GOOD CATCH COIN WINNERS
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In April 2024 Ryan DOZIER was operating his crane and realized the crane was beginning to sink while tracking on crane mats, due to poor ground conditions. Ryan reported the issue to his supervisor who reported it to office management, all agreed to walk crane out of area and stop work until a permanent solution could be found. Ryan was also one of the winners of the Cajun Corporate Good Catch for April. |
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In April of 2024 Mark BUFF observed a crew member placing his hand inside a rebar cage to run test wire while lowering the rebar cage into pile hole. This could lead to the employee getting caught into the rebar cage and be pulled into the installation location or hand and arm injury. Mark alerted the crew to stop the task. Shared his observation with the crew and a plan was built to use rope to install the wire before setting cage into test pile. |
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In March of 2024 Dwayne JOHNSONwas assigned fire watch duties, while using torch to cut sheet piles, green Dwayne noticed the acetylene hose had caught fire where the hose makes connection to the torch. He used his air horn to alert the rest of the crew. Once realized, both gauges were closed off. Once flame was out, the hose and gauges were inspected for damage. No damage was found but during the inspection it was identified that the fittings were not properly tightened. |
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march 2024 - During the process of installing a pair of sheet pile, Clay heard a popping sound which is uncommon for sheet pile. Clay searched for the source of the sound and while investigating inspected the sheet pile being installed, discovering at the top of the sheet pile where the vibo-hammer jaws attached to the sheet pile, the portion of the sheet pile inside the jaws had cracked, separating from the sheet pile. If this was not discovered would have created a dropped/falling object incident.
Once discovered, Clay alerted the crew of the finding. Work was stopped and crew made to clear the area around the vibro-hammer. Once clear, the crane operator repositioned the vibro-hammer to allow for the broken piece of sheet pile to brought to the ground. Once on the ground the sheet pile piece was found to be 8"x6' in size. In addition to receiving the Good Catch Coin for BU15, Clay was awarded 1st Place for the Corporate Good Catch Award Program as well. |
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In February of 2024 Eric Lane identified while using a crane with swinging leads, the hook on the headache ball holding the leads up didn't have a keeper pin in the hook. If the rigging was to shift there would be potential for the leads to slide out from the headache ball's hook. Eric stopped the work and had the operator lower the leads to the ground. Once the load was secured informed my crew of the observation and got a keeper pin to put in to keep the leads from unrigging. |
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In February of 2024 David Kirksey While standing up leads, saw block sheave pin coming out and about to fall out while standing up a set of lead. If fallen completely out could have resulted in additional parts of the block falling below onto ground crew. David alerted the crew by sounding the crane's horn. I stopped all activity and directed the crew to get back and stay clear. Once area was clear I lowered block and had the crew installed a new safety pin in bar. |
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In January of 2024 Jaron Edgerson noticed while setting up the leads and hammer noticed that the cable was ran over the sheave pin. If this was not found the hazard could have damaged the crane cable and lead to a dropped load incident. Jaron alerted the crew as soon as he identified the issue, work was stopped, and crew pulled the cable out and reran it the proper way. |
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In November of 2023 Derick Alexander noticed an employee wearing a harness to go in a manlift had burnt marks and holes in it. Derick stopped the employee and got him to get another harness and red tagged the harness and also showed the employee what to look for during inspection. |
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In October of 2023 Delicio Raymond noticed while raising the hammer to bail a lot of shaking with hammer cable. Delicio got with the crane operator to lower hammer to inspect, noticed sheave pin wasn't all the way in because the cotter key had sheared off. Work was stopped until replacement cotter key was installed. |
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In October of 2023 Benito Ramirez welds on the fixed lead's spotter/brace were completely broken and was only holding on by a tack weld. Benito informed his foreman and work was stopped. A welder was tasked with cleaning bad welds and welding spotter back together. |
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In October of 2023, while in work area for driving sheet piles, employee for client was 60ft in air in manlift and standing on handrail welding without being tied off. Justin notified Cajun supervision who notified client safety representative and shared observation. Client representative stopped the work and corrected the observation on the spot. Justin’s Good Catch was submitted to Cajun’s Corporate Good Catch Program for BU15 as one of the top two submissions for October and for his efforts was awarded a Cajun’s Good Catch Coin! Additionally Justin was the 1st place winner for October.
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In September of 2023 Justin Ficklin noticed a driving rig about to drive a pile with the head of the pile not seated in the hood of the hammer. Justin stopped work and had other pile drivers in area readjust the head of the pile so that it was in the hood before resuming work. |
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IN September of 2023 Shaun intervened when his one of his crew members were almost caught between power pack and trailer when loading power pack up. Shaun stopped the lift, alerted the employee of the hazard and told pile driver to move and to avoid crush points. Shaun’s Good Catch was submitted to Cajun’s Corporate Good Catch Program for BU15 as one of the top two submissions for September and for his efforts was awarded a Cajun’s Good Catch Coin!
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While drilling a shaft Randy noticed the drill rig was beginning to sink and lean forward affecting the efficiency of the machine. Randy stopped the operator and radioed the loader operator to bring some truck mats to set the rig on so we could safely continue. Randy’s eye for detail kept the equipment on stable footing and allow for continued safe operation without incident. For this Randy’s Good Catch was submitted to the Corporate Good Catch for September and awarded a Good Catch Coin.
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In July of 2023 Justin Ficklin noticed as he was about rig spreader bar to pile a broken strand on spreader bar cable and upon closer inspection, more strands on the verge of breaking. Justin stopped work and the spreader bar cables were swapped out and the bad one tagged out-of-service.
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In June of 2023 John while mentoring another crane operator observed him attempting to bail an 80 foot pile, the pile was not lining up in the leads properly and the operator was struggling to reset the pile. he noticed the hammer was close to being 2-blocked and pile was pulled to the side of the leads close to the boom. John Called and ALL STOP, alerted supervision. Operator was swapped temporarily to watch a John recover the pile. The crew was coached on what to watch for and how to rig the pile differently so that it does not get in a 2-block situation again. For being protective and a good Cajun Mentor John’s Good Catch was submitted for the Corporate Good Catch Award and received a Good Catch Coin!
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