EE was working under raised hood on loader in shop. Hood fell striking employee on shoulder.
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Showing 50 of 67Routine annual hearing tests revelaed a Standard Threshold Shift of 30db in the right ear.
Annual routine hearing tests revealed a Standard Threshold Shift of 35db in the left ear.
Routine annual hearing test results show a STS of 25db right ear.
Routine annual hearing tests revealed a Standard Threshold Shift of 25db in the left ear.
Blaster was coming down office steps @ quarry office and slipped. It was raining and steps were wet. Starting falling and tried to catch himself. He grabbed railing and felt something pop in his arm.
Contract hauler was exiting the cab of his dump truck at the weigh scale when he slipped on ice and fell to the ground.
While re-lining chutes in a screen deck, employee felt pain in lower back.
Employee attempted to sit on the mid rail of a railing. The mid rail is removable so that screen can be replaced. The mid rail became dislodged and the employee fell to the level below.
Lifting a heavy steel plate and strained a stomach muscle
Employee was using a pry bar to hold a guard in place near a conveyor belt so that he could repair the guard. The bar came into contact with the moving belt causing the bar to spin and be pulled from his hands.
Employee was stemming holes and heard a pop in his wrist.
EE states that while climbing ladder on water truck, he began to experience pain in left shoulder, neck and chest.
Crew was loading gas shot during the hottest part of the day. Employee was stemming holes and became overheated. Employee passed out and was transported to local hospital - heat related.
Employee was removing and replacing the worn teeth on a Caterpillar 992G loader bucket. Employee struck the tooth with a sledge hammer and a piece of the tooth came off and punctured the employee's stomach. He was taken to a local ER where they did an MRI and decided to leave the small piece of metal in him. He received stitches and was released to full duty.
Employee was digging ice and rock out of the VS-3 tower chutes when he felt a twinge in his wrist.
Employee was removing frozen material from around the base of the 4 1/4 cone crusher at the Brown's Plant. He was using a Hilti Gun to hammer the material loose. When he applied pressure, he felt a sharp pain in his back.
Employee was walking around a truck when he slipped on some ice and fell back striking his head and left shoulder on the ground.
Employee was carrying a ladder when he raised it over the hand rails to turn a corner and felt a pop in his back.
Employee was working on a screening deck when he dropped his tool and he bent over to pick it up coming in contact with the cover of the Cedar Rapids screen motor. He was shocked due to the cover being hot from a bad connection inside the junction box.
While standing on a rock face, started to turn around, lost footing, right leg got stuck between two rocks, causing the rt ankle & knee to twist, fell to the ground, and hurt rt ankle.
Employee was checking VS3 for a hole in the top deck. He stepped up onto an elevated motor mount to view the top deck screens. As he was preparing to step back onto the floor, his right foot slipped off of the mount, and landed on the floor, causing all of his weight to shift onto his right foot, twisting it.
While lifting a guard, the employee decided it was too heavy, went to set it down and it slipped out of his hand and struck his right wrist.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN THE LADDER OF THE CATERPILLAR 777 HAUL TRUCK TO CHECK THE OIL WHEN HIS HAND SLIPPED OFF OF THE HAND RAIL AND HE FELL 10 FEET TO THE GROUND.
Employee was lifting pads for the crane when the pad slipped out of his hand and he tried to catch it, a piece of wood lodged in his left ring finger leaving a splinter of wood. He was sent to the clinic, who in turn sent him to a hand specialist to have it removed. He received 4 stitches.
Employee was hurrying to get a 992C loader started and into the pit, when he climbed the ladder with his lunch pail in his hands. He reached for the handrail at the top of the ladder, missed it and fell to the ground striking his buttocks and knocking the wind out of him.
EE was repairing the pneumatic grease gun, he removed the air line thinking that he had disconnected the energy. He then removed the side covers and began to clean out the grease fron under the piston. While doing this the grease gun fired causing the piston to crush his left index finger behind the first knuckle. The finger tip could not be repaired and was removed.
EE was operating his loader at the Asphalt #6 pile, cage mill when he struck the concrete base of the loadout tunnel with his bucket. The sudden jar must have caused a back injury because on March 2nd, he started to feel pain in his back and pain/numbness in his right arm. This report was given to us on MARCH 7, 2005.
