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CONTRACTOR/CUSTOMER After loading their truck with stone at our site, C R Cozino Inc's employee was injured. The driver was attempting to remove some stone & punctured their left hand when the tailgate latch fell on their hand that was positioned on the tailgate pin. NOT A LUCK STONE EMPLOYEE.

While shimming the jaw, EE reached up to grab the hoist, and some loose fine material fell and got behind EE's glasses and got in EE's eye.

Employee was using a Belt winder to wind old belt that was replaced at the quarry. During the process the employee was using their foot to "guide" the belt in place while the winding process was occurring. Employee slipped and ankle become entangled between the belt and guide roller. The employee received a fracture to right ankle.

While pre-shifting the middle deck screen media in secondary station, the associate rolled the chute forward to access the middle deck. EE proceeded to climb while grabbing the side of the screen stepping on metal plate attached to the side of the screen. While doing so EE lost EE's grip/footing falling backwards and landing on angle where the roll away chute rides on rails.

Four associates were heading into the shop. One associate was opening the rollup door and while it still was not all of the way up, EE began pulling down on the door in order to get leverage to push it up. At this point EE walked through and hit EE's head on the door. EE was wearing a hard hat at the time.

When EE was swinging the excavator bit from a telehandler to loosen the head nut dust cover, EE realized its path was misaligned. EE attempted to hold the bit back mid-swing. EE was unable to hold it back and the bit slipped off the welded plate causing EE's right ring finger to contact the plate.

Associate was welding on skid steer bucket. Another associate came over to assist to complete the job. Both were welding back to back resulting in light reflecting on the inside of the welding shield. Associate noticed eye irritation the next day when the associate awoke.

EE was assisting in unloading some equipment. When climbing down from the truck, EE stepped on the lift axle, the tire rolled causing EE to lose balance and fall 3' to the ground. This fall caused knee injury.

While repairing the jaw crusher with another associate, EE was putting the nuts on the wedge bolts. The access for EE was limited. The wedge slipped out of co-worker's hand and then ricocheted toward EE, hitting EE's hand.

While swinging a sledgehammer onto a crusher head, a metal fragment broke off of the crusher & flew into the associate's neck.

While removing a spring in the tunnel feeder with a wrench, associate's hand slipped & the force caused the associate to hit mouth.

While removing hand railing & using a wrench to loosen the bolt on the railing. As the associate with the ratchet loosened the bolt the wrench started to lose contact with the railing. EE reached in to reposition the wrench as the other associate pulled/pushed on the ratchet causing EE's finger to get pinched between the railing and the wrench.

We believe that when EE was tightening the side rails on the screen with the impact gun that the metal had fallen into EE's eyes behind EE's safety glasses. The next day, EE woke up with eye pain and went to urgent care to get checked out and they found metal in EE's eyes which they were able to remove.

EE was clearing a jam on a wire reel. Another worker pulled on the reel resulting in a pinch.

NO ISSUES UNTIL 5/26/23-SURGERY FOR ROTATOR CUFF**LOST TIME** Injury occurred after tripping over a timber while walking backwards when moving a ladder.

When EE finished cleaning out loader bucket, EE began turning while pulling the water hose. As EE turned, EE stepped/tripped over an area of uneven ground. Ground conditions had been affected from heavy rain over the past few days. Falling to the ground, EE rolled an ankle and broke it.

EE was washing out the material in the bottom of a load out bin. EE slipped on some loose material causing EE to fall onto a shelf.

Operator was climbing the ladder on the offside of the 980 loader to fill the auto greaser. When operator got to the last step right knee gave out and operator fell back to operator's right approximately 5' 4" to the ground.

While using the sledgehammer to tighten the mantle nut on the cone crusher head, employee noticed pain in left forearm.

Associate was welding wear plates in the cavity below the head and bowl of the gyratory crusher. During the welding process some loose material from the feed hopper fell, with a softball size rock striking associate on the right side of head.

The area near the primary had the snow plowed off of it the day before in preparation for the work to be performed. Overnight this area had frozen. EE got out of the truck & walked to the back where EE got salt to spread on the walkway. While spreading salt EE slipped on the ice and fell hurting EE's right leg and knee.

While opening the front gate the associate inserted a bolt with washer used to keep the gate from swinging shut. Before the bolt was inserted completely, the gate sprung backwards pinching the associates finger between the gate and the washer on the bolt causing a laceration to one finger that required stitches.

BECAME REPORTABLE ON 3/15/2022 AFTER EMPLOYEE HAD TO HAVE SURGERY & LOST TIME. While stepping down scale office steps, slipped on a patch of ice & fell causing injury to right shoulder.

During the course of the day the associate was exposed indirectly to the mig welding arc of other associates

Associate picked up a steel plate & as associate was stacking the plate pinched the tip of finger.

