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Employee was driving a loader when bucket hit ground. Employee lunged forward hitting chest on the steering wheel.
Employee was riding in a side by side utility vehicle that flipped over on its side and EE sustained an injury to their right knee. EE was wearing the seat belt at the time of the incident
Employee (EE) and Foreman were cleaning the surge pile hopper to inspect the wear plates, and prepare for winter shutdown. EE placed ~55" long square head shovel past clamshell gate opening, and used left foot to assist in pushing material onto the conveyor belt below. The clamshell gate unexpectedly closed, pinching the EE's left foot and fracturing left great toe.
Miner drove a loader across feeder #1 when material had been removed. The plant operator had triggered feeder #1 and failed to communicate to the loader operator. The miner was injured as the wheels on the loader dropped into the feeder, causing miner to experience multiple body strains.
An equipment operator lost control of articulated haul truck, which climbed a berm and overturned. 2 days later the employee complained of back and elbow pain.
A 777 haul truck was getting loaded by a 992 loader when a rock hit the bed hard enough to make the driver bite their tongue and pop their back.
Haul truck driver stated: drove over a pothole in the road then began experiencing lower back pain and numbness in left leg.
While getting loaded the loader operator jarred the 777 haul truck that the employee was operating straining their neck and back. Employee's official notification date is in question. The official notification was given on 5/26/2021
Maintenance worker was moving man lift from north side of plant to the south side of the plant. While traveling down a ramp in the lift a hydraulic hose failed causing the operator to lose control of the lift. The man lift fell over resulting in the operator suffering a laceration to the left shin and a strained shoulder.
An employee was standing under the rail load out conveyor. A frozen piece of material fell from the frame of the conveyor and struck the employee on the hard hat knocking employee to the ground. The employee suffered serious neck and back injuries.
Employee was operating a CAT 745C underground hauling material from a heading to the primary crusher. While reversing to be loaded, the HT shifted due to a change in ground conditions and the employee felt pain in EE's back. The injury has been under investigation.
Employee was traveling north in bobcat, hit a bump in road, and states their leg tripped the lockout bar which put the machine into lockout mode. The vehicle came to a sudden stop which caused employee to travel inside machine as far as the seat belt would allow. This resulted in a right shoulder strain.
Employee was operating front end loader with windows closed when employee felt something in eye. The employee was unable to flush the foreign body out and went to a specialist. The foreign body was a piece of metal and was able to be removed through irrigation (it was not embedded). Employee was given prescriptive eye drops and returned to work full duty.
Baghouse rotary feeder was plugged. Employee was opening a slide gate. Employee had positioned a ladder for access. Employee stepped off of the ladder and on to the screw housing. Employee's left foot went through the screw housing, got caught in the screw. Their left leg was amputated below the knee.
While loading haul truck boulder caused rocking motion of truck, resulting in restricted duty injury to the haul truck driver.
Non-mining related airplane with 3 people on board crashed into dredge lake 5000 feet away from mining activities. Complete destruction of air plane and 3 fatalities who were pilot and passengers. Impairment impacted production due to the search and recovery of plane and passengers. Airplane passenger was killed as a result of the plane crash.
Non-mining related airplane with 3 people on board crashed into dredge lake 5000 feet away from mining activities. Complete destruction of air plane and 3 fatalities who were pilot and passengers. Impairment impacted production due to the search and recovery of plane and passengers. Airplane passenger was killed as a result of the crash.
Non-mining related airplane with 3 people on board crashed into dredge lake 5000 feet away from mining activities. Complete destruction of air plane and 3 fatalities who were pilot and passengers. Impairment impacted production due to the search and recovery of plane and passengers. Airplane passenger was killed as a result of the crash.
The employee claims no specific incident, but has pain in EE's back from years of driving a haul truck.
Loading customer trucks with front end loader. Employee noticed customer dump truck was leaking sand between truck dump body and tail gate. Employee exited loader and attempted to clean contact surface of tailgate and truck body to allow gate to close. Air powered locking mechanism was activated catching employees thumbs between gate and truck body. Injury required stitches
The operator was going into the muck pile when EE ran into a boulder on the left side of the bucket. This incident was initially reported as a First aid but was upgraded to a Modified Work duty on 6/25/2020.
Employee was pushing on a silicone patch on the bottom of a screw conveyor housing. Silicone was covering a hole. Employee's right index finger went through the hole and made contact with the screw, partially amputating the underside of the index finger under the nail.
Employee got left ring finger caught in between a handrail and forklift fork, causing a fracture and laceration.
While being loaded with blasted stone into the haul truck, a stone from the kalkberg bench caused the truck to jolt which then caused the employee to experience a "pop" in the neck. The employee stated that EE initially felt pins and needles but that subsided by the time EE got up to EE's phone to inform the supervisor.
