All MSHA-reportable accidents at Compass Minerals Louisiana Inc. operations in 2014. Fatalities appear first.
A mechanic improperly chocked both weight brakes prior to bleeding the brake system to do maintenance work. This caused the brakes to fail allowing the south skip to descended and the north skip to rise into the crash beams in the head frame. This severely damaged both skips and some of the head frame structural steel.
Employee was descending a ladder when he did not maintain three points of contact and fell to the ground. He was taken to the clinic and released with restricted duty.
Employee was walking east towards screen plant and employee slipped on slick salt and broke his left tibia.