Granbury Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Employee was assisting with a conveyor belt repair. Employees attached belt clamp to the belt and attached a rope on one end and other end attached to a SkyTrak forklift. Employees began to pull belt and did not know the back stop break was engaged. Rope snapped and struck employee in the face cutting EE's lip.

This Incident occurred with a customer. The injured person was not a Vista Minerals employee. A truck driver for Blackhawk Trucking jumped down off of the trailer approximately 5-6 feet after untangling the tarp. This resulted in breaking both ankles.

Vista employee notified Josey's Contractors v-belts were burning off of exhaust fan, later was shut down. Vista called Josey's to replace v-belts. After LOTO, while twisting and turning the belt into place when left handed index finger got caught between belt and equipment.

Miner was reviewing prints for a bucket elevator and stepped backwards off of a raised foundation. While attempting to break the fall, EE's wrist was dislocated. Miner was taken to an urgent care facility.

Employee was removing a spray bar with right hand and it slipped and struck the left hand causing a laceration.

Company EE was loaded with product at the mine. EE attempted to close trailer tarp via cab control. Cab control did not work, EE exited cab to use trailer mounted tarp control when the swing arm broke from motor and struck EEs hard hat and left hand. EE was transported to local ER where sutures were applied to head.

EE was cleaning at the Primary when a rock came out the diester, fell and struck EE on the hard hat. EE was transported to medical and placed on restricted duty as a precaution.

EE was washing material under C9 tail pulley with 1 1/4" water hose. The nozzle connected to the hose disconnected. EE felt pain in Rt shoulder. EE was transported to ER. In the waiting room, the EE reset the shoulder. EE told Supervisor they had a preexisting condition. This case is under investigation.

EE was clearing a chute in the 40/70 tunnel and as EE struck the chute the bar EE was using bounced back and struck nose. EE was taken to medical and prescription for pain meds was issued.

The employee stepped out of the Skid steer ee was being trained on to use the bathroom. EE stepped on a slick surface and hit hard hat on the bucket of the skid steer. EE had a contusion on the back of head.

EE was operating a 745C truck,& was swerving for an 1/8 of a mile. As ee approached the top of the pit ramp, ee was seen by the oncoming operator to be slumped over in truck. As ee coasted down the ramp, the truck stopped as the front left tire came into contact with the toe of high wall. An operator put the truck in park, & woke ee. EE has low blood sugar.

While removing a screen deck from top deck of a Rotex the employee's right shoulder popped.

The wet plant operator was changing screens on the screen deck, he had finished and was laying on his back moving back and forth to get out of the screen deck and tweeked his back.

Injury occurred while installing new shaker motor. Motor was rigged to a Skytrak that was equipped with special rigging arm. All workers noticed beforehand that Skytrak would start to shake due to angle load was in. Skytrak shook pinching ee hand in between motor being lowered and another motor that was already installed on roof. Pinch caused lacerations requiring stitches.

Wet Plant operator was using a pipe wrench to tighten the take up on BF1 at primary plant. While applying pressure the wrench slipped off and hit his middle finger against the frame of the conveyor. His supervisor was notified around 5:30pm. The operator was wearing gloves at the time of the incident.

The night maintenance person was walking to the NEW wet plant. One of our plant operators watched him fall, he ran over to him and then radioed that he had passed out. After asking him what happened he said he had not been eating or sleeping hardly at all due to a separation with his wife.

Worker started complaining of left arm numbness. He followed a manager up to the main office where his condition worsened to nausea, sweating, more numbness, so he was taken to the nearest hospital.

One of the Quality Control personnel while walking back into the Quality Control office tripped and fell on his right knee. I took him to the doctor and he was x-rayed. He was told to follow up with another doctor so we set up an appointment with concentra and we are waiting for his cat scan results to come back in. He is off work per the doctor.

I called MSHA as soon as I found out there was a fire that lasted for more than 30 min. MSHA did send a rep out to survey the incident. I just found out that I had to report this on a 7000-1.

I did not know that this was not filed until I checked on it 5/30/13. The miner was driving a haul truck over a rut causing the seat to raise up and the force caused the nut holding the seat belt in place to come loose. She immediately stopped, got help and fixed the seat belt. Then told us her shoulder was hurt.

The driver was getting into his water truck to and said he felt something pop in his stomach. He then walked over to a manager who was watching him and said that something popped in his stomach and the pain from it was getting worse. He was then taken to the emergency room.

The miner was shoveling sand since early morning and was working to clean up sand near a walkway and hurt his lower back.

Employee was walking to fill up a fuel tank and twisted his knee.

The plant was off for maintenance. Employee was greasing a bearing on the BCV155 conveyor head pulley. The plant operator turned on the plant, the start up alarm sounded. Employee did not lock out / tag out the conveyor. The conveyor started and pushed him into a safety pole that holds safety cables around the conveyor.

The haul truck operator either fell asleep or was not paying attention and drove over the 3 foot safety berm and landed on the next level of the pit. The truck landed on the front left side of the haul truck. The operator exited the truck by himself and a coworker stopped and notified the supervisor. The weather was sunny, 90F degrees, no fog and no mud on the haul road.