Site Specific
Hand Tools & Safety
Trench
Injury Facts
Highwalls
100

What is must I do before I operate a piece of machinery at any Wardell Brothers Construction Pit. 

What is receive task specific training?

100

A machine with two continuously moving parts, such as rollers, blades, or wheels can create _______ ______.

What are Pinch Points?


100

This type of soil requires a 1 and 1/2: 1 slope or trench shoring when excavation depths exceed safe conditions.

What is Type C?

100

_________ (Number) of trips, slips, and falls occur daily in the US, accounting for 15% of all work place injuries.

What is 25,000?

100

________ ________ can be used to tie multiple pieces of rock together.

What are Rock Bolts.

200

The speed limit is ______ at the Devils Hollow Pit and Wanship Pit.

What is 10 mph?

200

In 2015, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported over _______ hand-related workplace injuries, second only to back injuries.

What is 143,000?

200

Ingress and egress refer to the provision of safe means for employees to enter and exit trench excavations. Ladders or other means of egress must be such that a worker will not have to travel more than _______ feet laterally to the nearest means.

What is 25?

200

93% of _________ crashes have visual inattention as a contributing factor.

What are rear end striking?

200

This reduces weight (driving force) on existing discontinuities and acts as an effective Rock Catcher. 

What is Benching?

300

Should MSHA show up at either pit and request information, I should refer him or her to our competent person/miners rep who is __________  or ___________.

Who are Dallas or Brady?

300

Lacerations, Crushes, Detachments or avulsions, Fractures, Other injuries include burns, contusions, sprains, strains and frostbite.

What are the 5 most common hand injures?

300

Temporary spoils must be placed no closer than     ____ feet from the surface edge of the excavation.

What is 2?

300

26% of all injury cases classified as “fall to lower level” which resulted in time away from work involved ____________ .

What are ladders.

300

Planar, Sliding Wedges, Toppling, Circular, and Rock Falls are types of _________ __________

What is Highwall Failures?

400

The address to the Devils Hollow Pit is  _______     West Old Hwy Road, Morgan, Utah. This is the address I should provide to dispatch in an emergency situation.

What is 2301?

400

Shovel, wrench, saw, knife, sledge hammer, pliers, torches, impact gun, grinder, cords, welder, and clamps.

What are some of the Hand Tools located at the Pit?

400

Type _______ soils are cohesive with an unconfined compressive strength greater than 0.5 tsf and are usually angular gravel; silt; silt loam; and previously disturbed soils.

What are Type B?

400

More than 9 people are killed daily and 1060 people are injured daily in the US due to what?

What is distracted driving?

400

Highwalls and banks adjoining travelways shall be examined _______ or more often if ground conditions warrant.

What is weekly?


500

WBC policy is that you yield to the __________ truck, use ________ hand traffic and always maintain berms that are _________ as high as the largest tire as the largest piece of equipment on site.

What is loaded, right, and half?

500

Electric tools should be equipped with a ________  _________ and operators should take precautions during use by wearing gloves and safety shoes and avoiding using tools in wet areas.

What is a grounding conductor?

500

A __________ ___________ is and individual who is capable of identifying existing and predictable hazards or working conditions that are hazardous, unsanitary, or dangerous to employees.

What is a Competent Person?

500

Out of 4188 people killed in work place accidents in 2012, 738 were in the _______ Industry?


What is construction?

500

Maintaining mass stability by controlling the movement of excavations in the ground, which can be either rock or soil is referred as?

What is Ground Control.

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