O'Neal Quarry & Mill — Accidents

Total: 154 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
06/11/2014 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While cutting conveyor skirt rubber, the employee punctured himself in the left abdomen with a razor knife.
04/21/2014 OTHER DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted Employee arrived at work and went to his locker to retrieve his boots. As he bent over to put his boots on, he felt a pain in his lower back.
12/06/2013 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost While riding as a passenger in a on-site service truck, the service fuel truck run through a pot hole, causing the miner to hit his head on top of roof.
08/12/2013 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 2d restricted Employee says he slipped off back of fuel truck and landed on his feet wrong, jarring his back.
08/02/2013 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 121d restricted Employee lost control of the waste truck he was driving and jumped from the truck while it was moving backwards. Employee received a sprained right ankle and an abrasion to his right elbow when he jum...
06/08/2013 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None while using a rivet buster to break refractory brick, the brick broke loose, allowing the rivet buster to swing freely. This motion caused the rivet buster to smash employee finger against a scaffold...
05/05/2013 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was attempting to remove a impact socket that was stuck in a nut with a hammer. When the socket start to come free, the employee grabbed the socket and struck in again hitting his finger with...
11/03/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 1d lost, 2d restricted Employee was changing bit on the drill and pinched his right hand with bit. His skin was pinched but he did not require sutures.
09/11/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 44d restricted Injured was pushing an insert back into a control knob with his right pinky. His finger rolled forward causing a injury. Injured saw a doc on 9/12/12. Doc put a splint on finger to protect from impact...
08/30/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While blowing bridged lime from a chute, the employee got lime in his eye.
07/24/2012 DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 3d lost Employee went to the emergency room on his own after his shift was over. He claimed that while working outside he became dehydrated. Employee claims he was experiencing severe muscle cramps, nausea, a...
07/13/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 9d restricted While preparing to walking away from a completed task, the employee turned and injured his knee.
07/02/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee allegedly injured himself on 7/2/2012 and did not report the injury until 7/4/2012. The employee reported that he slipped while descending a incline after completing an environmental inspecti...
05/13/2012 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was attempting to repair an oxygen hose on a cutting torch. while cutting the oxygen hole to splice it, the employee cut his left thigh with the razor knife. The laceration required four stit...
04/27/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 9d restricted Employee was retrieving a material sample from a tanker truck with a sample scoop. When the scoop entered the material stream, it jerked the employee's arm.
04/20/2012 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was attempting to clear a bridged pre-heater ram using a high pressure water jet. When employee started clearing the bridged material, dust and steam blew out of the access port
03/14/2012 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 8d restricted Employee was cleaning up at the Primary Crusher with the Dingo skid steer. The employee slipped and fell while operating the skid steer and the machine pinned him against the cement retaining wall.
02/06/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted Employee was troubleshooting an issue at the tail pulley of the BC-3104 conveyor belt. While removing a back plate on the feed chute, employee twisted his right ankle.
01/15/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 29d restricted While climbing a flight of stairs, the employee stumbled and hurt him left foot. It was determined that the employee had a hair line fracture at his first metatarsal.
12/08/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 79d lost was walking through building. was wet lime on the floor. His left leg slid forward causing pain in the knee. regained footing and assessed that it hurt but he was fine and finished shift. Continued to...
12/02/2011 HOISTING DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted While closing the door on the lime handling man elevator the employee shut the doors on her hand.
11/01/2011 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 19d restricted Employee washing out preheaters and he took off his PPE while moving between preheaters. When the job was set up and ready to start it was the employee's turn to wash and he did not his PPE on. As a r...
10/22/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 8d restricted While removing a guard from a pre-heater ram, the employee strained his lower back.
10/05/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was stepping down from the operator platform of a boom truck and twisted his ankle.
09/07/2011 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was grinding metal with an electrical grinder, when a piece of metal lodged in his right eye. He was using PPE. We were informed on 9/19/11 that the metal was removed with a tool by the MD.
