Castle Mountain Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Individual was helping install hoist bed pins on a 777 haul truck. EE bent over to get a tool and when EE raised up EE hit the back of head on the fuel tank guard causing EE to lose consciousness for a short time.

EE was using a sledge hammer to drive a shaft out of a fan bearing when EE's hand hit the fan housing causing a cut to the left pointer finger. 5 stitches were used to close the cut.

Employee was assisting in laying dripline on side slope of leach pad when they stepped on an unstable rock resulting in a sprain to their right ankle and knee.

Employee was cleaning up a cement spill using a shovel. This was a first aid injury until EE went for surgery on 9/23/22. First day lost time was 9/27/2022.

Employee placed EE's left hand onto a fusion machine clamp landing area, the clamp was jostled and fell onto employee left hand resulting in a cut that took 3 stitches to close.

Employee was collecting MET samples when EE turned to reach the sample paperwork and rolled EE's right ankle.

Employee was working on the lime silo when a gust of wind blew lime under EE's goggles into EE's eyes.

CLIMBING DOWN FROM DUMPSTER, CANE DOWN ON LEFT LEG, KNEE BUCKLED UNDER EMPLOYEE AND KNEE POPPED, CAUSING SPRAIN TO LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OFF A UNILOADER. HE HAD PLACED HIS LEFT FOOT ON THE STEP AND WHILE BRINGING HIS RIGHT FOOT FORWARD THE TOE OF HIS BOOT CAUGHT ON THE FRAME CAUSING HIM TO FALL FORWARD. HE ATTEMPTED TO JUMP CLEAR, BUT STRUCK HIS RIGHT KNEE ON THE LOADER BUCKET.

THE EE WAS CHANGING THE BUCKET ON A UNI-LOADER. THE BUCKET HAD TO BE RAISED SLIGHTLY AND ROTATED FORWARD BECAUSE THE RELEASE PINS WERE FROZEN. THE EE DID NOT NOTICE THE LEFT RELEASE PIN WASN'T LOCKED DUE TO THE AREA BEING CAKED WITH MUD. AS HE FOT THE RIGHT RELEASE PIN FREE THE BUCKET DROPPED AND STRUCK HIM ON THE RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING AN IMPPACT WRENCH TO TIGHTEN THE SECURING BOLT OF A SUPER NUT. THE SUPER NUT IS USED TO HOLD THE LARGE BOLTS FOR THE SPIDER ARM OF THE PRIMARY CRUSHER. AS HE TIGHTENED THE S ECURING BOLTS, THE LARGE BOLT BROKE LOOSE FROM HEAD OF THE BOLT AND THE BOLT FELL STRAIGHT DOWN CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE'S HAND TO BE CAUGHT BETWEENTHE IMPACT WRENCH AND A METAL LODGE ON THE CRUS

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A PRY BAR TO CLEAR A BUILD UP OF MATERIAL FROM A CLAM SHELL CHUTE AND AFTER CLEARING THE MATERIAL A SECOND CHUNK OF MATERIAL FELL CAUSING THE PRY BAR TO BE PULLED UPWARD AND HE STRAINED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

EE WAS LIFTING A 480 POWER CABLE FOR A GRASSHOPPER CONVEYOR & HIS FEET SLIPPED & HE FELT A PULL IN HIS LOWER BACK. EE FELT THE PAIN WOULD GO AWAY & DID FOR SEVERAL DAYS AND THEN 0N 3/27 IT BEC AME WORSE SO HE REQUESTED TO SEE A DR

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A SLEDGEHAMMER TO BEAT ON THE SIDE OF A ROCK BOX WHICH HAD PLUGGED. AS HE WAS HITTING THE ROCK BOX, HIT STRUCK HIS LEFT HAND AT ABOUT THE THIRD KNUCKLE. EMPLOYEE DID NOT REQ UEST TO SEE A DOCTOR UNTIL 03-15 BECAUSE HE FELTHIS HAND WOULD BE OK. HE SAW DOCTOR ON 031-17 AND WAS PLACED ON RESTRICTED DUTY, HOWEVER, HE DID NOT REPORT IT TO US UNTIL 03-23 BECAUSE HE WAS

