT WITH A SCREWDRIVER HANDLE & IT EXPLODED.

CONSTANT LOWER RIGHT BACK PAIN. EE WAS RUNNING GRADALL DUE TO BUMPING & ROUGH NATURE OF TASK BACK HURTS.

EE WAS STACKING 50 LBS BAGS ONTO A PALLET.

CLEANING GOBBED OR CHOKED UP ON SHUTTLE BELT WITH SCALING BAR - PRYING BELT TO REMOVE STONE - BELT MOVED PUSHING SCALING BAR INTO SHUTTLE BELT - CONVEYOR STEEL.

WAS MOVING A ROLL OF V-SHEETING BAYS AND SMASHED LEFT INDEX FINGER - FRACTURE.

WHILE BAGGING HYDRATED LIME INTO 50# BAGS A BAG BURST AND THE LIME DISPERSED OUTWARD BOUNCING OFF EE'S CHEST AND GOING UNDERNEATH HIS SAFETY GLASSES. EE RECEIVED CORNEAL ABRASIONS TO BOTH EYES .

WORK WAS BEING PERFORMED IN RECONDITIONING THE SECONDARY. A CRANE WAS LIFTING A CHUTE FOR ITS POSITIONING WHEN IT BROKE INTO TWO PIECES. ONE OF THE PIECES MOVED IN THE DIRECTION OF THE VICTIM FORCING HIM DOWN THE STAIRS LEADING TO THE SECONDARY. HE GRABBED THE HANDRAILS AS HE EXITED AND TWISTED HIS SHOULDER WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING.

EMPLOYEE REMOVED SIDE COVER PLATE (8" X 10") FROM THE FULLER KINYON PUMP & REACHED INSIDE WITH HIS LEFT HAND. PUMP WAS IN OPERATION & HOUSED A 6" AUGER. HE WAS LOOKING FOR THE CAUSE OF THE RIY MONS GRINDING MILL TO BE OUT OF MATERIAL. EMPLOYEE LOST 4 FINGERS ON HIS LEFT HAND.

DRIVER SLIPPED OFF FLATBED WHILE GETTING DOWN FROM TRAILER AFTER TARPING LOAD. LOAD WAS PARTIALLY LOADED AT ONE AREA AND HE MOVED TO SECOND AREA TO GET REMAINDER OF LOAD. WHILE WAITING FOR SEC OND PART OF LOAD, HE DECIDED TO TARP LOAD.

EE WAS WALKING ACROSS THE LOT TOWARDS THE PLANT WHEN HE STOPPED TO HELP ANOTHER EE WHO HAD DROPPED A LOADED BULK SACK ONTO THE LOT. HE HELD ONE OF THE LOOPS OF THE BULK SACK WHILE THE OTHER EE ATTEMPTED TO PUT THE FORK OF THE FORKLIFT INTO THE LOOP. THE FORK CAME IN TOO FAR AND CAUGHT EE'S LEFT MIDDLE FINGER CUTTING IT, REQUIRING 3 STITCHES.

WHILE LOADING BAGS ONTO PALLET, TWISTED BACK.

THE INJURED PARTY WAS UNDER A MOTOR GRADER ATTEMPTING TO FREE A UNIVERSAL JOINT W/ AN IMPACT WRENCH & SLEDGE HAMMER. A FOREIGN MATERIAL, (BELIEVED TO BE METAL) SHEERED FROM THE HAMMER ENTERING THE LEFT EYE.

REPLACING BEARING ON QUICKLIME ELEVATOR, GOT QUICKLIME DUST ON CLOTHES. ON HIS WAY HOME THE DUST REACTED WITH SWEAT TO CAUSE IRRITATION AND BURNS ON HIS TORSO AND ARMS.

EE WAS DESCENDING A VERTICAL LADDER. WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN TO THE PLATFORM (MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ON BOTTOM STEP), HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL AGAINST HANDRAIL CAUSING INJURY.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ACROSS A CONCRETE FLOOR INSIDE OF A BUILDING, TO GET A SAMPLE BAG. HIS RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELL CAUSING AN INJURY TO HIS LEFT KNEE. THE EMPLOYEE HAD JUST COME BA CK TO WORK AFTER HAVING KNEE SURGERY ON THE SAME KNEE (PERSONAL INJURY). THE EXTENT OF INJURY IS UNCERTAIN, BUT EMPLOYEE MAY HAVE TORN LIGAMENTS.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING 50 LB BAGS OF STONE ONTO PALLETS.

EE WAS CLEANING UP GARBAGE LEFT BY OTHER EMPLOYEES AND SLICED FINGER ON A BROKEN LIGHT BULB. LACERATION REQUIRED 2 STITCHES - NO RESTRICTIONS.

EE WAS IN THE PROCESS PULLING HIMSELF ONTO A SMALL SHED TO HOIST IT OUT OF PLACE W/A CRANE. THE CRANE'S CABLE ABRUPTLY SWUNG RIGHT & BACK LEFT JARRING EE FROM HIS GRIP. EE FELL APPROXIMATELY 4 - 6 FEET LANDING ON HIS RIGHT HAND. THE IMPACT RESULTED IN A BROKEN RIGHT WRIST.