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Maintenance employee was using a pipe wrench to loosen a drain plug when they felt a strain in their shoulder.
Was opening a band on a box of product w/utility knife when it slipped and cut EE's pointer knuckle.
Wrench slipped, struck employee lip causing laceration.
The employee swung a pickaxe to break the built-up clinker Build up. Then, they felt a sharp pain in their right shoulder, stopped using the pickaxe immediately, and reported it.
At 11 AM on 2/18/2025, an employee was working on a concrete pump, attempting to drive off the bearing housing. The employee put a wedge in place and hit it with a hammer, but the wedge flew off it hit the employee in the mouth. This resulted in a lower lip laceration which needed 3 sutures.
Two employees used a sledgehammer and a pry bar to remove a headliner from the ball mill. When the sledgehammer struck the liner, a sliver of the liner's edge came off and struck the employee holding the pry bar in the left arm.
Raw Mill extension chute broke and fell, landing near to and injuring an employee. Employee was taken to hospital for evaluation.
Raw Mill extension chute broke and fell, landing near to and injuring the employee. Employee was taken to hospital for evaluation.
Employee struck their left thumb with a hammer while tightening a bolt with a slug wrench.
Employee was wearing improper cut level of gloves when hammering metal on metal. Metal piece separated, cut through employee's glove and into the skin between two knuckles.
Cut left hand while breaking down boxes
An employee was using a chisel and hammer to remove a bearing. The chisel splintered and a metal fragment hit employee on the forearm causing a small laceration. A month later, employee started feeling discomfort when moving finger. An X-ray was done on 9/16/24 showing a foreign body embedded in their arm. Surgery will be required to remove it.
The crew was installing an axial blower using two manual chain hoists. While lifting the filter housing, a gasket came loose underneath the suspended part. As an employee tried to adjust the gasket with their hands, one of the chains moved and the blower fell and crushed the employee's left index finger, causing an injury.
EE states they were using a poke bar in a silo to break up chunks of material. EE had shoulder pain and was treated as first aid until 07/01/2024 until they were diagnosed with a collar bone fracture.
Employee was poking through a poke hole clearing limestone plug, a hinged door was open above poke holes. another employee was hitting on side of chute at same time. The hinged door fell down pinching the employees right pinky between door and bar. this cause a laceration and the nail to be partially removed requiring stitches to be repaired.
The mine employee was using a 4' sleever bar and a 4 lb. hammer to remove mud that was built up under the Stamler drag chain. EE felt a pain in right shoulder. EE still had some pain later, so EE was taken to the clinic on 5/17/2024 and returned to work with no restrictions. On 7/26/2024 EE was seen by another doctor who evaluated the MRI and put EE on light duty.
EE was prying on a mechanical lacing clip. EE lost grip of bar, the bar then bounced off of the belt coming towards EE and hit EE in the mouth resulting in a chipped left central incisor.
The injured employee was observing / assisting another employee with removing a stuck piece of material from a chute. The employee dropped the pry bar onto the injured employee's left hand.
Employee was removing the lid of the level 6 tipping valve, as lid was tensioned using a come along the lid dislodged and swung into employee's left shin causing a laceration requiring 10 stitches. Assessment of risk was not fully completed for line of fire hazards. The employee returned to work for next scheduled shift.
On 2/27/24 EE was taking 2" valve loose from water line pipe wrenches. In process of loosening the valve, the employee felt their left shoulder pop. This was a First aid until 3/12/23 when seen by Dr, given meds/physical therapy.
EE was using a bar to clear blockage, a large chunk of material fell from within the silo striking the bar. Bar struck EE in the face, causing laceration in mouth. Prescription antibiotic given at ER, no sutures.
Employee struck left hand with mallet while bricking the kiln.
While using a pry bar to align an adjustment ring on an HP 300 cone crusher, the pry bar slipped out causing a popping in the employee's shoulder.
The employee was hitting a bearing race with a hammer trying to get it to break free. A small piece of the metal race broke off and lodged in the upper right leg.
Was using a hammer and accidently struck team members own left hand. Originally report was just a first aid, however due to increased swelling, team member went to Dr. on yesterday.
Two millwrights were trying to remove a metal plate from the conveyor by inserting pry bars. As the part broke free, EE's hand was pulled with the pry bar and pinched between the bar and the conveyor roller assembly causing a fracture of the distal phalanx of the left little finger.
The employee was holding a spacer against a wedge while another employee was hammering the wedge into place. During the activity, the spacer being held by the employee slipped causing the employee's finger to be smashed between the spacer and another piece of hardware.
