St. Marys Cement-Charlevoix — Accidents

Total: 228 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
12/04/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Worker was walking and stepped off curb, hyperextending his left knee. Felt fine the day after but knee pain came back in end of January. Was given rest restriction to heal.
12/02/2015 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Repairmen was cutting a piece of conveyor skirting to size with a box knife. The knife slipped and the blade came into contact with the employees left forearm causing a small 1/2"" incision. Treatment...
09/03/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 58d restricted Employee was assisting in adjusting cutting knives of plastics shredder. The drum head was being turned manually to check for clearance, the employee stumbled and reached to gain balance resulting in...
08/18/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 23d restricted Employee was lifting an electric operated cable hoist for installation and strained back resulting in muscle pain in lower lumbar region of back.
08/10/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 9d restricted Employee was entering the above grate section of the Clinker Cooler through the south access door during a kiln outage for grate repair. The employee stepped through the access door and his right foot...
03/23/2015 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 30d restricted Employee has carpal tunnel syndrome from years of working as a maintenance repairman.
03/07/2015 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None Took plant down on Sunday March 1st for outage. On March 7th, 2015 saw glowing coal embers inside coal dust collector hopper/screw area. Called fire department and reported to MSHA.
03/02/2015 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 20d restricted Employee alleges hand swelling from jackhammering. Sent to doctor who diagnosed a hereditary condition. However, filing w/c due to swelling from jackhammering.
12/12/2014 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was instructing forklift operator in rebar placement. He stepped back from load and instructed operator to shake out rebar bundle to ease handling. Operator shook bundle and 2 pieces of rebar...
08/01/2014 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 8d restricted Employee is a machinist. He was cleaning a bolt on the wire wheel machine. The bolt pulled into the machine and employee's finger was pulled in.
07/26/2014 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was using a pipe wrench to loosen a fitting. As he pushed hard on the wrench he felt a pop in his chest.
07/18/2014 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 10d restricted Stepped off of step ladder onto a piece of wire. It rolled causing him to fall to the floor. Twisted knee when he fell.
10/19/2013 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 21d lost Occupational illness. Employee scraped leg when rock came out of headbox. First aid treatment at home--no reporting. 5 days later, employee had infection in leg. Taken to hospital where he received...
03/13/2013 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 50d lost, 31d restricted Snow and ice everywhere. Employee pulled off the main road to a storage area right after the loader had gone through plowing snow but before any sand had been spread in this area. Loaded his truck wit...
03/08/2013 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 20d restricted Employee working under cooler with group of employees stringing the drag chain. As he was moving the chain across the sprocket he slipped and fell hard on his knee on a piece of castable.
02/28/2013 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 31d lost, 65d restricted Employee was standing by the door frame. He and his crew had been lifting and placing a piece of table liner through the door and into the mill. The liner became stuck in the door frame. The hoist ope...
09/10/2012 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 35d restricted Employee had clocked out to go home. Leaving plant driving a scooter. Still on plant roadway--near parking lot. Lost control on a curve due to sand and dust on smooth road. It had been windy and ma...
04/21/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee inside gyp silo 21 breaking down the job. Standing on scaffolding--was handed a ladder from below. Went to turn with ladder. As he did his foot caught between scaffold planks. They were tie...
09/19/2011 NONPOWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 9d restricted Employee working with 55 gallon drum on handcart felt sharp pain in elbow.
07/14/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee holding a 30# coupling to be removed. They were replacing a seal. As it came out it fell suddenly and unexpectedly. It hit his pinky finger.
06/10/2011 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 40d restricted Employee hardface welding and a piece of metal went into his boot. Burn of left ankle.
05/17/2011 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using a utility knife to cut a small piece of conveyor belt that was torn. His hand slipped and the knife struck his other hand causing a puncture injury. The wound required 3 stitches t...
02/01/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 18d restricted Employee walking down outside staircase and slipped on ice at the bottom of the staircase. He did not go all the way down--caught himself but his right knee twisted causing injury and pain.
01/04/2011 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Employee was shovelling. Hit a hard lump of material that jarred his wrist and elbow.
11/26/2010 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None Full investigation was sent to field office. We had a fire in the kiln coal mill. The CO2 suppression system activated. All was well until 14:06 when CO rose quickly in the dust collector. The con...
09/23/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 23d restricted Employee changing screens in crusher, standing on platform, facing crusher box using an impact gun to tighten screws. He walked off the end of the platform and fell landing on a hopper box wall.
