GRAYMONT (PA) INC. PLEASANT GAP — Accidents
Total: 259 accidents | Fatalities: 1
| Date | Classification | Injury | Days Lost | Narrative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/07/2018 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee removing sensor from transmission using prybar. Prybar slipped, employee hit hand, resulting in laceration on finger. |
| 06/11/2018 | MACHINERY | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 3d lost, 145d restricted | Employee was welding grating down and was bent over when employee twisted employee's back causing pain in lower back |
| 05/31/2018 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was using 2 hammers to drive rail anchors into railroad track. When employee struck the hammers together a shard of steel came off and pierced right leg below the knee. |
| 05/09/2018 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 3d restricted | Employee working in 24E @ 37S, tripped over rock and hit shin on another rock. Employee worked next two days without issue. On Monday 5/14 employee asked for doc. apt to have evaluated. Injury evaluat... |
| 04/15/2018 | FALL OF ROOF OR BACK | ACCIDENT ONLY | None | Shot crosscut into intersection at 10:00 pm 4/13 at shift end. Fall happened sometime between 10:00 pm on 4/13 and 8:50 am on 4/15 when first signs of a possible fall were discovered, confirmed by for... |
| 03/11/2018 | FIRE | ACCIDENT ONLY | None | Kiln 7 was starting up and just began to produce lime. The hot lime coming out of cooler ignited belt. Belt was burned, wire were burned, and rollers were destroyed. |
| 02/02/2018 | POWERED HAULAGE | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 15d restricted | The employee was driving haul truck in underground mine and ran over rock on road. Reported tightness in upper back but thought EE was OK. EE later requested a medical evaluation. EE was see on 2/9, a... |
| 01/29/2018 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 2d lost, 11d restricted | Employee bent over to tighten hose clamp. When ee stood up ee felt pain in back. |
| 12/05/2017 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 49d lost, 161d restricted | Occurred on 3rd shift (10:00pm-6:00am). Employee changing screens in the METSO screen, pulling on a screen, felt a pain in shoulder. Diagnosed with tendinitis on 12/8, permitted to return to work, and... |
| 10/23/2017 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 10d restricted | Employee was raking coating from Kiln #6. EE used a long metal rake. EE shoulder felt sore, ee reported it to supervisor on 10/24/2017, but did not want to seek medical care. EE thought it was just so... |
| 08/09/2017 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Cleaning out dust clogged dust collector, air fired on collector and pushed air out cleaning port, hit employee in face. Lime burns in eye. |
| 06/20/2017 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 26d restricted | Employee on bed of pick up truck picking up empty paint cans. When employee attempted to exit bed of truck, EE elected to step off on the tire side, as opposed to back. The back had a step provided b... |
| 02/02/2017 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 2d lost, 5d restricted | Inserting cable bolts into drill holes on day shift working from a JLG man basket. This required the employee to reach away from EE's body while pushing the bolt into the drill hole. After installing... |
| 01/04/2017 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee retrieving sample bucket from K8 rail car load out. Lime collected in corrugated tube. Employee pulled bucket off stand, the tube flew up in the air, lime in the bend of the tube, in corrugat... |
| 08/30/2016 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was loading a pneumatic tank in the pebble loading area. EE pinched right thumb with the bar that is used to close lids. EE was given 4 stitches. |
| 08/12/2016 | DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS) | OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 | None | Temperatures were very high and the humidity was very high. The employee was loading trailers and was overcome by the heat. EE suffered from heat exhaustion. |
| 07/22/2016 | MACHINERY | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 9d restricted | Installing the a burner pipe on Kiln 7, a tab needed cut off the pipe seal ring. Employee used 4 1/2 in grinder with a .042 cutting wheel to cut tab off. Grinder started to bounce, employee stopped. E... |
| 07/13/2016 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 3d lost | Loading hydrate for transfer. Loaded 32000 pounds. Vibrated the shoot several times to remove lime from shoot. Lifted the shoot out of the trailer and walked back along the trailer to close the lid... |
| 06/16/2016 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 11d restricted | Employee loading drilled holes in the face. This involves using a hose to inject emulsion into the holes. The employee was pulling the hose from one hole to the next. It was caught on a rock on the mi... |
| 03/01/2016 | POWERED HAULAGE | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Operating mechanical scaling equipment, an enclosed can. Mechanical scaler, scaling the wall, pulled rock off the wall, shook the cab of equipment. Employee was wearing seatbelt, jerked EE's body and... |
| 01/06/2016 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was grinding and welding all day and noticed EE had something in EE's eye when EE got home. EE tried flushing the eye at home. Reported injury the next day. Tried flushing on site, went to l... |
| 12/27/2015 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 1d lost, 3d restricted | Employee over stepped the first step and fell down four steps. |
