Penns Park Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Service technician working on engine removal from a Skid Steer Loader and with impact gun on a fastener lacerated right middle finger while other hand was exposed to the other end of retainer.

Employee was washing down the scale area when employee slipped and fell onto the same level landing on knee. Employee used first aid until employee requested a clinic visit on 10/10/22 where PT was prescribed.

The employee was operating a haul truck when it caught fire. The employee exited quickly and received burns to their left arm and wrist.

Struck right knee against door handle of drill.

Injured worker burned arm when IW reached directly in front of an acetylene cutting torch IW was holding. The IW received 2nd degree burns to right wrist.

While lifting support stands to be placed under a haul truck, employee lost grip and then caught support stands which pulled EE down.

While pre-heating the weld on cutting edge employee was exposed to ark flash. Employee failed to wear appropriate PPE while performing this task.

Employee was determined to have a reportable hearing loss in his left ear confirmed by an audiologist on March 26, 2013.

The injury employee was climbing out of a screen where he suspects he wrenched his lower back. The injured employee didn't have any pain until he was driving his haul truck approximately 1/2 hour later. The injured employee was treated and returned to modified.

While performing clean up in the finishing screens building at the tertiary plant employee had some material fall from above and hit him in the head and left shoulder.

The employee sustained injury to both shoulders that required treatment with cortisone injections and returned to modified duty. The injured employee was swinging a 20 lb. sledge hammer to remove a seized pin from the bushing in an arm of a Cat loader.

Slipped and fell hitting chin on conveyor while trying to remove a speed sensor.

Employee was driving a tractor-trailer, loaded with fines, down into the pit, as he reached the intersection of the "New Ramp" and "4th Level Ramp" the tractor-trailer overturned into the bank. The employee was pinned in the overturned cab and had to be removed by emergency personnel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.

Employee was tack welding a piece of steel. He had the dark shield of his welding helmet and not protecting his eyes at the time he was tack welding. This caused him to get flashes in both eyes.

EE was climbing down from the grizzly belt to the screen below. He then stepped from the screen to the handrai. As he was climbing down his foot slipped and his shin hit the I-Beam.

Employee had finished his shift and parked his haul truck; when employee reached bottom step which is fastened to the truck by cables it swung in and his foot got caught under fender guard causing employee to fall backwards to the ground. Employee went to doctor who took x-rays and found three broken toes and a sprained ankle. Employee was put out of work until further notice.

Employee was working on removing a spindle on a pick up truck using an air chisel. A sliver of steel got in his left eye and cut his cornea. He went to an eye doctor who removed the steel and prescribed medication and told him to stay out until 10/24/07 due to chance of infection. He will go back on 10/23/07 for a check up.

Removing bolts from broken step on front end loader, one bolt was removed. While removing 2nd bolt with air wrench a back up plate that the bolts went through was seized to 2nd bolt. The plate turned with the bolt & came around & hit finger on hand that was holding it.

Employee was trying to dislodge a rock from a feeder pan with a bar. The bar slipped from the rock, and the employee's finger was pinched between the bar & chute wall. This resulted in three stitches on right hand, pinky. Employee was back to work the next shift with no restrictions.

EE WAS CLIMBING STEPS TO HAUL TRK CAB & LOST HIS FOOTING & FELL TO THE GROUND. THE INJURY TO EE'S LEFT ARM/SHOULDER, AS A RESULT OF THE EE'S HOLDING ON & TWISTING AS HE FELL TO THE GROUND. STEPS WERE WET WITH LIGHT RAIN. EE FELL APPROX 3 FEET.

EMPLOYEE BOUNCED IN SEAT AFTER HITTING POT HOLE IN HAUL ROAD WHILE OPERATING A HAUL TRUCK FOR PRODUTION. EMPLOYEE'S LEFT ARM JAM AGAINST DOOR CAUSING PAIN TO LEFT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A PAIL FROM UNDER THE ASPHALT PUMP WHEN SOME LIQUID ASPHALT SLASHED OUT AND BURNED HIS LEFT HAND.

