Presented by: Christopher Campman

Presented by:

Christopher Campman

SAFETY FIRST AND FOREMOST

Site employees

Personal protection equipment

Safety vests, boots, hardhats, gloves,

eye protection - uniforms, hearing and dust

protection

Training in proper use of PPE equipment

SAFETY FIRST AND FOREMOST

Work face visibility

Site equipment – compactors, dozers, cover

hauling vehicles

Back-up alarms

Cameras

Work face operations - pushing waste up verses

pushing over

Site rules/requirements

All users – sign acknowledgement

SAFETY FIRST AND FOREMOST

WHAT CAN GO WRONG?! – Everything !!

Trucks hit trucks

Trucks verses cars . . . truck wins!

Tip-overs

Compactors/dozers verses trucks

Most dangerous job . . . on the ground truck

spotters

ANIMALS

Encounter with equipment

Equipment wins!

SAFETY FIRST AND FOREMOST

Incidents

Dump trailer tip over - trailer fell on pickup truck

and hit the driver unloading the pickup – driver lost

both legs

Roll-off container fell off rails and hit front loader

driver as he dumped his load – driver never fully

recovered – permanent disability

SAFETY FIRST AND FOREMOST

Roll off stability is not a sure thing

SAFETY FIRST AND FOREMOST

Articulated dump that is now “fully” articulated

Not paying attention can lead to other

issues . . . like stability

Tailgate issue . . . Now how to “safely”

empty the truck?

1.Roll-off handle has broken off

2.Chain pin still secures

the door, but

corrosion has

removed some

metal

3.Severe corrosion

of reinforcing

supports

4.Conclusion >>

why is this roll-off

still in service?

This is the roll-off handle that broke off

This object missed the driver, although he is a

little bit shaken . . . NOT! How about a LOT

shaken!

This is view that the driver had of

the roll-off handle.

Packer box door

latch breaks at the

working face

What is the distance

between vehicles

at the working face

for good safety?

The distance between vehicles at the

working face is not being complied with.

Fortunately, this

driver did not

compound the

problem . . . and

he can get out on

the other side of

the truck

SAFETY FIRST AND FOREMOST

Ground Spotter . . . Killed – day after Christmas

2014

Authority-owned - contract private landfill

operator

Ten year veteran truck spotter – had worked for

numerous private landfill operators

Temporary employee through hiring agency

Safety equipment

Was scavenging for copper wire/pipe

SAFETY FIRST AND FOREMOST

Contract equipment operator – spotted safety

vest as he pushed the waste load with his dozer

State and local police investigation

OSHA - Investigation and fines

Insurance company issues

SAFETY FIRST AND FOREMOST

Private landfill operations – modifications

Spotter away from work face

Different backup alarms compactors verses

dozers

Safety training

Backup Alarms - 1

Backup Alarms - 2

SAFETY FIRST AND FOREMOST

Lessons learned

Spotter away from work face

Proper truck spacing at disposal area

Push up verses down

Proper training and continued updates

SAFETY FIRST AND FOREMOST

Hot loads

Fires

Special attention

at working face

WARNING! The following slide

may be disturbing for

some viewers!

Finger Degloving

In 2014, 150,000 incidents of

amputations and degloving in

the US per year;

5% of ... patients catch their

wedding band or other finger

ring on moving machinery

Cumberland County, NJ landfill

manager lost his finger while

climbing off of a dump truck

SAFETY FIRST AND FOREMOST

Safety training – how, where and when

Continuous training – routine and ongoing

Weekly safety meetings with different topics

Insurance company's and equipment

manufacturers offer information

Industry Associations - SWANA NSWMA

OSHA

Safety Consultants

SAFETY FIRST AND FOREMOST

Safety is everyone's job – site employees, truck

drivers, maintenance people and the citizens/

public who visit the site

EVERYDAY GOAL . . .

GOING HOME !!!

Questions?

SM