Wade Sand & Gravel Co., Inc. — Accidents
Total: 43 accidents | Fatalities: 0
| Date | Classification | Injury | Days Lost | Narrative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/20/2025 | OTHER | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | None | Employee was climbing into a rock truck when they felt something pop in lower left leg and had severe pain. |
| 09/23/2025 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 8d lost, 43d restricted | The associate was climbing up the ladder of a Komatsu WA 500 and slipped of the ladder thus falling 4 - 5 feet. EE landed on EE's right elbow. The elbow suffered abrasions and a contusion. |
| 07/16/2025 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 2d lost, 28d restricted | Employee was walking and checking drill holes and accidentally stepped into a drill hole. This caused their foot to collapse despite wearing steel toed boots. This resulted in a fracture in their foot... |
| 07/10/2025 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 4d restricted | The employee had a knife in one hand with a piece of conveyor belt in the other . While making a vertical cut, the razor blade detached from the knife handle and cut EE's hand. |
| 02/19/2025 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 4d restricted | Employee was kicking rocks off the undercarriage of a conveyor belt when EE felt pain on the back of EE's lower left leg. |
| 11/09/2024 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was helping Maintenance Dept. perform electrical grounding checks. EE was descending a permanently affixed ladder. EE pinched left index and middle fingers in the ladder. EE had to get a tota... |
| 07/24/2023 | IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 23d lost | There was apparently a flammable gas in a plastic pipe that ignited while the employee was close to it. It caused debris to fly onto the left side of EE's face and left eye. |
| 05/25/2023 | MACHINERY | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 1d restricted | While operating an excavator, A rock fell off the truck being loaded and struck the employee's lower right arm. This resulted in the employee having 2 stitches. |
| 10/03/2022 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 12d restricted | The associate was taking a hydraulic cylinder off of a crane on a lift boom and slipped off the front of crane. EE struck right wrist and caused a laceration on their right eye brow. |
| 05/03/2022 | OTHER | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 5d restricted | The Employee was changing a battery in a Caterpillar 992. EE had an associate holding the battery cover up and also had a prop under the battery cover. The associate let go of the cover to grab a wren... |
| 04/15/2019 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 5d restricted | The employee was pulling a hose when they felt a pain in the left shoulder. |
| 08/11/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 4d restricted | An employee was opening the inspection door to a rock crusher when the door slipped out of his hand and hit his left forearm. This resulted in a contusion of the left forearm. He will be limited to on... |
| 08/20/2013 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 5d restricted | Employee was adjusting the outrigger on his mechanic's truck. Held on to outrigger unit by placing his finger in the lowest adjustment setting hole. His hand slipped and the outrigger foot fell trappi... |
| 12/05/2012 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was attaching grease lines on haul truck, Dirt fell from the grease line and struck his eye. Employee was wearing safety glasses. |
| 09/14/2012 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 3d lost, 63d restricted | Employee states the he was pulling on hose to clean up Steadman crusher and injured his left shoulder. This was reported to the supervisor around 9:00am on 9/25/12, company was notified that employee... |
| 05/03/2012 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was repairing an electric motor and hoisting it when his right pinky finger got caught between a cable and the motor. He had to get six stitches. |
| 07/20/2010 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | None | Employee states he fell while getting off of a loader. He alleges he mis-stepped near the last step of the loader & fell to the ground. He tried to catch himself with his arm & fell on it as well. He... |
| 04/27/2009 | POWERED HAULAGE | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 15d lost, 116d restricted | Employee was driving a maintenance truck down the quarry road when he lost control of the truck & it flipped. He was trapped in the vehicle until emergency response personnel retrieved him. He receive... |
| 03/02/2009 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 83d lost, 42d restricted | Employee states he was trying to lift a motor from a shelf and that he hurt his lower back in doing so. Employee originally continued working but has since experienced continued pain. Employee is pres... |
| 07/18/2008 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | While repairing an engine, employee was trying to remove a part with a pry bar when it slipped causing him to cut the top of his left thumb. |