EE WAS STANDING ON THE SIDE OF A CONE CRUSHER DURING RESIZING ACTIVITIES. AS HE STEPPED FROM THECRUSHER TO DECKING HE DID NOT STEP FOR ENOUGH & HE STEPPED INTO THE OPEN AREA BETWEEN THE CRUSHE R & DECK. AS HE FELL BACK HIS LEFT LEG STRUCK THE STRUCTURE CAUSING AN APPROX 3/4" LACERATION TO HIS LEFT SHIN

EE WAS CLEANING OUT BUILT UP MATERIAL IN THE #16 CONVEYOR DISCHARGE CHUTE WITH A PRY BAR. HE LODGED THE PRY BAR IN THE MATERIAL AND USED HIS FULL BODY WEIGHT WHILE PULLING BACK ON THE BAR. THE MATERIAL BROKE LOOSE AND HE CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE PRY BAR AND THE SIDE OF THE CHUTE. EE WAS WEARING LEATHER GLOVES.

EE WAS PULLING APART A TRASH PUMP AND WHEN THE CASING CAME LOOSE A SMALL AMOUNT OF A CAUSTIC SOLUTION SHOT UP. WHEN THE SOLUTION SHOT UP HE TURNED HIS HEAD TO THE LEFT WHICH LEFT AN OPENING FO R THE SOLUTION TO GET UP UNDER HIS SAFETY GLASSES. THIS IS BEING REPORTED BECAUSE THE DR PRESCRIBED A PRESCIPTION MEDICATION FOR THE EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO VERIFY THAT THE POWERWAS OFF TO WHAT HE BELIEVED TO BE A 480V POWER LINE WHICH HAD BEEN CUT DURING A BACKHOE OPERATION. HE USED A VOLTAGE METER AND WHEN HIS PROBES TOUCHED THE CABLEIT CAUSED A FLASH WHICH CAUGHT HIS SHIRT ON FIRE. EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED 2ND DEGREEBURNS TO BOTH ARMS AND HANDS, AND UPPER CHEST.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A VALVE ASSEMBLY AND IT SHIFTED CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO TWIST AT HIS LOWER BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS POURING SLAG FROM MOLD ONTO FLOOR AND AS HE WAS DUMP THE MOLD OVER HE FELT A PULL IN HIS BACK. EMPLOYEE WAS NOT SEEN BY DOCTOR UNTIL 4-23-99.

EE LOWERED THE BUCKET ON THE BUCKET TRUCK. HE STEPPED FROM THE BUCKET TO THE BUMPER OF THE TRUCKAND THEN TO THE GROUND. HE BELEIVES HE STEPPED ON A ROCK AND HIS LEG WENT OUT FROM UNDER HIM CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO HIS KNEE AND TWISTING HISBACK

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING A FEED CHUTE WHEN THE SHOVEL WAS HIT BY SOMETHING. THE HANDLE OF THE SHOVEL WAS FORCED BACK AND STRUCK HIM IN THE JAW.

EE WAS SHOVELING AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN THE LEFT SIDE OF THE GROIN AREA. HE DID NOT REPORT THE ACCIDENT TIL THE 21ST. HE WORKED TWO DAYS AFTER HIS ACCIDENT AND THEN MISSED TWO SHIFTS. WHEN HE RETURNED ON THE 21ST HE HAD A LIGHT DUTY RELEASEFROM HIS DR. SINCE WE HAD NO LIGHT DUTY WORK FOR HIM AND HIS PROJECT WAS NEARLY OVER HE WAS LET IN GO.

EE LIFTED ONE END OF AN 8" PVC PIPE. IT TWISTED IN HIS HAND POSSIBLY A BURR ON THE END OF THE PIPE CUT HIM BETWEEN THE THUMB AND INDEX FINGER.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A TIRE FROM THE RIM WHEN THE TIRE IRON HE WAS USING SLIPPED & STRUCK HIM IN THE LIP.

EE WAS PULLING SIZE SAMPLE BUCKET OUT FORM UNDER SAMPLE PLANT AND WIND WAS BLOWING--EE GOT DUST IN HIS EYE.