09/23/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 17d restricted Employee sent to work on airslide that had gotten water in it. They had to pull the airslide out and re-skin the air slide. To get to the airslide they had to climb over an airslide wall. As he clim...
09/03/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 10d restricted Employee walking down staircase. Foot caught on grating on bottom step. Knee was twisted.
08/03/2010 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 48d lost Employee removing door from bucket elevator. Attached come-along to hold door but forgot to attach the hook to the door. Took bolts off of door. Pulled door off and it fell striking employees foot.
01/25/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 10d restricted Employee lifted a spool of wire in the warehouse, turned, stepped on pallet and foot slipped off pallet. Big toe was injured
01/13/2010 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted Employee working on mill liner job. Lifting a liner, foot stepped on a stray mill ball on the floor. Knee twisted. Strain and Sprain of right knee.
11/17/2009 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 17d restricted Employee inside ball mill, turned to leave, ball rolled under his foot and twisted right knee.
10/06/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 91d lost Employee needs shoulder surgery from degenerative changes over time. He alleges that he was working on welding a bucket of quarry endloader when he took a large block of cribbing and moved it around...
10/06/2009 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 24d lost Employee alleges carpal tunnel syndrome has occurred due to his work with an electric grease gun--trigger on gun. Employee went out for surgery on wrists on 11/17/09.
10/01/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted Working on maintenance crew installing a heavy object at the roller mill. Using come-along to lift object. Had to push object to straighten it to go through an opening. Felt pull in groin area. Not...
09/10/2009 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee working on airslide. Instead of walking around to the other side--decided to step over it. As she did, she lost her footing and fell. As she fell her little finger on the right hand caught...
04/20/2009 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 19d lost, 5d restricted Employee has experienced carpal tunnel syndrome in both wrists aggravated over time by his work as a repairman at the plant. He left today to get the first wrist taken care of. In two weeks he will...
01/30/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Heavy lifting of elevator buckets and other material with twisting, turning and bending, caused a strain of the abdominal muscle and strained lumbar muscles.
01/05/2009 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 25d lost, 19d restricted Employee walking to the job through alleyway. The walkway was icy and sloped. Knee went out from under him and he fell. Loss of strength in a bent knee. Can't crouch to work. Left for knee surger...
10/24/2008 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 97d lost, 8d restricted Employee stepped off small staircase to floor. There was a stray clinker ball on the floor. Employee stepped on it, twisted ankle and knee. Ankle started to swell. The next day employee went to th...
09/29/2008 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted EE was walking across the plant to go to lunch. Stepped right foot into a small pothole in the yard area under the kiln. His ankle rolled and he tightened up to catch himself. Felt immediate pain i...
07/29/2008 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 18d restricted Employee entering ball mill. Climbed down ladder, as he left ladder and stepped onto balls, he slipped and fell and landed directly on his right knee.
07/25/2008 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted Slipped and fell on wet CKD dust at the South Pug Elevator. Hand landed on sharp rock. Sharp deep pain in right palm.
07/01/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 1d restricted Working on the #3 discharge elevator. Lifted a bucket that was stuck. Felt a pull in the back. Ignored it. Kept working. He is now feeling symptoms in the left leg and went to the dr. yesterday. H...
06/04/2008 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 17d lost Employee alleges that he was welding inside a chute and received a couple small welding burns on his legs. He did not report it. One week later he stood up from a desk and felt a sharp pain in his l...
03/30/2008 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 1d restricted EE was welding on the 807 elevator housing. two ee were vacuming with industrial vacum hose. The hose whipped suddenly and hit him knocking him down. He was unconscious for 30 seconds-2 minutes.
12/28/2007 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 79d lost Employee was checking equipment outside. Snow was falling heavily. As he was walking down staircase he slipped on last step and fell heavily on shoulder. LTA 1/16/08.
11/03/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 25d lost Employee, shovelling spilled material off belt line, felt groin pull. No treatment. Wrote up groin pull again on 12/26/07. Still no treatment. On 1/10/08 employee decided to go to doctor. LDW was 1/11...
10/30/2007 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 42d lost Employee walking down steps. Had oil on the bottom of his shoe - slipped on step - caught himself and felt pain in his lower back. Losing time from work as of 12/3/07.
09/17/2007 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST ACCIDENT ONLY None Plant was starting up. There was trouble with the indirect firing system and had to go back down. The feeder would not turn. Management was informed at 7:30 am - checked. There was high heat in the ve...