Sumner Wet Plant: 72 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Miner was walking through the plant - Reached to open door into the floc room - left leg slipped from underneath EE causing EE to land on the right patella (knee).

We were contracted to change tires on a 844 John Deere loader. In the process of jacking the equipment up - the blocking and jack failed causing the loader to shift downward and the employee was struck by the loader frame.

Miner was coming down a flight of stairs - quickly and skipping steps. Miner caught foot on the bottom last couple steps and fell hitting miner's head.

Employee was shoveling sand onto a conveyor belt. Employee was cleaning underneath the conveyor. As ee was lifting the sand to put on the conveyor ee felt left shoulder pop. This causing pain in shoulder.

Miner was replacing a valve that was worn out using an adjustable wrench. Miner had 4 bolts to remove - upon EE's last bolt to remove the valve dropped causing a laceration on EE's left forearm.

While changing bucket teeth a metal fragment struck Miner's arm.

While wheeling a 5" roller into place for as a replacement part for a belt press the roller came off the cart causing the individuals finger to be caught between the roller and floor grating. The individual suffered a break in the middle finger.

While operating a haul truck the individuals tires slipped into a rut causing his head and neck to have a whiplash type effect.

While setting up water pumps in the mine the individual stepped on unleveled ground casing the individual to twist his knee.

The individual was clearing material from the scalping tower location. While doing this clearing the individual attempted to pick up a large rock to remove it from the area, while lifting this rock it caused the individual back pain.

While reaching for the door handle on the quality control lab the individual received a bee sting on his left hand.

The employee was in an Aerial Lift working to clear a troughing roller utilizing a hammer. The equipment was not locked out at the time of incident causing the hammer to be drawn into the troughing roller also drawing the employee's hand in between the belt and roller. The employee received a hand contusion as a result of the incident.

The individual was carrying a 5 gallon fuel can to refill a heater located in the second level of the scalping tower. This individual reports slipping on ice while accessing the tower to refuel the heaters.

While working in a Scissor Lift cutting a threaded rod with a reciprocating saw, the saw blade caught causing the saw to kick back impacting the operator's face/upper lip region causing a cut/laceration.

Driver was adjusting tailgate chain and box was slightly raised, chain moved pinching his two fingers.

This individual was cleaning out next to a conveyer when a rock struck him in the back of the neck causing some pain in the shoulder along with numbness in the right arm.

This individual was walking under a out of service conveyer and ducked to avoid contact with the conveyer the individual used poor body mechanics resulted in a twisting motion causing a minor back strain. This did not cause damage to the mining operation.