FMC CorpMining Incidents in 2012

Running a come-a-long, the tooth broke on the machine making him fall, injuring neck and left shoulder.

Mechanics were removing a pipe, when they cut the bolts supporting it the temporary support allowed the pipe to twist and fall striking the employee on the head, shoulder and back. The employee received a slight concussion.

The employee was working on an elevated deck, did not hook the access chains and fell about 10 feet when the pry bar slipped.

Employee was moving a large steel plate about 500# and had set it on the ground to re-rig it to move again. Initially the plate did not move but when EE stepped up to it to re-rig it fell over striking EE's left ankle.

While tamping a hole underground, employee slipped on an oil slick and fell landing hard on right shoulder and arm. Reporting shoulder strain.

On the bagging line a bag was pushed off the loading spout and began spilling. The operator reached to his left to push the e stop and strained his shoulder. On February 7 the employee sought medical treatment and was put on restricted duty.

A spud wrench impaled the injured employee in the back of the calf when another employee working above him dropped the wrench.

Employee was pulling a 55 gallon barrel off of a pallet when the pallet broke, tipping the barrel on its side. The employee bent over to roll the barrel out of the way when he felt a pain in his back. He was treated by a chiropractor.

While hanging a cable up, he stepped on the first rung of a two step ladder and felt the ladder tip backwards causing him to fall onto the belt line hitting his head on the belt line rail. The fall caused a head wound requiring 8 staples, to the back of his head.

Employee had backed out from a parking space near the tool room, turned and was moving forward to exit the warehouse parking lot when the truck struck the concrete retaining wall that runs east west to allow lower elevation access to the receiving dock.

Mechanic was welding a baffle plate inside Mono 1 dissolver, while making an up hill weld the mechanic came into contact with a sharp edge of the baffle cutting his right index finger. The mechanic was sent to Medcor where his finger was evaluated and the laceration was medically glued.

Inspecting overhead welding leads did not see hole in deck and stepped into the hole injuring his knee and straining his back.

Employee was cutting the straps off a new pallet of empty bags. He was momentarily distracted and cut his left index finger requiring sutures.

Employee was stripping a 5kV cable when the knife slipped cutting his left index finger. Sutures were required because the cut was over a joint.

Over time the employee developed ganglion cysts in the left wrist. This was determined to be work related on March 8, 2012 after receiving the medical information.