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