Fall to the walkway or working surface
While walking from B Belt up C Belt, slipped with coal on floor and twisted knee.
GCC Rio Grande, Inc.Mining Incidents in 2021
All MSHA-reportable accidents at GCC Rio Grande, Inc. operations in 2021. Fatalities appear first.
- Fatalities in 2021
- 0
- Total incidents
- 9
- Year
- 2021
Top incident classifications
- 01SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON4 incidents
- 02HANDLING OF MATERIALS2 incidents
- 03OTHER1 incident
- 04HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 incident
- 05DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)1 incident
All incidents in 2021
Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects
Employee was throwing a bag of trash into the dumpster.
Fall from ladders
Climbing extension ladder to get platform on front of crusher to check main belt take-up adjustment. Slipped and/or lost footing and fell about 8' on back.
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Cleaning off a table in the raw mill, employee stepped over wheel, leg got stuck and twisted ankle.
Fall to the walkway or working surface
Disposing excess raw material in appropriate pile. Tripped over unseen rock and fell on left side, elbow, arm and shoulder.
Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects
Swinging sledge hammer to open slide gate.
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee did the line change on the 6"" line to set up in cement Silo, then came down from Silo to inspect Kiln grease system and proceeded to clean additive system shoveling material and pain got worse. EE attempted to sit in the 320 loader, but the pain intensified. EE immediately reported it to the control room to report it to the supervisor.
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Over the course of over three to four months and with increasing frequent use of grinding bowls and auto-sampler buckets, tendinitis set in to left thumb and right forearm.