Employee started to take weight off of grader with overhead hoist so that grader would jack up easier. Chain sling on hoist broke striking employees thumb on left hand. Employee sustained a laceration and needed minor outpatient surgery to reconnect a tendon...and stitches. No lost days.
Employee was rolling up a rope to put away into the truck, he wiped his eye with his hand and apparently there was a fiber from the rope on his hand and it got into his eye. This resulted in a corneal abrasion.
Employee was cleaning off a catwalk and lifted a steel discharge chute when he felt pain in his lower back.
Employee claims that after working 3/4 of the day, his shoulder was hurting. He had a previous shoulder injury and we believe that the work day aggravated it. He was sent to the company physician and was put onto restrictions. This accident was not reported to me until 9/25/04.
While helping to install drive belts on conveyor 1A, a rock came from the belt and struck employee above the right eye just to the side of the hard hat brim causing a laceration that needed 4 stitches.
Employee claims that he was operating his loader and ran across a drainage ditch causing the loader to bounce and he felt pain in his lower back.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A PLATE UP THE STEPS BETWEEN SCREENS VS-2B & VS-3B AND FELT A STRAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE WAS CARRYING THE PLATE WITH THE LISTED WITNESS.
EE WAS WALKING ON A CATWALK WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL DOWN ONTO HIS LEFT KNEE CUTTING IT. THERE WAS NO OBSTRUCTIONS ON THE WALKWAY THAT HINDERED HIS TRAVEL.
EE WAS OPERATING A CAT HAUL TRUCK INT HE AREA WHERE WE WERE DIGGING S UMP WHEN HE STARTED PULLING OUT OF SUMP THE MATERIAL INT HE BED SLID BACK CAUSING THE TRUCK TO STAND UP ON ITS TAILGATE. E E WAS BANGED AGAINST DOOR AND INSIDE OF CAB CAUSING THE LACERATIONS TO HIS HEAD, FACE AND NECK.
WHILE CUTTING A RUBBER HOSE WITH A RAZOR BLADE, THE BLADE BOUNCED OFF THE HOSE AND HIT HIS ARM CUTTING IT.
EE WAS USING A WRENCH TO LOOSEN THE BOLT FROM THE PILLAR BLOCK BEARING CAP, THE WRENCH SLIPPED OFF AND HIT EE INT HE 2 FRONT TEETH, CHIPPING THEM.
STEMMING LOADED BLAST HOLES (SHOVELING GRAVEL). STEMMING MATERIAL MORE COARSE THAN USUAL.
WHILE EXITING THE WATER TRUCK TO CHECK A FLOCCULANT SYSTEM, HE STEPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.
EE WAS LYING ON HIS STOMACH REMOVING THE 3RD SCREEN PANEL ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE V52B SCREEN. HE WAS PULLING THE SCREEN.
WHILE UNLOADING CONVEYOR PARTS FROM A TRUCK, THE EE LIFTED ONE END JUST HIGH ENOUGH TO PUT A SLING UNDER IT AND FELT A PINCH IN HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING OUT OF PRIMARY CRUSHER AND WAS STEPPING ON WELDER PARTS. PARTS SHIFTED AND HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT GROIN/LEG.
REPORTED THAT THE 980C LOADER SHIFTER WAS HARD TO USE AND IT CAUSED HIM PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER.
EE WAS SHOVELING MATERIAL FROM UNDER GRIT CONVEYOR WHEN HE TRIED TO PRY SOME FROZEN MATERIAL BY PRESSING DOWN ON THE SHOVEL HANDLE. HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS ADJUSTING AN IDLER ARM WITH A HAMMER ON BF-5 HE STRUCK HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER ON THE FRAME DURING THE BACK SWING.
EE WAS SHOVELING MATERIAL OFF OF VS 2B SCREEN AND HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER.
ANOTHER EE WAS DRIVING A BEARING ONTO A SHAFT WHILE EE WAS HOLDING A BLOCK OF WOOD ON IT. THE EEMISSED THE BLOCK & STRUCK EE HAND CAUSING A LACERATION OF THE LEFT RING FINGER-NEEDED 5 STITCHES
EE WAS CLEANING SPILLAGE FROM THE US2A CATWALK. HE WAS KNEELING DOWN. WHEN HE WENT TO STAND UP, HE PULLED/STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.