ASBURY PLANT — Accidents
Total: 66 accidents | Fatalities: 0
| Date | Classification | Injury | Days Lost | Narrative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/12/2026 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | None | Employee had to stretch to get a plastic cover over a super-sack; in doing so, the employee slipped and fell. Upon impact, the employee's left thumb was jammed into the side of the pallet. The employe... |
| 06/23/2025 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 44d restricted | On 06/23/2025, a 54-year-old employee with 7 years of mining experience was working in the mill near screen 2 packing off bags of finished material When picking up a bag to place it on the pallet, EE... |
| 06/10/2025 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | ALL OTHER CASES (INCL 1ST AID) | None | While feeding material into a material bin with a feed screw. the employee used a shovel handle to push the material into the feeding screw. The feed screw grabbed the handle and the handle hit the em... |
| 04/14/2025 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 84d lost, 2d restricted | Employee was packaging 50lb bags only 2-3 bags, happened at beginning of shift. Employee stacking height was 4.5 feet. Employee stated EE was swinging bag into place on the pallet. |
| 07/22/2024 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 45d restricted | At roughly 4:30pm on July 22nd, 2024, an employee with a little over 6 years of mining experience tripped on the 2nd step as the EE was ascending the stairs in Shed 8. EE fell on the stairs injuring k... |
| 05/29/2024 | MACHINERY | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 2d lost | Operator was feeding raw material into a feed bin when a small granular piece of graphite flung out of the feed bin striking the operator in the eye. The operator was wearing prescription glasses at t... |
| 08/01/2023 | DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) | OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 | None | After annual audiogram testing,1 employee had a reportable hearing loss in their left ear.I reviewed the Hearing Conservation Program,retrained,refitted and offered further evaluation-the employee not... |
| 06/01/2023 | MACHINERY | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 1d lost | Employee was operating a stretch wrap machine when the material they were wrapping became unbalanced toppling over and pinning the employee against a nearby railing. Employee requested medical attenti... |
| 04/15/2023 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 4d lost | Employee was changing socks on a dust collector, during the process excess graphite built up on employees hard hat. While exiting the job, dust broke free from hardhat and entered employees left eye.... |
| 02/09/2023 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 2d lost | A maintenance employee was working on Roller Mill parts in the maintenance shop. The employee flipped over a cross member and caught their thumb between the nut on the cross member and the end of the... |
| 09/01/2022 | MACHINERY | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 20d lost, 6d restricted | Employee placed a pallet of material on stretch wrapping machine off centered. As the pallet rotated around the wrapping machine it grazed the top of the employees foot due to overhanging the wrapping... |
| 05/15/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 60d lost, 15d restricted | Employee was mounting and dismounting a forklift to perform normal tasks throughout the shift. The repetitive motion of getting on and off the forklift caused an assumed sprain in the employees right... |
| 01/13/2022 | POWERED HAULAGE | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 65d lost | Employee was driving a forklift with their forks lowered to ground level when they struck a raised section of flooring. The forklift came to halt which cause whiplash type injuries. Employee was weari... |
| 12/02/2021 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 46d restricted | Employee was pushing a 55 gallon drum of graphite off the fork of a forklift to discard the drum into a hopper. While pushing the drum, it tipped backwards which pinched EE's finger between the drum a... |
| 08/02/2021 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 31d lost | Employee was walking from the lab back to production where they slipped on a rock that was on the pavement. This caused them to slip and fall, employee rolled/sprained an ankle. |
| 05/24/2021 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 12d lost, 9d restricted | Employee was stretching a bungee cord while securing a super sack to a discharge chute when they felt a pain in their back. ( reoccurring back injury ) |
| 04/27/2021 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 7d restricted | Employee was descending a staircase when employee slipped near the last step and fell backwards. Employee injured / jarred their lower back. Unspecified injury of muscle, fascia and tendon of lower ba... |
| 10/02/2020 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 8d lost, 22d restricted | Employee slipped and fell near the packing station. Employee broke a rib. The accident was not reported and we were not made aware of this until we received a doctors note on 10/12/2020 pertaining to... |
| 06/02/2020 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 19d lost, 12d restricted | Employee was loading stock into a screening system with a shovel when they felt pain in their back. |
| 02/12/2020 | MACHINERY | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 63d lost | Employee was riding along on a stretch wrapping machine turntable when EE lost footing and wedged foot between a wall and stretch wrapper. This resulted in a fracture in the right foot. |
| 09/05/2019 | DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) | OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 | None | Employee had results of reportable hearing loss in both ears found during our annual physical. Employee will be offered to be sent for a second opinion and be retrained on our hearing conservation pla... |
| 08/05/2019 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 94d restricted | EE struck elbow on a forklift that was parked behind EE when EE lost grip opening the discharge spout on a super sack while filling a machine. |
| 03/15/2019 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 59d lost | Employee slipped and fell while walking. Injury to left side. |
