Amrize Alpena Plant — Accidents

Total: 197 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
04/06/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was sanding the walkway due to slippery conditions on the walkway. EE was using a bucket and slowly dumping the sand in front of them when their feet slipped and they went down onto their elb...
01/13/2018 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee was using a poking bar to poke the frozen chunks down in the feeder, on a forward stroke the employee caught the ring finger on left hand on the middle bar of the hand rail pinching finge...
05/24/2017 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 8d lost Employee was walking past the tail end of 13 belt when ee saw the sample port door was open. EE stepped up on the platform to close the door. After the door was closed ee stepped off the platform and...
01/25/2017 HANDLING OF MATERIALS INJURIES INVOLVNG NONEMPLOYEES None Transporter was in the process of loading CKD into trailer pup tanker using a manually operated valve when an unexpected surge of material forced the valve open causing hand to impact an adjacent valv...
01/19/2017 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Clearing debris from conveyor belt. A chunk fell off and pushed employee's knee into a guardrail. Bruised the knee
09/11/2016 NONPOWERED HAULAGE DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 26d lost, 137d restricted PA was positioning the portable kiln shell cooling fan. The PA grabbed the tongue of the trailer & began to spin the fan on the wheeled jack stand. The jack locking pin came out & the jack folded towa...
08/05/2016 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Electrician walking between the back wall of the raw grind & a collector. In EE's path was a manhole covered with a circular cover constructed from expanded metal grating. When EE stepped on the cover...
05/12/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee got cement dust in left eye which became irritated.
05/09/2016 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None There were 2 crews of 2 welding the ring on the shell at the same time. The affected EE was wearing a welding PAPR while EE was welding, but had the shield up while EE did the fitting work. As EE fitt...
02/06/2016 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Assisting in driving shims: hand & hammer slipped off shim - collar on shim driver hit finger & drove it into shim.
01/26/2016 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employees were removing a coupling from a reducer shaft. As the coupling was being heated with a gas torch, a puller was being used to apply hydraulic pressure to the coupling. A piece of the coupling...
07/23/2015 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was holding/watching porta power for pushing the shrink disk on reducer. Lafarge employee pushed a button as the employee turned back and it caused the porta power to jump and strike him in t...
04/13/2015 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was trying to lift plate to put sticker under, when pry bar slipped. Piece fell off bar and pinched his finger.
12/23/2014 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was holding sheet up for another employee to drill. Other employee dropped his drill hitting injured employee on the hard hat and mouth.
12/18/2014 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Contractor cut his right thigh approximately 8 inches above the knee while cutting end off of conveyor belt
12/16/2014 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was sizing piece of 3/8 hard plate w/ hydraulic shear. The employee pushed piece into the shear to position it then operated the foot control while stabilizing the piece with his hand. When t...
08/25/2014 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 30d restricted While knocking down a pile of clinker, a large piece fell and hit employees ankle.
07/23/2014 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was installing feeder chain into the #2 Samson Feeder and it bunched up near the tail sprocket. Employee then grabbed the chain to pull the bunched up chain rearward away from the sprocket....
06/24/2014 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 59d lost, 11d restricted Parts were being off loaded from the service truck by both employee's. Employee stepped on a rock and fell. Part fell from hands of employee hitting the leg which resulted in the broken bone.
05/29/2014 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 11d restricted Injured employee was climbing into a bobcat and injured his knee.
05/12/2014 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON INJURIES INVOLVNG NONEMPLOYEES None A group of students were listening to a Lafarge presenter when a student fainted, collapsing and hitting her chin on the floor. She regained consciousness after a few seconds. Due to her fall, she had...
04/11/2014 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Work partner pulled pipe out of tank, hit a beam. When this happened injured employee looked up and got dust particles in his left eye. Eye protection was being warn. (Corneal Abrasion).
12/13/2013 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was balancing kiln ID fan. He had welded a balance weight to the side of the fan wheel and was wire wheeling the slag off his weld with a 4"" grinder when it came in contact with the edge of...
09/10/2013 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 18d restricted Drilling hole thru diamond plated decking, Drill bit caught as it was penetrating deck and spun the drill body twisting employee's right ring finger.
08/18/2013 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 101d restricted Pushing and pulling air lance to clear plastics line.
