Gold Hill: 26 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

The employee was pinned between right-front tire and frame on the 775D haul truck.

While performing work on the jaw crusher, a jack accidentally struck the employee in the back of the head, when a weld broke on a plate that was used to secure the jack. This caused a laceration, requiring stitches and spinous process fracture.

A piece of wear metal flew off a sledge hammer and entered the employee's abdomen.

The employee received a laceration over his right eye after being struck with a belt scraper that broke loose while trying to adjust the tension.

EE WAS USING A PIPE WRENCH TO TURN A JACKSHAFT AT THE JAW TO PUT A BELT BACK ON. THE PIPE WRENCHSLIPPED OFF OF THE SHAFT AND THE EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PUT THE WRENCH BACK ON WHEN THE COUNTERWEI GHT ROLLED SLIGHTLY CATCHING THE EE'S FINGER BETWEEN WRENCH AND A GUARD CAUSING A LACERATION.

INJURED WORKS FOR OTHER MINE- AS A QC TECH. ON THIS DAY HE WAS WITH A CONSULTANT AND WENT TO THE PIT TO INSPECT ROCK AT THE TOE OF A SLOPE ONA RECENT SHOT. A ROCK ABOUT THE SIZE OF AN ORANG E ROLLED DOWN SLOPE STRIKING SHOE THEN BOUNCED ONTO HIS SHIN CAUSING A SMALL CUT. INJURED HAD BEEN HAZARD TRAINED PRIOR TO ACCIDENT.

GOING ACROSS HOOD OF TRUCK TO ADJUST PASSENGER SIDE MIRROR. FOOT SLIPPED AND FELL TO GROUND, FALLING APPROX. 10-12' TO GROUND. FRACTURED LEFT HEEL.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOWERING A SLEDGE HAMMER TO THE FLOOR. HE STRUCK THE INSIDE OF HIS LOWER RIGHT LEG,CAUSING CONTUSION OR HEMATOMA. SENT HIM TO DOCTOR TO BE CHECKED 12-27-00. DOCTOR SAID HE WAS O.K . BUT TO RETURN FOR FOLLOW UP 12-30-00. AT THAT TIME LEG HAD BECOME SWELLED. DOCTOR MADE INCISION TO DRAIN FLUIDS ON LEG. NO LOSS AT WORK OR RESTRICTIONS.

EMP WAS ON KNEE PULLING RATCHET WHEN HE FELT A SLIGHT PULL IN BACK.

EE WAS CHANGING CUTTING EDGE ON 980F LOADER. TAKING BOLTS OUT WITH AIR WRENCH BOLT HEAD WAS WORN DOWN AND SHARP. THE BOLT SPUN IN HIS HAND CUTTING PALM. EE RECEIVED EIGHT STITCHES.

EMPLOYEE, ANOTHER EMPLOYEE AND PLANT FOREMAN BEGAN CHANGING ROLLERS ON CONVEYOR SC2 AT 7:30 AM. THEY TOOK A BREAK AT 8:30 AND AGAIN AT 9:30. AT 10:30 EMPLOYEE SAID HE DID NOT FEEL WELL. HE WAS SENT TO THE OFFICE TO COOL DOWN, 20 MINUTES LATER HE WENT OUTSIDE & STOOD FOR ANOTHER 40 MINUTES WHILE OTHER PEOPLE FINISHED. AT 11:30 FOREMAN SAID EMPLOYEE WAS NOT VERY COHERENT & EMS CALLED

EMPLOYEE AND ANOTHER WERE POSITIONING A PIECE OF SCREEN CLOTH IN PREPARATION FOR LIFTING CLOTH UP ON THE TOP DECK. EMPLOYEE LOST HIS GRIP ON SCREEN CLOTH AND AS SCREEN FELL, THE END OF ONE OF THE WIRES CUT THE INSIDE OF EMPLOYEE'S LEFT WRIST, INCLUDING ONE TENDON REQUIRING APPROXIMATELY 8 STITCHES TO CLOSE THE WOUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REVERSE ROTATION OF MOTOR BY SWAPPING TWO LEADS IN STARTER BOX. EMPLOYEE THOUGHT HE WAS WORKING ON UNENERGIZED LINE SIDE LEADS. AS HE WAS MOVING ONE LEAD TO ANOTHER THE LEAD SLIPPED OFF EDGE OF SCREWDRIVER & CONTACTED THE BOX CAUSING THE ARCING & BURNING THE WIRES. LIMITED SPACE WAS WHY EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING LEADS WITH EDGE OF SCREWDRIVER. ARC BURNED HIM

EE WAS CHECKING OIL ON MACHINE IN ORDER TO DO THIS HE MUST STEP ONTO HEAD OF ENGINE WITH ONE FOOT & KNEEL ON BODY OF MACHINE WITH OTHER KNEE HE THEN MUST BEND OVER INTO THE ENGING COMPARTMENT TO REACH THE DIPSTICK WHICH IS LOCATED 18 INCHESBELOW THE LEVEL WHICH HIS KNEE IS RESTING ON BODY EE FOOT WAS NOT PLACED SECURELY ON ENGINE CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE HE CAUGHT HIMSELF WI

HE WAS GETTING OUT OF LADER WHEN FOOT SLIPPED ON STEP CAUSING OPERATOR TO LOSE GRIP ON LADDER AND BRUISE LEFT HAND ON LADDER SUPPORT.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING DROPBALL OUT OF PIT AREA FOR BLASTING HE RELEASED BRAKE PEDAL AS IT RELEASED IT RELEASED TOO FAST AND HIT HIS RT FOOT CAUSING AN ANKLE SPRAIN

EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING UP AROUND SOME SPARE MIXING BOX ARMS. HE PICKED ONE UP AND IT SLIPPED AND MASHED HIS FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS GE7TING A HANGUP OUT OF A CHUTE.A ROCK BOUNCED UP AND CAUGHT HIS HAND.

EMPL GETTING HA3GUP OUT OF JAW CRUSHER WHEN MOVEMENT OF CRUSHER AND STONE CAUSED TOOL USING TO BOUNCE UP AND HIT HIM IN LEFT JAW.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING A HANG-UP OUT OF THE JOW CRUSHER BOX. WHEN HE REACHED IN TO GET STONE CAUSING ALL THE PROBLEM IT SLIPPED AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE STONE AND CRUSHER BOX OR CONVEY BELT.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING AT THE CUTOFF SWITCH A HYD LINE CAME OUT OF THE FITTING BURNING THE EMPLOYEE WITH HOT HYD OIL

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CLEAN OUT A SCREENING BIN--A LARGE CLOD OF DRY SCREENINGS FELL AND HIT THE EMPLOYEE ON THE RIGHT ANKLE.