While flipping blow bars in 2nd crusher, employee was using a hammer to drive in a blow bar when a piece chipped of and struck mechanic in left leg above knee cap. The incident became reportable on 7/7/2023 due to restricted duty.
Injured person was setting tamp-in steel anchors in holes drilled into cement. Hammer deflected off of setting tool and struck the individual's thumb. The blunt force trauma caused a laceration requiring stitches.
The employee was closing a feed gate on a cement silo, When EE hit the gate with a hammer to close the rest of the way a spurt of cement hit EE in the face and got behind EE's safety glasses and into EE's left eye.
Belt repairs being installed. Employee was cutting a v-shape cut at edge of belt and utility knife slipped, cutting hand.
On Dec 6 2022, an employee was injured while clearing a material jam in diverted gate chute 311-MW1. The employee had removed a side access door and used a bar to dislodge the material. When the material cleared, the air pressurized gate activated hitting the bar and pinching the employees right hand wrist. The incident is under investigation.
Using a hammer to release some frozen coal when unloading on the Grizzly, EE misjudged EE's aim smashing EE's pinky finger with the hammer. The impact resulted in an open tuft fracture of the right hand 5th digit.
While performing maintenance on the self cleaning tail pulley bearing, a miner had the loose side of the pulley propped up with a pry bar, while another miner was sizing the bearing to the shaft. The bar slipped causing the tail pulley to drop injuring the right index finger of the miner requiring 16 stitches.
Employee using come alongs and chains to move curtain in Hazemag crusher. Chain broke and hit the employee in the hard hat. Causing the hard hat to give the employee a laceration on forehead and and safety glass causing a small cut on nose.
Production tech was completing preheater tower cleaning, tech was using a 6 foot poke bar with a T handle to remove buildup from the riser, as the tech pushed poke bar through the poke door, left middle finger was smashed between the T handle and the riser poke door frame.
Maintenance employee was removing a tooth from the 992 loader. EE was striking the tooth with a hammer when a shard of the tooth flew off and struck EE on the inner thigh of EE's right leg resulting in the shard being embedded in EE's groin area.
Employee was using a 3-lb hammer to hit a wrench in order to loosen a nut on a threaded rod on the motor mount of the slurry pump. The hammer deflected off a guard onto the back of left hand, resulting in injury. X-ray diagnostics showed a fractured bone.
Two employees were working to shotcrete an area. The shotcrete nozzle handle became stuck and a wrench was used to turn it. The injured employee had a finger in the line of fire and left pinky was struck with the wrench causing a distal phalanx fracture.
Employee was chiseling nordback from crusher with a hammer and chisel. As the employee struck the chisel with the hammer, the chisel came out of hand and struck a nearby employee in the mouth chipping two front lower teeth and cutting upper lip.
Employee was tightening a rope seal using a pair of channel lock pliers. EE was pulling on the rope towards self. The pliers slipped off the rope and EE hit self in the mouth with the pliers chipping a couple of teeth.
Employee was using prybar to open gate and smashed finger between prybar and gate causing laceration and fracture.
Employee was using a dead blow hammer hitting a sucker hose to free material. EE felt sharp pain in the palm near right thumb. Incident became reportable on 11/12/2021.
The employee put a socket on a nut to remove bolt, turned to get impact wrench. Socket vibrated of nut falling and striking employee on the hand.
Employee was conducting a cement silo change on top of the bulk silos. The employee was tightening the valve by pulling down on a steel bar that was inserted into the bottom knuckle when the bar slipped out causing the employee to lose balance and fracture the right thumb.
Employee was removing the cap screw on the filter housing of the HP 300 cone crusher using a 36" aluminum pipe wrench. The wrench slipped off the nut causing the employees hand to strike a stationary object.
Employee was dislodging a rock from pneumatic gate. When the rock broke free the gate moved suddenly pinning employee's hand between the shovel EE was using and the wall of the building resulting in a finger laceration.
Technician was shooting industrial gun on the tower which required technician to have the gun at a steep angle. Thumb was required to be on the back of the gun as that is where the safety is located. When the technician fired, the recoil of the gun smashed right thumb between the gun handle and the refractory for the door resulting in a fractured thumb.
2 production employees were working on unplugging the coal railcar unloading hopper of frozen material. While cleaning the material, a large piece of frozen coal, approximately 0.5m diameter, exited the open door on the hopper and struck one of the two employees in the right forearm resulting in a fracture.
Technician was cutting duct tape from sucker truck piping with a razor knife when it punctured and cut through EE's left glove and hand resulting in a laceration.