The employee was on a platfrom 9 ft high helping another employee when he said he "forgot where he was at," stepped backwards and fell to the lower deck. As he hit the ground all of his weight went into his right leg breaking it in 2 places and crushing his heel bone. As he fell he injured his left bicep with 3 scratches and bruising.
Rainbow Valley Plant Metal/Non-Metal
Rainbow Valley Plant has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $6K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2008
- Latest incident
- Jun 2008
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.Rainbow Valley Plant has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $6K outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.ⓘ
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
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| 2010 Q1 | 960 | 1 | 0 | 1041.7 |
| 2009 Q4 | 880 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2009 Q3 | 1,041 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2009 Q2 | 1,098 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2009 Q1 | 3,521 | 9 | 3 | 2556.1 |
| 2008 Q4 | 7,773 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2008 Q3 | 10,797 | 3 | 2 | 277.9 |
| 2008 Q2 | 9,067 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
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| 2008 Q1 | 9,548 | 8 | 1 | 837.9 |
| 2007 Q4 | 7,782 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2007 Q3 | 7,544 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2007 Q2 | 1,722 | 15 | 6 | 8710.8 |
Reportable incidents
2 on file2008 · 2 incidents
EE was driving a Komatsu 400 haul truck. He went around as bend in the road and hit the right berm which cause the truck to jerk to the left side of the road and over the berm into the desert. He received 5 staples in his head, 4 stitches on nose, abrassion on forehead, concussion,left hip & right knee bruising and was confused pain and bleeding after the accident.
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