O-N Minerals (Chemstone Company)Mining Incidents in 2021

Employee was unplugging chute when employee fell injuring back and ribs.

EE was cleaning when bucket with lime bumped a step causing lime to go into the air and enter EE's eyes.

Stepped into the bucket of a skid steer loader to enter the operators cab. Right foot slipped when left foot caught the edge of the bucket causing employee to trip, twisting right foot resulting in a fracture to the right foot.

EE was removing a 6"" hose from a pump and felt a pain on their backside/upper leg. EE was discharged from the ER with restrictions to stay off work and follow-up with an orthopedic specialist.

Employee was using a pry bar, when it got loose from EE's hands between the bar & structure bruising it. No further injury nor prescriptions but doctor did issue restriction to not use due to swelling.

Cutting metal with a hand grinder, grinder jumped forward running across the employee's thumb, cutting the thumb. Employee was not wearing gloves, did not SLAM the task, and wrong tool for the job. The grinder cut the tendon on the thumb, the tendon was repaired and released back to work with restrictions.

Employee was impacting bolts. Socket separated from impact and hit employee in the upper lip, causing a small laceration. Employee received 2 stitches in the upper lip. Returned to work w/no restrictions or lost time.

A temporary employee had emptied a portable dump hopper and was latching it back down when EE's finger got pinched between the lever and the wall of the hopper cutting the tip of EE's finger off. The employee was not wearing gloves at the time of the incident. EE was released back to the temp. service when EE admitted that EE could not pass a drug test.