Employee reports EE was driving 10 mph across railroad tracks and didn't realize it was dug out and as the truck went over the tracks, the truck suddenly stopped, seatbelt didn't lock up, causing EE's head to hit the rear view mirror and EE's back to lock up.
Technician was working on the vac truck crew and was picking up material in the raw grind. Employee was holding the handle on the suction nozzle and pinched pinky finger between the handle of the nozzle and a cross member of the stair structure at the discharge of the mill due to the nozzle suddenly surging forward due to vacuum suction.
An employee was troubleshooting a flow issue on a volumetric feeder. During the course of troubleshooting, an access hatch was opened and the feeder was jogged. At some point, the employee's hand entered a pinch point (rotary veins) before the feeder had come to a stop. The employee sustained partial amputation injury to 3 fingers.
Driving over bumps near the face causing EE to bounce around in the cab of the haul truck. Note: Initial treatment did not involve reportable treatments (restricted duty or prescriptions). Employee was released to full duty. On a follow up visit on 8/13/2019 employee was given prescriptions and was recommended therapy
Employee was working in a man lift basket and they were extending the boom. They caught themselves between the basket and the conveyor frame.
EE received musculoskeletal injury to lower back (lower back pain) from "bouncing" seat in haul truck (775E).
Employee was driving Cat 740 haul truck and stated back started to hurt. Employee was diagnosed with a sprain/strained back.
Employee working from manlift next to conveyor beltline. As they were leaning on the belt it unexpectedly started up pulling them in their harness away from the manlift.
A Quarry operator was driving haul truck #3 (APX00162). EE alleges they drove down the main haul road into the MA pit, hit a pot hole in the road, causing the truck to jolt leading to a sudden pain in the lower back. EE continued along with duties for the remainder of the shift, without stopping to report the injury.
Haul truck driver strained lower back exiting the haul truck
Employee was operating a haul truck in adverse weather conditions (extreme freeze/thaw) that caused the haul roads to become rougher than normal. The employee experienced lower back pain.
Haul Truck Driver misjudged width of entry approaching primary crusher and ran over a concrete block at approximately 5 mph. The truck jostled when it came down off the block causing the driver to strike their head on the window and dislocate the shoulder.
While backing the fork truck and looking over right shoulder, the employee felt a "snap" or "pop" in right elbow, including numbness in the middle, ring, and little right hand fingers. Employee did not hit or make contact with anything. Same day medical treatment included use of sling and restrictions. Reexamined by medical professional and fully released on July 13.
Inside clinker cooler, backing and turning walk-behind skid-steer machine and machine turned faster than normal due to metal grates and clinker material. This caused skid-steer to catch employee's right knee between clinker cooler inner wall and machine resulting in swelling and restricted duty (soft tissue injury).
Driver was attempting to dump a load of BASF material. The load would not come out so the driver was lowering bed when the load shifted and the truck and trailer turned over.
EE was working on the Primary Wash Plant's recycling water Poly piping. EE was working on rotating the "L" shaped piping so that support could be added to allow for starting the plant tomorrow. EE was in the Aerial Manlift and was lifting the pipe to rotate it. The pipe slipped and smashed Right Hand Pinky Finger between the Poly Pipe and the Rail of the Manlift.
EE positioned company f-150 truck behind a reversing 980M loader without alerting or making any eye contact with the loader operator. The counterweight on loader struck the right front fender but pickup was drivable. No injury was reported by EE the day of the incident nor the next day. The first report of an injury by EE was late the next day. January 17,2017.
Operator was loading a production haul truck with a large wheel loader. As EE backed away from the truck (bucket still in the air), EE drove over a basketball size rock that had unknowingly rolled behind loader. Right after EE drove over the rock, the employee experienced pain in back.
Employee was operating a 70 ton haul truck in the pit. The FEL dumped the first bucket of the load into the truck; the load was full of shot rock & a 3-5K boulder was mixed in the load. The boulder caused the truck to rock resulting in the employee in the truck complaining of pain in their back & head.
Employee stated that EE was using a hand control on a loader and felt a pop in right thumb.
A subcontractor truck driver hauling aggregate sales (non-miner) claims injury when truck was struck by another truck driver (side-swipe collision) resulting in muscle soreness/strain. On May 9 trucker was evaluated & released by hospital. On May 16 a follow-up medical evaluation resulted in work restrictions. Truck driver is being accommodated with light duty
Miner operating a haul truck hit a bump in the pit area and felt a pop in EE's neck. Miner suffered a strain/sprain to the right side of EE's neck. The haul road from plant to pit was inspected and no significant bump (uneven ground) was found.
Employee was trouble shooting a pan conveyor. Employee rested his hand on the rail for balance when a roller came by it pinched the end of his finger