All MSHA-reportable accidents at Carmeuse Lime and Stone, Inc. operations in 2021. Fatalities appear first.
At 12:45 p.m., management was notified that the key for the secondary escape hoist had been lost. Production was stopped and all miners were transported to the surface by the primary slope hoist man car. At 1:12 p.m., MSHA was notified that the loss of this key interfered with the use of the secondary escape hoist. At 1:22 p.m., Management was notified that the key had been found.
At 9:33 AM, the secondary escape way was taken out of service due to damage to the computer screen plug located on the boom truck. Production in the mine was stopped and all miners were transported safely to the surface by means of the slope hoist man car. The hoist was put back into service about 2:45 PM on 6/16/21.
Due to mechanical reasons, the main shaft hoist has been taken out of service at the Maysville Operation I.D. # 1507101. No miners were injured and no miners were underground when the hoist was taken out of service. After talking to employee, a call was made to report this outage.
An employee was changing a valve in a pump. EE was leaning over to pull or pulling up/over the lines and felt a catch in their back. EE went back to work and completed the job and finished the day out. EE called in the next day to report the injury and said was not coming in and going to see the doctor.
The employee was doing routine maintenance on a roof bolter and when EE stepped over a grease hose felt pain in legs, lower back, and knees. EE was working at ground level and states: raised left foot about four to six inches to make a step over a grease hose. When EE put left foot on the mine floor after making the step is when the pain started.
An employee was injured while working in #1 kiln. EE was hand scaling down coating in the kiln shell when a piece fell and struck EE's left foot. This contact resulted in two fractures to EE's left foot.
Employee slipped on ice as they opened the door to enter the mill 2 area. Employee fractured an ankle.
An employee was injured while operating a Toro Dingo. Operator entered 200 Tunnel in a forward direction and proceeded down the incline. EE filled loader bucket with muck, raising it approximately 3 feet and started to back up the incline The rear of the Dingo started to raise where the operator was standing. EE was thrown off the machine landing on the tunnel floor.
Injured was lifting a 40lb grease barrel into truck bed when finger was cut by one of the tabs on the barrel lid.
Employee was stepping off man car and when left foot touched the ground with employee's weight, employee felt a sharp burn in the center of lower back area.
Injured received 2 small burns when hot dust from ID fan contacted lower leg and foot.
Injured was starting up 6 feeder in 4 baghouse. The feeder started up and the drive started jumping flinging grease which landed on hard hat and glasses. Some of the grease entered left eye.
Employee was removing PPE, EE realized EE had some lime dust on wrists. EE removed the dust from skin. The next day EE noticed that the wrists had swollen and looked infected.
Two employees were empting the Vac truck. The affected employee was inspecting the hopper when some material came out and splashed material in eye.
This report is being filed due to some hearing loss detected during the annual audiometric testing.
This report is being filed due to some hearing loss detected during the annual audiometric testing.
Employee reported that EE injured neck when EE was jostled inside the haul truck while being loaded.