EE WAS STANDING ON TOP OF A ROLL OF GEOTEXTILE WHEN THE REAR UP RIGHTS GAVE WAY. THE ROLL EE WAS STANDING ON FELL TO THE GROUND. EE FELL ON TOP OF IT AND ROLLED TO THE GROUND. THE UPRIGHT N EAREST THE CAB OF THE TRUCK STRUCK EE IN THE SIDE OF THE HEAD AS HE FELL.

EE AND OTHER GOT ITO A FIST FIGHT. ALL INJURIES WERE THE DIRECT RESULT OF THIS FIGHT. BOTH EES WERE TERMINATED. WE HAVE BEEN LWABLE TO GET AHOLD OF EE TO DETERMINE IF EE S INJURIES, IF ANY ARE SERIOUS ENOUGHT TO WARRANT A SECOND REPORT.

EE INSERTED HIS PRY BAR TOO FAR INTO A TAKE UP PULLY MECHANISM CAUSING THE PULLEY TO HIT HIS BAR. THE BAR MOVED UPWARD STRAINING EE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS HEAD.

EE STRUCK HIS LEFT WRIST AGAINST THE CORNER OF A METAL BIN.

EE HAD JUST SHUT DOWN A PUMP WHEN THE TANK ABOVEHIM OVERFLOWED. HE WAS BENT OVER WHEN THE WATER HIT HIM IN THE BACK - HE FELL TO THE FLOOR & POSSIBLEY STRUCK A PROTRUDING PIPE ON THE WAY DOWN. HE HAD A CUT ON THE CHIN & LIP, & BRUISED HIS LEFT ARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS APPARENTLY BITTEN OR STUNG BY AN INSECT ON 4-14 WHEN MOVING SOIL BAGS. HIS SUPERVISOR NOTICED HIM LIMPING ON 4-20 & INSISTED HE SEEA DR. THE LEG HAND BECOME INFECTED & WAS GIVEN A NTIBIOTICS THROUGH AN I.V. AT THE P.M. CLINIC.

EE WAS DRIVING A MULE TO HIS ASSIGNED WORK AREA WHEN SOMETHING BLEW INTO HIS EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS RECHARGING BALL MILL WHEN A BALL WAS ROLLED DOWN THE CHUTE BY HAND. THE BALL STRUCK THE BALL MILL AND BOUNCED STRIKING THE EMPLOYEES SAFETY GLASSES.

EE A TEMPORARY LABORER FROM A LOCAL TEMPAGENCY WAS CUTTING DRIP LINE WHEN THE KNIFE HE WAS USING SLIPPED AND CUT HIS ARM. HE WAS USING HIS OWN KNIFE INSTEAD OF THE SAFETY KNIFE SUPPLIED BY THE MINE.

EE BENT OVER TO TURN ON A WATER VALVE. HE HEARD A POP IN HIS BACK, FELT PAIN AND DROPPED TO THE GROUND. WAS ABLE TO GET UP AFTER A MINUTE. HAD PAIN AND NUMBNESS IN LEG AND FOOT AND LOWER BACK.

EE WAS CUTTING 1/2IN RUBBER STRIPS OFF OF NEW PANELS WHEN DRAWING THE BLADE OF THE UTILITY KNIFE TOWARD HIMSELF THE KNIFE SLIPPED CUT HIS LEG

EE WAS CUTTING THE DRIP LINE WITH A UTILITY KNIFE THE BLADE WAS DULL SO HE HAD TO APPLY MORE PRESSURE TO CUT THE LINE THE BLADE TRAVELED THROUGH THE DRIPLINE INTO HIS FINGER

EE WAS OPENING A CARD BOARD BOX WHEN THE UTILITY KNIFE HE WAS USING SLIPPED FROM THE BOX & CUT HIS LEFT HAND

EE WAS GUIDING THE LOADER OPERATOR IN TO HOOK UPTHE SPREADER BAR. THE BUCKET HIT THE BAR CAUSINGTHE BAR TO ROLL OVER. THE INJURED EE WAS STANDING TOO CLOSE TO THE BAR. WHEN IT ROLLED IT TRAPPE D THE EE'S FOOT UNDERNEATH THE BAR.

