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July 10, 2025
OK · Metal/Non-Metal
haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver
MACHINERY
Bison Materials LLC · Fall from machine
An EE was trying to remove a bit from drill pipe on John Henry drill. IE put a pipe wrench on the bit & spun the wrench so that it was touching the ground. IE stood on the pipe wrench to keep it from moving. EE began slowly rotating the drill pipe & pipe wrench sprung upward & threw IE sideways causing EE to land on EE's side on the ground.
Bison Materials LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
The miner was climbing into their loader and heard something pop in their leg and then could not put weight on it. Other miners got them to the scale house and proceeded with ice on the site of pain. Miner was then sent to primary care for x-rays.
December 14, 2023
OK · Metal/Non-Metal
maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech
Fatality · MACHINERY
Bison Materials LLC
· Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Miner was moving a rinse bucket to access a piece of metal that needed to be repaired and welded. As EE pulled the pin from the rinse bucket somehow the hydraulic cylinder gave way pinning the miner in between the bucket and a handrail. Resulting in the death of the miner.
July 22, 2019
OK · Metal/Non-Metal
maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech
POWERED HAULAGE
Bison Materials LLC · Struck against a moving object
Mechanic was leaving the scale house on the access road to the quarry. Mechanic stated that EE "was only going 15mph and thought EE had a blowout and it jerked EE's truck (2003 GMC 1500) EE was driving to the left flipping EE where the truck came to rest on the cab upside down." Employee received stitches in EE's left eyebrow/temple area.
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