Cleveland-Cliffs Minorca Mine Inc.Mining Incidents in 2006

Injured strained her left shoulder when she dumped a sample pail of taconite pellets into a waste skip. The pail of pellets weighed 30#.

EE was struck by a pipe which had been stored on top of a large tires to keep pipe out of the snow. It rolled off the tires while the injured was standing near the tires. He has just lifted a a small boat off tires and while retrieving the boat oars the pipe rolled and fell on his L ankel fracturing it pipes removed and placed in pipe rack.

Injured sprained his left ankle when he stepped awkwardly on the top rung of his haul truck ladder. Conditions were dry and there were no other unsafe conditions.

Injured pinched his right little finger between the chute liner he was installing and the chute when it slipped from his hand causing a laceration requiring sutures.

The injured was installing wear plates in the primary crusher pocket with his partner and during the positioning of the plate they were installing, his left middle finger got pinched between the liner plate and the plate below it. As a result of the pinching, he fractured the tip of the finger.

Injured lacerated his right middle finger when it was caught between a gear that was being pried off by his partner and a metal housing the gear was in. He required sutures for the laceration.

Injured slipped on ice and snow and fell against a support angle for the pellet splitter bin building. He struck his head and received a laceration requiring sutures.