Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing CompanyMining Incidents in 2011

Our truck entered tracks where several trains were stopped but when he looked to left, one train was moving towards the truck. Driver tried to reverse, but too late.

Our truck entered tracks where several trains were stopped but when he looked to left, one train was moving towards the truck. Driver tried to reverse, but too late.

Our truck entered tracks where several trains were stopped, but when he looked to left one train was moving toward truck. Driver tried to reverse but too late.

While standing on trailer tire to adjust gate, hands pulled out of gloves causing employee to fall 3 ft to the ground injuring his hip. Dislocated hip.

Employee was out at the Bldg 16/30 smoking area during a meal break and tripped over a wheel chock staged adjacent to the well lit area for delivery vehicles utilizing the ramp entrance. The employee fell as a result of this trip and injured the lower portion of his left leg.

A Supervisor was getting out of pick-up near the white quarry garage and he slipped and fell breaking his lower left leg.

Strained back while assembling hub nut on 4 Roll. Hub nut weighs about 150 lbs. A crane is used to get the hub nut close to the shaft, but then it requires a person to lift/position/turn nut onto shaft. The shaft and nut were positioned about 32 inches off of ground. In this process, employee felt a pain in low left back and down into his left leg.

Employee walking down steps and his knee gave out. Employee fell down stairs, employee stated pre-existing injury, did not go to doctor until December, received Physical Therapy in Jan. PT from Jan 12-27.

While releasing air on car the employees hand brushed up against bracket and there was a sharp edge. scraped backside of hand knuckle. Infection started a few days later and he was given antibiotics

SIC employee was installing sound insulation blankets on line 1 at the crushing bag house. The blanket had metal ID tags to show where they needed to be installed. As he was swinging a hammer to pack the blanket in place, his right hand hit one of the metal ID tags causing a cut. He did have on the Mechanic's gloves.

Employee bumped head on chute and strained neck. Did not hurt right away but got worse over time. Employee went to doctor and got 10 hour work restrictions.

The employee was putting away tools after finishing a job. While pulling a cart (oxy/accetlene torch kit), the cart started to tip. The employee reached over to straighten the cart and caught his right hand on the top of the cart and cut his right hand near the thumb.

Hearing STS 25 DB shift

Hearing Loss STS greater than 25dba.

STS Hearing Loss 25dba shift from baseline.

Hearing Loss greater than 25dba

Hearing Threshold Shift: retest complete and results were just sent back.

Employee had right wrist pain from normal work activities in maint which turned out to be Carpal Tunnel. he had surgery before he retired.

Employee alledges exposure to rock dust containing silica has cause respiratory illness.

On 3/9/11, EE suffered severe dizziness due to Meniere's disease. He fainted on the job and was taken to local hospital. Was also vomiting and unable to stand.

Employee alleges he scratched his leg a week previous and infection sat in requiring medical attention.