Sawyer Quarry — Accidents

Total: 21 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
09/17/2024 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was operating a Komatsu 605 haul truck being loaded by a 395 Cat Excavator. When the boulder was dropped into the bed of the truck, the impact caused the haul truck operator to have severe pa...
07/18/2023 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was pulling on a pry bar trying to move a wear plate into place when the pry bar slipped and the end of it scraped across the employees face cutting their cheek.
06/06/2023 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 20d lost, 58d restricted Employee was operating a Cat 374 Excavator when a rock fell from the highwall striking the bucket and ricocheting into the cab of the excavator. The rock struck the employee in the leg breaking EE's l...
06/13/2022 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was going for a pick on a water pump. The employee was holding the chain for the Telehandler to slide the fork between. As the fork was in position for the chain to slide over the fork employ...
01/27/2022 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While changing cutting edges, employee was holding down the head side of bolt (which is flat) and using an impact gun to loosen nut. Bolt came loose and came up causing it to spin and cut through leat...
04/18/2019 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was placing outrigger pads into storage locations. When placing pad into storage box, employee felt a sharp pain in lower back.
03/15/2019 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None removing cutting edge and carriage head bolt spun while holding down on it, cutting finger
07/20/2018 DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None The employee got dizzy & disoriented. The crew helped the employee into the truck & got employee some water & got ice packs on emp. to cool emp. off. It was then decided that emp. needed to go to the...
06/13/2017 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 43d lost Helper parked truck by drill on other side of shot berm. Then crawled over berm to get to the drill. As EE was going over the berm, fell and broke arm. Helper should have walked around to opening on b...
08/08/2014 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was removing bearing from housing with a hammer and punch. The bearing shelled when struck and metal fragments were propelled through the air. Employee was struck in the stomach area with a...
12/03/2013 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was operating a John Deere 300D end-dump haul truck while performing dirt stripping activities. Employee was pulling away from dump-site when a hydraulic line supplying pressure to the bed r...
06/26/2013 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Employee was performing task inside screen. When he entered the screen he was wearing his safety glasses. Due to heat and humidity, he could not keep his glasses from fogging over and removed them to...
11/09/2012 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 15d restricted Employee was in process of unbolting a hydraulic motor on the Plant to replace it. With 2 bolts remaining the motor unexpectedly began to fall. The employee caught the 80 pound motor with the top of...
08/30/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None On 8/30/10 employee, while dismounting off of the LULL forklift stepped on a rock approximately 3"" and rolled his left foot causing him to fall and land on his left arm. The impact hurt his foot and...
08/30/2010 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 76d lost On 8/30/10 employee was greasing the bottom right pin of a 988G when the operator tilted the bucket back rolling it onto the right part of the right foot smashing his foot. This crushed the two right...
03/03/2010 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 167d lost On 4/29/10 EE reported that back on 3/3/10 he was sweeping rocks off of the pit floor with the 988G loader he was operating when he caught the bucket on something solid causing a sudden stop of the lo...
05/18/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost Unloading PVC Drill Casing, casing fell on finger
06/20/2008 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Cutting metal & got metal fragment in left eye.
04/26/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was removing a wear plate in crusher, lifting with a mobile device. The wear was bound on a chute corner. When EE attempted to free the wear plate, it slid out striking the EE on the right knee c...
08/24/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 54d lost Employee was assisting in v-belt replacement, hand (right) was pinched between pulley & v-belt. Equipment was not running & locked & tagged.
04/18/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was loading cutting blades onto a forklift to be moved; when he went to set the blade down he caught his finger with the other blade.