Driving a bushing with a chisel when a piece of the chisel broke off and punctured left knee.
Soledad QuarryMetal/Nonmetal
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 13
- Years on record
- 2000–2004
- Latest incident
- Nov 2004
Reportable incidents
13 on file2004 · 6 incidents
CUTTING WITH A TORCH AND A PIECE OF MOLTEN METAL BURNED THROUGH SOCK AND BURNED FOOT.
Employee was hospitalized on 9/28/04 with pneumonia and on 11/9/04 tells us the doctor says it was Valley Fever and he contacted it at work.
Grinding on excavator bucket when foreign object entered left eye.
GETTING DOWN OUT OF A WATER TRUCK TO FILL IT. STEPPED OUT & FELT PAIN IN LEFT KNEE.
WORKING ON A CONVEYOR UNDER JAW CRUSHER, TWISTED AND STOOD UP.
2003 · 1 incident
WHILE LOADING RIP RAP WITH A ROCK BUCKET A ROCK FELL FROM THE BUCKET AND THE LOADER'S REAR LEFT TIRE RAN OVER IT CAUSING IT A SUDDEN VIOLENT MOVEMENT THAT HURT EE BACK.
2001 · 2 incidents
WAS CHISELING ON SCALPER PLANT WHEN SMALL SHAVING EMBEDDED ITSELF IN WRIST.
CHANGING LINERS. PIECE OF METAL HIT WORKER IN LEG.
2000 · 4 incidents
A ROCK GOT STUCK IN JAW ON MAIN PLANT AND EMPLOYEE WAS USING A PRY BAR AND ANOTHER ROCK CAME DOWN AND HIT THE BAR, AND HIS FINGERS GOT SMASHED BETWEEN THE BAR AND THE SIDE OF METAL PLATE ON IN SIDE JAW.
CHECKING OIL IN WATER TRUCK AND HIT THE EXHAUST PIPE WITH ARM.
TAKING OFF A CUTTING EDGE ON LOADER #17-365, HOLDING THE BOLT WITH HAND AND USING IMPACT WRENCH TO TAKE BOLT OFF AND THE BOLT CUT THOUGH MY GLOVE AND CUT MY HAND.