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Employee was grinding surface area for welder. Grinder slipped and cut the employee's left middle finger. Employee received four stitches.

Following harvest activities in the Tank house, the employee was assigned to pull samples. While attaching a single pull to a cathode, the employee's left hand was caught while engaging the locking mechanism, resulting in an injury to the left hand.

Tech was installing a bull gear into the final drive of a 793 haul truck. The gear hung from a crane hook by a strap; an installer bar was in the drive. While positioning the gear, the boom-up button was pressed instead of winch-up, raising the boom and shifting the gear, pinching the tech's finger against the installer bar.

Engineer gathering information about the structure underneath HBF2 (Horizontal Belt Filter) conveyor was standing below the conveyor in the containment area when liquid splashed onto their arm and into their right eye despite wearing gasketed PPE eyeglasses. Under investigation.

Employee was washing boots off with portable hot pressure washer. While doing so a stream of hot water entered EE's boot causing burns to top of left foot.

SW-EW Employee sustained laceration and fracture injury to finger working with pipe/fusing machine.

Employee was installing the eye flush piping at the filter building. While tightening a bolt the swivel adapter on the impact broke. The pin from the swivel adapter cut the employee between the index and middle finger.

Employee was opening an air valve for a tower mill flush water when the valve got stuck. They used their hand to wipe the blade of the knife gate when the knife gate slammed open, catching their middle finger, pinching it. Employee was taken to the clinic, diagnosed with a distal fracture and referred to ortho. CURRENTLY ONGOING.

The Rubber Tire Dozer operator pulled off the haul road to allow traffic to pass. During this time, the equipment encountered a pothole, resulting in the operator experiencing pain in the lower back and left shoulder. The operator went on restrictions on 6/17/2026.

pushing material with a rubber tire dozer was backing up and ran over a rock causing machine to bounce and cause back strain.

A Mill Diagnostic mechanic was guiding a coupling guard into position using crane assistance. The mechanic attempted to lift the bottom edge of the guard to maneuver it over the adjustment bolt. The guard was set back down, the mechanic's left hand was still positioned underneath, resulting in the left index finger being caught and pinched between the adjustment bolt and the guard.

Employee was tailing a core tube out from a ct-20 to pull the sample. While tailing out the tube, the Kelly hose snagged on the wire line causing slack. As the tube came up changing the angle releasing the slack, dropping the back side of the tube 1 foot causing a strain on the helper right shoulder

Operator was attempting to fill in a hole from where the shovel came out of. While pushing material, the operator claims that they came to a sudden stop causing them to be jarred forward. Operator went restricted duty on 3/11/2026.

A Haul Truck was being loaded by a Shovel. During the third dipper, a boulder was at the top of the dipper leaning on the teeth. When the bottom of the dipper opened, the boulder did not fall through with the rest of the load. Instead, it rolled over the teeth, hit the driver side of the haul trucks canopy and fell to the ground. Operator went restricted duty on 3/12/2026.

The Shovel Operator walked the shovel back down off of the 3'-4' hard knob and the shovel jolted. This resulted in the operator experiencing neck pain.

A Mechanic was removing the propel shaft on a Shovel using a steel cable and a Dozer. While positioning the cable on the dozer's ripper, a mechanic placed a hand near the line. When the dozer moved forward, the cable shifted and caught their left hand between the cable and the ripper.

Two employees had checked a belt and were walking on the lower level of the screen plant when a rock from the next level up fell over toe board striking one of the employees on top/right side of their head.

SX/EW Operator Trainee felt pain in EE's right arm at the end of shift on 1/2/2026 after running Overhead Crane/pressing in the tank house for most of the day. Late reported 1/5/2026. Exacerbation of pre-existing shoulder condition, injury type changed from First Aid to Medical Treatment due to referral to physical therapy.

While grinding the employee felt a foreign object enter their right eye. A small metal fragment was removed on-site, and the eye was flushed. The employee was transported to the local occupational clinic, where no remaining foreign body was found, but an injury to the cornea consistent with the flushed object was observed.

Replacing return roller on locked out conveyor belt system when jack failed and belt pinned hand against roller. No broken bones, pinched muscles and loss of sensation to hand.

