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Shoulder strain caused by slip into open grating
An employee used a knife to open a tuna can during a break. While cutting into the can, the knife slipped off the metal edge and cut across their right thumb, causing a two-inch laceration through their cut-resistant glove. The injury occurred because the employee used an improper tool for the task.
Drill operator pinched EE's finger between a drill hammer and a rock while picking up the hammer off the ground, and subsequently received stitches and a minor tuft fracture on the finger tip.
Employee was walking down a sloped road and stepped on a rock, twisting their ankle, resulting in a fracture.
The employee was using a portable power ram, the ram slipped, striking the employee in the mouth.
The employee was using a grinder when the employee set the grinder on a tripod, the grinder fell off the tripod, striking their gloved hand, resulting in a laceration to their right index finger. The laceration required sutures.
2 Employees were lifting a 2 ½ foot piece of 10inch HDPE into a metal dumpster and one of the employees pinched their left pinky finger between the pipe and the rim of the dumpster resulting in a laceration.
Employee was descending stairway in floatation building. Employee missed a step and fell, while attempting to catch themselves employee dislocated left shoulder.
Employee was assisting with installing screw conveyor. As they reached to position the end of the conveyor, they positioned their hand between column and conveyor pinching the right middle finger resulting in avulsion requiring sutures.
Employee received fracture to middle and ring fingertips of the right hand, when the fingers were pinched between the faceplate and the hydraulic ram.
Employee alleges while attempting to move a chain fall that the chain while in their hand struck their left side of their face. Incident is still under investigation.
The injured party (IP) was in process of topping off the DEF fluid reservoir for the Komatsu 155 dozer. As they were attempting to access the equipment, the IP's right leg slipped off the push arm & wedged the leg between the push arm & track. The IP then rolled to their left, causing the leg to bend on the anterior side of the leg & creating immediate discomfort.
Employees left hand received laceration during a rigging operation. Treatment beyond first aid.
Employee was installing cathodes into cell tanks, Cathode got hung up, employee tried to move Cathode by hand resulting in smashing EE's finger in a pinch point. Employee had Laceration on EE's left middle finger. Employee was taken to emergency room and was given a numbing medicine and stitches.
Employee was working on Leach Pad C, Employee took a drink of a soda and started to feel sick, resulting in passing out. Employee was disoriented. Ambulance was called, employee was taken to hospital. Dehydration was the factor.
Employee was straddling a 16" HDPE pipe while tightening the bolts around the valve flange when the pipe slipped off the cribbing pinching the employee's right leg between the pipe employee was straddling and another 16" HDPE pipe.
EE was landing an approx. 7' diameter pump back plate that weighs approx. 3000 lbs. The employees were trying to lean it against a column. EE had EE's fingers in between the column and the pump plate. When the pump plate came against the column it pinched EE's fingers between the column and the pump plate, severing the very tips of EE's left ring and middle fingers.
Miner suffered an event of unconsciousness while driving onto the mine site. Witnesses described seizure like activity lasting between 15 and 60 seconds in duration.
while closing a barb wire perimeter gate, part of the closing mechanism slipped on the post causing hand to contact top strand of barb wire causing a wound to middle knuckle. Miner received a tetanus shot.
Employee of Overley's, MSHA Contractor ID L576, was cleaning out a sump with a shovel when right leg contacted a piece of corroded rebar causing a laceration which required stitches. Employee returned to full duty after ER visit.
As miner was lifting a portable generator with an assistant she positioned her body incorrectly and as a result strained her back.
Sometime between end of day shift on October 7 and start of day shift on October 08, 2014, the back in 5190 3000 South failed and the failure migrated into part of the 5190 East Lateral back. The back failure also pushed broken muck into the 5190 East Lateral (Figure #1) covering the SMD Sky Track which was being used to install long swellex bolts.
A LNG truck was attempting to leave the mine without putting chains on his drive wheels. He asked an employee to pull him up the hill with the John Deere loader, they attached a 20' cable between the loader and truck. The loader could not make it up the hill, backing down to unhook the cable, the loader slid down hill on the ice and contacted the right front of the truck.
Miner was connecting 2" pipe together when he turned to reach behind him to get a vice clamp. As he turned he struck a piece of 9 wire hooked to a bolt plate on the rib. The 9 wire lacerated his upper right eyelid. The employee had safety glasses at the time of the accident but was not wearing them.
Three miners were traveling underground in a UTV. The driver pulled the UTV into a crosscut to allow traffic to pass when the UTV tipped onto the left side. The miner in back was bracing his left foot against the side of the UTV; when his foot slipped his leg was pinned under the left side of the UTV resulting in a fractured tibia.
Miner was chipping and cleaning around cribbing with spud wrench when water splashed under his safety glasses into his left eye. Water irritated eye.
Drilling with a jackleg in the back, pulled back and steel puller let go of steel. Machine fell and miner tried to stop it from falling resulting in a strained shoulder.
Geotech was performing routine core lab duties during most of the shift. Late in the shift the geotech felt pain in the back. Geotech went to ER after shift and was told to remain off work due to a back injury.
Miner was collaring hole in back with jackleg when rock broke loose at collar sliding down drill steel and bounced off plastic muffler striking his lip and tooth. Miner received lacerated lip and broken tooth.
Miner received cement burns to right ankle when cement saturated water leaked through a hole in his boot.