LOCUST POINT QUARRY — Accidents
Total: 54 accidents | Fatalities: 0
| Date | Classification | Injury | Days Lost | Narrative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27/2023 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | EE was using a utility knife, removing strips of belting that was wrapped around a tail pulley. They put a new blade in the knife, and they didn't think it would go through as easy as it did. When the... |
| 05/25/2022 | DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) | OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 | None | EE has suffered a standard threshold shift in hearing compared to EE's baseline. EE has been retrained on the proper use of hearing protection and has also went over the hearing conservation plan with... |
| 05/25/2022 | DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) | OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 | None | EE has suffered a standard threshold shift in hearing compared to their baseline. EE has been retrained on the proper use of hearing protection and has also went over the hearing conservation plan wit... |
| 05/25/2022 | DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) | OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 | None | The EE has suffered a standard threshold shift in hearing compared to their baseline. EE has been retrained on the proper use of hearing protection and has also went over the hearing conservation plan... |
| 12/03/2020 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 5d restricted | Employee was repairing a waste pump. While lifting a shaft employee hurt right shoulder |
| 08/23/2019 | POWERED HAULAGE | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 9d restricted | Employee was sitting in haul truck and another employee backed into the truck. |
| 05/29/2019 | MACHINERY | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 26d restricted | Employee had rock fall onto left foot. |
| 04/06/2019 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 5d restricted | EE was closing the gate at the enrance of the mine. EE cut hand on the Latch of the gate. |
| 09/25/2018 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Clogged crusher. |
| 08/10/2018 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 6d restricted | EE was closing a gate and felt pressure in EE's stomach area. EE looked and found that EE's abdomen had a buldge |
| 08/09/2018 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 32d restricted | Walked on the Scale to talk to operator and fell walking off of the scale. |
| 07/18/2017 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 43d restricted | Employee was struck on the left side of the head with stone or dirt. |
| 04/07/2016 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 28d lost, 24d restricted | Employee was climbing up into an articulated haul truck. The employee slipped and started to fall. EE's L. Leg caught between the rungs of the access ladder and the employee fell and EE's left leg sta... |
| 09/30/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was installing drive belts on the crusher and bruised right ring finger between sheave and drive belt. |
| 09/11/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 3d restricted | Lifting pipe cover off test tubes and strained a back muscle. |
| 06/22/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Pressure washer used to wash haul trucks. |
| 06/16/2015 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 22d lost, 37d restricted | While climbing down the ladder of a haul truck,employee's foot got stuck between ladder rungs causing the employee to fall. As a result, employee sprained/strained her left knee. |
| 04/28/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Something got in employee's eye. |
| 03/19/2015 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 18d restricted | Employee was in the process of tightening a conveyor belt with a come-along when the chain being used broke and struck the employee's left wrist. |
| 09/02/2014 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 6d restricted | Employee closed his pickup truck car door on hand causing contusion and lacerations to hand and fingers. |
| 07/10/2014 | POWERED HAULAGE | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 98d restricted | Employee was operating truck and drove on to berm hurting lower back. |
| 03/14/2014 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee is a mechanic, while working on equipment place a large metal bar on the control panel. Employee turned and attempted to catch bar as it fell from the control panel causing his palm of hand t... |
| 01/14/2014 | STRIKING OR BUMPING | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 3d restricted | Employee was exiting a CAT 980 front end loader. His right elbow struck the upright of the ROPS. |
| 12/17/2013 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 19d restricted | Employee was lifting the side cutter for an excavator bucket and experienced a thoracic sprain. |
| 09/26/2013 | POWERED HAULAGE | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 1d restricted | Employee was driving a haul truck and after loaded with oversized rock, the front of the haul truck lifted off the ground and back to the ground. This caused the employee to have lower back pain. |