| 01/08/2008 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | None | Employee originally stepped awkwardly in a dip in the ground on 1/8/08 hurting his right knee. Employee continued to work. He then states that he re-injured the same knee on 2/16/09. He continued to w... |
| 05/15/2007 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 48d lost | Employee was stepping off the loader. As he stepped down from loader, as his right foot touched the ground, he felt a burning in his left leg. Employee tore muscle in left calf. |
| 06/23/2006 | POWERED HAULAGE | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was operating a haul truck. He alleges that the seat collapsed. He alleges that his back was injured by the alleged seat collapse. He took a week's vacation the next week and resigned from th... |
| 02/11/2006 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | EE was helping change a rock crusher hammer with another EE. During the process, the EE got his finger caught under the hammer causing it to be pinched and therefore cut causing 6 stiches to be receiv... |
| 10/10/2005 | ELECTRICAL | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 1d lost | EE alleges that he was shocked while leaning against electrical box. Witness saw employee fall but cause of fall is still under investigation. |
| 09/07/2005 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | While lifting pipe with hands, the pipe slipped and a burr on the pipe cut his finger. |
| 06/24/2005 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 5d restricted | WHILE CUTTING A CONVEYOR BELT EMPLOYEE ACCIDENTALLY CUT HIS RIGHT THUMB WITH A BELT KNIFE |
| 06/13/2005 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | EMPLOYEE HAD PUT OIL IN EXCAVATOR AND AS HE GOT TO THE CATWALK, HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND SLIPPED ON THE CATWOLK, FALLING TO THE GROUND |
| 03/28/2005 | STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 2d lost | Employee crawled through an opening to clean the bottom deck of a screen. While attempting to crawl out of the screen, he struck his right knee on the bottom of the screen housing |
| 10/01/2004 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 3d lost | Employee was lifting a brush pile and felt a pain in his back. |
| 06/30/2004 | STRIKING OR BUMPING | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING READY TO LEAVE WORK. HE STOOD UP IN BULLDOZER CAB AND ACCIDENTALLY HIT HIS HEAD ON CB RADIO. HE CUT HIS HEAD REQUIRING FIVE STITCHES TO FOREHEAD. |
| 06/11/2003 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 1d lost | EE WAS BENDING DOWN TO TURN OFF WATER VALVE. THE WET SCREEN WAS ABOVE HIM & HE HIT HIS HEAD ON PIPE. EE HAD TO GET A FEW STITCHES. |
| 05/23/2003 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 37d lost | EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON CRANE ENGINE WHEN HIS RIGHT HAND GOT CAUGHT IN THE FAN BLADE CUTTING THE TOP OF HIS RIGHT HAND. |
| 10/04/2002 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING BULLDOZER WHEN THE GROUND GAVE WAY CAUSING BULLDOZER TO ROLL ON IT'S SIDE CAUSING CUTS AND ABRASIONS TO EMPLOYEE (FIVE STITCHES TO THE HEAD). |
| 05/07/2002 | OTHER | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 4d lost | EE STATED THAT ON 5/7/02 HE NOTICED HIS BACK STARTED TO HURT WHILE HE WAS WORKING. HE SAID NO SPECIFIC INCIDENT COULD BE NOTED THAT CAUSED THE PAIN TO START, IT JUST STARTED HURTING & GRADUALL Y GOT W... |
| 04/17/2002 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 4d lost, 3d restricted | EE CLAIMS HE HURT HIS BACK WHILE WORKING. EE STATED THAT ON THE NIGHT OF 4/16/02 HIS BACK STARTED GETTING SORE. THEN HE STATED ON 4/17/02 HIS BACK WAS HURTING SO BAD THAT HE SAID HE NEEDED TO GO TO TH... |
| 11/16/2001 | ELECTRICAL | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 31d lost | EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING A BATTERY CABLE ON A LOADER WHEN HIS RING FINGER ARCHED CAUSING HIS FINGER TO GET BURNED. |
| 05/10/2001 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | WHILE WASHING UNDERNEATH DRY SCREEN, A ROCK COME OFF OF THE CONVEYOR BELT AND STRUCK EE ON RIGHT ARM ABOVE WRIST CAUSING A LACERATION. |
| 04/17/2001 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | EE WAS PULLING ON A WELDING LEAD AND TRIPPED AND FELL ON HIS LEFT HAND RESULTING IN A BROKEN LEFT HAND, |
| 02/16/2001 | OTHER | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 2d lost | A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO WARNINGS CAM ABOUT ABRUPTLY IN OUR VICINITY. THE EE ATTEMPTED TO FLEE FOR PROPER COVERAGE & PROTECTION FORM THE STORM. THE EE WAS IN A TRUCK W/2 OTHER EES WHE N A STR... |
| 12/14/2000 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | WHILE GRINDING ON A PIECE OF ALL-THREAD ROD, EE LACERATED AND BROKE THE TIP OF HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER WHEN THE ROD BECAME HUNG IN THE GRINDER. |
| 08/30/2000 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING NEAR A FREE FACE. THE ROCK GAVE WAY OR SLIPPED UNDER HIS FOOT, CAUSING HIM TO FALL APPROXIMATELY 47 FEET OFF OF THE HIGHWALL. |
| 06/22/2000 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | EE WAS CUTTING A HOSE WITH A KNIFE. EE WAS PULLING KNIFE TOWARD HIMSELF AND WHEN THE HOSE CUT THE KNIFE INADVERTANTLY CUT THE TOP OF HIS LEFT ARM CAUSING HIM TO GET SEVERAL STITCHES. |