BEAVERHEAD MINE Metal/Non-Metal

MINERS WERE BARRING DOWN LOOSE MATERIAL IN FACE WHEN A LARGE SLAB OF ROCK CAME LOOSE. HE HAD TAKEN ONE STEP AWAY FROM FACE AND WAS TURNING AROUND WHEN SLAB CAME LOOSE. THE SLAB HIT HIM ON THE BACKSIDE (HIP AREA) AS HE TRIED TO SCRAMBLE TO SAFETY, RESULTING INJURY OF A BRUISE TO RIGHT HIP AND LEG WITH A SMALL FRACTURE TO HIP BONE.

HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF COLLARING A HOLE WHEN A SLIVER OF ROCK INBEDDED ITSELF IN HIS LEFT EYE. THE INJURY REQUIRED MEDICAL ATTENTION TO CORRECT IT.

SOMETIME DURING THE NIGHT OF 5-13-96 OR EARLY MORNING ON 5-14-96 THE MINE EXPERIENCED A FAILURE IN THE HANGING WALL OF THE PRIME LEVEL. THE FAILURE CAUSED A CAVE IN WHICH BLOCKED THE ENTRANCE TO THE LEVEL. FRACTORS CONTRUCTING TO FAILURE ARE 1. UNSTABLE HANGING WALL DUE TO MINING SEVERAL YEARS AGO. 2. WATER DUE TO SPRING THAW.

THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING A SECOND EMPLOYEE LIFTING A SUBMERSABLE PUMP INTO THEREAR OF A PICKUP TRUCK THE SECOND EMPLOYEE LOST HIS GRIP ON THE APPROXIMATE 100 LB PUMP THE PUMP STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE ON THE LEFT FOOT ON & ABOVE THE STEEL TOE OF HIS SAFETY SHOE

ON 10/3/96 EE REQUEDED MED EVALUATION FOR BACK PAIN ALLEGELDLY STEMMING FROM A 5/4/95 NON REPORTABLE STRAIN. EE WAS EVALUTATED 10/15/96, NO DIFINITIVE TREATMENT WAS RENDERED. FOLLOW UP MED EXA MS/ MRI & NERVE CONDUCTION ON 11/5/96 & 11/11/96REVELED A BULGED LUMBAR DISC. TREATMENT INCLUDESEPICURAL STEROID INJECTION. EE WILL BE ON RESTRICTED DUTY FOR APPR. 3 MO/ 50# LIFTING LIMIT.

EMPL SLIPPED ON ICE AT TOP OF DECLINE AND CAUGHT HERSELF BEFORE FALLING DOWN.EMPL WAS FINE AT THE TIME.FILED CLAIM ON 2-25-92 TO SEE DR DUE TO A PAIN IN L

CHANGING CORNER BIT ON LOADER SUPPORTING BOLT WITH HAND WHILE USING IMPACT WRENCH. WRENCH FORCED BOLT DOWN AND SHARP EDGE CUT THROUGH GLOVE IN R PALM

WHILE SETTING CAP INTO PLACE SOME TALC ROCKS CAME OFF THE FACE NEAR THE BACK STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON LEFT SIDE OF HEAD. EMPLOYEE'S LEFT EAR WAS LACERATED AND LEFT SIDE OF HEAD BRUISED.

WHILE LIFTING A 10X10 CAP INTO PLACE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON THE MUCKPILE TWISTING HIS BACK

WHILE REPAIRING CATTLEGUARD ATTACHED A COME-A-LONG TO A BELT PIECE OF CHANNEL IRON AND PROCEDED TO PULL BACK THE IRON INTO PLACE FOR WELDING. AS MORE PRESUURE WAS PUT ON COM-A-LONG THE HOOK S LIPPED OFF AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON THE MOUTH CAUSING LACERATION ON UPPER LIP.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING BACK HOLES IN FACE OF C-10 STOPE HE HAD COMPLETED DRILLING A HOLE & RESACHED P TO TURN OFF THE DRILL & A ROCK SLID OFF THE TIMBER SMASHING HIS LEFT HAND BETWEEN IT & TH E&THE DRILL

IN TRYING TO MOVE AN 8X8 BOO INTO PLACE IN THE C-10 HEADING EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING ONE END OF THE BOOM ON HIS SHOULDER AND THE OTHER END WAS ON THE BUCKET OF THE LOADER ONE END OF THE BOOM ON H IS HOULDER AND THE OTHER END WAS ON A BUCKET OF THE LOADER AS THE LOADER WAS MOVING THE BOOM INTO THE LIP OF THE BUCKET PINNED EMPLOYEE S LEFT FOOT AGAINST THE MUCK PILE.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING OUT A ROUND IN C-10 STOPE HE WENT TO MOVE HIS DRILL LEG WHICH WAS STUCK IN THE MUD AND AS HE LIFTED TO FREE IT HIS BACK POPPED AND IT STARTED HURTING FROM ABOUT THE MIDDL E OF HIS BACK DOWN THROUGH HIS LEGS

EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF PAIN AND SWELLING TO HIS LEFT WRIST SEVERAL HOURS AFTER SORTING TALC WHILE ON TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENT AT THE MINE SITE.

WHILE I NAME WA8 NAILING A SCAB ONTO A TIMBER POST WITH AN AXE HE MISSED THE NAIL HITTING HIS LEFT HAND WITH THE BACKHEAD OF THE AXE. THE IMPACT BROKE THE INDEX FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND.

WHILE I.NAME WA8 GETTING OUT THE LHD, THE PARKING BRAKE MALFUNCTIONED AND DUE TO THE LHD NOT PROPERLY TURNED INTO THE RIB, THE LHD ROLLED FORWARD ROLLING OVER HIS R FOOT WITH THE LEFT REAR WHE EL. HAD PARKED 7HE LHD IN THE DECLINE WHILE PERFORMING CLEAN UP OPERATIONS

I NAME WAS LIFT3NG A 10X10 TIMBER WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

VICTIM WAS INS7ALLING ROOF BOLTS WHEN SMALL ROCK FELL DOWN THE STEEL WHILE COLLARING AND STRUCK HAND