| 04/26/2013 | ELECTRICAL | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 116d lost | EE was wiring conveyor #11 starter which was locked out. This starter was directly above a 100 amp 480 volt 3 phase disconnect for conveyor #12 hoist and travel. This disconnect was energized on the l... |
| 09/20/2012 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 2d restricted | Employee was shoveling off a belt, a rock fell from above hitting the employee in the lower back. Employee was wearing all required PPE and no lost time resulted from the injury. |
| 07/03/2012 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 1d lost | Employee was exiting a articulated Volvo haul truck and mis-stepped on the ladder. The employee suffered contusions to the L. elbow & shoulder. A potential fracture to the L. elbow is possible, pendin... |
| 05/22/2012 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 43d restricted | Employee cut right elbow on a piece of steel while doing maintenance work on a rock crusher. The employee needed to have 3 or 4 stitches to the laceration. The employee was released to return to work... |
| 06/06/2011 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 40d lost, 27d restricted | Employee was exiting a front end loader and slipped on the last step next to ground level. |
| 04/28/2011 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | The injured employee was standing on a pile of R-6 rocks at the North hole sump. The rocks slid and the employee fell down on the pile of rocks and into the water. |
| 01/21/2011 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 4d lost, 30d restricted | While performing mechanical work on a John Deere 800 hoe, the employee fell landing on his tail bone, resulting in a sprain. |
| 09/30/2010 | POWERED HAULAGE | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 20d lost, 47d restricted | A rock came off conveyor belt #4 and struck employee on the left hand. |
| 09/08/2010 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was using a hand operated cable hoist to hoist an electric motor into place for installation. |
| 02/25/2010 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 31d restricted | When the employee got injured, he was sanding a shaft to a tail pulley of a conveyor belt. The employee had the shaft proped up about two inches off the floor to sand the shaft. The shaft slipped off... |
| 09/10/2009 | POWERED HAULAGE | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 2d restricted | EE was shoveling at #16 conveyor tail pulley and a rock from the overhead location fell and struck him behind the right ear.EE received 3 sutures. |
| 07/07/2009 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Lost footing and fell face first into a backhoe bucket. |
| 10/11/2008 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was using a utility knife, it slipped while cutting a hose and struck his finger on left hand, causing a laceration. |
| 09/22/2008 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was using a hand grinder. |
| 09/18/2008 | ELECTRICAL | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was starting conveyor and moving stacker #12. No electric was noticed by employee, since the stacker did not move. The employee then grabbed the electric supply line to the stacker and an arc... |
| 08/08/2008 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Tried to turn rotor in 43x40 crusher; right foot got caught between field plate and breaker bar. |
| 07/24/2008 | FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 1d lost, 5d restricted | Employee was leaning over a water pump and a rock from an adjacent shaker or conveyor struck the employee's neck. The employee noticed loss of feeling in both arms and was transported to hospital by a... |
| 09/22/2007 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 3d lost, 12d restricted | Using pipe wrench to adjust bolts which slipped off bolt causing him to lose balance. He fell off shaker onto ground below because he did not use fall protection equipment. |
| 06/01/2007 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | None | Injured employee was standing on top of a tail pulley guard servicing an adjacent conveyor when he slipped. He attempted to catch himself with his right hand, when his hand wedged between a guard and... |
| 02/21/2007 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 12d lost | EE was cleaning build-up of frozen material from underside of conveyor belt, when it let loose and fell against his leg. |
| 07/15/2004 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 10d lost | He claims he jumped off #2 stacker & twisted his back- No witness- He admits he hurt his back after work while working on a friend's auto- Did not report ""off"" for work until we called him & ordered... |
| 05/10/2004 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Shoveling under belt and lifted screen guard, guard fell back into his leg causing laceration. |
| 01/07/2003 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 14d restricted | WHILE WORKING ON CONVEYOR HEAD PULLEY, IT SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HANDS & FELL ONTO HIS LOWER LEG AREA. |
| 07/29/2002 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 1d lost | WHILE WALKING ON EMBANKMENT, MATERIAL GAVE WAY & HE TWISTED HIS KNEE WHILE REGAINING HIS BALANCE. |
| 04/23/2002 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 7d restricted | WHILE SHOVELING UNDER CONVEYOR, HE STEPPED BACKWARD ONTO UNEVEN SURFACE & TWISTED KNEE. |