Employee's hand was caught between shovel handle and side of conveyor while digging out tail pulley resulting in a contusion.

EMPLOYEE WAS HEATING METAL STEP ASSEMBLY THAT WAS BENT; WHILE OPERATING PORTA POWER & TORCH THE RAM SLIPPED OUT OF FRAME & STRUCK HIM OVER THE LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEARING MUD OFF OF TRUCK WINDSHIELD; STEPPED DOWN ONTO ROCK AND TWISTED HIS FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING TO LOADER WHEN HE STEPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.

EE WAS CLIMBING INTO LOADER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND STRUCK HIS HEAD AGAINST TOP STEP CAUSING LACERATION TO SCALP & CONTUSION.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING PIECES OF SCRAP METAL INTO BUCKET OF SKID LOADER WHEN A PIECE OF METAL CAME OVER THE TOP OF THE BUCKET. HE STUCK HIS HAND OUT TO PROTECT HIMSELF.

EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO MOVE LARGE ROCKS JAMMED IN CRUSHER WHEN HIS FINGER BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO ROCKS.

EMPLOYEE WAS PLUGGING IN BLOCK HEATER ON LOADER AND SLIPPED ON ICE AND SNOW WHEN HE CLIMBED DOWN FROM THE LOADER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING NOTCHES IN RUBBER SHEET FOR CONVEYOR AT PORTABLE PLANT WHEN UTILITY KNIFE SLIPPED CUTTING HIS THUMB.

EE WAS CHANGING BAGS IN DUST COLLECTOR. HE STOOD UP & PLACED LEFT HAND ON RAIL. WIND BLEW THE COVER CLOSED, TRAPPING HIS HAND. THE RESULTING INJURY WAS A FRACTURED 3RD & 4TH FINGER OF LEFT HAN D.

EE STRAINED SHOULDER WHEN ATTEMPTING TO PULL HIMSELF OUT OF CRUSHER.

EE WAS USING RAZOR KNIFE TO CUT A PIECE OF NOSING FROM SCREEN CLOTH WHEN KNIFE SLIPPED, LACERATING THUMB ON LEFT HAND.

EE SLIPPED ON STONE/RUPTURED TENDON IN THE 5TH FINGER OF LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING PIECE OF CONVEYOR BELT. PULLED KNIFE TOWARDS HIM AND ACCIDENTALY CUT HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS USING A RATCHET ON A CONVEYOR BELT. THE RATCHET SLIPPED AND HE STRUCK HIS LEFT ELBOW AGAINST CONVEYOR.

DURING MOBILIZATION WHEEL HOP OCCURRED AND ROTATED CAROSEL TO OPEN POSITION. DRILL ROD FELL OUT OF ELEVATED CAROSEL FROM LOADING POSITION. DRILL HELPER WAS STRUCK BY FALLING DRILL ROD AFTER EX ITING DRILL CAB. SUFFERED BROKEN COLLAR BONE, LEFT FEMUR, LEFT AND RIGHT ANKLE AND DAMAGED SPLEEN.

EE BENDING OVER TO ATTACH HOSE TO DUST TANKER AND FELT HIS KNEE POP. SUFFERED A STRAIN TO RIGHT KNEE.

EE FOLLOWING NORMAL WORK DUTIES OPERATING EUCLID FELT SHARP PAIN IN HIS SIDE AT END OF WORKDAY. PAIN PERSISTED INTO THE NEXT DAY. FOLLOW UP AT LOCAL EMERGENCY ROOM RESULTED IN DIAGNOSIS OF FRA CTURED RIB.

EMPLOYEE WALKED TOO CLOSE TO CONVEYER AND STRUCKHIS HEAD AGAINST BOTTOM CAUSING CERVICAL STRAIN TO NECK.

EE WAS USING A HAND GRINDER WHEN THE GRINDER CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE EDGE OF THE CRUSHER OR A SMALL BOLT CAUSING GRINDER TO KICK BACK AND STRIKE HIS FACE. EE RECEIVED A LACERATION TO HIS FACE REQUIRING STITCHES.