U.S. Silver-Idaho, Inc.Mining Incidents in 2017

No. 3 Hoist - hoisting muck when hoistman saw flash by 1750 HP motor, Hoistman shut hoist down; bar holding armatures came loose, tightened, run checks up and running at 1405 hrs.

Pipe line road from Galena to Coeur Mine - snow load dropped tree limbs on power line knocking power out to Galena Mine. Power off at 5:30 AM back on at 7:45 AM.

Hoist tripped out on main bearing temperature, cooling water line was plugged , electricians flushed the line reset and hoist was up and running by 0045 hrs June 22nd

No. 3 skip stalled above 5200 level, ""E"" brake set itself, when hoist man reset the limit switch would not reset. Electricians corrected.

Electricians checking Galena Hoist MG set, found one brush on MG set broken off. Back up and running at 7:15 AM April 18 2017

Mucker operator heard pop, looked behind and saw a mist that erupted in flame, operator activated fire suppression system and shut master switch off. Traveled past mucker out to station and to surface. High pressure hydraulic line blew out on exhaust.

3200-019 get personnel gear off locomotive, slipped on mud landing on rail, catching rail between fingers of right hand. Went to ER, negative x-ray, was released but Dr wanted PT to be seen at clinic, waited two days for appointment - at that time released to full duty.

On August 14th, 2017 miner was lifting 4' x 8' sheets of plywood, strained abdomen. Came in Tuesday, December 10, 2019 - wanted to see doctor concerning the injury in 2017, medical have taken miner off work till ultra sound had been completed.

Employee lifted 4' x 8' sheet of plywood resulting in hernia on August 14 2017. Went to surgeon in January 2020 - insurance accepted diagnosis and surgical repair as of February 6, 2020

Drilling pin hole with jackleg drill, pulled drill steel out of hole and smashed finger on rib - fractured middle right finger between drill and rib. ER did reduction on July 28th. Surgery on August 1st.

Miner in 3400-048 Raise, tripped and hit knee against footwall, small cut. Infection, miner off work for treatment of infection.

Walk from dry to mechanic shop, slipped on ice, grabbed rail, pulled right shoulder. Employee went in for MRI on February 16th. Employee's physician took employee off work as of February 21, 2017 pending physical therapy and possible surgery.

3400-057RS Moving track hoe out of ditch, back hoe slid off 5 x 10 putting miner in rib, miner to clinic deep bruise to left knee physical therapy start on Nov 27.

Work at #3 head frame, bent over to pick up brake board - felt pain to lower right back and right leg.

Trying to break pipe loose, trip backwards over top of tails box in mill, caught foot on grating or discharge line, hit back of head against grating

52-164 bolting rib in ramp felt left knee sting a little bit looked at knee and was bleeding, laceration to left lateral knee.

On Alimak deck up 5200-345 RS, rock bolting when face popped out hitting miner on right wrist. Miner wearing gloves and arm guards at time of accident.

5200 Ramp exhaust fan on mainline - miner on motor was in exhaust of the 100 HP fan - got material in left eye

Going through open air doors as swamper on ore train. Miner ducked head down to clear door, they didn't duck far enough - hard hat ear muffs caught on air door arms pulling face of miner into the pull arms.

Galena hoist room, unplug drain valve (slip regulator pots) as it drained it filled drain pan electrician reached across rail to shut valve off hit right rib against rail, fractured rib.

Alimak Raise, bolting after blasting round - just got collared when rock size of baseball came down hitting between glove and arm guard.

Prepping stope on 371 ramp, overheated