ROSEBUD Metal/Non-Metal

MINER WAS LOADING SPLIT SET BOLTS INTO A TAM ROCK ROCK BOLTER. SOME SMALL LOOS ROCK CAME DOWN FROM HIGH ON THE RIB WALL HITTING HIS HARDHAT. HE PUT HIS HANDS UP OVER HIS HEAD AND SOME MORE PIE CES CAME DOWN. ONE OF THEM STRUCK HIS LITTLE AND RING FINGER OF LEFT HAND. IT FRACTURED THE VERY TIP OF THE BONE OF THE LITTLE FINGER.

LHD OPERATOR WAS MUCKING IN STOPE. HE NOTICED A SMOKE ON RIGHT SIDE OF ENGINE COMPARTMENT. HE GOT HIS FIRE EXTINGUISHER AND DEPLOYED IT ON FIRE AREA. THOUGHT IT WAS OUT BUT IT FLARED BACK U P. HE EMPTIED THE EXTINGISHER AND IT FLARED AGAIN. HE THEN EXITED THE STOPE & CALLED FOR STENCH TO HAVE THE MINE EVACUATED. MINE WAS EXAVACTED AND MINE MANAGEMENT NOTIFIED & MINE RESCUE ACT

EE WAS SCALING DOWN LOOSE ROCK FROM HIGH ON RIB WALL. WHEN LOOSE ROCK DISLODGED, HIS MOMENTUM TOOK HIM FORWARD UNDER THE ROCK. THE LOOSE ROCK CAME DOWN ON HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. HE WAS TAKEN TO H OSPITAL AND XRAYS SHOWED NO FRACTURES. SHOULDER WAS BRUISED AND RESULTED IN RESTRICTED DUTY.

EE WAS TRIPPING RODS AND SLIPPED OFF THE BACK OF THE DRILL DECK AND FELL 2 1/2'.

EE WAS WORKING AS A RELIEF SHIFTER. HE WAS MAKING HIS MORNING ROUNDS ON A TRACTOR. AS HE WAS BACKING OUT OF A STOPE, HE HAD HIS HAND ON A FIRE EXTINGUISHER BOX. HE RAN OVER A ROCK WHICH MADE T HE REAR MANBASKET (WHICH IS HINGED) BOUNCE UP AND THE FRAMEWORK PINCHED HIS LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN IT AND FIR EXTINGUISHER BOX. IT LACERATED AND FRACTURED A BONE POF THE FINGER BETWEEN THE 1ST

EE WAS TAKING A RIB SAMPLE IN STORE #22 PANEL S-7, HE HAD LOST HIS SAFETY GLASSES BUT PROCEEDED TO SAMPLE. WHILE CHIPPING A SAMPLE A SMALL ROCK CHIP LODGED IN HIS RIGHT EYE. THE CHIP CAME OU T AT THE DR'S OFFICE. NO DAMAGE TO THE EYE, BUT HE WAS PRESCRIBED ANTIBIOTIC EYE DROPS TO PREVENT ANY INFECTION.

AT START OF SHIFT, A GEOLOGIST PLUGGED IN A "SALAMANDER" SPACE HEATER IN THE CORE SHED STORAGE AREA. SOME CORE BOXES LEFT FROM NIGHT SHIFT WERE IN FRONT OF THE HEATER. HE LEFT TO USE THE RESTR OOM IN ANOTHER BUILDING. WHEN HE RETURNED HE DISCOVERED A FIRE. TOLD SHIFT BOSS & MECH. THEY EXTINGUISHED FIRE W/ EXTINGUISHER & WATER TRUCK.

EMPLOYEE JUMPED OFF DECK ONTO GROUND AND TURNED ANKLE WHEN LANDED. AT FIRST THOUGHT IT WAS A MINOR SPRAIN AND WENT TO THE DOCTOR.

EE WAS BACKING 3.5 LHD OUT OF ACCESS MAKING A TURN WHEN LHD TIPPED OVER ON ITS SIDE. EE THEN LOWERED BUCKET TO GET LHD BACKON ITS WHEELS. WHEN IT WENT BACK UP HE BRACED HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT HAND AND REMOTE CONTROL BOX COVER SLAMMED DOWN ON HIS INDEX & MIDDLE FINGERS. BOTH FINGERS WERELACERATED NEEDING STITCHES.

EMP WAS CLEANING OUT LIFTER HOLE TO INSTALL COLLAR PIPE. HE WAS BENT OVER AND A ROCK PEELED OFF OF THE FACE FROM ABOUT 10' HIGH AND HIT HIM ON THE HEAD FORCING HIM TO THE GROUND. WHE HE HIT HE LACERATED ABOVE HIS RIGHT EYE AND UPPED LIP & LOST ONE TOOTH.

EE WAS LOADING BENT PIECE OF 6"PIPE INTO THE BACK OF A 20TON HAUL TRUCK W/HIS PARTNER. THE PIPE SLIPPED AND CAME DOWN OVER THE SIDE OF THE TRUCKHE DROPPED HIS END AND IT BOUNCED UP AND CAME DO NW & CUT HIM ON HIS UPPER RIGHT ARM REQ STITCHES

EMPLOYEE WAS MUCKING WITH A 3 1/2 YARD WAGNER LHD W/CANOPY ABOUT 1/2 WAY IN PANEL. ROCK CAME OUTOF BACK, HIT CANOPY AND BROKE W/ A PIECE HITTING HIM ON THIGH ABOUT 3" ABOVE KNEE. THIS FOCED HI S FOOT INTO ON THE FLOOR BOARD AND CAUSED COMPRESSION FRACTURE JUST AT THE ANKLE OF LEFT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING U.G. DOZER. HE STOPPED THE DOZER AND WAS GOING TO GET IT OFF. HE STEPPED OUT ON THE TRACKS OF DOZER & SLIPPED, AS HE WAS FALLING, HE REACHED FOR VENT BAG, BUT IT DIDN'T HOLD HIM UP. HE FELL OFF HTE DOZER LANDING AWKWARDS ON HIS RIGHT FOOT. & DISLOCATED HIS ANKLE & CHIPPED PART OF LOWER LEG BONE.

