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Working On Stockpiles

A worker was injured when a large amount of frozen gravel broke free from a stockpile and hit his excavator while he was working, breaking his foot. The company was fined for failing to remove frozen material from the stockpile. Workers are frequently injured or killed when working on or around stockpiles of materials like earth, clay, sand or gravel. Dangers include slope collapse, large chunks of frozen materials falling, and equipment tipping over the edge of high stockpiles. Controls include properly sloping stockpiles, clearing areas below work faces, and not exceeding maximum safe stockpile heights.

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Working On Stockpiles

A worker was injured when a large amount of frozen gravel broke free from a stockpile and hit his excavator while he was working, breaking his foot. The company was fined for failing to remove frozen material from the stockpile. Workers are frequently injured or killed when working on or around stockpiles of materials like earth, clay, sand or gravel. Dangers include slope collapse, large chunks of frozen materials falling, and equipment tipping over the edge of high stockpiles. Controls include properly sloping stockpiles, clearing areas below work faces, and not exceeding maximum safe stockpile heights.

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Working on stockpiles

A worker was breaking down frozen gravel on


the surface of a stockpile with an excavator.
A large amount of gravel suddenly broke free
and hit the side of the excavator’s boom and
cab, injuring the worker’s foot. The company
was fined $65,000 for failing to remove
frozen material from the stockpile. When loading
• Never enter an active loading area.
Every year, workers are injured or killed when
working on or around stockpiles of earth, clay,
• Never leave the cab of your vehicle while
loading is in progress.
sand, or gravel. Often the victim is the driver of a
haul truck, loader, or bulldozer, but occasionally • For a linear stockpile, excavation must proceed
it can be a pedestrian or the driver of a highway along the working face. For a conical stockpile, it
truck, utility truck, or scraper. must proceed around the toe.
• If you are removing earth, clay, sand, or gravel
Explain dangers with powered equipment, the working face
should be sloped at the angle of repose, or
• When material is being removed from a the vertical height of the working face should
stockpile, the slope could collapse or large not be more than 1.5 metres (5 feet) above the
frozen chunks of material could fall off and maximum reach of the equipment.
severely injure the operators. • If the stockpile is too high, some of the material
• When work is being done at the top of a should be bumped over the crest by means of
stockpile, the equipment can weaken the a bulldozer or long-arm backhoe and buffer
crest of the pile. Drivers have died when their material. The area below should be cleared.
equipment tipped over and rolled down the • Never undercut the working face or leave a
slope. hollow in it.
• Equipment operating at the top of the
stockpile could drive over the edge or through When operating on top of a stockpile
a berm. • Use a bulldozer or loader, together with buffer
• Pedestrians at the bottom of the slope could material, to push the material over the crest of
also be seriously injured by falling material. the pile.

• The stability of the slope can quickly change • Always keep an eye out for cracks, slumping on
with fluctuations in the weather (changes in the slope, or bulging at the toe. These are signs
moisture, freezing and thawing, etc.). that the slope may be unstable. If you see any of
them, warn other workers immediately.
• Barriers and berms must never be moved or
Identify controls altered.

Consider some of these simple safety tips. • When using a loader or bulldozer, always
approach the crest at a right angle (90°) to the
Before starting work edge to keep the weight of the equipment away
from the edge.
• Use the site plan to remind yourself of
the location of structures, stockpiles, and
roadways. Demonstrate
• Never exceed the maximum height of any Review the site plan and point out any stockpiles.
stockpile. Maximum height must be determine Ask what the maximum height is for each
by an engineer. stockpile. Ask loader operators to explain how
they will excavate material from each stockpile.

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