U.S. Silver-Idaho, Inc.Mining Incidents in 2019

3200 Chippy Hoist kept kicking out; loop breaker would trip out. LC Relay was loose, re-seated the relay, ran checks - hoist back up and running at 11:30PM, Sunday, November 17th

Dynamic brake was sticking shutting down hoist, cleaned and reset.

3200 Chippy Hoist shut down - would not reset; computer program had to be reinstalled

Avista had a structure fire in Government Gulch - Smelterville, Idaho from Pine Creek to Osburn substation which caused total outage at Galena Mine. Power back on 11:45 PM - Sept 19, 2019.

Dynamic brake on Hoist was pitted - shutting down hoist.

Electrical substation tripped out in town.

Avista power tripped out in town of Osburn, ID. Coeur Hoist powered up 1:00 PM, ran checks on hoist and shaft

No. 3 Hoist tripped out, would not reset. Called IT in Ontario Canada - long range dial stuck when taken out of man mode - reset manually to muck mode and re-set. Recommissioned shaft - back and running at 11:10 PM.

Hoistman moving cagers from 3700 pocket to 3700 Station to transfer more muck. Stopped at upper pocket the #3 hoist stalled out and would not reset. Brake limit switch had to be readjusted.

Operate Mucker 2-4 (250M) heading up incline to get another load of muck, looked back saw flames coming from end of mucker. Articulated mucker into rib and hit fire suppression system

3700 Galena Station - loading bolts onto cage, bundle of bolts was missing a band. Put gap filler in place to prevent bolts from falling down shaft. The bolts caught the filler going into the cage and the filler went down the shaft. Shaft was inspected and cleared at 30 minutes.

No. 3 Hoist, pull muck off 5200 halfway up shaft hoist slowed down from 1700 to 500 FPM, computer gave pinion brake supply pressure fault. Found loose connection on pinion brake supply pressure transducer.

5200-206 E Cut 11; seismic event occurred during blasting resulting in failure of ground beyond support.

Heavy wet snow caused tree limbs to fall and trip out power line coming to mine. No. 3 Hoist down from 10:30 PM January 20th to 12:45 AM January 21st.

Hit side of rib with LHD bucket, pipe came down, over top of LHD operator hitting back of hard hat.

5200-159ER scaling back under protected ground, rock came out of back hitting miner on left shoulder

3200-021 RS heading into workplace when employee got stuck in mud and sand; when getting foot unstuck, miner stepped and slipped on track. Right knee ""popped"".

Accident was reported on Wednesday July 31st. 5200-186 - pulling chutes, jumped off motor to pull chute twisting right knee when heel of boot caught on motor hitch.

5200-347 barring rock out of chute, felt sharp pain in groin, pain went slowly away, grizzling on 3700, moved piece of steel, pain came back.

5200-346 Chute - barring overhead in chute, felt pain in right shoulder.

3400-049 Remove pig pin, step over it, tripped on geotech falling into handle of jackleg

3400-048 Raising crib smashed left index finger with ax driving 60 penny nail above employee's head

3200 Grizzly pulling boulders down off grizzly slope, felt belly button pop.

4900-210 Move wooden post with slusher, end of post caught rib came back hitting miner in lower right leg. Went to clinic - released to full duty on March 26th. Miner went back in on April 4th - doctor put on lost time till April 12th - elevate leg and have MRI done

5200 Grizzly - using double jack to break rocks on top of grizzly; felt strong pain in right hand.

5200 Grizzly - using double jack, something popped in left forearm.

Employee slipped and fell on ice/snow straining upper back, arm, and both legs. Went back on January 21st, Local clinic sent employee home for 3 days to rest and recover. *EE was diagnosed with fracture to left ankle on February 22nd; taken off work as of February 25th. Surgery scheduled after appointment on March 26th.

5500 #3 Station, moving 12""x12""x5' wood shaft dividers, caught right thumb between two dividers.

4600-346 Chute - dumping muck into chute, rock came out striking miner on left side of mouth - laceration

Miner stabbing roof bolts next to miner in heading. Stabbed bolt fell out of monster mat striking miner on back of left leg.

4900-334 bolting back - rock came out of back hitting miner on upper lip

5200-164 - Using powder knife to cut water hose; knife slipped and went into left thigh.

Foreign body/dirt in left eye

5200-184 Rock on face - went to pull it off, slipped and fell forward, rock slipped off face and caught middle finger of right hand between two rocks.

Changing bit on pneumatic chipper, hit trigger on shaft divider and shot out bit hitting miners upper lip.