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03/13/26, at 8:00 PM, EE was unclogging bin #3 when a salt rock moved into the chute. Causing the employee's hand and bar to move downward. The employee's left hand struck the side railing of the chute on bin #3, impacting the lower left side of EE's left ring finger. On 03/16/26 a X-ray report indicated a closed displaced fracture of distal phalanx of left ring finger.

While poking a silo the employee struck the top of EE's left hand on the spout piece, resulting in discomfort. As EE was walking down the steps, EE hit the top of left hand as well, causing further discomfort.

Employee got a piece of debris in right eye. Employee was using an angle grinder to cut bolts from the broken elevator buckets in order to install new ones. They were wearing safety glasses. They said their eye was irritated but didn't think they needed medical attention. They reported the next morning, they wanted to go to urgent care. Urgent care physicians removed the debris.

Employee was performing housekeeping, when they picked up a cardboard box with parts from the floor. The box weighed approx. 35 lbs., employee complaint of lower back pain. Employee was taken to the ER for an evaluation and was diagnosed with a lower back strain.

Hand Scaling on JLG rock fell and struck employee.

Employee was kneeling on a pile of product, as EE got up with EE's right foot, it slipped. Employee tried to break the fall with EE's right arm.

Employee was walking under the Bemis reject line when a bag fell off the conveyor, striking the employee on the left side of neck/shoulder area.

Employee was walking down a slope, slipped on gravel and strained left knee.

Kneeling left knee on frame, right foot slipped and lost balance.

Employee was walking behind the block press fencing (newly installed) and tripped on an 8x8 timber that is in the process of being removed. Employee fell onto left forearm on the ground and tried to catch themselves with right hand against the robot fencing. When trying to catch themselves they strained the right inner forearm/elbow.

Employee was assisting in moving a portable gravity roller conveyor. Was carrying one end walking forward and the other employee was carrying the other end walking backwards. The conveyor snagged the floor and stopped suddenly, causing employee to jar EE's shoulder.

Only two points contact. Wrong ladder for task. Four fractured ribs.

on Aug. 8, 2024 at 8:00 am, a maintenance worker strained their back while stepping off the Bemis palletizer platform onto portable stairs. The employee saw a doctor on 8/13 and was released back to work on 8/14 with restrictions.

On July 31, 2024, an experience plant electrician was assigned the task of repairing a portable conveyor. At approx. 8:28 am the conveyor was cleaned and moved into the shop for repairs. The elec. replaced a 240 v. 4 wire plug. When conveyor was plugged into an outlet and start button was pushed, the elec. received a shock, the plug was wired incorrectly. Employee was eval. at ER.

On 07/18/2024 at 7:30 am, operator was standing on the loader side step checking the oil level. When they opened the door, they lost balance and fell back and landed on the ground standing.*Did not become a reportable until 08/12/2024, the operator wanted medical attention.

We began pulling miners out of the mine due to inclement weather and the power to the whole area went down trapping the miners in the cage

Hoistman was switching from medium grade salt to stock grade salt. As the skip was starting to dump they noticed that the dump pocket was still full of medium. With the door open they tried to lower the skip to close the door and it became bound up.

Employee was reaching into a box and felt back pain.

EE was working Saturday when leaving the maintenance trailer, EE was locking the door when a bee stung EE just below the left eye, and two more bees stung EE on either side of the bridge of EE's nose. EE ran to the loading dock area, talked to another EE, clocked out at the loading dock, then made EE's way to EE's truck. By the time EE got home EE's left eye was swollen.

Employee was using an air hose to blow off equipment when employee felt something go in left eye, employee was taken to the clinic where eye was flushed and was given prescription eye drops.

Raising a silo swing hammer from waist to chest level.

Employee was closing the shop (garage) door with the chain mechanism. The support cable broke, causing the door to free fall to the ground. With the momentum of the door going down, the chain whipped and wrapped around the right hand and ring finger of the same hand, causing a cut on ring finger.

Worker was stacking 50# Salt Blocks on a pallet, when EE begun feeling minor pain in the middle of the back. Pain increased as shift continued and stopped stacking blocks.

Picking up a 50# salt bag from ground level.

