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Stepped off the excavator onto uneven ground and twisted right ankle.
Grizzly bar made it into the Impact, Employee entered and tried to dislodge the bar, resulting in a strain to their lower abdomen.
EE was walking to tool-house, on recently cleared snow, slipped and fell on shoulder. EE went home that night with mild discomfort. Came in the next morning wanting to get checked out.
During loading of dollies onto the trailer, common practice to step over tongue of dolly to undo chains. While stepping over, EE tripped and landed on the trailer deck injuring a finger. Initial prognosis is broken finger.
EE and a coworker were using a pry bar to dislodge some rocks, slipped, and EE's finger (ring finger on left hand) got smashed in between the pry bar and a metal door. EE applied first aid and returned to work. Went in after work and received 5 stitches.
Employee was removing ladder from aggregate screening plant, got their finger pinched in hinge point on ladder. Laceration to index finger on right hand requiring stitches, no broken bones.
Replacing bearing on tail pulley of primary crusher. Driving bearing into place when piece of metal broke off and struck employee just above upper lip causing laceration which required two sutures.
Miner was moving mobile metal welding bench and pinched hand/finger between bench and another piece of equipment.
Employee was removing lug nugs on stockpile truck tire using breaker bar with etension. Lug nut broke loose suddenly, causing sudden shock to wrist area, resulting in swelling and pain in Left Wrist.
Employee was exiting loader using proper 3-points of contact. Employee's foot slipped off last step of loader putting sudden stress on left arm and straining left shoulder.
Audiologist report of 4/4/2023 on annual hearing test indicated a reportable hearing loss of 32.33 dB in the Left Ear. Employee is currently enrolled in BMC Aggregates Hearing Conservation Program and will be retrained on hearing conservation program and proper use of hearing protection.
Audiologist report of 4/4/2023 on annual hearing test indicated a reportable hearing loss of 34.66 dB in the Left Ear. Employee is currently enrolled in BMC Aggregates Hearing Conservation Program and will be retrained on hearing conservation program and proper use of hearing protection.
Employee was assisting another employee with loading of truck tire into bed of pickup truck. Squatted down and lifted tire into back of pickup truck, straining groin in process.
Employee was performing maintenance on conveyor belt repairing a splice in belt. EE was on EE's knees, in awkward position, for a prolonged period of time. When got up felt pain in left knee. Pain continued to get worse, so was sent in for evaluation. As of time of filing full extent of injury has yet to be determined, until employee is evaluated by orthopedic specialist.
Shoveling hopper out when hand slipped off shovel handle and stuck side of bin, causing pain and bruising in right fifth (pinky) finger. Examination showed no breaks but finger was splinted to protect finger.
Employee twisted knee while fueling truck due to uneven ground. Was seen by physician on 5/5/22. Diagnosed with sprained knee. Employee was released to work with no restrictions and no medical treatment was given. On 5/23/22 employee was seen again by physician. Was placed on restricted work duty due to continued issues with knee. Injury became reportable as on 5/23/22.
Employee was working on dredge. While walking on land near dredge, employee tripped over cable used to anchor dredge. Employee fell, landing on left knee causing injury to knee.
Employee was using utility knife to cut rubber hose in order to install new fitting on end of hose. In process of cutting hose, utility knife slipped, causing laceration/puncture wound approximately 1" long on the inside of right thigh about 2"-4" above knee. Wound required 5 stitches.
Employee was exiting Skid Steer Loader. Misstepped and came down hard on heel of right foot. Sprained ankle and deep tissue bruise to right foot.
Employee was rotating bars on HSI Secondary Crusher. EE was standing outside crusher housing turning spinner in order to install safety pin. Employee reached to push on crusher bar, when drum rotated pinching thumb between crusher bar and sidewall liner. Lacerated and fractured thumb on right hand.
Employee was hooking up screening plant to loader hitch. While placing pin in hitch, loader shifted forward, causing pin to tilt in hitch, resulting in employees fingers being pinched between hitch pin and counterweight of loader.
Snowy conditions lead to truck sliding during turn and tipping onto side.
Employee was working on brakes on aggregate primary crusher (impact). While reinstalling brake drum, drum slipped off brake pads pitching finger between brake drum and axle.
