SWENSON GRAY QUARRY — Accidents
Total: 187 accidents | Fatalities: 0
| Date | Classification | Injury | Days Lost | Narrative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/03/2026 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | None | EE was using a log chain to adjust the stone under the radius. EE put the lug too tight against the stone and when EE released the stone to advance it fell back on EE's ankle. |
| 08/14/2025 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | None | ee had just finished breaking a slab into blocks. ee was putting a Retractable back in the storage box it hit the top of the box causing it to come down and punch their finger. |
| 07/12/2025 | OTHER | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 3d restricted | EE was getting out of the forklift, they extended their arms up when they felt a pop in their lower back. Supervisor was not on site and the communication misunderstood in regard to the injury. |
| 02/05/2025 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 4d lost, 4d restricted | employee was pushing 7 pieces of curb from the splitter to the plunge saw, with another person, when EE felt a pop, EE stopped instantly. |
| 01/02/2025 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 1d lost | Employee was pulling a piece of curb (with an end piece attached, coming out of the straight joint saw). While they were pulling, the end piece broke and fell right on the top of their right foot. The... |
| 01/02/2025 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | EE was sliding a small and thin piece of grout (around 10 lbs) on the conveyor in order to grab it. While EE was doing so, it flipped while falling between the two sections of conveyor and the sharp e... |
| 11/13/2024 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was handling curb with it tipped over and EE's finger was caught between. EE was wearing gloves, while pulling hand out EE's finger got scratched. Friction of the glove and pressure under sto... |
| 09/06/2024 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 1d lost, 14d restricted | On Friday 9/6/2024, EE was working on the joint saw, which involves going up and down a couple of steps quite often. By mid-day, EE reported to co-worker that their knee was starting to hurt because o... |
| 08/29/2024 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 34d restricted | EE bent over to fit the chain underneath a piece of granite that was on the conveyor and felt a sharp pain in EE's lower back. |
| 08/06/2024 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was clearing grout and received a puncture wound on left 3rd digit finger. |
| 08/06/2024 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | EE was trimming a piece of radius curbing and EE missed the chisel and hit the top of EE's left hand with the hammer and forced EE's hand on the stone, the knuckles took the hit. |
| 08/01/2024 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Injury was declared on 8/6/24 @ 7:15 AM. EE was cleaning the radius splitter pit & while dragging some small granite shavings out of the trays, a splinter made its way through the glove into middle fi... |
| 06/24/2024 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 1d lost | unknown |
| 02/28/2024 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 5d restricted | Miner was injured moving stone |
| 02/13/2024 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 190d restricted | Miner injured back while moving granite slabs |
| 02/02/2024 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 9d restricted | Miner was breaking stone with hammer and chisel when EE struck hit thumb |
| 01/31/2024 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 2d lost, 19d restricted | Miner was walking and twisted ankle |
| 09/05/2023 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 39d restricted | Miner was climbing down from a front end loader when miner slipped and fell to the ground |
| 08/30/2023 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 25d lost | Miner had picked up a piece of granite grout, the piece broke in half creating a sharp edge that fell across EE's wrist causing a laceration |
| 08/30/2023 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 7d restricted | Miner was injured while moving a piece of granite grout. |
| 05/30/2023 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 7d lost, 3d restricted | Miner was trying to move a piece of granite away from splitter to gain access with a lift chain when EE's finger was crushed between two pieces of granite. |
| 01/14/2023 | MACHINERY | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 28d lost, 20d restricted | Miner was operating an overhead crane when the chain hook got caught on the banker rail and the chain hook slid off causing the chain and hook to fly up striking the miner in the hand. |
| 11/29/2022 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 35d lost, 72d restricted | Miner was attempting to move a bunk which the granite block sits on during the cutting process with a ""hook tool"" when the hook broke causing the miner to fall backwards. |
| 09/30/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 5d lost | Miner does not know how or what happened to receive the injury |
