Cutting beam with track burner. Quickly reached to shut off machine as waste steel fell on foot. Received bruised left foot. No time loss.
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Showing all 24Welding without face shield, later found out employee had burned his eyes. Safety violation!
Removing the wheels from the screen trailer with the 1" impact gun. The air discharge from the gun blew the materials in the rim out and something made it past the safety glasses and into the left eye. Foreign body had to be removed from the left eye by a medical professional. No permanent damage or time loss due to this incident.
Hearing loss due to years working on portable crusher.
Removing pump impeller from barge pump with a Pettibone crane. Impeller came loose and rotated causing the chain hook to come off the vane striking him in the sternum and throwing him 6 ft and landing on top of fellow employee knocking them both to the ground. As a result, the employee received a fractured sternum.
Driving haul truck up to the load out hopper, stopped the truck and reached out the window to start the conveyor. When the start/stop pendant was contacted, employee received an electrical shock.
Employee was lifting a set of troughing rollers when he discovered a bees nest on the rollers. He attempted to throw the nest away from himself and in the process of throwing felt a sharp pain in his back on the right side. After this incident, the pain was constant.
Changing iron in a crushing unit. Picking heavy iron with cables and cable rolled and caught finger. Cable pulled fingernail and end of finger off in the glove. Unable to save end of middle finger on the left hand.
Attempting to reach top of a steel plate to attach clamp, in effort to reach higher on plate he climbed up on an ecology block retaining wall & lost balance falling over the wall 80" to ground. The wall was 1 block high on the working side 3 blocks on the wall side. Wall was designed to interlock not flat on top & not intended to be used as work platform or walkway.
This is a corrected filing submission #268088 Changing screen, screen slipped and cut left thumb.
Hit in the mouth by a rock while walking around a wash plant screen.
Standing by controls, rock came out of jaw plant and hit him under chin.
Cutting piece of belt hanging fron conveyor belt and cut left hand.
Worker was climbing down from a rock screen, worker slipped and tried to catch himself to keep from falling and felt damage to right hip.
Worker was climbing out of classifier tank, slipped and fell. Worker hit head on hand rail and got right leg stuck between hand rail and tank, injuring knee.
GETTING READY TO CHANGE MOTOR ON CONVEYOR. HAD FOOT ON CHAIN SPROCKET, LEFT ARM LAYING ON CONVEYOR. FOOT SLIPPED OFF SPROCKET PUTTING EXCESS PRESSURE ON LEFT ARM AND SHOULDER.
CLEANING DIRT OFF FLYWHEEL OF WASH PLANT, SCREEN #76-050. THE CLEANING BAR SLIPPED OFF THE FLYWHEEL AND STRUCK WORKER IN LEFT EYE.
WHILE REMOVING A 7/8" LIFTING CABLE FROM THE HOOK OF A CRANE, PULLED ON CABLE AND IT CAME LOOSE SUDDENLY. IT STRUCK WORKER ON THE BRIDGE OF THE NOSE.
WASHING CONCRETE SLAB WITH FIRE HOSE. LOST FOOTING SLIPPED AND FELL BACKWARDS HITTING RIGHT HAND ON STEEL BEAM.
GREASING FEEDER UNIT ROCK FLEW OUT OF MASABI SCREEN UNIT. FLYWHEEL ON SAME UNIT CAUGHT ROCK & THREW IT. ROCK STRUCK EE IN THE MOUTH
HE PULLED LOCK BOLTS OUT OF A CONVEYOR BEFORE ITWAS HOOKED UP TO THE CRANE. WITHOUT SUPPORTS, ITFELL BACKWARD HITTING HIM IN THE HEAD.
INJURY REPORTED TO EMPLOYER ON 11/14/00. LIFTING SCREENS AT WASH PLANT THROUGHOUT NIGHT. RE-INJURED BACK. ORIGINAL INJURY OCCURRED IN 1991.
OPERATING TRUCK IN PIT, BACK WAS AGGRAVATED. PREVIOUS BACK INJURY FROM 6-7 YRS. AGO WAS AGGRAVATED.
EE ACCIDENTALLY SHIFTED FROM REVERSE TO FORWARD INSTEAD OF TO REVERSE 2ND GEAR.