DOING HIS NORMAL WORK, NOTICED SOMETHING IN HIS EYE, WENT TO THE DOCTOR TO HAVE IT CHECKED OUT AND REMOVED.

EE WAS HELPING CHANGE CONVEYOR BELT AT BATCH PLANT. HE WAS CUTTING THE BELT W/A RAZOR KNIFE. PULLED THE KNIFE TOWARDS HIM AND IT SLIPPED AND POKED HIM IN THE LEFT LEG INSIDE JUST ABOVE THE KNE E. IT TOOK 3 STITCHES.

GROUND GAVE WAY DUE TO UNSEEN SLIP AT INTERSECTION JUST IN THE ACCESS OF THE ORE ZONE. INTERSECTION WAS BOLTED WITH 6' SPLIT SETS AND SPOT BOLTED WITH 8' SPLIT SETS. BROKE OUT ABOVE ANCHORAGE ON ONE SIDE AND ABOUT 4'-5' ON OTHER SIDE OF INTERSECTION. JUMBO HAD BEEN DRILLING IN PANEL. OPERATOR NOTICED "DRIBBLING"; GOT OFF JUMBO TO CHECK ROOF. GROUNDFALL BURIED JUMBO. NO INJURY.

EE WAS STANDING ON DRIVERS SIDE FRONT OF 20 TON HAUL TRUCK. OPERATOR OF HAUL TRUCK STARTED TO BACK UP AND ARTICULATED CAB OF TRUCK TOWARD RIB WALL. THE PINCHED THE EE LEFT LEG AGAINST THE RIB WALL. SMALL BONE IN LOWER LEFT LEG FIBULA WAS FRACTURED. ALSO PUNCHRE TYPE WOULD TO BACK OF CALF.

MINER WAS HELPING OTHER MINER BOLT W/SPLIT SETS IN UP RAMP, 1ST ROUND IN FROM INTERSECTION. MINERS HAD BARRED DOWN INITIALLY + 1 MORE TIME. WHILE INSTALLING A MAT, A ROCK APPROX. 30# CAME OUT OF BACK STRIKING HIM ON ARCH OF RIGHT FOOT. THIS BROKE A BONE IN FOOT & CAUSED LACERATION WHICH NEEDED STITCHES.

EE WAS BOLTING W/JACKLEG-WAS ON HISLAST BOLT IN MAT ON BACK. OTHER MINER HAD HALTED PREV ACTIVITY TO BAR LOOS ROCK FROM BACK. SMALL FOOTBALL SIZE ROCK CAME LOOSE. UNWAWARE, STRIKING EE ON RIGH T FOREARM CAUSING LACERATION APPROX 2"L WHICH REQUIRED SUTURES

WAS MOVING CORE OFF DRILL SITE, SLIPPED ON MUDDY GROUND, DID NOT FEEL ANY PAIN UNTIL HE WENT TO MOVE ANOTHER BOX. HE SHARP PAIN IN LEFT SIDE OF BACK.

SPILING HAD BEEN DRIVEN ABOVE BROW. EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON STEEL SET AND WAS UNDER THE SPILING. A SMALL SLAB HAD WORKED LOOSE IN THE BACK AND FELL ON THE SPILING AND BROKE W/PIECE OF IT HITTI NG EMPLOYEE ON THE BACK. THIS WAS AT THE END OF HIS ROTATION. HE THOUGHT HE WAS OK. AT THE STARTOF NEW ROTATION, HIS ARM WAS BOTHERING HIM SO HEWAS SENT TO DR. GOT LIGHT DUTY RELEASE 6 DAYS.

EMPLOYEE WALKED AROUND THE CORNER OF NEW PORTAL BLASTING SITE TOO SOON AFTER 4 MISS HOLE SHAD BEEN BLASTED. I HAD A SEPARATE FUSE PRIMER AND HAND'T GONE OFF. IT WENT OFF AS EMPLOYEE APPROACH ED THE FACE. HE WAS HIT ABOUT THE UPPER TORSO ARM, NECK, AND FACE W/CLAY TYPE FLY ROCK. EYES HAD TO BE IRRIGATED AND FOREIGN MATERIAL REMOVED.

WHILE ROCK BOLTING BACK EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING JACK LEG BY THE LEG TO CHANGE STEEL. HEAD OF JACK LEG TILTED FOREWARD PINCHING RIGHT RING FINGER.

FALL OF GROUND STARTED AT 11:45PM WITH SMALL AMOUNT & KEPT WORKING. COULD NOT ATTEMPT TO SUPPORT GROUND UNTIL IT QUIT FALLING.

EMPLOYEE WAS MUCKING FACE WITH 3 1/2 LHD WHILE RETURNING TO MUCK BAY TO DUMP LOADED BUCKET A FALL OF GROWN OCCURRED.