Meshoppen Stone Inc — Accidents

Total: 20 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
07/10/2013 FIRE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 21d restricted Employee was burning garbage in the burn pit when he used gasoline to get the fire going. The fuel was laying on a piece of plastic and when he picked it up to throw it in the fire it came back burni...
01/31/2011 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 19d lost, 44d restricted The employee was holding the front edge of a 1x2x1 stone on the snap veneer machine. When the teeth snapped the stone the stone jumped and threw employee's hand into the teeth as it was continuing do...
07/24/2008 POWERED HAULAGE PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY 30d lost, 32d restricted Employee tried to dislodge stone from conveyor while machine was running. Lost part of her pinkie finger.
02/11/2008 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 25d lost, 29d restricted Employee was resting his hand on the edge of the tumbler, stone came out and broke his finger. Did not notify company until 2/25/08 when he wanted to go to the doctor.
01/11/2008 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 15d lost, 5d restricted Employee was chiseling stone, hit chisel and a piece of metal flew off and lodged in his left hand which was down at his side.
04/30/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 29d lost Employee was kneeling down chiseling end of stone cube when his upper left arm was pinched between the two stone cubes.
04/03/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 36d restricted Employee was picking up an 8""x8'x2"" thick tread with another employee to place on the tread saw. The piece had to be flipped over and in the process of flipping it the other employee dropped his en...
12/04/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 11d lost Employee was disassembling and moving metal framed building. He turned to move away from the frame to lay it down. Fell to the ground in pain.
11/07/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 6d lost, 24d restricted Two employees were moving stone from pallet. When they lifted stone, several other stones that were on the pallet fell hitting one employee's left thumb.
05/24/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Employee was moving the top piece of stone on a pallet to center it (it looked to him like it was going to fall). When he moved it, his thumb was pinched between the top piece of stone and the stone...
04/07/2006 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 7d lost, 5d restricted EE was using recut saw to cut veneer corners. After making the first cut, he turned the stone and pushed against the blade to make the cut.The stone broke and his hand continued foward into the blade.
02/01/2006 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 22d lost, 10d restricted Employee was operating a recut saw at a table. He was resting his right hand on the table when he moved the bar that pushes the stone. He pinched the middle finger of his right hand between the bar...
05/07/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 12d restricted Employee was helping to load pallets of stone on flatbed. He placed his hand on the trailer while bending down to fix his shoe. A 2nd employee set a pallet of stone on his hand. When he felt the pa...
11/24/2004 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 10d restricted Employee was thermalling edges of 2x3 stone. The stones were standing on edge and they fell and hit his right knee inside lacerating his right leg beside the knee.
10/19/2004 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 23d restricted Employee was pulling stone across saw table onto rollers and caught his thumb between the stone and the guide rail which resulted in a laceration of his thumb on his right hand. The employee received...
06/03/2004 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 3d lost, 62d restricted Employee was carrying a tread, tripped on the forklift forks and fell backwards. The tread fell on his ring finger.
09/27/2003 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 7d lost, 10d restricted EE WAS WALKING ON RAILS OF TRAILER STRAPPING LOAD WHEN HE FELL OFF THE TRAILER LANDING ON THEGROUND.
08/30/2003 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 6d lost, 5d restricted WAS MOVING LIQUID OXYGEN CYLINDER AWAY FROM WORK STATION BY TILTING AND ROLLING. THE BOTTOM OF THE TANK HUNG UP ON A ROCK AND KICKED OUT COMING DOWN ON LEFT LEG LEAVING A LACERATION ON LOWER L EG.
06/18/2002 EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 16d lost SMALL CRACK IN HOSE TO TORCH CAUSED TORCH TO EXPLODE BURNING EMPLOYEE IN STOMACH. IMMEDIATELY EXTINGUISHED.
05/03/2002 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE WAS SLIDING A PIECE OF STONE & TORE MUSCLE IN RIGHT ELBOW.