Mesabi Chief 3: 124 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

The employee was lifting the hood on the Cat Challenger tractor while performing his daily inspections and his back started to spasm causing tightness in his low back.

He was carrying a 5 gallon bucket of material down a flight of stairs and slipped on the stairs falling on his left low back. He was using three point contact during his travels down the flight of stairs.

EE was walking from the parking lot to the employee locker room and in process of doing so slipped on a slippery spot and fell on his right hip causing some pain.

While flushing the Rev 3.1 with water, he got a cramp in his back, he kneeled down and while kneeling on the metal grating he rolled his right knee over the grating and his knee became very sore.

The employee was asking a co-worker a question about a tool and when he turned around to walk away he tripped over a step on the floor and hit his knee.

Employee was feeding the plant with the loader. The feed was hard to work with -lots of stick, wet, roots - didn't want to fall. A lot of banging around and twisting and turning which caused the employee lower back pain; he can feel it popping when he moves around.

Employee was working on the stack sizer oversize pump discharge side when he suddenly stopped working and he was instantly in extreme pain. The employee was allowed to stop working. He said he just needed to rest and the pain in his knee would go away. After 20 minutes, his supervisor and a fellow crew member helped injured employee into the supervisors truck to go to the hospital.

Straightening a copper tube and it snapped like a toothpick - took off the top skin on my finger.

EE was changing cutting edge on the 966 loader. He was holding the bolt head with one hand and operating the air gun with the other. The nut grabbed onto the threads which spun the bolt and split his finger open.

Worker was fixing rafters on screen plant building when ladder slipped off of ceiling & fell to ground. Worker caught himself on rafter & when he let go he fell approximately 12' landing on the ladder before landing on the ground.

An employee was working in the mobile equipment shop and had mobile equipment running while the garage door was closed. This is against company policy/procedure. The employee suffered minor carbon monoxide poisoning. The employee never lost consciousness. The employee has since missed three days of work and has not yet returned. The employee has 35 years of mining experience.

Replacing belts on primary conveyor, miss stepped, fell and injured his left arm.

While pulling a small boat from the pond, slipped on rocks and pulled left elbow.

Up on feed box getting rock out, slipped and cut pointer finger on sliding door.

There was mud on the handrail on top deck of loader, slipped off the top of the loader and landed on left leg and butt.

Pipe swung out and hit him in the head. The pipe caused a cut in his head.

Tightening loose bolts on grizzly hopper using two wrenches. One slipped and hit employees nose.

Employee was inspecting a propane tank on our man lift. When reinstalling the propane tank, he gave a sudden push with both arms extended outward and strained his neck. He has a sore neck from this incident.

Employee was lifting a section of pipe and felt a pain in his back. He said that he was fine and it didn't hurt again until a couple of days later.

Employee was stepping down off of water truck, slipped off the step and sprained his left ankle.