CC Employee was welding a wear liner block to the crusher saddle liner, in the process of building material with weld, molten Material size of a dime dropped and landed on top of pants where the top of where boot opening is. The molten material burned through pant leg and entered the boot landing on the top of the left foot. Causing a burn.

CAT79 experienced a rough load event while being loaded by Shovel 44, positioned on the outer edge of the cut and working in course material.

Employee felt pain in back after hitting a hard knob

Haul truck CAT82 was in the process of being loaded by Shovel 44 when, during the initial bucket load, a concealed boulder within the material struck the truck bed, resulting in a rough loading event.

When shovel dipper was coming out of the bed of the truck, a rock came out of the dipper and struck the dovetail, jarring the driver. Driver was taken to the ER and given time off, missing next shift, fully released on 11/03/2025.

Employee was adjusting lifting shackle and overhead crane hook during lifting operations. The employee's right index finger was pinched between lifting shackle and overhead crane hook. The employee suffered partial traumatic transphalangeal amputation of right index finger with nailbed involvement.

As employee was making their rounds in the grinding tunnel, a grinding ball rolled down the tunnel, striking them in the left calf. EE was taken to the ER, diagnosed with a contusion and placed on restricted duty. CURRENTLY ONGOING.

Tire Tech pinched hand with torque gun during maintenance activity on LDR1.

EE was removing a 20" hugger with an impact when the nut came off of the bottom half of the hugger it dropped. The EE caught it and tweaked EE's back in the process. On 9/19/25 EE was seen and sent back to work. On 9/25/2025 EE was issued physical therapy.

Employee struck hard knob in rubber tire injuring back

Mine Maintenance Employee struck/dragged across ground approximately 6 feet by SH22 hoist ropes during maintenance activity.

Employee was checking froth quality at cleaner cell when finger became pinched between froth paddle and cell weir.

Employee cut finger with grinder

Production Superintendent was attempting to re-rig an air winder to a forklift to be picked and put into place for a belt change out. The air winder was placed on a wood core for cribbing. The air winder load shifted and contacted the employees left foot causing a fracture.

Employee was operating shovel, swung shovel dipper around and felt back pain -- became reportable 5/31/2025

Employee was cleaning dump in dozer and ran over rock injuring back -- Injury became reportable on 5/31/2025

Employee injured finger changing tire

Employee hit pothole in rubber tire injuring shoulder - became reportable 7/9/2025

Employee was welding a beam to the structure. There was another welder from behind grinding material. Employee noticed sparks coming up from behind. Employee noticed a spark came in under the welding hood and landed under neath their safety glasses. The spark hit the employee in their eye. Employee imediatately flushed their eye and called for saftey.

Employee injured back prepping floor at shovel

Employee was removing panels from screen media with Air Tugger, when employee was holding Air Tugger chain with EE's left hand. Employees left hand became lodged in the Air Tugger Block causing laceration to EE's left hand.

Employee was rough loaded in haul truck

As the crew was tripping 20-foot rods, the driller assistant (DA) requested an adjustment to the jib boom. Driller contacted the head tilt lever instead of the Jib boom causing the rod to move forward unexpectedly and striking the DA between the chin and the lip causing a laceration that required 4 stitches to close.

The employee was working at the CLP Plant jack hammering concrete, when the jack hammer bounced up and landed on the employee's left foot. The jack hammer tip struck the boot between the steel toe and the Metatarsal cover. Causing a fracture to the left big toe.

Employee's right index fingertip was amputated inside the pin hole of the Tube Press 6 ram when the Overhead Crane raised the yolk out of the candle eye.

While loading Haul Truck 36, a shovel operator trainee made contact with the back of HT36 with the dipper. After dumping the operator continued onto an additional run at Shovel 3. After another full load/dump cycle, the operator stated they felt neck and back pain.

IP's 4 fingers on right hand were crushed between Horse head and block & tackle of service truck mounted crane. IP required surgery on all 4 fingers with a portion of middle 2 fingers requiring amputation

EE was using an impact wrench to remove bolts from the wear segments on a loader. EE placed a hand on the bottom edge to hold the carriage bolt up while using an impact gun. It spun the nut off. The bolt head spun causing a laceration to EE's left index finger and middle finger. EE was wearing protective gloves at the time. EE received stitches and restrictions.

Employee cut finger cutting bolt

Dozer D10-23 Operator reported pop in back and immediate pain.