Employee was descending the steps of a loader holding on to the handrail and door handrail. The door was tied in the open position. The tie broke and the door hit the employee in the shoulder.
Premier Magnesia LLCMining Incidents in 2019
All MSHA-reportable accidents at Premier Magnesia LLC operations in 2019. Fatalities appear first.
- Fatalities in 2019
- 0
- Total incidents
- 8
- Year
- 2019
Top incident classifications
- 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS4 incidents
- 02SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 incidents
- 03HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 incident
- 04OTHER1 incident
All incidents in 2019
Employee was pressure testing a cooler when a piece of metal came off and hit EE's elbow.
Employee was working on a flange to install a pipe. The employee used chain falls to lift pipe but pipe got caught on pillar and stairs in area. Employee pulled on the flange to get it unstuck.
Employee was clearing a plugged discharge chute. When the plug released, the employee attempted to get out of the way of the material and in doing so slammed a hand against the area guarding.
Employee states ""wind blew the J-204 belt off track. I was placing rock on belt and was trying to replace back to original position when the wind blew the belt with rock back up in my face and knocked me back a few feet."" This became reportable when employee sought medical treatment 4/11/19.
Employee was climbing access ladder to 61A loader, missed grabbing the left handle, swung backwards striking left calf on the tire fender.
Employee was walking down stairs, tripped and fell down the last three landing on posterior and dislocating left shoulder.
Employee was handling the ring and puck process and suddenly lost grip in left hand and felt numbness from shoulder down.