SWILLEY PIT & PLANT — Accidents

Total: 11 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
10/06/2014 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 79d lost While moving the plastic dredge pipe one of the Miners was injured. The pipe was pulled out of the lake to point A. Then we needed to reposition the wheel loader on the other side of the pipe. When he...
06/30/2012 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 98d lost Worker was welding on pontoon of dredge. He used flammable aerosols to clean the surface where he was welding. When he lit his torch, the flammable aerosols flashed. The worker sustained burns on his...
12/09/2008 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 35d lost driver from Eagle Lake plant was climbing ladder to gain access to safe area/platform to open hatch, approx. 10 foot from the ground his foot slipped and he fell on his right foot and side
08/20/2008 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was cleaning screen and stepped back. Foot slipped on wet grading and he fell on his right side.
06/06/2007 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee hurt his foot getting off the forklift. Stepping down on uneven ground he hurt his foot.
04/03/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 1d restricted EE feels the particulate may have entered his eye when he was shoveling slag the previous night.
03/14/2007 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 8d restricted Getting out of the truck, he set his foot on the fueling containment wall and slipped off the containment wall and he struck the dike wall when he fell.
01/02/2007 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using the grinder to cut and grind bolt heads when splicing conveyor belt when a metal shaving entered his left eye from underneath his safety glasses.
09/15/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Driver for our company, came to me on 9/20/05 and said he had injured his back while decsending a ladder after loading his truck on 9/15/05. He did not report the injury till 9/20/05 around 4:30 pm. I...
07/14/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost EE CAME INTO MY OFFICE THIS MORNING & TOLD ME HE HAD STRAINED HIS BACK YESTERDAY (7/14/05) WHILE STACKING PALLETS. EE WAS SENT TO THE DOCTOR FOR AN EXAMINATION IMMEDIATELY & DOCTOR HAS RESTRICTED HI...
09/28/2002 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 65d lost IMPROPER USE OF FRONT END LOADER BUCKET BEING USED AS A LIFT LED TO THE ACCIDENT. FOREMAN FELL FROM THE LOADER BUCKET 6 TO 7 FT DOWN. HE LANDED ON HIS KNEE AND LOWER LEG. THE FALL BROKE THE BO NES IN...