UNION BRIDGE MD — Accidents

Total: 418 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
01/25/2026 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Employee was running a walk behind skid steer removing snow around the scale-house. Employee was backing up and backed into a concrete bollard hitting right leg causing a large hematoma. Employee was...
01/22/2026 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was cutting electrical tape off the wire connections while wires were in junction box. EE was using a ceramic knife and had on cut level 4 gloves. While cutting the second wire connection the knife...
10/15/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was installing a blank in the meal pipe. While pushing blank in and didn't realize a finger was in the bolt hole. When blank finally went in it cut tip of right ring finger.
10/10/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was working on the long reclaimer. Employee went to reposition and while doing so slipped and left butt cheek landed on the point of a metal plate. This caused a 2cm puncture to butt cheek. T...
05/07/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was shoveling and felt a pull in back. Employee was put on restricted duty for a week.
03/30/2025 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 12d lost, 71d restricted EE was closing up a rail car by prying with a bar. While doing this, EE felt a sharp pain in EE's left side. EE then noticed belly button started to swell twice the size. It is bright red and hard to...
01/13/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was working with a crew installing putlog beams in a vessel. Due to a miscommunication, the crew on opposite side of vessel pulled the beam while employees hand was in a pinch point and the t...
03/25/2024 STRIKING OR BUMPING NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was working in baghouse without hardhat on. Employee was climbing out when EE struck head on a welding receptacle causing a laceration on head. Employee was taken to local medical facility wh...
01/17/2024 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 16d restricted Employee was standing on a pile of rubble when the bottom of the pile started to drop. Employee jumped landing on their right shoulder.
05/09/2023 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was removing cutting edge from 966 loader. While removing the carriage bolts from the cutting edge, the bolt dropped down and started to turn. The employee pushed the bolt back up with right...
09/27/2022 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 220d lost Employees were on the support structure of a steel plate. The steel plate fell over on top of the employee pinning EE beneath it.
09/27/2022 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 95d restricted Employee was trying to lift steel plate off of employee and index finger was cut off at tip.
02/10/2022 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was assisting electricians by lifting bin to make weight change on load cell when EE felt a shock sensation in their neck.
02/23/2021 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 12d lost, 42d restricted Employee was moving and mounting control boxes on a conveyor. While doing this task EE felt a pull in the groin.
02/04/2021 POWERED HAULAGE PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY None Employee was observing conveyor in motion. Conveyor was being cycled in position for additional bucket change out. Employee took it upon self to get into a closer position near conveyor, lost balanc...
01/20/2021 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was passing scaffold boards on scaffold deck and misstepped on scaffold plank, fell to left side and caught self on handrail under left shoulder/armpit and did not fall to ground. Stated was...
12/30/2020 ALL OTHER OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESSES OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 10d lost Employee was in contact with COVID positive employee
10/07/2020 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 51d lost Employee was walking and fell on left shoulder. Employee kept working until day of surgery. Surgery was on November 4th. This is when it became a lost time.
09/28/2020 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 29d restricted EE was changing out a troughing roller at the tail of the F01-003 belt. The new roller was slid in place and while trying to lift the roller up it fell back over catching EE's left hand. We think mayb...
09/11/2020 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 20d restricted Strain upper right arm climbing off of drill by cab, 3 step ladder, left hand slipped off of handle and all weight went onto right arm.
04/17/2020 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted EE was installing a containment system for the kiln heat exchangers when EE bent down to weld a piece. Prior to that EE carried a Fronious electric 110 welder which weighs 19.6 lbs. When EE bent down...
01/28/2020 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 354d lost While staging grates in the plant kiln cooler area, employee slipped on a piece of plywood that was placed in the access doorway, causing EE's leg to come down at an awkward angle.
01/18/2020 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was removing a tipping valve and pinched left middle finger between tipping valve employee was holding and the guard bracket. It broke the skin and nail. Employee notified supervisor and was...
12/11/2019 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 6d lost, 15d restricted EE was coming from the tower to the core building. EE walked up the stairs by the elevator and when EE stepped off the landing on to the road EE felt left knee give out. This was not a reportable unti...
