Blue Diamond Hill: 392 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Maintenance Mechanic/lube truck driver was leaving the laydown/boneyard in EE's personal vehicle and over traveled an old unused ramp (25' wide 35' at an average).

Injured Employee pulled up to pile to be loaded with material. Loader Operator loaded Injured Employee's first trailer, then pup trailer. Injured Employee proceeded to pull away when something in the transmission broke and gear shift snapped, hitting Injured Employee in the upper leg and knee area leaving a knot and bruising.

Shoveling stemming material into blast holes and hurt wrist.

Miner was cleaning mud off of roller with a hammer when the belt and roller caught the hammer pulling arm between the belt and roller. The miner received cuts and abrasions on right arm. The miner was taken to ER for treatment and received a tetanus shot.

Injured employee drank an unknown liquid from a water bottle.

Tracking rock feed/conveyor when rock fell and smashed right index finger.

EE was using a torch to cut a piece of metal off on the load out hopper. And a hot piece of metal rolled down and into EE's left hand. EE got burned and a laceration on EE's left hand. EE was taken to Urgent care.

Operator was hauling from the active mining area to the crusher stockpile. Operator was approaching a 70 degree turn - unloaded. The truck was coming down a grade of approximately 14%. He began to apply the brakes, and they failed to engage. He made the decision to proceed straight down the hill to the berm area, and he turned the truck to the left into the berm

EE was cleaning under the Pan Feeder at the Screen Plant. At break time he left to walk up to control room. As he walked down the 2 steps in this area, he stepped onto the expanded metal walkway. Walkway had small depression & he stepped in it, resulting in him twisting his ankle & falling down on walkway. Xrays were negative. Dx was ankle sprain & foot sprain.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING THE COMPANY 3/4 TON PICK UP FROM SHOP AREA TO THE R07 MINE AREA. ON THE 1ST CURVE OF THE MINE HAUL ROAD, HE LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK. THE TRUCK SLID SIDEWAYS & HIT THE BERM. THE TRUCK THEN ROLLED SEVERAL TIMES & THE EE WAS THROWN FROM THE VEHICLE. EE WALKED AWAY BUT WAS TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO THE HOSPITAL.

EE SHUT DOWN THE GENERATOR FOR THE END OF THE SHIFT. AS HE WALKED OUT OF THE GENERATOR TRAILER, HE STEPPED ON TO THE PLATFORM AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS. THE PLATFORM WAS COVERED WITH ABOUT 1"OF SNOW. AS EE STEPPED ON THE SOLID METAL SECTION OF THE PLATFORM, HIS FEET WENT OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE FELL DOWN, STRUCK HIS ARM WHEN HE LANDED AND THEN HE SLID DOWN THE STAIRS.

EE STATES THAT WHILE LIFTING A HEAVY WRENCH HE NOTICED SOME STIFFNESS & SORENESS DEVELOPING IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE CALLED OFF WORK 10/8, 10/9, 10/11 , 10/12 AND 10/13. REPORTED ACCIDENT AFTERNOON OF 10/13. ALLEGEDS HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE WHILE WALKING ON UNEVEN GROUND WHILE LOADING EXPLOSIVES. NO ONE SAW HIM TWIST HIS ANKLE. HE TOLD NO ONE HE DID IT. WE ARE APPEALING THIS CASE WITH STATE INDUSTRIAL INSURANCE.

EE DROVE THE WATER TRUCK INTO AN AREA HE SHOULD NOT HAVE DRIVEN INTO. HE BECAME DISORIENTED AND BACKED THE TRUCK OFF OF A 10 FOOT BANK. THE TRUCK ROLLED OVER ONCE AND CAME TO A REST ON ITS SID E WITH CAB POINTED UNPWARD. EE WAS OPERATING THETRUCK KNOWINGLY WITHOUT BACK UP LIGHTS HE NOTED IT ON HIS PRESHIFT.

TIGHTENING A BOLOT ON TRANSMISSION IN DRILL. USED 3/4" BOX END WRENCH. WRENCH SLIPPED OFF BOLT, EE STRUCK LEFT ELBOW AGAINST THE FRAME OF THE DRILL. THIS HAPPENED A SECOND TIME MINUTES LATER. EE FINISHED SHIFT AND RETURNED TO WORK NEXT DAY.HAD SURGERY AND BONE CHIPS REMOVED--9/26--OFF 4 DAYS.

EE COMPLAINED OF BACK PAIN THE END OF DEC 1994-HE TOOK OFF 4 WEEKS IN JAN AS VACATION. HE CAME BACK TO WORK ON JAN 30 1995. HE WORKED ON AN DOFF UNTIL FEB 21 1995 HIS LAST DAY AT WORK ON MARCH 8 1995 HE WAS DEAGNOSED WITH METASTATIC ADENURUREINUMA OF UNCERTAIN ETILOGY EE DIED ON MARCH 30 1995 LISTED CAUSE OF DEATH METASTIC LUNG CANCER.

EMPLOYEE WAS INVOLVED IN CHANGING OF TRAM HAUL LINES IN STEPPING OFF THE TRAM STRUCTURE HE STEPPED IN SOME GREASE-LOST HIS BALANCE & HIT HIS SHIN

EMPLOYEE WAS AS8ISTING WITH INSTALLATION OF A SUSPENSION CYLINDER ON A 773B CAT TRUCK THE CYLINDER WAS IN THE RETRACTED POSITION EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING TORQUE WRENCH ON THE BOTTOM RETAINING PLAT E WHEN THE CYCL3NDER EXTENDED FELL PINCHING EMPLOYEES THUMB BETWEEN THE WRENCH AND A HYDRAULIC JACK WHICH HAD BEEN USED TO REMOVE THE OLD CYLINDER HIS LEFT THUMB WAS CRUSHED AND IT WAS DEEMED

I,NAME WAS DRIVING A 50 TON HAUL TRUCK #2927. WHEN HE DROVE INTO THE STOCKPILE AREA, HE LOST THE BRAKES ON THE TRUCK. (HE TOLD THIS TO HIS FOREMAN AFTERWARDS) HE HEADED THE TRUCK INTO A BERM. HT THEN JUMPED FROM THE TRUCK.