United Salt CorporationMining Incidents in 2013

Strain to the right shoulder occurred while holding on to the AMFO tote's bottom liner outlet in an attempt to stop the leakage of AMFO while transferring from large to small tote bag.

Employee was diagnosed with a hernia when he saw a doctor for a physical checkup. His new-employee physical from 9/18/13 did not diagnose the hernia. After interviewing him, he said that he felt a pull in the groin area while moving a pallet on 11/25/13. He did not report the incident prior to his diagnosis. We assume this is the date of his injury.

The operator pulled a 80 bag and felt a slight pain in his stomach. The injury was not reported until the end of the shift the next day. He said he was ok but was sent to the doctor on 3-1-2013 for evaluation and was put on restricted duty.

EE was working on the press when he felt a slight pull in his groin. He reported the incident to his supervisor and did not request a doctor visit at the time. EE reported pending surgery to the company on Feb 12th 2013 and was sent to the company doctor and was released on restricted duty.

Employee went to the top of water softener elevator to clean pipe and to make sure the it was switched to #1 bin. While he was up there a bug flew inside his right ear. He went to ER and the Doctor that removed the bug said there was a small hole in his ear drum ER Dr. also prescribed antibiotics

Employee hurt back outside of work and claims work aggravated injury.