Imerys Marble IncMining Incidents in 2020

Employee was in breakroom before EE's shift started and was opening a container with personal knife and accidentally lacerated EE's wrist.

Employee tripped on a metal bar causing them to fall into guard and fracture left hand.

Employee noticed a sump pump was not working. When they walked out to the pump they slipped, twisted ankle and landed hard on back. Employee went to ER for eval. and xrays. No broken bones. On 09/29/20 employee complained that ankle was still hurting. We took them to Ortho & They found a break in the femur above the ankle, put them in a boot.

An operator was descending down a set of stairs located at the back of the warehouse. The operator missed/ slipped on the last two steps resulting in a fall. The operator claimed to have no injuries but was sent to the local medical facility for a proper diagnosis. The employee indicated that they were using the handrail at the time of the incident & there were no witnesses.

Miner dismounted dozer to go to the restroom, when mounting dozer miner's foot slipped off the step causing the miner to catch self with the left arm.

Employee pulled up in a back hoe to address EE's union rep. When EE went to climb over a one foot wall EE's foot slipped and EE fell, straining EE's shoulder.

Swapping bucket tips from bucket to another. Struck bucket retainer lock with hammer and chard of metal broke off striking employee in right knee.

Employee strained lower back lifting a motor with a coworker. This was a two person lift.

Bulkloader was leaving scale house, stepped on rock and rolled ankle.

employee was sitting on top of the trailer tank and went to pull themselves up when they felt a burning in left hip.

Employee was crossing tracks in Shuttle wagon and brakes stop working. The shuttlewagon to hit tracks hard causing EE to bounce in seat, jamming EE's back.

The employee was walking on sloped concrete near plant 32 truck loading when employee slipped and fell. There was a thin layer of slurry type material that has washed there from the 1"" of rain we got overnight. As employee fell employee tried to catch self with right hand. Employee's right ring finger was bent during the fall and resulted in a fractured finger.

Employee pulled a groin muscle trying to adjust a bulk bag on a pallet as EE was beginning to fill. EE felt a sharp pain. EE was taken to the local ER where EE was diagnosed with a strained left groin. EE has been placed on light duty for one week.

employee was cutting hose to move truck, was attempting to cut hose with safety knife when it slipped and cut hand

Equipment operator was using a pry bar to clear jam at crusher when bar slipped and they smashed finger requiring 14 stitches.

The employee was working on a hub assembly of a cage mill. While trying to turn the hub and shaft employee's hand slipped. The rough worn surface had a sharp edge that cut through employee's glove causing a laceration on the palm near right thumb. It required 4 stitches with no restrictions. The employee removed own stitches on 5-25-2020.