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Employee strained muscle in left hip when moving a water hose out of the way.
Employee pulling down on cable jack while in a man lift and felt a pull in right shoulder.
Employee was washing material on the back pad under Tower 2 with a fire hose. Employee lost control of the fire hose and it hit them in the upper chest, below the collarbone. (Chest wall contusion) Employee did not advise the supervisor until 4/23/2018 that they requested medical treatment.
EE was walking to haul truck when EE slipped and fell on packed snow straining Rt. knee.
Employee had completed cutting an H Beam on the band saw in the welding shop. EE picked up the cut off piece off the band saw that weighed 30 pounds and felt a pain in back.
Employee was assisting in removing the poly screens from the main north screen. A screen fell back on the screen deck, striking the employee's left ring finger. (Fracture to the left ring finger distal 4th tip.)
***1st day of treatment was 8/12/16****loading a shot, struck by a rock in the back.
Employee had an allergic reaction after being stung by three wasps while retrieving a vehicle hitch from a steel dumpster located on the north side of the shop.
EE was carrying a screen in Tower 2 to position it so that it could be installed in Screen 3. When EE picked up the screen EE felt a pain in right shoulder and bicep.(This incident was discussed with EE from the Denver Co. MSHA office on June 22, 2016 and directed to file an injury report due to the PT ordered by the Physician on 6/21/2016).
Personnel was loading scrape metal onto a flatbed trailer his glove caught a piece of slag and caused the metal to pinch his finger between the metal and the wooden side boards of the trailer.
Unwiring an electric motor and utility knife slipped when cutting tape and sliced through coveralls, jeans, and long johns to make lacerate inside of left thigh. A few stitches and no lost time.
Employee was cutting tape on wires to a motor and it was snow covered, wet, and slippery and the utility knife slipped causing it to cut through his gloves and lacerate the back side of his left thumb.
Employee was doing a pre-shift inspection on Loader unit #15-415. He was inspecting the z bar links, pins and bushings on the left front of the machine. He leaned over to inspect the machine, slipped on snow that had fallen the night before. He fell and his left side (upper chest) fracturing three ribs when he contacted the lift arms on the loader.
EE was attempting to free a stuck bucket latch pin on skid steer 15-918. The extension that he placed on the latch handle slipped off and his right elbow was cut when it struck the loader frame.
Employee was washing the HP 400 crusher decks off with a fire hose before scheduled crusher maintenance. He tripped on a small rock and fell to the crusher deck dislocating his left shoulder.
EE was using a vise grip pliers to close the end of an s-hook from a hold down strap. The vise grip pliers slipped off of the s-hook and pinched his left middle finger.
IE was changing screens in the middle deck of #4 screen with co-worker. Co-worker was swinging a 4 lb hammer to set the screen in the screen deck. IE inadvertently put his left hand next to the area that co-worker was swinging and IE's left middle finger was struck by the hammer.
Exposure to Silica Dust / Silicosis
EE was removing a rock from the feeder grizzly. The sledge hammer head came off the the handle causing the handle to strick the rock which over extended ee left elbow. (acute strain).
EE was lifting a ratchet chain hoist in place to raise the gravity take-up weight for the Pit Long Belt Unit # 34-135-S. While lifting the ratchet chain hoist in place he strained a muscle in his right shoulder.
Employee fell and strained his right knee while running to the break room to avoid getting wet when it began to rain.
While hoisting a 3'x20.5' sheet of corrugated metal siding, the sheet was caught by a gust of wind causing the clamps to fail. The 20#sheet fell to the ground from a height of approx. 10' striking injury. in his attempt to get out of the way he fell to the ground. He suffered a bruise to his abdomen. Slight damage to the sheeting/siding.
The service vehicle was used for transportation to and from the field. The service truck was unoccupied and parked before the fire incident. At this time the cause of the vehicle fire is still under investigation but is believed to be electrical in nature.
