Cedar Ridge Stone Quarry — Accidents
Total: 105 accidents | Fatalities: 0
| Date | Classification | Injury | Days Lost | Narrative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07/01/2025 | MACHINERY | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 35d restricted | Employee was turning a rock on the turn table when the rock rolled over smashing their fingers |
| 10/22/2024 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 5d restricted | Went to grab a piece of rock and another piece fell on EE's hand. |
| 06/18/2024 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 8d restricted | Splitting rock. Material broke and tried to catch falling rock. ended up pinching hand in between 2 rocks. |
| 06/03/2024 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 16d restricted | EE was moving a rock on the splitter when the material broke smashing EE's hand. |
| 04/12/2024 | OTHER | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Working splitter and wind blew through overhead door blowing foreign object into associate's eye. |
| 03/19/2024 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 6d restricted | Was Racking a rock off incline of the thin veneer saw and rock rolled onto a finger. |
| 03/14/2024 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 11d restricted | Pulling on a rock to get it ready to split in the splitter. Employee said employee heard a tear in the shoulder area. |
| 01/02/2024 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 10d restricted | Clean out plate flipped up smashing finger between plate and chisel. |
| 10/16/2023 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was building pallets in back of fabrication shop. When nailing pieces of wood together with nail gun, nail did not go into wood like planned. Instead it bounced off wood and recoiled the nail... |
| 07/14/2023 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Was moving a stone with crowbar. It slipped out from under stone and the edge of the stone landed on the edge of employees hand. EE went to hospital after work but finished working the rest of the day... |
| 04/07/2023 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 7d restricted | Trying to start a fire in the woodstove, resulted in a burn on left hand. |
| 03/28/2023 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Stacking rock when the rock slid smashing left index finger between 2 rocks. |
| 02/07/2023 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 3d lost, 25d restricted | Pulling a rock onto the loader table. The rock slid smashing employees finger between 2 rocks. |
| 12/08/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 21d lost | Rolling Rock forward on table smashing thumb between 2 rocks. |
| 12/07/2022 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Using Rock Splitter, Piece of Rock shot out from splitter and hit employee in the stomach. |
| 10/21/2022 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | When chipping a rock, a chip of rock came off hitting EE's left forearm |
| 09/12/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Picking up rock and another rock fell over smashing finger. |
| 07/21/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Piece of rock fell off top layer and landed on EE's hand between another rock. |
| 07/20/2022 | MACHINERY | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 11d restricted | Employee was running tumbler and rock went into bucket. Rock tipped over onto employees foot in front of steel toe where laces are. |
| 07/14/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 17d restricted | Leaning over the belt to pick a rock up and the employee felt something pop in the back of the knee. |
| 07/14/2022 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 1d restricted | When sweeping the floor, employee bumped finger on a metal dumpster. |
| 06/21/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee had a piece of rock fall off pallet and hit EE in the back of EE's leg by EE's Achilles tendon. EE and another EE were working together. Other EE tried to give warning and stop rock from fall... |
| 04/05/2022 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Using a sledge hammer and the handle cracked, cutting the right hand. |
| 02/11/2022 | POWERED HAULAGE | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 40d lost | Operator of loader was taking slab of stone off conveyor. Slab shifted on forks, fell off of forks, hit the guard rail. Guard rail fell off and hit operator's foot. |
| 02/07/2022 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Was walking to EE's car at breaktime. Stepped on black ice, slipped and fell on EE's back. |
| 01/05/2022 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Had hand sitting by belt guard. Belt grabbed EE's left hand and pulled it under roller of the splitter. |
| 11/01/2021 | MACHINERY | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 5d restricted | Splitting slabs of rock - got hand caught under splitter |
| 10/26/2021 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was rolling rock on the splitter and the rock fell off the side of the splitter and hit EE's foot. |
| 08/03/2021 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Use hand held grinder on stone - saw kicked back and cut EE's hand. |
| 06/08/2021 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 3d restricted | Standard laboring - stacking rock |
| 01/27/2021 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Using ratchet strap that recoiled when releasing. |
| 10/23/2020 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | EE was using a hammer to correct the stone shape while holding veneer with left hand. While striking with the hammer, EE hit left thumb. |
| 05/21/2020 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 5d lost, 1d restricted | Employee was stacking rock and twisted the wrong way and felt pain. |
| 04/29/2020 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 18d lost | Slipped on floor that had a small amount of water, near our incline conveyor that exits waste, due to rain. Hurt EE's left knee |
| 07/25/2019 | MACHINERY | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 1d lost | EE smashed hand while operating splitter. EE was standing by the splitter afterwards and was very quiet. EE went to step away from the machine and lost consciousness from pain in hand - EE then struc... |
| 07/11/2019 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 1d lost, 14d restricted | Chipping stone with a hammer and accidentally smashed EE's fingers between hammer and stone |
| 06/19/2019 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 120d lost | Employee was picking up small waste rock from floor. |
| 04/01/2019 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Slipped walking down steps into quarry. All weight shifted onto one leg at an awkward angle. |
| 03/26/2019 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was stacking rock coming off one conveyor to another. EE right hand got caught between roller guard and belt |
| 07/17/2018 | MACHINERY | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 3d lost | Rock broke and smashed employees hand between 2 rocks on Splitter. |
| 03/08/2018 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 84d lost | Stacking stone and lower back popped |
| 12/28/2017 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Stacking rocks in pallet and pinched finger between two stones. |
| 11/09/2017 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 80d lost | Employee stated that employee grabbed a rock off of the conveyor belt, turn to palatalize the rock and as employee did, employee heard employee's knee pop. Employee's knee/leg then gave out and emplo... |
| 08/14/2017 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 63d lost, 10d restricted | A block of stone was cut into slabs on our MEM Saw. We flipped the block to cut the back side lips off and then re-loaded it onto the beams to be cut again. EE was lining up the wire for the cut, the... |
| 08/02/2016 | MACHINERY | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 21d restricted | Miner was splitting a rock and EE's left index finger was caught between the rock and a porn of the splitter. The finger was treated at the local walk in clinic without significant damage done to the... |
| 12/21/2015 | OTHER | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 9d restricted | Employee bent over the wire basket to pick up a piece of veneer and when he did, he had a pain go through his lower back. |
| 05/06/2015 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Supervisor was pulling pin out of guide, that was used as an anchor. Pin was tight causing it to go air born when free. When pin came down it struck employee on the top of his head causing a slight... |
| 11/11/2014 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Operator was stacking stone veneer when he felt pain in his right leg, lower right back and upper left back. |
| 09/04/2014 | POWERED HAULAGE | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Foreign object flew into right eye while operator was driving a John Deere loader. |
| 01/29/2014 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 2d lost, 30d restricted | closing metal cover on motor enclosure and caught left ring finger between cover and frame mashing the tip |