US Aggregates, Inc.Mining Incidents in 2022

A miner stepped off the haul truck and felt EE's knee pop when EE twisted to walk away from the truck. A MRI was conducted and a torn ligament was found requiring surgery.

While installing a new feeder, there was a rigging failure on a come along which resulted in the cables failing and dropping the feeder on EE's toes. EE was wearing steel toed boots, which prevented serious injury, resulting in EE's big toes being broken. EE is on limited light duty as EE is temporarily in a walking boot.

A miner was unplugging the Block Heater from the Cat 775 Haul Truck when EE bumped the back of EE's head on the truck fender causing a laceration. Injury resulted in the miner receiving staples to close the wound on the back of the head.

EE was using a water hose washing off the concrete pad under the Plant. Employee stepped backwards off the concrete pad and felt knee pop. Employee continued to conduct regular activities while being monitored but pain has not went away. Physical Therapy was prescribed on 7/14/2022 making it reportable at this time.

A miner was attempting to unplug a bridged rock out of the the portable jaw crusher when the employees finger got caught between a rock and the metal plate. The miner was wearing gloves but the rock smashed EE's ring finger causing EE to have to receive stitches at the end of EE's finger.

A miner was working underneath the Jaw Crusher swinging a Sledge Hammer to knock out a piece of metal on May 27th when EE strained EE's lower back. The miner had previously reported EE's back was bothering EE on 5/11/2022 while working at the mine. At that time no restrictions were put in place and it was not reportable. The miner had previous unrelated back injuries.

While trimming a piece of skirt board rubber, the knife slipped on the surface, piercing left pinky finger, causing a laceration.