Ottawa Lake Quarry — Accidents

Total: 19 accidents | Fatalities: 1

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
08/21/2025 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Traveling between stockpiles to load customer trucks, employee traveled over a pile of stone placed in the yard to prevent customer trucks from traveling over a soft area and becoming stuck. The emplo...
08/05/2024 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using a razor knife to cut a piece of rubber for a conveyor back plate. The knife caught the edge of a steel plate, used for a template, and skipped up causing the employee to pull the kn...
04/25/2017 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Ee was loading in shot hit a rock, loader stopped suddenly jamming left wrist into the controls. Ee was examined by Fit for Work therapist was treated with ice, bandage wrap, exercises. Checked severa...
08/23/2016 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee operating a man-lift across stone yard when ran over an 8"" to 10"" rock that catapulted employee in the man-lift. Employee had a retractable harness on keeping employee contained in the bask...
07/10/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was putting cap back on hydraulic tank and stated a burr punctured left pinky finger while installing.
11/27/2013 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 40d restricted The injured employee and co-worker started to trouble shoot cone #6 to determine the cause of the cone shutdown. The injured employee started to remove the sensor when it unexpectedly released and rel...
10/08/2013 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Miner was pulling a 25 pound bag off of a truck when he felt pain in his right forearm. No lost time or restricted time.
10/25/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was performing maintenance duties on third shift. He was wearing safety glasses, hard hat, and gloves while performing these tasks. After the shift, the employee went home and reported to ma...
08/03/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was performing clean-up duties with a shovel when he struck his right hand on a piece of angle. The employee suffered a laceration that required sutures to repair.
05/26/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was exiting the scale house at 11:00 a.m. and stepped off the last stair onto a concrete pad. The employee felt a sharp pain in her ankle and was given ice and continued to work. The employ...
05/02/2003 POWERED HAULAGE ALL OTHER CASES (INCL 1ST AID) None MILL OPERATOR TRIED TO REMOVE A LODGED ROCK FROM A RUBBER IMPACT TROUGHING ROLLER, WHICH PREVENTED THE ROLLER FROM TURNING. THIS RESULTED IN A BRUISED HAND.
01/05/2003 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 50d lost, 38d restricted LOADER OPERATOR WAS WALKING TOWARD THE PRIMARY CRUSHER. HE STEPPED ON UNEVEN FROZEN GROUND AND HIS RIGHT ANKLE TWISTED/ROLLED, CAUSING A SPRAIN/FRACTURE TYPE INJURY. EE STATED THAT HE HAS HAD SOME HIS...
12/09/2002 MACHINERY FATALITY Fatal EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A SECTION OF CATWALK. HE CRAWLED UNDER THE CATWALK AND CUT THE SUPPORT BOLTS, ALLOWING THE SECTION TO FALL ON HIM.
08/22/2002 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 2d lost, 19d restricted EE HAD CLIMBED ON A CONVEYOR TO DISLODGE SOME BERM STONE FROM A HOPPER. APPROX. 4' HIGH. WHEN FINISHED JUMPED FROM CONVEYOR. MIDDLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND CAUGHT ON UNKNOWN OBJECT. FINGER FRACTU RE AND...
03/26/2001 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EMPLOYEE WAS USING AN OVERHEAD HOIST TO MOVE A STEEL PLATE. HE HOOKED HOIST DIRECTLY TO PLATE, THE HOOK SLIPPED AND THE PLATE STRUCK HIS ELBOW CUTTING IT.
02/10/2001 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 33d lost, 51d restricted EE WAS STANDING ON A WALKWAY. AS HE TURNED TOWARD HIS WORK HIS LEFT KNEEE TWISTED CAUSING DISCOMFORT (1/30/01). NO MEDICAL TREATMENT UNTIL 2/10 WHEN X-RAY TAKEN. SAW DOCTOR ON 2/17 & HAD FLUID REMOVED...
11/15/2000 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE ALLEGES TENDERNESS TO HIS BACK FROM BEING JOSTLED IN THE HAUL TRUCK WHILE SHOT ROCK WAS BEINGLOADED WE ARE CURRENTLY EVAULATING THE CLAIM TO DETERMINE IF THE ALLEGED INJURY IS WORK RELATED
10/31/2000 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 28d lost, 6d restricted A SKID-LOADER OPERATOR & LABORER WERE CHANGING ATTACHMENTS ON THE BOBCAT. THE OPERATOR HAD THE BUCKET TIPPED UP ON ITS FRONT PARTIALLY AS A THE SECOND LOCK PIN WAS DISENGAGED, THE BACK OF THE BUCKET D...
09/21/2000 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None WHILE SERVICING BRAKES ON A QUARRY SERVICE TRUCK, THE MECHANIC PINCHED HIS LITTLE FINGER (RIGHT HAND) BETWEEN THE BRAKE ROTOR AND THE WHEEL HE WAS REMOVING. THE MECHANIC WORKS FOR SE JOHNSON C O, PARE...