Beeline Plant: 53 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Miner was trying to remove a rock that was stuck underneath the jaw crusher with a 5 lb sledgehammer. While trying to dislodge the rock that was stuck, the miner strained EE's right shoulder.

Miner was shoveling material around the crusher area. After getting home, EE's back became sore and tight.

Miner was running for cover from the starting rain storm when EE stepped on the concrete near the flocculent tank. In doing so EE stepped on a small amount of spilled wet flock and slipped. Miner said they felt a pain in lower back.

Miner was stepping out of service truck when they missed the bottom step and fell to the ground. Miner impacted the ground with left shoulder resulting in an injury to the shoulder.

Miner was inspecting the head pully of a conveyor belt on the Jaw crusher while standing on the chassis of the jaw. Miner stepped over to one of the tires and it rotated causing miner to start to fall. Miner grabbed the support leg of the conveyer to stop the fall and strained right shoulder and upper arm. Miner was placed on restricted duty by medical.

While miner was greasing mobile equipment miner went to step back into service truck and felt a pop in lower back. Miner was sent to medical for evaluation as miner requested and was placed on restricted duty due to a reported strain of muscles in lower back by medical.

Miner was removing a 12" stuck rock off the grizzly bars from the jaw crusher when the rock shifted. As a result the rock struck miner's left ring finger cutting the finger requiring stitches to close the wound.

Miner had a personal injury that miner came to work with and while operating the M982 loader it irritated the injury more. Additional strain of right lower back muscle due to improper posture while operating the loader.

Miner was climbing down out of the 980K loader during the pre-trip inspection and missed the bottom rung of the ladder that is attached to the loader. This resulted in EE falling and landing on hands and back. 6 hours later the miner requested to be checked by medical. X-rays came back negative and miner was given one off work for recovery by the doctor.

Employee was trying to loosen plug on front axle in order to check the oil level and to pull a sample. The plug was tight, so employee was going to shock it by hitting it with a hammer. The employee missed the plug with the hammer and hit finger instead.

While pull starting a chainsaw the miner felt a pop in the left wrist. X-Rays were taken and came back as negative but the miner was placed on restricted duty by the doctor to rest the wrist.

Miner was walking across an illuminated flat working surface of the mine located at the equipment parking area while greasing the equipment. In doing so EE stepped on a rock which resulted in EE twisting EE's right ankle. Reported the next day and was sent for medical evaluation which placed EE on restricted duty.

Miner strained lower back when EE was laying down on back side shoveling out from under the jaw crusher.

Miner was cutting/grinding a 20'x5" Channel Iron when it fell from the work bench catching left glove on the way down. This resulted in a strain to EE's left shoulder when it jerked EE's left arm. Miner has been placed on restricted duty and a MRI of the shoulder is pending.

On 3/20/2014 ee was shoveling at the cone crusher and other areas of the plant. While shoveling he felt a pain down his right leg coming from his lower back. It was late in his shift so he sat down the rest of the day. On 3/24/2014 ee notified safety of the incident and was sent to the doctors. The doctor placed him on restricted duty until he his back and leg feels better.

Employees were taking turns as one welded the heal plates into the loader the other would then grind. Employee was injured by indirect exposure of UV rays from his coworker who was welding He was wearing an auto darkening welding hood; The hood was on shade level #5 for grinding.

He was installing the new bearing on the head pully stacker and while holding both sides of the housing the bearing slid onto the shaft smashing his finger between the bearing.

Failure to control the vehicle, he struck a berm, causing injury to his face.

While changing screens on a 8x20 JCI screen, the employee was holding a bolt that had been worn due to materials with his left thumb and left forefinger and an impact gun with his right hand. When the employee tried to remove the nut from the bolt, the bolt spun and cut thru the employees leather glove, lacerating the left thumb.

As she arrived at the front gate and stepped out of the truck she stepped on a rock and twisted her ankle.

While changing screens, he was on one side of screen panel, and his coworker on the other side, and when they went to toss the screen his glove got caught on a hook. He pulled back and the screen caught his ear and the motion also knocked him down.