| 12/14/2015 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 7d lost | It was raining. The employee slipped on wet lime. This caused him to fall to the ground. He was checked out at the hospital. He has an inflammation in his back. |
| 11/19/2015 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was walking to office and slipped on wet pavement which had lime dust spillage and injured his knee. |
| 10/20/2015 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 40d lost, 67d restricted | Employee felt sharp pain in right shoulder when his scaling bar slipped. |
| 10/16/2015 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 4d restricted | Employee had just come down from the scaffolding and was standing on the 5th floor of the kiln when he turned to stop and twisted his ankle. |
| 10/02/2015 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was drilling a flange when the drill twisted his finger causing a fracture. |
| 09/28/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 2d lost, 8d restricted | Employee alleged a back injury on 9/28/15. Injury was not reported until 10/1/15 when the EE requested medical treatment. EE was diagnosed with a back strain and placed on restrictions on 10/1/15. |
| 08/17/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was tightening bolts overhead with an impact wrench. Debris fell behind his safety glasses and entered his eye causing an irritation. |
| 07/07/2015 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | After cutting a groove in a yellow mine pipe, the employee wiped his eye with his hand and felt something in his left eye. |
| 06/24/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 6d restricted | Individual was bending wires and sprained his right shoulder. The individual was placing 500 mcm wires into a disconnect and bending them to fit into the disconnect. They were working with a partner a... |
| 06/15/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 9d restricted | Removing wood block from metal stand used to hold new burner pipe. Moved block, stand fell, impact foot behind steel toe. RT Foot Contusion, work with minimal ambulation. Required several moves to cle... |
| 05/27/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 1d lost | Employee was getting off truck and walking to shanty when he noticed a pain in his right knee |
| 05/27/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 3d lost | Employee struck on left leg by falling steel. employee received contusion to left calf. employee taken off work until follow-up with doctor. |
| 05/05/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee removing sheet metal from shipping container when he cut his finger on sharp edge. Employee was wearing gloves. |
| 04/07/2015 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee loosened bolt two turns when he was told to wait to do clean up, the metal clamp on the guard broke causing the guard to pin his leg against the skid steer. Bolt punctured skin on right calf. |
| 04/01/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | While doing maintenance work the employee accidentally hit the dust collection pipe above where he was working, which caused dust to fall between his safety glasses and face, into his eye. |
| 01/16/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Possibly due to fact employee had stretched prescription safety glasses, which slid down on his nose, not covering top of eyes. (issue not reported until employee left work site) |
| 12/09/2014 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 35d lost | While employee was hand scaling and baring the loose roof he felt something give in his side. |
| 12/08/2014 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 28d lost, 344d restricted | Employee was moving an I-Beam with another employee when he felt a strain in his back. He immediately reported incident and continued to work. employee reported back to work on 12/15 and stated his... |
| 11/25/2014 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Injured back pulling up broken shock on catwalk at mine. On 12/8/14, he made a delivery. Reported the injury from lifting a hose to his supervisor on 12/9/14. He did not indicate that he initially inj... |
| 11/24/2014 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee cut his little finger on a sharp metal edge of a light fixture. |
| 11/12/2014 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Parked lift, stepped out onto rock and rolled left angle. |
| 03/20/2014 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 45d lost, 85d restricted | Employee was climbing down from a piece of equipment and his foot missed a step and as he fell he strained his right shoulder. |
| 11/27/2013 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 36d lost | The employee slipped on ice and fell twisting his leg. |
| 11/14/2013 | OTHER | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 9d lost | Employee bent over to pick up a switch and could not stand back up. |
| 10/21/2013 | POWERED HAULAGE | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 789d lost | The haul truck the employee was driving overturned and came to a rest on the passenger side |
| 10/02/2013 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was decending from ladder and his foot slid down bottom two rungs and twisted his knee when his foot hit the floor |
| 07/08/2013 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Was cutting zip tie from hose reel to be installed and cutting blade slipped and cut right index finger requiring stitches. |
| 04/15/2013 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was tightening a fitting on water pump of roof bolter when wrench slipped hitting left thumb |