Employee was at break after stacking salt block and noticed that knee was hurting. EE was taken to the doctor and was diagnosed with left knee sprain, and was put on restricted duty.

Employee was lifting a 50lb bag of Red Iron oxide and felt pain in lower back. Took employee to the Dr. and had employee evaluated, Dr. released to restricted work duty

Employee was lifting an acetylene bottle into the back of a pickup when EE felt pain in left shoulder. EE was taken to the clinic for a medical examination. EE was released for restricted duty on 01/11/2022.

Employee was going down the stairs when left knee slipped forward and felt a pain on knee. Resulting in a sprained knee.

Employee lost balance getting off of the CAT loader and hit right thumb up against the rib which resulted in a sprained thumb.

Employee felt lower back pain after driving the forklift all day on a bumpy road.

We were replacing the Cuttler Hammer electric brake that did not function as expected. The brake released and allowed the cage to drop pulling the salt skip onto the headframe crushing the bonnet.

Employee lifted a 50lb block of salt and felt a sharp sting in EE's back. Employee was taken to the clinic and was given a prescription.

Contractor was changing the blade on the utility knife. When putting in the new blade EE's hand slipped and cut the back of EE's hand. EE was taken to the ER where EE was bandaged up. EE was released for work the same day with lifting restrictions.

Contractor truck driver was climbing down off the back of tractor trailer when they fainted and fell backwards, driver was taken to the hospital where treated for a concussion.

Miner's son called the plant on 9-14-19 to say the miner was having brain surgery to resolve a brain bleed from a bump on the hard hat on miner's head at work on 9-11-19. Miner worked all shifts from 9-11 until 9-13 without reporting incident or issues. Accident still under investigation.

Installed a new skip and had clearance problems and hung up. Unable to bring workers up using the main hoist. Pulled workers out using the emergency escape shaft.

Employee worked normal job on May 16, 2019. Everything seemed normal that day. Employee went home at 3:00 PM. At 8:37 PM employee called supervisor stating that employee is in the hospital with broken left hip. See Exhibit A.

Employee was walking from the office to vehicle at the end of shift when ee twisted right knee.

Employee was walking in the warehouse and a forklift came up beside employee and made a hard turn to the right and hit employee on the right side of body. It knocked employee down on the floor. Employee sprained left ankle. Employee is on restricted work duty.

Employee was shoveling along the belt line in a tunnel, the next day ee reported shoulder was sore.

The supervisor was holding a hydraulic valve (approx 6 lbs) for a measurment when it slipped. The supervisor tried to catch it and felt a pain go from fingers into forearm.

The miner was moving an 80# bag of salt and said felt a pull in shoulder

Employee was unplugging chute felt pain & numbness on right hand little finger & ring finger reported to supervisor. Went home at 3:00 regular quitting time. Went to ER at 7:00pm Dr. sent ee to hospital

An office worker was leaving for the day and stepped on a small stone in the gravel parking lot twisting ankle. Worker was transported to the hospital and a CT scan indicated a broken tibia and fibula.

Employee was coming down ladder on #2 dozer and got to the bottom step and it swung in, and hyper extended left knee. Employee was taken to E.R. and put on restricted duty.

The miner was doing shaft work and had gone to the bottom to take a break. When ee returned the crew had moved the cage up one level about 10' so ee took a different route up to join the crew. EE climbed through some timbers and framing and lost grip falling back about 2' hitting a piece of iron work. EE was wearing proper PPE.

Employee was cleaning #2 water softener bin when a chunk of salt fell from the side of bin and hit left shoulder and EE fell against metal door opening. EE had an abrasion / hematoma on left tricep. The Dr. restricted EE's work duties

The miner was helping install bolts on equipment and felt a pull in EE's chest. EE reported the incident but thought EE was ok so no doc visit. Monday EE still had pain so went to doc. The doc was not sure if it was a pulled muscle or something else that just showed up when pulling on the wrench. EE was released for light duty until final determination.

EE was stacking 50# bags and felt a "pull" in his stomach. over the weekend he developed some discomfort in his groin area.The incident was not reported until mid morning of 12/07/2015. The doc reported it as a muscle sprain and put him on light duty for 4 days.