11/15/2019 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 39d restricted Employee was getting tool bucket from locker and felt sharp pain in lower stomach area. Employee was able to do regular job until day of surgery which was 01/03/2020
07/15/2019 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was getting on the rock breaker to operate, when EE started up the first rung of the ladder with left foot EE heard a popping noise and felt pain. From that point EE couldn't put any weight on the...
06/26/2019 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 7d restricted Employee was moving a vfd cabinet with another employee on a catwalk with steps. When they were going down the steps one employee lost footing and fell backwards into the catwalk.
06/24/2019 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None IE was cleaning the interior of #1fm building with another EE and was running the walk-behind skid loader on the ground level at the time of the incident. As IE was exiting the south side door IE hit...
04/25/2019 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was standing on crusher housing to remove a crusher liner & sit on ground. The liner started to slip toward employee. Employee moved quickly out of the way by stepping to a 4ft step ladder. W...
10/30/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost EE went to work truck to get a drink & grabbed a 1-gallon windshield wiper fluid bottle from the bed of the work truck that had contained antifreeze (the bottle was labeled in ""antifreeze"" in sharpi...
08/23/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was manually turning a lathe. This caused pain in left leg.
07/27/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Electrical employee was unloading cable tray from trailer. As EE removed a steel band from under the tray it flew up and lacerated EE's left arm above the elbow.
06/02/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was lowering a slider bed that was vertical on a dolly. While lowering EE felt a pop in EE's left arm. EE found out 06/13/2018 that EE needed surgery to repair torn tendon. Surgery was 06/15/2018....
03/19/2018 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was adjusting a jack bolt on #1 mill motor for alignment when the wrench slipped smashing right ring finger between the wrench and the floor. The contact caused a laceration to the finger
02/07/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted Employee was relieving a laborer for break and was lifting 55 lb bags of refractory onto the gunite machine for 30 minutes. After 20 minutes, employee felt a pain in the lower back.
01/31/2018 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted 2 employees were grinding on a chain conveyor approximately 6' apart in the dome area of the cement plant, one employee felt a piece of metal fly into left eye. EE was unsure if the debris was from EE...
01/31/2018 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was struck by a piece of metal that broke off of a hand tool while trying to line up a hole on a liner.
04/02/2017 OTHER DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 143d restricted Employee was walking up and down the preheater tower continuously for several days causing pain in EE's left foot.
02/27/2017 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 24d restricted While task with installing steel door frames in the Jumbo covers on a conveyor belt-roadway, two employees attempted to move the door frame manually to allow a vehicle to pass. The injured employee st...
02/06/2017 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 2d restricted Employee was grinding on a piece of metal with a grinder when a small shard of metal flew up under face shield and safety glasses and became embedded in right eye.
09/18/2016 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 79d restricted Injured employee and supervisor were repairing missing grate plate when injured employee fell backwards into hand railing herniating lower back. Injured employee was seen on 11/7 and placed on restric...
08/16/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 25d restricted Employee was climbing down from a Cat D7 dozer when left foot caught in the step and twisted left knee. Employee has had prior knee surgery. Employee had knee surgery on 2/18/2017
07/25/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was retrieving a tag line from beneath a belt truss leg by using left hand to lift the truss leg, while using right hand to swipe the tag line from beneath the leg, the truss section slipped...
05/09/2016 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was cutting a piece of air line with a utility knife. The knife slipped causing a laceration to the employee finger
04/01/2016 OTHER DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 10d restricted Employee was bending down to couple air lines for rail cars and felt pain in knee. Later the employee required physical therapy
02/05/2016 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 6d lost, 33d restricted Employee was walking on an uneven surface carrying lumber when EE tripped and landed on EE's knees.
12/16/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Cement mixing environment, which has dust and airborne particles present. Rusted iron piping overhead, with active pigeons using the piping as a perch, stir.
09/01/2015 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 85d restricted Employee was digging at the toe with the CAT 992 when the bucket tooth slipped causing the loader to lunge forward. The employee's left arm slid forward jamming into the joystick controls. The employe...
06/12/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 70d restricted Employee was removing a bent pulley. While lifting the belt off the pulley the bearing rolled out onto the employees left foot causing a fracture to the left foot
05/18/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 70d restricted Employee was shoveling stone onto a belt when ee felt pain in right shoulder. Employee is scheduling ortho surgery within the next 3 weeks