Salado USA — Accidents

Total: 30 accidents | Fatalities: 1

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
01/30/2025 POWERED HAULAGE FATALITY Fatal Employee in the thin veneer area was crushed by a pallet of stone that was placed on them by another employee in a wheel loader.
09/23/2022 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was loosening mechanism that lowers saw on veneer saw. device failed and lowered quickly causing employees hand to become pinched. as a result the employee got a laceration on EE's left hand...
06/02/2022 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 38d lost, 18d restricted Was picking up a piece of stone and it slipped from their grip and fell on their foot.
10/21/2021 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 105d lost RIGHT THUMB GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK SLAB AND MACHINE CUTTERS.
07/12/2021 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 45d lost, 20d restricted pushing trash on the discharge ramp, EE was pushing by hand and another rock fell on hand. Crushed left thumb.
12/06/2019 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was working behind the chopper stacking rock on pallets. While stacking rock on pallets a stone slipped out of their hands. While trying to catch the stone after it slipped out of their hands...
01/21/2019 STRIKING OR BUMPING DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost Worker was reaching to pick up a box, bumped into a pallet of finished material and knocked a rock off of the pallet on to the top of their foot .
12/18/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 18d lost Injured employee sprained shoulder while lifting a rock.
10/22/2018 FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 106d lost The injured employee was palatalizing rocks when another employee dropped a rock on the injured employee's foot behind the steel toe portion of the boot.
05/18/2018 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was stapling poultry netting to a pallet. The board EE was stapling split, EE slipped and punctured EE's left wrist with the staple gun.
05/12/2018 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was chopping rock and smashed finger. Employee failed drug test during the accident investigation and was terminated.
04/17/2018 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was chipping rock and missed with the hammer, resulting in an injury to index finger.
09/19/2017 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 7d lost, 74d restricted EE was loading the table in the jag shop with slabs of rock. There were two slabs on the table, the top one was not setting flat. EE then picked up the top slab with a rock bar to get the small rocks...
05/17/2017 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 8d lost Employee was taking rock off of a conveyor belt to place in a metal box. While grabbing one rock another rock came off at the same time landing on employee's left index finger.
03/10/2017 MACHINERY PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY 30d lost The employee was talking to a mechanic about a problem with the skid loader. Mechanic was finishing up the repair and heard a noise. The employee went to the west side of the wet saw placed left hand...
10/10/2016 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 1d lost, 14d restricted worker was removing rock from a conveyor to place on a pallet. Another worker working across from IE was doing the same. one reached to grab a rock the other was going to break a rock and make smaller...
09/01/2016 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 136d lost The worker operating the 321e wheel loader noticed that the cobra wet saw was traveling along the gantry wall before the blade had exited the rock. The worker went to hit the E stop to stop the saw, b...
08/27/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 5d lost Employee was lifting rock off of a table to place on a pallet for packaging.
04/25/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 27d lost The incident happened in the dimensional cut shop. The worker was using a wet polisher to finish a slab. When done EE would take slab and stack it on edge on a pallet. The slabs shifted and several f...
07/27/2015 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING WIRE MESH ON A PALLET USING A STAPLE GUN ONE STAPLE WENT THROUGH THE WOOD INTO HIS FINGER.EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN TRAINED USING THIS TOOL.
05/04/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 1d lost, 6d restricted Miner was leveling a dump truck took a misstep and wrenched his lower back.
01/24/2015 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 120d lost The miner was working at a wet saw. He had a rock in his hand that weighed about 12 to 15 pounds. He then struck the rock with a 3-pound hammer. The rock split in half. One piece stayed in his han...
01/07/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted Work area has slurry. The miner was walking with board, slipped and came down on left knee. Refused medical attention until 7 days later.
06/04/2014 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 75d lost Employee was working at the rock splitter cleaning between rollers and a rock came down the roller table crushing pinky finger on right hand.
05/07/2014 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was working on a machine and fell off about 8' while doing maintenance saddled a sheet of metal hurt groin area left side.
05/23/2013 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Pulled lower back
05/15/2013 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 41d lost, 6d restricted Employee making pallets of stone bent over to pickup stone felt pull in lower back.
09/18/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 28d restricted Employees was making Flagstone has a fracture on finger with a nearby cut will follow up at 3:45PM Sept. 24th 2012.
05/04/2012 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Open Finger Fracture
03/28/2002 ELECTRICAL DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 30d lost MECHANIC BURNED FACE & HANDS WHILE CHECKING POWER SOURCE IN CONTROL BOX OF SAW.