SOME TIME DURING HIS SHIFT EE APPARENTLY GOT DUST IN HIS EYE. HE NEVER REALIZED HE HAD RECEIVED AN INJURY UNTIL LATE THAT EVENING WHEN HIS EYE STARTED HURTING.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSIDE AGGLOMERATOR CLEANING ORE BUILD UP AROUND FRONT PART OF DRUM. EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING WHEN TOP HALF OF BUILD UP CAME DOWN AND KNOCKED HIM DOWN.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING DOWNWIND FROM OTHER WORKER GRINDING METAL.

TEMPORARY WORKER EE BY LABOR FINERS LV NV WAS WATCHING FOR BLUGES IN LEACH PAD LINER AS BULLDOZER PUSHED PRELEACHED MATERIAL TO ESTABLISH LINER COVER LAYER. 2X22X2 PIECE OF CONSOLIDATED MATERI AL ROLLED OFF 5 FT BERM AND STRUCK WORKERS RIGHT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WALKING ACROSS WET CONCRETE FLOOR, SLIPPED & FELL.

REMOVING TIRE FROM TRUCK - LUG NUTS WERE TO TIGHT FOR AIR IMPACT WRENCH, SO DAVE WAS HELPING TIRE MAN FROM M&K BREAK IT LOOSE WITH RACHET AND BRAKER PIPE, WHEN BREAKER SLIPPED AND HIT DAVE IN CHIN. REQUIRED STICHES TO OUTER AND INTER LIP.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED OUT OF CAB OF SKID LOADER, PLACED HIS LEFT FOOT DOWN BETWEEN THE FRAME AND THE BUCKET OF THE LOADER AND APPARANTLY SLIPPED, TWISTING HIS LEFT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WORKED IN ASSAY LAB. WAS "PARTING" BULLION OFTEN. THE EXHAUST FAN FOR THE FUME HOOD HAD STOPPED AND WAS NOT NOTICED.

EMPLOYEE WORKED IN ASSAY LAB & WAS "PARTING" BULLION OFTEN. THE EXHAUST FAN FOR TH FUME HOOD HAD STOPPED AND WAS NOT NOTICED.

REPETITIVE MOTION DISORDER USE OF COMPUTER,

POURING FUSIONS IN FIRE ASSAY LAB WHEN "HEAT RESISTANT" GLOVES "BURNED THROUGH".

WORKER CUTTING PLASTIC TUBE WITH RAZOR KNIFE WITH THE TUBE PROPPED ON SAFETY SHOE. WHEN KNIFE WENT THROUGH TUBE IT ALSO PENETRATED SHOE AND LACERATED FOOT BEHIND STEEL TOE-6 STITCHES.

WAS WORKING ON NEW LEACH PAD CONSTRUCTION-SETTING DRAINAGE PIPE WHEN DIRT CLOD ROLLED DOWN BERM STRUCK THE RIGHT LEG AND PUSHED LEG AGAINST THE PIPE. APPARANT SOFT TISSUE INJURY. WORKER CONTIN UED WORKING THROUGH END OF SHIFT.

61203UTTING DRAWSTRING CLOSURE ON BOTTOM OF CARBON BAG WITH RAZOR KNIFE KNIFE CUT CORD QUICKER THAN EXPECTED

36149NG BARRELS OF WASTE MATERIAL WHEN ONE STARTED TO FALL OVER AND EMPL TRIED TO KEEP IT UPRIGHT.

54736YEE REMOVED GUARD ON DRIVE OF BELT SAMPLER AND ATTEMPTED TO CLEAN AREA AROUND DRIVE WHILE MACHINE WAS RUNNING. FINGERS WERE DRAWN INTO PINCH POINT OF DRIVE BELT AND PULLEY UNTIL THE BELT 29625.

55065RE BACKING OFF STANDARD CRUSHER TO CLEAR ROCK PLUG. EE WAS POSITIONING PORTA POWER AND PLACED HIS HAND ON THE LOCK PAWL FOR THE CRUSHER ADJUSTMENT WHEN THE OTHER WORKERS HAND APPARENTLY S 39775D FROM THE CONTROL WHICH ALLOWED THE LOCK PAWL TO RELOCATE PINCHING THE INJURED WORKERS FINGER.