08/17/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted Employee was flipping a rail switch and dislocated his finger. The Employee did not report the accident until 8/31/2011. The Safety supervisor accompanied the employee to the ER on 9/6/2011.
07/30/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 1d restricted While repairing the air knife in the 2411 rotary feeder, the miner got lime in his boot causing lime burns to his ankle
06/27/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 12d restricted The employee was walking up the # 3 surge conveyor catwalk and stepped on a loose section of floor grating. The grating slide from its supports and fell, causing the employee to fall to the ground.
06/15/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 27d restricted Employee was moving rail-cars in the rail yard. Employee was crossing the rail track and slipped, hurting his upper thigh.
05/23/2011 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 8d restricted A piece of metal fell on EE's upper left arm. He was scratched and bruised on his left wrist.
02/11/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 29d restricted Employee was entering skid steer when footing slipped, causing him to fall to ground striking right shoulder against ground, resulting in dislocating right shoulder.
01/14/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Injured dumped a loader of waste and pulled up to re-attach his tailgate chains. The chain was caught between the bed and the tailgate. The injured pulled the tailgate out with his right hand, when he...
10/08/2010 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 10d restricted The employee was attempting to dislodge a piece of metal from the southeast cooler feeder of kiln number one lime cooler. The pry bar he used had an L-shaped hand grip. While thrusting the bar through...
09/25/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 122d lost, 10d restricted Miner was changing a drill bit on a DX 800 track-mounted slope drill. While walking back to the pickup truck with the old bit, a loose rock slipped from under his left foot causing him to twist his le...
08/11/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 10d restricted On 8/11/2010, The injured was replacing a water line on the oxygen analyzer at the feed-end of #1 kiln. when the injured reconnected the hose and turned the water back on, the hose blew off spraying h...
08/10/2010 OTHER NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using the portable toilet when he was bitten on the testicles by a black widow spider.
08/04/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 1d lost, 19d restricted Employee was lifting his tool bag into truck and sprained his sternum.
07/26/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Lime in eye while cleaning cooler grates on kiln 1. Employee was taken to doctor and given a prescription for eye.
06/08/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee jammed left knee when he stumbled, descending metal stairs.
05/25/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Driller stepped out of the back of pickup truck and slipped on the bumper of the truck. He cut his elbow on the rocks on the ground.
04/07/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Maintenance worker jammed left finger while closing door on a blower motor. Splint was put on finger by doctor.
03/05/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None EE was whole watch at bag house, ee removing bags. EE was warned 3 times to put respirator back on, was sent home after 3rd warning. 7:30pm ee could not breathe and went to emergency room. ""See attac...
02/18/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 50d lost Employee injured his back while installing a DC drive motor in the reclaim tunnel on October 28, 2008. This injury was filed in October of 2008. This is a reoccurrence of an old injury.
01/27/2010 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Working with sledge hammer. Index finger on left hand got caught/smashed between hand rail of manlift and sledge handle while swinging hammer.
01/20/2010 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Worker was either breaking castable or welding on elevator buckets when something got in his eye. Employee did not know that something was in eye until he awoke to find his right eye matted shut and p...
12/27/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 1d lost, 1d restricted Removing coal ring from kiln when strained neck and shoulder occured.
12/27/2009 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 8d restricted Employee was mucking out the settling ponds at the mill using a longreach trackhoe. He caught a ride back to the quarry garage on a waste truck. When he exited the waste truck, he slipped on the steps...
10/22/2009 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 18d lost Employee was inside the framework of #2 surge conveyor preparing to cut an roller bracket off with a oxygen/acetylene torch. When employee lit the torch, he heard a gurgling sound. Employee attempted...
10/06/2009 POWERED HAULAGE DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 19d lost, 5d restricted Employee was dumping mud from a 773 Rock Truck. The mud became stuck in the bed, as the employee put the truck in drive gear and started forward, the front end of the truck rose off the ground about...
09/29/2009 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee driving a 773B rock truck. While the truck was being loaded with stone, the trackhoe bucket and stone jarred the truck, causing employee to experience neck and shoulder pain.