02/19/2013 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None Devere Const was removing transformer for Alpena Power Co on the Lafarge site. While cutting the north side a fire started. At apprx 4:55P Devere contacted Lafarge Control reporting a fire. The Alpena...
09/15/2012 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None Power Outage causing LSI belt to stop. Gate Valve failed to close which caused the LSI belt to start on fire from the heat from the Kiln.
06/11/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee grabbed a passenger elevator door with his right hand and pulled the door closed, inadvertently slamming the door shut on his left middle finger. Middle finger required stitches.
04/23/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 1d restricted Lifting trash can contents into dumpster.
01/02/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was exiting raw grind building when he slipped and fell twisting his ankle. On 1-16-12 employee went to the doctors and found he fractured his leg.
02/22/2011 NONPOWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using a non-powered wheelbarrow to remove material from 10-032 belt drive house. While exiting drive house, wheelbarrow rolled back and caught his pinky on his left hand between the concr...
01/11/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was walking past the SW side of Feed silo #2 to take a routine boiler water sample when he slipped and fell. Employee was taken for X-Rays where it was determined that he had single broken ri...
12/08/2010 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was opening slide gate on bottom of cement silo #3 storage. A steel bar is used as a cantilever. Bar slipped off gate and pinched finger against top of silo feeder. Employee cut the end of mi...
07/17/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 239d lost While lifting up a 20' 2X6 to be nailed, he felt his shoulder pop
06/15/2010 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 8d restricted Employee was dislodging chunk from feeder. There is a cross bar on the feeder and employee was using this as leverage. The poker slipped off and at the same time his feet slipped causing left arm trip...
01/21/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted While installing a saddle on drag line-lowering saddle to floor caught his finger under the saddle causing a laceration to left finger.
11/18/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None #75 screw was plugged. To unplug crew was planning to dump screw. As we were trying to restart screw dust silo above flushed through the restart screw. To stop flush we were attempting to close a quic...
11/13/2009 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Our technician was tightening a bolt on a torque head convertor. The wrench slipped off the bolt and he hit his hand on the convertor cover cutting the middle finger on his left hand.
11/13/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted The hopper door was opened by an employee. The injuried employee had a piece of plywood he was going to prop the door open. Employee was going to go up the ladder when he looked up and dust fell. The...
07/29/2009 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee welding on overhead collector pipe in raw grind. Felt burn near right eye. Took off mask and wiped spark away, washed eye with saline. Incident reported to supervisor. Days later eye became...
07/22/2009 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Mobile mechanic was installing new handrails on portable steps. While he was tightening bottom support on handrail, the wrench slipped off bolt causing his hand to come back, striking chin. This caus...
02/10/2009 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 54d lost 2 guys were using 15 ton hydraulic pin pusher to remove WH78 drag chain. The injured was holding a hammer handle and the other millwright was applying pressure with the manual hydraulic pump. Replacea...
06/05/2008 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was driving mill liner out of finish mill. He struck liner with hammer & felt something twinge just below his knee on inside of left leg.He noticed a sliver was gone from liner, looked down,& saw...
04/24/2008 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using cutting torch when wind shifted and a spark flew up into his left ear, causing burn. At that time, employee shut off cutting torch and flushed ear with water. Incident reported to s...
02/03/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Inspecting iron ore tank, removed door of discharge chute. Placed door back on brackets, then reached down to retrieve keeper bar. Not aware door was not fully hooked on upper framework. Door came lo...
12/25/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was replacing a quick opening door in Raw Grind. Door slipped pinching his right thumb between door and door frame. Stitches required to close wound.
10/26/2007 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was welding on quarry drill when he felt a flash in his right eye while striking a welding arc. He notified his supervisor and applied eye drops for flash. A couple of days later eye was st...
10/15/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was working with another employee changing out tires on Bobcat loader. Lug nuts were removed on right front wheel. Fellow employee left to retrieve another tool. Employee proceeded to remove...
10/05/2007 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was on inspection walking down stairs to K19 clinker cooler drag tunnel when he stepped on 18"" of hot kiln feed dust. He immediately removed boot and sock and found top layer of skin above h...
08/16/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 11d lost, 28d restricted Employee was performing inspection on 11061 conveyor belt in tunnel. There was a roller not working and his hand got drawn into conveyor. Employee received cuts to back of his left hand from wrist are...