Turner Brothers Stone Quarry — Accidents

Total: 19 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
06/02/2014 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted Unloading slabs. Slab shifted and struck employee on the ear and arm.
04/11/2011 ALL OTHER OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESSES OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 3d lost There was no specific incident. Employee's right foot started hurting him around mid-morning while at work. We sent him to the doctor, who x-rayed his foot and diagnosed his problem as a bone spur on...
01/14/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost While two employees were lifting a 1 inch thick sawed slab onto a saw table for further fabrication, one of them felt a pull in his lower back. He reported the injury the next day, but did not feel h...
10/05/2009 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 11d lost Contractor was waiting to remove stone from discharge table of stone splitter. When the stone rolled on the discharge table after being split, he had his right hand resting on the table and the stone...
06/12/2008 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using a hammer & chisel to pitch stone. He missed the chisel and the hammer hit his left arm, causing a cut. Employee was sent to the doctor and received several sutures to close the cu...
01/09/2008 OTHER DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 6d lost On 1/10/08, 3:35pm, employee reported that his left knee was bothering him. He did not know how or when he hurt his knee, but it started bothering him when he was driving the forklift around 1:00pm th...
06/01/2007 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 21d lost Employee was placing a sawed stone slab onto the cutting table with a vacuum lift at the same time he was placing a hand tool onto the table when the stone released from the vacuum and fell onto his l...
04/24/2007 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 38d lost, 15d restricted Contractor was placing piece of stone into stone splitter. While lowering top jaw of machine, the stone fell forward. The Contractor tried to stop stone from falling out of position. The splitter t...
01/10/2007 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 1d restricted Operator was moving the trackhoe from one work area to another, went over crest of hill and when hoe leveled off, it bumped the ground and he felt a slight tightening in his back. Pain increased over...
11/14/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost Employee was palletizing 4""x8"" cobble stones and noticed he had mild pain in his back. He did not feel he needed to go to the doctor until 2 days later. The doctor's diagnosis was ""low back pain/...
10/06/2006 FIRE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Moving piece of stone & it slipped from his hand, landing on left foot, behind the steel toe plate. Caused contusion/abrasion of foot.
07/19/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee and co-worker were palletizing stone. Employee got right pinkie finger caught under stone and when he pulled his finger out he tore the skin, requiring several sutures.
07/17/2006 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Sawing a pallet, piece of metal went into his eye.
07/11/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Lifting bag of grit, felt lower back pull resulting in lower back sprain.
02/13/2006 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Hit right knee with hammer causing knee sprain.
05/13/2005 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 93d lost, 12d restricted Employee was trying to get the hose to the drill unhooked from a rock. When he freed the hose from the rock the hose twisted around his right hand and tore and burned his skin on his right hand.
02/23/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 17d lost EE WAS WALKING A PIECE OF STONE OVER TO A PALLET. THE STONE SLIPPED ON ANOTHER ROCK ON THE FLOOR AND FELL DOWN ONTO THE TOP OF EE RIGHT FOOT, WHICH FRACTURED A BONE ON TOP OF FOOT
08/01/2003 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EMPLOYEE WAS WEIGHING A PALLET OF STONE AND WHEN HE WENT TO PUT THE WEIGHT ON TOP OF THE PALLET HIS LEG HIT A ROCK ON SIDE OF THE PALLET AND CUT HIS LOWER LEG.
01/11/2000 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost EE WAS DRIVING FRT END LOADER DOWN A HILL & TILETED THE BUCKET BACK SO HE COULD SEE BETTER. WHENHE DEADHEADED THE HYDRAULIC PUMP IT KILLED THE ENGINE & EE RAN LOADER OFF THE ROAD LAYING IT OVE R ON IT...