USING HYDRAULIC ADJUSTERS TO OPEN UP SECONDARY CONE CRUSHER TO FACILITATE UNPLUGING CRUSHER. RAM GUIDE WAS BROKEN AND EMPLOYEE TRIED TO KEEP IT IN LINE WITH HIS FOOT. RAM ROTATED ONR ESTRACT ION, CAUGHT EMPLOYEE'S FOOT AND CRUSHED IT.

MIXING FLUX IN FIRE ASSAY CRUCIBLES AND TURNING CRUCIBLE WITH WRSIT MOTION.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED DOWN FROM STACKER PUT FOOT INTO GROUND DEPRESSION & TWISTED RT ANKLE

EMPLOYEE WAS STRIPPING WIRE WITH KLEIN PLIERS WHEN PLIERS SLIPPED & STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN THE MOUTH

WELDING AND GRINDING METAL FOREIGN BODY IN R EYE

EE WAS WALKING ACROSS LEACH PAD WHEN HE STEPPED INTO A DEPRESSION CAUSED BY A BULLDOZER TRACK AND TWISTED HIS BACK.

THE EE STATED THAT HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LOOSEN THE DRAIN PLUG ON THE FINAL DRIVES OF 6565 - 115 DOZER WITH A CHEATER PIPE AND RATCHET THE EE STAQTED THAT HE WAS STANDING ON THE CHEATER PIPE FO R LEVERAGE WHEN HE SLIPPED FROM THE PIPE AND STRUCK THE GROUND FLAT FOOTED JAMMING HIS LEGS AND SANE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ACROSS SHOT MUCK AFTER SURVEYING BLAST WHEN HE SLIPPED ON WET ROUGH GROUND & FELL CATCHING HIS WEIGHT ON THE RT HAND

WORKING AT SAMPLE PULVERIZER,LOADING AND DUMPING PULVERIZER.

PRE-EXISTING BACK CONDITION. EMPLOYEE WORKING WITH SURVEY PARTY, CARRYING ROD, STEPPED ON ROCK, SLIPPED AND TWISTED BACK.

THE EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE HELPING SERVICE THE DRILLS IN THE PIT AREA, THE WIND BLEW DUST AND OTHER FOREIGN MATERIAL INTO HIS LEFT EYE. THE EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING PRESCRIPTION SAFETY GLASSES .

DISMANTLING FORM NAILS PUNCTURED L ANKLE

EMPL STATED THAT HE WAS WELDING & CHIPPING ON BUCKET UP OF #131 SHOVEL WHEN SLAG BLEW IN RIGHT EYE. EMPL STATED THAT HE WAS USING PNEUMATIC NEEDLE CHIPPER TO REMOVE SLAG. EMPL STATED THAT HE W AS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.

SLIPPED IN HOLE TWISTED HI R ANKLE MOVING REBAR FROM SOME TANKS

THE EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE AND TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES WERE LOWERING A METAL PRESS APPROX SIX INCHES FROM A CONEX TRAILER TO THE GROUND. WHEN THE HYDRAULIC PRESS CYLINDER ROLLED FORWARD SMASHING HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN THE PRESS FRAME.

THE EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT THE TONGUE OF #2009-0854.AIR COMPRESSOR SO THAT IT COULD BE HOOKED TO THE BUMPER HITCH OF A PICKUP AND SLIPPED ON A ROCK AND FELL ON HIS BUTT OCKS, INJURYING HIS LOWER BACK.

THE EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS MOVING A 55 GALLON BARREL AND HOLDING ONTO THE TOP OF THE BARREL.THE EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHEN HE LET LOOSE OF THE BARREL HE PINCHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN TWO BARR ELS.

THE EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS DISCONNECTING A 4" WATER HOSE FROM THE FILL SPOUT OF #385 WATER TRUCK AND HURRIEDLY STEPPED BACK TO AVOID THE FLOW OF WATER AND STUMBLED OVER A ROCK.THE EMPLOYE E STATED THAT HE TWISTED HIS KNEE AND FELL DOWN.