New Britain QuarryMetal/Nonmetal

Employee was lifting a barrel of grease into position. While doing so their foot slipped on truck surface causing body to reflex and drop the barrel into position.

Two piles of mulch/strippings were discovered smoldering at a stripping operation. Ignition source unknown, No damage or injuries

Reportable Hearing Loss

Reportable Hearing Shift

Employee was replacing brushes on sweeper when EE felt a sharp pain in EE's right bicep. Assumed to be a slight tear.

While shoveling, employee slipped and fell, fracturing right lunate bone (wrist bone)

Putting beam into #2 screen. Sliding the third beam into place, it went a little to far. The bolt holes didnt line up. Went to pull the beam back into place to align the bolt holes and heard/felt a pop.

Employee has been placed on MSHA log for hearing shift. Testing had noise variables due to on-site testing during production due to Covid-19 restrictions for large gatherings and local occupational exams being restricted.

Employee was using a bar with a hook on the end to move a steel plate on the screen deck in an area with very low clearance. While lifting the plate with the tool, it slipped off and struck the employee in the mouth chipping his front tooth.

Motorist trespassing on site deliberately drove vehicle off the face.

Employee was removing the lower tramp cylinder mounting pin with a drift pin and small sledge hammer while supported by a crane. When pin removed, the tramp cylinder shifted pinching the employee's fingers between drift pin and crusher base stud causing fractures and lacerations.

While installing return idler, the idler fell out of the bracket striking his left middle finger.

Employee was positioning tire with axle of truck in preparation of mounting it when the tire began to fall back towards him. The employee was unable to support the falling tire when it began to fall. The tire knocked the employee to the ground with the tire resting on his left leg/knee.

Employee had finished cutting EMT (Electrode Magnetic Tubing) with a handheld bandsaw. Upon completion of the cut, employee rested bandsaw on tripod designed to hold saw when not in use. Employee bumped tripod causing the saw to fall. The employee attempted to catch saw and cut pinky finger on exposed blade.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT BACK BECAME SORE AFTER MIXING PAINT TOGETHER

While removing the conveyor support legs from the receivers. The legs moved upward pinching employees finger between the support and conveyor frame causing

Employee felt pain in Right Wrist when removing steel door on bucket.

while attempting to turn on parts washer, employee experienced a shock at switch

employee picked up a heavy piece of steel that was too heavy for him to carry alone and he felt a pop in his lower left side of his back

while using a wrench with force caused an unknown collapse of vein in Right hand middle finger.

Employee was assisting electrician at pulling some wire. Employee removed gloves to gain a better grasp on the spool of rope when the electrician pulled on the other end. This pulling action resulted in the metal ring in the center of the spool to cut the emplyees finger.

EE's lower back had been sore for about a week. Then on the claimed date of injury the pain moved down into his right leg while he was operating a crane.

Employee was bending over picking up air hoses & extention cords. When he came up his head hit the loader hood, recoiled and hit H20 shut off. Laceration to forehead required 4 sutures.

EE WAS BENDING OVER TO SHUT OFF HEATER WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN THE BACK.

While torch cutting pipe put torch down and torch flopped over towards his hands, burning through his welding gloves to his hand.

Under vehicle removing transmission dust/dirt came off nuts falling onto forehead roling into eyes

Was sandblasting and pulling hose when he felt a tingling in the neck

Was on man lift. When decending, the basket caught a pipe and then jolted employee against side, injuring his right shoulder & upper arm.

Employee was lifting steel stairs without assistance and a piece of steel fell and pinched finger in between.

Was removing the dpray bar from tack truck # 549061, when the spring disconnected and flung loose, hiting employee in head requiring 2 stapels

Was dumping loader into crusher and experienced pain in elbows and forearms, employee worked with this pain for a few weeks, and it never got better- he waited til the end of july to seek attention

WAS WORKING ON A SAW BLADE WHEN A CO-WORKER WHO WAS WORKING ON ANOTHER PIECE OF EQUIPMENT HAD A PIECE COME LOOSE AND IT FLEW AND HIT FOREHEAD OF EE.

CLOSING HOOD OF VEHICLE LOST FOOTING ON ICY SURFACE, SLIPPED AND FELL.

GOT PINKY FINGER STUCK BETWEEN WOOD AND A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT.

TIRE BLEW OUT WHILE BEING CHANGED.

PULLING HOOD OF VEHICLE DOWN FELT PAIN IN SHOULDER, NECK AREA.

USING AN AIR HOSE, IT UNCLAMPED AND FELL ONTO STEEL TOE BOOTS, AT TOP AND PUNCTURED TOP OF HIS FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS EXITING THE TOW MOTOR WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN HE ROLLED HIS LEFT ANKLE ON AN UNEVEN PORTION OF ASPHALT.

EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING A MACHINERY PART IN A VISE. THE PART DISLODGED & STRUCK HIS FINGER CAUSING A FRACTURE.

DURING ANNUAL HEARING TESTING, IT WAS FOUND THAT EE SUSTAINED A PERSISTENT THRESHOLD SHIFT. BASED ON THE ATTACHED INFORMATION, HE SUSTAINED A RECORDABLE HEARING LOSS.

EE SHOWS A 25 DB LOSS AT 2000, 3000 AND 4000 HZ BLATTERALLY. THIS WAS REALIZED AS A RESULT OF A 4-12-01 AUDIOGRAM. RESULTS ATTACHED

EE SHOWS A 25 DB LOSS AT 2000, 3000 AND 4000 HZ BLATTERALLY. THIS WAS REALIZED AS A RESULT OF A 4-21-01 AUDIOGRAM. RESULTS ATTACHED

WHILE MOVING DUST WITH SHOVEL FROM UNDER DOOR, EE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LWOER BACK. INITIALLY PLACED ON LIGHT DUTY THEN TAKE OUT OF WORK ON 54-16-01. RETURN TO WORK ON 4-23-01 IN LIGHT DUTY BASIS.

EE CLAIMS THAT PROBLEMS WITHT HE SEAT IN HIS TRUCK CAUSED HIM TO SUSTAIN A STRAIN TO HIS NECK AND BACK. EE BEGAN TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK AS OF 5/30/00.

EE WAS USING WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS LUBRICANT ON SCREEN SUBSTANCE SPILLED ONTO EE'S LEG CAUSING A BURN TO HIS LEG AND RIGHT SIDE.

EE WAS INSTALLING A TRANSMISSION AND HYDRAULIC PUMPS IN A TROJAN 7500 LOADER WHEN HE DEVELOPED BAKC PAIN. HE WAS PLACED ON LIMITED DUTY UNTIL 2/5. SEES PHYSICIAN ON AN AS-NEEDED BASIS.