| 11/14/2018 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | None | Employee working in screen 2 area was rearranging empty pallets. EE felt pain in right bicep / elbow. Most likely the injury was a result to shifting the empty pallets. This didn't turn into a lost ti... |
| 09/19/2018 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 7d lost, 1d restricted | Employee working in the packing house stated after continuously palletizing 50lb bags, EE felt pain in the middle of the back. The pain didn't go away and continued for a few days and the pain transfe... |
| 08/20/2018 | DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) | OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 | None | Employee had a result of reportable hearing loss in right ear. This employee was sent for a second opinion which resulted in "" moderate hearing loss"" in right ear. Employee was refitted and retraine... |
| 07/06/2018 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 35d lost | Employee was using a sledge hammer to put 3-4"" anchoring bolts into a concrete floor. While swinging the hammer the employee injured their left shoulder. This resulted In a left shoulder sprain and t... |
| 05/25/2018 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 1d restricted | Employee lifted a 75lb 55 gallon fiber drum of graphite onto a 4"" high scale instead of tipping and rolling the drum onto the scale. As EE lifted the drum 4"" to place on the scale EE pulled the back... |
| 11/04/2016 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 50d lost, 25d restricted | Employee was filling a blender by emptying 200lb fiber drums full of feed stock. This resulted in a back sprain. EE didn't report the accident to me or anyone until 11/10/2016. EE reported it to me be... |
| 06/15/2016 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 55d lost, 87d restricted | Outside yard forklift operator was dismounting forklift and stepped on a 1.5"" rubber ball (debris)(used for tumbler screening) which caused EE to slip and fall injuring shoulder and back. One doctor... |
| 05/05/2016 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 7d lost, 25d restricted | Normal working conditions stacking bags but strained shoulder and had lingering back pain from an old injury I am filing this form pertaining to a part 50 audit (citation 9310797) |
| 03/14/2016 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Production worker was cutting a bulk back and cut right index finger. EE left work early to seek a doctors opinion, they glued finger closed and bandaged it. EE returned to work for the next shift. |
| 02/25/2016 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 5d lost | Worker slipped on a stairwell due to wet and graphite slicked boots from rain and surface dust on staircase. Worker had bruising, pain and mobility issues at the time of accident and requested to see... |
| 06/08/2015 | OTHER | INJURIES DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES | None | Employee had a heart attack |
| 05/26/2015 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 80d lost, 10d restricted | While getting off a forklift he slipped on the graphite and pulled his back. |
| 04/17/2015 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 40d lost | As EE was rebuilding a roller mill EE was pulling the belts on the pulley and slipped falling on a gear box injuring EE's left shoulder I am filing this form pertaining to a part 50 audit (citation 9... |
| 04/17/2015 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 40d lost | A maintenance man was removing a belt from a motor when he lost his grip of the belt and fell on the gear box hurting his left shoulder. |
| 03/25/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 2d lost | Hurt back while stacking bags on a pallet. I am filing this report pertaining to a part 50 audit (citation 9310796) |
| 12/15/2014 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 9d lost | While changing clothes before shift started the employee pulled back out. EE reported the accident then later told workman's compensation that it was not a work related injury and disability pick the... |
| 07/29/2014 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY | 40d lost, 55d restricted | He was working in the packing house and wanted to check the flow of material. He open the bin door and stuck his hand up inside and the rotovalve cut the tip of his left index finger off. |
| 07/29/2014 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY | 40d lost, 57d restricted | EE was working in the packing house and wanted to check the flow of material. EE opened the bin door and stuck hand inside and into the rotor valve and cut the tip of left index finger off. I am filin... |
| 07/23/2014 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 64d lost, 10d restricted | Employee fell in the shower room after he was finished taking a shower. |
| 05/06/2014 | DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) | OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 | None | reporting threshold shift for audiometric testing |
| 04/23/2014 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 3d lost | While stacking bags on a pallet employee pulled back. I am filing this form pertaining to a part 50 audit ( citation 9310799 ). |
| 05/10/2012 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 4d lost, 2d restricted | Employee was changing a motor and the motor fell on his finger cutting the tip and breaking the bone. |
| 08/09/2011 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 2d lost | Employee fell down steps |
| 06/27/2011 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 2d restricted | he was putting bags on a pallet and hurt his left forearm |
| 03/02/2011 | OTHER | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 26d lost, 7d restricted | Injury was unknown thought to be non- work related infection due to a previous non-work related infection. Doctor supplied letter stating that this was a new injury and W.C. excepted the claim. |
| 11/22/2010 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 3d lost | Employee entered the closed guarded area of Blender 1 while the blender was in operation and his clothing was caught on the blender and he was thrown to the ground. He broke his left arm in attemptin... |
| 03/16/2010 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 70d lost | While working on the shipping docks forklift forks, the fork rack came off hitting him in the head and shoulders. |