Carmeuse Lime and Stone, Inc.Mining Incidents in 2011

A rod near the brake shoe of the elevator was bent. This tripped the safety on the elevator causing it to stop.

At approximately 100 Ft. down the elevator stopped with two miners aboard. The miners were stuck for approximately 1 hour at this location.

Man Car lost communications with hoist operator. Replaced microphone on radio in hoist house restoring communications at 12:30pm.

A switch on the elevator door was not working properly. This made the door inoperable.

Limit switches were not functioning properly on the elevator. Although this impaired the elevator, the elevator could still be used to transport workers in the case of an emergency. The on-site supervisor contacted MSHA as a pre-cautionary measure. In hindsight MSHA should not have been contacted, since the elevator was operable.

Heavy rains caused water to go down the shaft and the water damaged some electrical components of the elevator.

Kiln 1 coal mill experienced a minor unplanned ignition of coal dust at 4:36am following a shut-down. No damage or injury occurred as a result of the ignition. MSHA hotline was contacted at 4:40am.

The elevator door switch became misaligned. This issue made the elevator inoperable.

Oil inside of Kiln 5 bull gear housing ignited at 9:39am partially due to kiln being shut down recently. The fire was contained within the gear housing and extinguished using hand-held extinguishers at 10:20am. No injury or equipment damage occurred as a result of the incident. MSHA hotline was contacted at 10:12am to inform them of the fire.

An electrical issue occurred at the override portion of the elevator. This issue made the elevator inoperable.

EE was tied off with lanyard as he was on belt preparing to rig the pingate. Client's didn't see lockout causing belt to release and EE to lose footing and fall into pingate.

Employee tripped over a vac hose and struck her left knee

Injured was unplugging kiln 2 oxygen analyzer pipe when the air cannon cycled blowing hot dust into his eyes.

Employee bent over to hook fuel hose on the service truck, when he stood up he felt pain in his lower back.

Employee was training on powder loading of face holes in heading when a rock fell from the back striking right leg. Laceration to lower part of leg and hairline fracture of knee cap.

Injured was loading trucks from a stockpile with a 980H loader when a large piece of material rolled down and struck the loader arms jarring the machine. Injured initially requested medical attention, but was released with no restrictions. Injured subsequently was diagnosed with a hernia, underwent surgery on 5/21, and was unable to return for scheduled work on 5/23.

Employee was removing the mounting plate for kiln 4's O2 analyser. He was using his left hand to hold the socket end of the wrench in place and his right to turn the socket wrench in an upward motion. As he attempted to turn the socket wrench, he felt a pop in his left shoulder and immediately reported the accident.

Employee was working on replacing the bags in Kiln 4 Baghouse Module 3 when his right foot got caught in one of the baghouse holes where the top of the bags are and when he went to get up from there he sprained his right knee. This did not become reportable until February 14th and light duty was given.

EE was exiting a manlift basket (type with the sliding midrail) and as he was stooping to exit he slipped in wet lime and began falling. He injured his left shoulder as he caught himself. This did not become reportable until 1/5/12 when work restrictions were implemented.

While lifting tools in a bucket weighing approximately 40lbs from a gangbox the employee felt a pop in his right shoulder.

Employee dropped a piece of metal on his left foot. After follow up visit with physician on 12/8/2011 employee was restricted to sedentary work.

Employee was grinding a handrail with a hand-held grinder to prepare for painting. The grinder jerked to the side when he contacted the metal and slammed his hand into the vertical part of the handrail.

Injured stepped from the bottom step at the bagging machine to the concrete floor and felt a pop in his right knee. Injured requested medical attention later in the shift and was given work restrictions.

Employee alleges back injury while operating loader over uneven ground.

Injured was carrying a tail pulley bearing in 2 conveyor tunnel when he felt pain in his back.

While loading a face, a baseball size rock fell from the face and struck the employee on the right upper side of the back.

Employee received burns to the right wrist proximal to the thumb. The burn was caused by hot material leaking overhead from Kiln 5 Dust Trap east-side access door. Initial diagnosis was 1st/2nd degree burn. Follow up visit on 11/22/2011 required removal of tissue which designates as Reportable Injury.

Employee was cleaning out feeder with a spud bar. He smashed his left ring finger between the feeder and the spud bar.

Employee was underground in the mine at Carmeuse. He was laying on his back underneath the undercarriage of the 320 using a four inch grinder to grind on the undercarriage. Once he was done grinding, he sat up and the dust on the face shield(inside it)fell down and got under his safety glasses and a piece of debris entered his right eye.

While load explosives employee removed his gloves to tie the primacord together. While was pulling the cord, a small rock fell from above and struck his left hand between the thumb and index finger causing a laceration to his hand.

While working on K3 stone weigh feed belt,employee bent over to pick up a loose rock & felt something in his left eye. Eye was flushed and prescibed drops.

Injured finished cleaning parts in the parts washer then proceeded to bench to dry them off. Injured removed his hard hat and glasses and scratched an itch on his right eye with the back of his gloved finger causing parts cleaner or unknown foreign object to enter his eye. Injured flushed eye and requested medical attention the following day.

Injured was using hand-held drill to drill a hole for a bracket. The drill bit caught in the bracket causing the drill to twist. The twisting of the drill strained his left index finger. Injured did not request medical attention on the date of the incident. Injured later requested medical attention and was given a steroid injection on 3/8/2011.

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