As an employee was moving a bottle jack, they felt pain in their arm. It was determined that a tendon was torn. On 11/26/18, the employee had surgery to repair the tendon.
Round Mountain Gold CorporationMining Incidents in 2018
All MSHA-reportable accidents at Round Mountain Gold Corporation operations in 2018. Fatalities appear first.
- Fatalities in 2018
- 0
- Total incidents
- 7
- Year
- 2018
Top incident classifications
- 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS3 incidents
- 02SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident
- 03STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT1 incident
- 04POWERED HAULAGE1 incident
- 05MACHINERY1 incident
All incidents in 2018
An employee was walking down the slide slope of a leach pad when they tripped and fell, twisting their leg during the fall.
An employee stepped up to access a screen deck and felt a pop and then pain in their left knee.
Employee felt pain in their hip when their haul truck bed was contacted by a loader bucket while being on loaded on 2/1/2018. Due to a reoccurring pain the employee was seen on 7/23/2020 and it was determined that they needed to work on restricted duty.
While winching down the lifter got between rings on the mast ladder. Winched back up and hand was between winch line and rig mast.
While removing 9 5/8' bottom hole tooling support wrench the driller started raising wrench while helpers were in position to assist the wrench off of tooling to deck. The wrench tipped and helper two removed EE's hands as wrench started tipping in casing. As wrench tipped helper one's left ring finger was caught between wrench handle and casing.
An employee's right thumb was pinched in between a valve and pipe. The employee was transported to hospital and an orthopedic clinic and was released back to work.