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While removing an old piece of metal off the top deck of a discharge chute on a screening plant, the technician picked up the metal and it cut through the technician's glove and into finger causing a laceration.
EE, a loader operator, was working on a guard above EE's head this morning and a bunch of powdery dirt fell off the belt frame above EE's head and hit EE in the face. It got around EE's safety glasses and got some in EE's eyes.
3 contractor employees were on site wiring in a recently set up wash plant in Cedar City, UT. One of their employees was climbing toward the head pulley on the conveyor. The other two employees were on the ground feeding the employee wire. The legs that suspend the conveyor in the air collapsed causing the conveyor to fall with ACM employee on top of conveyor.
IE & co-worker were inserting a new belt, the choke rigging on the old belt was not going to hold through the process. IE lifted up on the slack of belt & co-worker attempted to cut a hole using the fixed serrated blade on EE's Leatherman. As EE attempted to cut a hole and applied pressure, the blade slipped off and struck IE puncturing the leg.
Attempting to get rock unstuck EE was reaching into catch box & got EE's hand stuck between catch box and head pulley of the slinger belt. EE leaned forward with the rock as it fell. The rotation of the head pulley pulled EE's hand and the rock into the gap between the head pulley and the catch box. Partial amputation of EE's Right Pinky Finger.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A LOADER, HE HIT A ROCK OR BUMP & IT CAUSED HIM TO HIT HIS LEFT RIB CAGE ON THE ARMREST OF HIS SEAT. THE IMPACT FRACTURED A RIB ON HIS LEFT SIDE. HE WAS WEARING HIS SEATBELT.
Working on night shift. The worker was walking by the side of a conveyer with another worker. They had a flashlight but were not using it. The worker tripped and fell on his right knee cutting it on a piece of angle iron.
Worker was shoveling at a screen plant. He felt a pain in his lower back. He continued his shift running a skid loader. He did not report the incident until the next day.
BACK BEGAN HURTING DURING A TWO WEEK PERIOD FROM THE WEEK OF 2-5-04 TO 2-11-04. AFTER HIS SHIFT ON THE 11TH HE WENT TO A DOCTOR. THE FOLLOWING MONDAU HE CALLED HIS SUPERVISOR AND TOLD HIM HIS BACK WAS HURTING & HE WAS GOING TO TAKE A FEW DAYS OFF. NEVER INDICATED HE WAS INJURED AT WORK UNTIL 3-1-04.
CRUSHING OPERATIONS SHUT DOWN DUE TO RAIN, MAINTENANCE WAS BEING PERFORMED ON THE CRUSHER. EE WAS STEPPING FROM LADDER ONTO THE CATWALK. THE CATWALK BOUNCED APPROXIMATELY 1", AND WAS SLICK DUE TO THE RAIN CAUSING THE EE TO ROLL ANKLE AND FALL.
TWO WORKERS WERE LIFTING LEGS TO A CONVEYOR BELT TO TURN THEM OVER AND HOOK A CRANE ON TO THEM TO PUT THEM IN PLACE. WHEN THE LUGS WERE ABOUT CHEST HIGHT RYINT TO CHANGE POSITIONS WITH HIS ARM S AND HANDS THE WORKER FELT SOME PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. ABOUT 200 LBS.
EE WAS WORKING ON THE SCREEN PLANT. FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK THAT WENT DOWN HIS LEG. HE HAD A BACK INJURY ADN SURGERY IN JAN. 1999 HE THOUGHT ITWAS JUST A FLARE UP FROM THAT. HE DID NOT REPORT A NEW INJURY, THOUGHT REST ON THE WEEHAND WOULD TAKE CARE OF IT. SUBSEQUENT TESTING SHOWS NEW INJURY, NEEDS SURGERY.
EE SAID HE WAS LIFTING METAL FROM CRUHSER INLET AND FELT SOMETHING IN STOMACH TEAR.