All MSHA-reportable accidents at Stillwater Mining Company operations in 2025. Fatalities appear first.
Upon performing a post blast inspection at the start of night shift, a miner identified material that had fallen approximately 50' from blast area. Miner notified supervisor, incident was confirmed to meet the criteria of immediately reportable. Area was barricaded to prevent entry.
A miner was mucking a recently blasted round. While mucking, the mucker bucket contact and initiated a primer (blasting cap). The miner was uninjuried and barricaded the area to prevent injury.
A fall of ground in the 56E 16,300 A3 stope was found by a miner. The miner called to report the fall to dispatch and the event was verified by management at 9:45 pm and called into MSHA. The area was immediately guarded and barricaded to prevent entry.
A miner traveled into the 56E 16,000 A2 lower stope to gather supplies. Miner observed the FOG and reported it to the night shift GF. The area was barricaded to prevent entry.
A FOG occurred in the 72 740 +280 west panel heading. The miner was remote mucking at the time when the back fell in. There was no injury.
The employee was performing routine preventative maintenance on a transformer when EE was fatally electrocuted.
A miner was in the nest of an Alimak Raise putting together a 2"" valve for the hose reel when a rock came out of the raise, bounced into the nest striking the miner in the leg causing a laceration requiring sutures.
Miner was assisting partner in loading a pallet with a power cable on it. While guiding the 2yd operator up to the pallet, the bucket of the loader contacted the Miner's ankle, resulting in a fracture.
Miner was attempting to move a unit of wire panels by hand. Afterwards felt discomfort in back.
Employee inspecting shotcrete coverage on new air door install, & as EE grabbed the west de-energized air door, while pulling it open to inspect behind it, in doing so the the direction of air flow was east to west causing the east door to close resulting in EE's right hand to be pinched between the doors.
Employee reports was changing steering valve assembly (approx 50 lbs). Set unit on mucker hood to continue work. It fell off the hood contacting employee's right pointer finger resting on mucker frame, causing a blow out type injury and fracturing the tip.
While stepping out of pick-up employee slipped on small frozen puddle. Employee fell congtacting pick-up causing fracture to left forearm. Employee was given light duty restrictions and returned to work on next scheduled shift.
The employee reports EE contacted EE's head while entering the rail mantrip. The contact jarred EE's neck causing pain. The employee was seen by a doctor and issued restrictions.
The employee reports was traveling down the 75 fwl in a haul truck on good roads. The parking brake set up on the truck while in motion causing the employee to twist lower back. The employee was wearing seat belt at the time. The employee was seen by a doctor and issued restrictions.
Injured employee was holding a truck part while another employee used Sawzall to cut the mounting bolts. The sawblade slipped and cut employee across back of Left hand, through gloves. The employee was seen by on-site medic and referred to further care. EE received suture to close the laceration.
While operating a Club Car the employee reached out to push some vent line out of the way. In the process they received a laceration to the forearm. The laceration required 5 sutures to close. Employee was issued a full release.
Employee lifting battery operated chainsaw up to work deck using a rope & it got caught on the edge of work deck, employee reached down with left hand grabbed the saw & in process safety switch & trigger engaged resulting in saw blade to contact gloved right index finger resulting in a laceration requiring sutures, given full work release making this a medical reportable incident.
Employee reports EE was drilling a reamer hole when the steel shanked. EE was contacted by an object in the shoulder but thought nothing of it. Upon changing out EE noticed a small laceration that required one suture to close.
Employee states EE was using a safety knife to cut suction hose to length. The hose and knife slipped and contacted the miner in the leg. The contact resulted in a ~2 inch laceration requiring suture to close. The employee returned to EE's next scheduled shift.
Third party Audiologists confirmed a reportable hearing shift of the right ear on 12/16/2025. This is a MSHA reportable STS shift if 25 dBA or more.
Employee failed annual hearing test on 5/9/25 and was retested on 5/28/25 where it was suspected of an STS in left ear, A 3rd party audiologist confirmed this to be a reportable shift of the left ear on 5/29/25 via e-mail to operator making this a reportable hearing loss
During a review of audiogram results by a third party Audiologist on 5/14/2025it was determined that an employee sustained a reportable threshold shift in their left ear. The employee is being re-trained in accordance with section 62.180 of the CFR