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Audiological review due to STS. This employee experienced a recordable degree Standard Threshold shift in the Right ear on the 2023 annual review when compared to the 2006 baseline. The STS was confirmed on subsequent testing. Review of the conservation hearing program records indicates the STS does meet the requirements for recording based on the information provided.

Employee was doing a PM on a baghouse rotary lock. Employee was kneeling down on the floor, with a foam knee pad, installing a new chain. When the employee got done employee stood up and left knee popped.

An employee was sitting in the packing chair of the #4 Palletizer system when they stopped, twisted, and looked over their left shoulder to check how many pallets were left on the lot and a lower back strain occurred.

Employee was stung on right wrist while walking to time clock.

Recordable shift in hearing

Reporting a recordable shift in hearing

Reporting a recordable shift in hearing

Reporting a recordable shift in hearing

EE was stung by a bee on the abdomen. He started to have a slight allergic reaction. Took him to the hospital where they administered 3 antihistamine resulting in a medical treatment.

EE's had apparently been arguing with each other all morning, the injured EE threatened another EE whom got off of his haul truck, climbed the ladder on the injured EE's dozer and assaulted him. EE was taken to the E.R and checked out. He was released and sent home.

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EE conducting an inventory audit and bent down to go in between railing to get to the other side. When he got to the other side, the EE stood up and felt a pain and some numbness in his back. He went to a Chiropractor, thus constituting MSHA reportability

EE was walking, turned to walk other way, and felt his back 'pop'. Sustained acute back strain. EE began missing work 3/5/07.

Annual hearing tests on 9/14/06 showed EE had STS Shift of 10 or more but <25. Retested on 11/8/06 & received paperwork 11/29/06 indicating he now had STS >25. He's indicated hearing loss runs in family so I've scheduled evaluation by Audiologist 12/13/06 to determine if shift is work related. Amendment: Audiologist & Dr. determined hearing loss is result of blockage in ear canal.

EE was walking and turned and heard a pop. Diagnosis was a pulled muscle. He was instructed not to work for a week, thus constituting lost time, MSHA reportability for muscle strain.

HERNIA DIAGNOSIS THAT EMPLOYEE REPORTED 7-28-05, AS HE HAD SURGERY SCHEDULED 7-29-05.

Employee was climbing the ladder on the Cat Loader he operates. He dropped his portable radio and while holding on with his right hand reached to pick it up with his left hand. He jerked his right arm causing pain in his right shoulder.

EE WAS WRESTLING WITH ANOTHER EE WHEN FINGER JAMMED AGAINST A PALLET. FINGER FRACTURED AND EE LOST 1 DAY OF WORK.

EE WAS BENDING OVER TO WALK UNDER AUGER AND INJURED HIS BACK CAUSING BACK STRAIN. EE SOUGHT CHIROPRACTIC CARE THUS CONSTITUTING MSHA REPORTABILITY.

EYE IRRITATION FROM A PIECE OF METAL (RUST) THAT WAS EMBEDDED IN THE EYE AND HAD TO BE REMOVED. EYE DROPS WERE PRESCRIBED ALSO. CONSTITUTES MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR MSHA REPORTABILITY.

EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A MILD HEART ATTACK/ANGINA. HE WAS TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO THE HOSPITAL IN SPEARFISH AND LATER TO RC REGIONAL WHERE TESTS WERE RUN, BLOCKAGE DISCOVERED AND ANGIOPLASTY DONE.

EE WAS INVOLVED IN HORSEPLAY. ANOTHER EE CAME BEHIND HIM AND LOCKED HIS HANDS BETWEEN HIS LEGS AND LIFTED HIM BY HIS SCROTUM, AGGRAVATING HYDROCELE.