Employee was climbing down from a D8 bulldozer, was standing on the tracks when foot slipped in the mud and employee fell off the track. Employee's wrist was lacerated by rock on the ground.

EE was dismounting EE's rock breaker when EE slipped off the track and landed primarily on head and neck.

Employee was removing cutting edge modules from a 988k loader bucket. While loosening the bolt on the module, the bolt started to spin. Employee reached under and pushed up on the bolt, then engaged the air gun on the nut. This caused the bolt to slip and start spinning again. The bolt head tore through employee's glove into the palm, cutting EE's right hand.

DRILL TECHNCIAN WAS DEMO'ING A NEW DRILL. WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ADD STEEL LENGTH TO THE DRILL, TECHNICIAN'S HAND BECAME ENTANGLED IN THE LIFTING SLING. AS THE STEEL PIPE WAS LIFTED THE SLING PINCHED THE SMALL FINGER OF THE RIGHT HAND. TECHNCICAN REQUIRED MEDICAL CARE BEYOND FIRST AID.

EE was burning the explosives boxes on the bench immediately after the shot. The wind picked up & blew something under EE's safety glasses while back was turned. EE's eye became irritated. EE flushed eye multiple times with no luck. No object or injury to the eye was found during examination, but an antibiotic cream was prescribed.

EE was assisting for the third time at greasing the plant. While the grease fitting was attached to the button on the grease line, pressure built up and as EE removed the line off the button, grease under pressure was injected into EE's finger. EE was wearing only latex gloves. The two associates decided not to report the injury to management.

While cleaning out ice build up in the socket sealing ring, the associate made contact with one of the edges on it, resulting in a laceration on the back of the wrist through the glove. The laceration resulted in 7 stitches.

While driving a haul truck, associate ran onto a berm. Driver was shaken by the incident & we decided to take EE to a panel doctor. The doctor wrote EE out of work to ensure the EE was well recovered.

Employee was working from man basket, removing messenger wire for ventilation tube, during this process a piece of metal debris got into eye. Employee noticed some irritation later in shift but didn't start hurting till next day. Employee went to local clinic and got piece of debris removed from eye.

Employee was scaling to mark out location, while scaling overhead, a piece of rock measuring 1'x2'x1' came down and hit employee on side of hardhat, cut neck and hit hand on way down to basket.

Employee was dragging a wash hose, stepping backwards and stepped on a rock approximately 3" in diameter. This caused pain to the right foot and ankle.

Employee was clearing obstruction out of end of shotcrete hose. Took safety glasses off to see in the hose when the obstruction came out, striking the employee in the face with shotcrete. Resulted in chipped tooth and flushing of eyes with water.

The associate was moving punch plates off the pallet to take in the screenhouse. The associate was sliding one of the plates off the pallet to put a clevis on it so they would be able to hoist it into the screenhouse. While sliding it, thumb got caught in the holes and almost severed the tip of the thumb.

As EE was leaving work for the day on Thursday, EE noticed the hangar gate was open so EE pulled in to shut it. While in the process of closing it, EE tweaked EE's lower back. EE worked all day Friday, but it continually got worse & EE was unable to work Saturday or Monday.

While removing torque out of truck, ee reached over frame and started pulling wrench towards ee and felt and heard something pop in shoulder .

Employee slipped, fell to knees.

While removing a zip tie from a hardhat, employee received a small puncture wound from the cut end of a zip tie. There was no immediate pain or even blood, so employee shook it off and went about the day. The next morning the finger had become very swollen and infected.

While delivering material I realized that my truck was having issues. I called towing company who came & loaded the truck. Then took the truck to the quarry to unload the material. After unloading the material, I proceeded to step out of the truck only to discover that the wrecker had raised the truck further from the ground causing me to fall & injure myself.

While climbing the ladder to tie it off to the gutter, the ladder slipped out from under ee and the employee fell off.

At the end of ee shift, EE was exiting the haul truck when ee felt a pain in back.

Two associates installed and tightened the four liner bolts. Another associate was trying to determine if the liner was seated correctly by running their fingers behind the bottom edge of the liner. At that instant, the liner snapped into position crushing the tips of the index and middle finger on their left hand.

Associate needed to access the platform at the rear of the machine. When ee placed foot on the bottom step of a step ladder ee felt something snap. X-ray revealed a broken bone in foot.

EE was struck in the forearm with a metal fragment from the tip of a grader that became dislodged when another associate was removing the end with a 3 pound hammer. The incident occurred on 8/31/17 & was first aid only. After a few months, the embedded object became infected & resulted in a medical procedure to remove the object at the doctor's office on 12/8/17.

Large rocks on the ground ee rolled ankle fell to the ground breaking leg.

Employee was cutting bolt holes with a utility knife, when changing a rubber curtain underneath a crusher. The knife slipped off & punctured employee's leg.