| 09/27/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 6d lost | Miner was assisting with placing a lift chain loop onto a overhead crane hook when the chain loop pinched EE's right thumb between the loop and hook causing an avulsion to the right thumb pad. |
| 08/05/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 33d lost, 21d restricted | Miner was lifting grout felt a pain in groin area. |
| 05/26/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Caught in, under, between object handled. *Miner was moving grout into a grout box. When EE went to drop the grout, EE's glove got caught on an edge and it pulled EE's hand down onto another piece of... |
| 05/09/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Caught in, under, or between object handled |
| 04/13/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 12d restricted | Miner was pushing curb down the conveyor to the end stop when EE felt pain in EE's back. |
| 04/04/2022 | POWERED HAULAGE | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Miner pushing curbing along roller conveyor, sudden stop of curbing |
| 03/29/2022 | POWERED HAULAGE | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Contact with heater blower fan |
| 03/24/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 1d lost | Miner tried to push a piece of grout laying under the splitter to an area where the crane could pick it up and EE strained lower back. |
| 02/22/2022 | DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS | OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 | 237d lost | Miner reported that after a medical procedure they feels their condition is posable silicosis based on a pervious diagnosis in 2015. |
| 02/16/2022 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 7d restricted | EE stepped on a plank that was acting as the floor of the splitter pit and the plank broke and EE fell and bruised EE's left calf |
| 01/25/2022 | MACHINERY | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 4d lost, 436d restricted | While attempting to move a piece of curb of a conveyor with a 3/8"" grout chain the hook caught on the conveyor as the piece was being hoisted and the chain became tight and started to lift the convey... |
| 12/13/2021 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 14d restricted | Lifting a 160Lb piece of grout into a bin |
| 12/02/2021 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 6d restricted | EE was working on curbing on the end of the conveyor line. EE grabbed a piece of grout to throw it into the bin, but the piece was in contact with EE's forearm and cut EE when EE released it. |
| 10/18/2021 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 14d restricted | Attempting to free a piece of Plug gear and EE hit finger with a sledge hammer and cut finger on the stone. |
| 10/14/2021 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 7d restricted | Lifting end cuts from the radius line and turned to throw a piece into a grout box and injured EE's back |
| 10/08/2021 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 10d restricted | Lifting a box of core samples into a trailer and turned wrong and injured lower back |
| 07/22/2021 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 7d restricted | Swinging a 12lb sledge hammer and employee twisted wrong and injured back |
| 07/22/2021 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 6d restricted | Cleaning the floor of the saw shed with the bobcat (small tractor). EE wanted to put a piece of grout - by hand - in the bucket of the bobcat and hurt back by trying to lift/drag this piece. |
| 07/20/2021 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 5d lost | While doing secondary breakage operations EE struck a wedge and EE struck off and a piece sheared off lodging in EE's left forearm |
| 07/15/2021 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | While walking by a stone being split the individual swinging the sledge hammer struck off and debris hit the injured person in the chin area causing a laceration injury |
| 07/07/2021 | MACHINERY | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 3d restricted | Setting up a Marini drill and EE's back started to hurt towards the end of the shift. Possible back strain. Miner had drilled anchor point holes with a plug drill. |
| 01/27/2021 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 24d lost, 5d restricted | Bent over to pick up Pneumatic breaker and EE's back went out |
| 01/27/2021 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 6d restricted | Using a bullset on a piece of curb and when the set was hit with the hammer a piece of either steel or stone struck EE's face causing and imbedded foreign object |
| 01/14/2021 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 6d lost, 4d restricted | moving around a suspended stone and stepped into a hole and rolled EE's ankle |
| 12/04/2020 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 6d restricted | Was setting up drill and lost footing and fell onto one of the legs on the drill |
| 10/05/2020 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 23d restricted | Felt pain in EE's lower back during shift. EE is unsure what EE did |