Employee was working on sand plant screen box. While performing maintenance employee fell through maintenance door used to access lower portion of screen box. During fall employee struck elbow on edge of opening and jammed shoulder.
Employee was assisting with tightening of bolts on crusher impeller bars. Bolts had been heated with torch in order to aid in process. Socket that was being used to tighten bolts became stuck on heated bolt. Employee grabbed socket resulting in 1st degree burns to two fingers due to heat transfer from hot bolt.
Employee was repairing engine on secondary crusher. Upon exiting the working platform employee tripped over extension cord, causing employee to lose balance and fall down steps, landing on the ground at bottom of steps. Fall resulted in bruising to employee's right side/back and two cracked ribs on right side.
Employee was working on a shot bench and twisted their knee.
A rock rolled out of overflow chute knocking employee's hard hat off and then another rolled out and hit the employee on top of head.
Stand pipe fell and hit employees shoulder.
Cleaning second deck screen in north screen deck by attempting to place roller on screen. Roller hit edge of screen box when EE was trying put it onto screen deck and it bounced back out smashing left fingers between roller and screen box.
While tightening the motor mount on crusher, the wrench slipped and employee fell back into belt guard which fell over onto top of left foot.
Employee was cleaning around crushing plant with the skid loader and hit a big bump causing employee's head to hit the roof of skid loader. Told supervisor 9/28/2017 what happened. Did not go to doctor because employee did not think it was a big deal until headache would not go away. 10/16/2017 went to the doctor.
Employee was helping replace a conveyor belt when the vise grips attached to the conveyor belt EE was pulling on came off of the belt causing EE to fall to the ground on some rocks.
Employee was trying to get the snow out of the dump truck box and pushing on the tailgate by hand. Did not get hand out of the way and smashed employee's right thumb in the tailgate.
Was pulling electric cords and hanging them in the rack on a bin. Thought that is was a pulled muscle. On 8/10 went to doctor and said do physical therapy. On 9/6 was placed on light duty because no progress. On 11/9 reached out of dump truck to shut lime bin off and got pain in shoulder. Had MRI same day and on 11/10 was diagnosed with left torn rotator cuff. Surgery 12/13.
Hearing Loss of 25 dB in left ear.
Washing the plant shack with a power washer. Stepped backwards and tripped on the hose. Fell on right shoulder. Original injury report was 12/17/2015. The employee was under evaluation until it was determined on 02/01/2016 that the right rotator cup was torn and needed surgery. Thus needed to be reported as an accident.
Tightening a bolt on the tailgate of Caterpillar 771D. Pulling down with a wrench he heard something pop in his right shoulder.
Employee was working on a 5th wheel plate off of a non-mining piece of equipment (Over the road truck DOT). He was on his knees and turned to his left and pulled left back muscle.
Employee was laying down on the catwalk of the screen box tightening screen bolts. When employee went to stand up a sharp pain shot across lower back.
He was removing a dump truck tire from the tire rack. While pulling the tire out of the rack he felt a pull in his left shoulder. This was last day of work week and was decided to see how shoulder felt the following week. On 8/5/14 he was sent to occupational health because shoulder was still bothering him. He was placed on light duty. 8/12/14 recheck sent to therapy.
Folding up metal banding and cut left hand palm.
Hearing loss of 25 dBa in left ear.
Hearing loss of 25 dBa in right ear.
Stepping into the manlift. He tried pulling himself in and stepped into basket when he slipped. His hard hat fell off as he continued up into the basket and hit his head on a piece of angle iron hanging under a plant conveyor.
Climbing out of dump truck and stepped on big rock and turned ankle.
While filling the outside dual tire of a jo-dog jeep with air, he was pulling back to hold the air chuck on the valve stem when the air chuck came apart. The sudden release caused his shoulder pop as it flew backwards.
Changing oil on final drive of backhoe. Noticed drain pan was getting full, stood up to get another drain pan. Walked around corner of backhoe and ran into open service on the backhoe. The result was a laceration to the bridge of nose that required stitches.
Changing bucket tooth on Caterpillar 988F. After removing the pin that holds the tooth, he hit the edge of the tooth with a hammer to loosen the tooth from the adapter when a piece of metal chipped off. The piece of metal struck the right inner thigh of his right leg.
Kneeling on floor sliding crusher liners, when he felt a pop/sharp pain in his back.