Fire in an unoccupied structure: The fire is still under investigation, but it is believed to have been started by repairs associated with welding activities.
EE had finished washing out material from under the conveyor and was in the process of stowing the fire hose when he slipped backwards extended his L hand to caught himself and dislocating his left pinkie finger or pip joint. Note:EE was wearing his hard hat,safety glasses,high visibility garment,gloves & steel toed boots.
The employee was climbing up a ladder to access the controls panel for stacker conv.The EE pulled his groin muscle when he was climbing ladder.
Grinding slag off steel. EE turned off grinder & wheel was still turning. Went to change positions on grinder - his hand slipped and he contacted grinder wheel.
EE was walking backwards while carrying screen on screening tower platform. He tripped on water line and landed on his right side on top of support beam. Employee had been working in same area and had made numerous trips.
Employee slipped and fell and dislocated his right pinkie finger.
Wind was blowing approximately 30 mph - he was changing out the south HP crusher. Dust blew in face and right eye.
Pulling hose and fill tubes, hurt back.
Employee was removing the cutting edge bolts with an air wrench. One of the bolts dropped out of the sq. slot. He pushed the bolt back up into the sq slot-when he used the air wrench to remove the nut & bolt, nut & air wrench dropped. The head of the bolt dropped down out of the sq slot and cut through his glove and cut tip of left index finger.
Employee checks pumps on weekends. Cart tipped down into water while greasing pump. Tried to keep cart from falling into water while at the same time adding rock for weight to tongue to prevent it from falling into water.
WHILE ON THE INCLINED CATWALK BETWEEN #2 & #3 SCREENS, OPENING THE SPRAY BAR ON #3 SCREEN. AFTER OPENING 2 VALVES, STOOD UP TO MOVE TO ANOTHER SET OF VALVES. A SHARP PULL WAS FELT IN LOWER BACK.
EE WAS GRINDING ON A SCREEN/SPARKS WENT INTO FACE. EE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES. DID NOT REPORT UNTIL FOLLOWING DAY. HAD IRRITATION IN THE EVENING. UNSUCCESSFULLY DID TRY TO REMOVE OBJECT-- COULD NOT-- WENT TO CLINIC.
EE HAD STOPPED HIS TRUCK TO REMOVE A ROCK FROM THE HAUL ROAD. WHILE LIFTING THE ROCK FROM THE ROAD, HE STRAINED HIS BACK. HE WENT HOME AND THE NEXT MORNING HE COULD NOT GET OUT OF BED, AN AMBULANCE WAS CALLED TO BRING HIM TO HOSPITAL.
EE WAS CLIMBING THE LADDER ON THE LONGBELT STACKER TO MOVE IT, SPRAINED LEFT KNEE.
EE WAS GOING TO HELP CHANGE DRILL ROD. WHEN HE AND ANOTHER EE WERE LOADING ROD ON FLATBED TRUCK, ROD ROLLED TOWARD EE. EE THEN PUT HIS LEFT FOOT TOWARD ROD TO KEEP IT FROM ROLLING OFF TRUCK.
EE WAS HAMMERING WEDGES IN TO TIGHTEN THE SCREENS ON PLANT. THE ONE BEHIND THE MOTOR, WHEN STRUCK, CAME BACK OUT HITTING EE BY THE LEFT EYE.
EE WAS CLIMBING THE LADDER TAKING A WATER HOSE TO THE TOP OF THE TWINSCREW TO START TO WASH DOWN THE LADDER SHIFTED POSITIONS HOSE PULLED HIM BACK CAUSING A FALL.
WHILE DUMPING ON WASTE PILE, LEFT REAR WHEELS HIT BEAM. TRUCK SLIPPED OVER THE EDGE. TRUCK SLID AND ROLLED APPROX 50-60' AND ENDED IN UPRIGHT POSITION. DRIVER CRAWLED OUT AND WALKED AWAY FROM TRUCK. DRIVER WAS WEARING SEAT BELT.