West Roxbury Crushed Stone — Accidents
Total: 37 accidents | Fatalities: 0
| Date | Classification | Injury | Days Lost | Narrative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/07/2025 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 51d lost, 1d restricted | The employee was using a shovel to try and get a rock out of the #1 conveyor belt scraper when EE hit hand on the conveyor. The next day the hand started swelling up so EE went to see a doctor. They t... |
| 03/24/2025 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was changing a screen panel on the #2 screen, while picking up the screen panel, EE was cut by a sharp piece of metal on EE's right hand middle finger. |
| 11/22/2024 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was using a come along to change head pulley bearings when their right index finger got cut by getting caught between the come along and the conveyor transmission/gearbox. |
| 01/04/2024 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 2d lost | Employee notified yard foreman on 01/12/2024, that on 01/04/2024, EE was digging a rock out of a cone crusher, when EE hurt EE's hip or back. EE made an appointment with a doctor for 01/17/2024. The d... |
| 04/19/2023 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was using a razor knife to cut drive belts that were hanging from HP400 Crusher when employee cut self with the knife on left arm. |
| 08/29/2022 | MACHINERY | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 1d lost, 8d restricted | The miner was grinding a steel plate when the grinding wheel broke apart. The piece that came off cut their right leg requiring going to the emergency room for stitches. |
| 08/24/2022 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | The miner was grinding a steel plate and a small metal chip got into EE's eye. EE was wearing eye protection. |
| 01/05/2022 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 61d lost | The employee was moving/relocating a portable LT130 Metso jaw crusher. The employee was wearing a hard hat. A rock fell off of the top of the machine around the feeder area, which they saw the shadow... |
| 06/16/2020 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | While doing plumbing work, the employee caught left hand thumb between a pipe wrench and a jaw wrench. This caused the finger nail on EE's thumb to tear, EE went to the hospital where they gave EE sti... |
| 04/14/2020 | POWERED HAULAGE | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 1d lost, 8d restricted | Rock fell off a conveyor striking the employee in the back |
| 03/23/2020 | POWERED HAULAGE | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 30d lost, 17d restricted | While operating an end dump, the employee started experiencing soreness in the left knee, as the day went along it got worse. |
| 02/20/2019 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 2d lost, 37d restricted | The employee was carrying a bucket shroud, climbing over shot rock to get to the excavator on its perch. EE lost balance, fell, and thumb was crushed between a rock and the shroud. EE's thumb split op... |
| 11/10/2017 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was attempting to connect a 3"" hose with a cam lock fitting to a pipe. EE jammed hand against the screen while pulling on the hose and broke finger. |
| 09/19/2017 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employees were cutting a bolt out of a screen. EE was attempting to knock the bolt out and a piece of hot slag landed on EE's face near eye. When EE tried to brush it off, brushed it into eye. EE was... |
| 06/13/2017 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was assisting cleaning out a jammed chute when they cut their wrist on a sharp rock. Cut was bleeding so employee was transported by company to the local emergency room where they received (2... |
| 02/14/2017 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 3d lost | The employee was pulling on a breaker bar (ratchet) which disconnected from the socket causing the employee to slip and twist employee's left knee. |
| 12/06/2016 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was working reinstalling a repaired feeder. EE jammed EE's hard hat against the feeder, which caused the hard hat suspension to knock a stud that holds EE's hearing aid into EE's ear out. Th... |
| 02/25/2016 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 2d lost | Employee felt a pull in back while working on replacing a conveyor belt. EE was working overhead putting the belt on. EE notified supervisor at the end of the day but did not think it was a big probl... |
| 10/26/2015 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee cut his knee while cutting a piece of rubber belt. |
| 09/28/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 24d lost | We were in the process of pulling the moveable die from the C125 crusher when the die moved forward and pinched employee's foot between both jaw dies. |
| 06/23/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 1d lost, 4d restricted | Employee was standing on a catwalk lifting a screen panel to hand up to another employee when he felt his left elbow ""pop. |
| 02/04/2015 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 2d lost | Employee was working on the jaw's discharge conveyor when another employee energized the conveyor. The conveyor started, the employee who was on the belt fell, rolled around and hit his head before th... |
| 01/16/2015 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was cutting a piece of conveyor belt with a plastic utility knife. The knife broke and the employee cut his finger. |
| 01/07/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 3d lost | Employee wiped his eye while wearing cotton, string knit gloves and got something in his eye. He thinks whatever it was must have been on the glove. |
| 09/20/2014 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | A tool was tossed to employee who was working on a screen. He caught the tool, but the electrical cord whipped around and knocked off his safety glasses and cut him above his left eye. |
| 08/26/2014 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 2d lost | Employee tripped over concrete footings on scale. He twisted and sprained his ankle. |
| 07/17/2013 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | While working with an air tool to tighten a bolt the employee cut his hand. |
| 03/17/2012 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | While performing maintenance work on a jaw crusher, the employee activated a 1/2"" drive air gun which blew dust into his face and eye. The employee was wearing safety glasses at the time. |
| 09/28/2011 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 39d lost | Employee was shoveling under the crusher when ""he felt something give"" in his shoulder. |
| 11/01/2008 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 1d lost | Moving rock in road, slipped and sprained ankle. |
| 10/18/2008 | MACHINERY | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 13d lost | Removing bolt using impact gun. Finger crushed between truck and gun. |
| 09/12/2008 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Working with wrench on worn out bolt. Bolt had sharp edges. Spun around and cut finger. |
| 07/05/2007 | POWERED HAULAGE | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Driving loader - vibration started pain in lower back and leg. |
| 01/18/2007 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 85d lost, 14d restricted | Employee was moving 55 gallon oil drum and slipped on ice. |
| 06/22/2006 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 60d lost, 90d restricted | Climbed down from excavator to help on the portable plant. While descending the 3"" x 5"" pile where he was working, he twisted his knee and fell to the ground. |
| 03/21/2006 | POWERED HAULAGE | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 13d lost | Driving loader-moving stone-hit frozen material. |
| 05/17/2004 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | MAINTENANCE WORK UNDER TRUCK. |