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Employee stepped onto driver's side tire to grab the vehicle chocks from the bed of the truck. While stepping off of the tire, the employee placed EE's foot onto a loose rock. When the rock spun out beneath the employee, the employee felt their right knee "pop".

Employee stepped incorrectly and sprained/strained their right ankle.

Against SOP employee carried metal up the belt manlift and was caught in a pinch point resulting in a fracture of their middle toe on their right foot.

Employee was sitting in the maintenance shop and unknown debris entered the employee's eye.

A welded connection broke on a metal support for a feed box. When the weld broke, the feed box shifted and the hose feeding the feed box came out of the inlet pipe and fell toward the ground. A miner was standing under the pipe at the time and as the pipe fell, it struck the miner. The pipe struck the miner's hard hat and back of the head at the base of the neck.

Employee was grinding without eye protection and got debris in right eye.

Employee attempted to move a gearbox with a prybar when EE felt a burning in EE's left arm and chest.

Employee was wearing sunglasses instead of safety glasses or goggles while bagging fine ore. Debris entered employee's right eye.

Employee was operating water truck to reduce dust is high wind conditions. Wind blew dust debris into employees left eye.

Employee went to remove strap caught on pallet. While moving they accidentally got a splinter stuck under their right thumb nail.

Employee was changing a gearmotor for the mill trommel. The gearmotor was located on the floor. The employee, along with one other employee, lifted the gearmotor from its mount and moved it out of the way to make room for the new gearmotor to be installed. The next morning, the employee reported lower back pain and was refered to seek medical care.

Employee advised stepped wrong and twisted knee while working cleaning a car.

Employee tripped demounting a platform in a packaging area hurting their knee. Employee finished working the shift and returned to work the following day to complete their weekly work schedule. On Nov. 7th employee sent for medical evaluation due to pain. Employee removed from work due to fractured left patella.

Employee was repairing our 988B teeth. While employee was hammering in the teeth, a shard of metal came off of the teeth and entered employee's arm.

While lifting with a crane, an elevator belt snapped and injured a contractor and an employee.

Employee and contractor were installing a bucket elevator when it came free. Employee was tossed to the side and the contractor had the bucket elevator collapse upon contractor. Employee was released from the hospital after a few hours, and the contractor was sent to a hospital in Albuquerque.

While an employee was assisting carrying an injured contractor to an ambulance, the employee injured their shoulder.

Employee was attempting to start pickup to warm up. Engaged clutch with right leg while standing with left leg on the ground. Released clutch. Truck was in gear, lurched forward, collided with dumpster and slammed driver's door into employee's body. Employee received a laceration to upper lip, requiring stitches at local ER.

Miner attempted to lift piping. Miner advised "Pulled something in Miner's back".

Employee was operating a dozer to haul waste ore. Employee stepped out of the dozer and a gust of wind blew debris into employee's eye.

Employee was working on the Secondary Screen grinding on its rails. Employee advised employee felt something land in eye, but did not think anything of it. Employee advised employee was wearing safety glasses. Employee continued to work from the date of incident (Friday) into Tuesday 10/12/21 before advising what had occurred and that the eye was irritating employee.

Employee was on the way to check reagents and tripped over a frame or piping that was left in the walkway.

The worker was unspooling the cable and walking it back toward the load-out area to connect to a railcar. EE felt a pain in EE's lower back.

EE was assigned to replace guards on a roller mill. EE was adjusting the guard for placement, and a burr on the guard snagged EE's arm and cut through the skin.

Employee was traveling between the maintenance shop and the "Bubble", to shut off cutting torch bottles. Employee states they "stepped wrong" and rolled their left ankle.

The employee unplug a line on the #8 spiral when EE step on an drain covering. The covering flipped tripping the employee foot. EE stumbled twisting back awkwardly catching balance to keep from falling.

Employee lost footing, slipped or fell into belt manlift, internal injuries to upper torso.

New extractor belt hoses not secured in final position. Employee inspecting motor installation, stepped down to work platform, tripped over loose hoses, fell to work platform.

Contractor was unloading dirt from Hannah Mine #1175 at Specialty Vermiculite where the box tipped over on the right side. It is believed that contractor driver attempted to dump on uneven soft ground. Accident resulted in minor chest injuries to contractor driver. Chest wall contusions, 7th rib, physical damage to trailer box.

Metal floor grate panel was removed for cleanup of material underneath. Employee stepped into open hole created by panel removal, losing balance, twisting and straining leg as they caught themselves while falling.

Employee was lifting fork of extended reach lift to adjust width of forks. EE dropped fork into place. EE's hand position allowed the tip of pinky finger of EE's right hand to be crushed between back of fork and support cross member of backstop.

Delivery driver from Rhinehart Oil preparing to pump oil from truck tank to Dicaperl tank. Truck bed has raised seam which cause delivery driver to trip and hit head on a rail.

Motor being lifted by chainfall, motor came loose & chain tightened pinching employee's fingers. Tearing skin on middle & pinky fingers, stitches needed on pinky finger.

Miner was opening the bottom door of a train car when steel bar slipped out of the hole and crushed the tip of the left hand ring finger against the rail.

TRUCK OPERATED BY CONTRACTOR WAS DELIVERING LOAD TO MINE. DRIVER DID NOT SEE TRAIN. TRAIN STRUCK POWER UNIT ON DRIVER SIDE. DE-RAILED ENGINE AND 2 TANK CARS, DRIVER'S WIFE TOOK DRIVER TO HOSPITAL AFTER SCENE CLEARED TO BE CHECKED, WAS TREATED AND RELEASED TO FULL DUTY FOR THE FOLLOWING DAY.

While opening doors on top of train car, employee dropped hammer in compartment. Went in train car to get it, slipped and hit right elbow on middle beam.

Shoveling perlite gravel on the bottom floor of the mill building. When shoveling, hit a part of concrete that was uplifted from the rest of concrete slab. Made shoulder jerk. Felt sharp pain. Ten days later pain/movement getting worse.

While using cutting torch, slag burnt through pants and fell into left booting burning left foot