Allegheny Metallurgical, LLCMining Incidents in 2022

An unintentional roof fall above the anchorage zone occurred in the #3 entry, 12 block of the Northeast Mains section.

Injured employee was attempting to adjust roof mesh when IE mistakenly hit the drill rotation catching left hand on the drill steel and roof mesh.

Setting steel Hood/Cover over the chute on the Head House Frame.

Injured employee twisted left knee while attempting to hang a ventilation tube in the face of the #2 entry of #1 Mains. Employee continued to work until 9/20/22 when employee was taken off work by a physician.

Crossing from ground to concrete pad, injured did not get their entire foot on the pad (only the front part of the foot) and fell off the pad into a small open ditch, breaking both bones in the lower right leg.

Moving a full sheet of grating across the top of steel to set in place using a separate lanyard when grating fell into an opening. EE hooked the grating and wrapped the lanyard around EE's arm. It fell through an opening, pulling EE to the edge and arm through the floor opening. Upper Right Arm broken w/transverse fracture.

Ironworker connecting Bridge Steel on prep. plant thickener: Spudded a hole, while holding the spud wrench, bridge shifted and spud wrench came back and jammed a finger against the steel.

I.E. was driving a concrete mixer truck to deliver a load of batched concrete to support tube #2. As the driver was making a sharp right turn EE stated that EE felt the truck start tipping to the drivers side. It could not be corrected and the concrete mixer truck rolled over on coming to rest on the drivers side.

Employee was cutting a piece of all thread rod with a chop saw, when a piece of debris hit employee's cheek and went under the safety glasses, into left eye.

Injured employee was walking just inby the section power center in #3 entry of 8 block when the employee stepped on a rock and twisted right ankle. No work was missed as a result of the incident, however, the employee received medical treatment.

Connecting steel brace to column at Head House #3. EE signaled crane operator to 'cable up', brace came up, slammed against the brace clip and pinched the palm-thumb of left hand. Lacerated the derma, requiring 6 stitches.

Employee stated that while unloading a steel beam off a diesel forklift EE caught left ring finger between the beam and the forks resulting in a laceration requiring sutures to close. Protective gloves were being worn by the employee at the time of the incident.

The headache ball on the crane caught on steel structure with tension. Upon the ball dislodging, an attached angle brace ""bounced"" and struck the ironworker in the mouth/chin area.