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EE was helping to lower a 75 hp. fan from an elevated platform, approx. 7ft. The fan slid off of the cables and fell to the platform. When the fan fell, it hit him and knocked him off the platform onto the conveyor belt, hurting his back and left thigh. Fall protection was available but not used.

As employee was descending out of the cab of an excavator onto the boarding steps, employee lost his footing and slipped off of the bottom rung. Employee held onto the boarding handle with his right hand to prevent his fall but injured his shoulder in the process. Pain persisted in shoulder, ultimately required surgical remedy.

The employee stated that a small particle entered his right eye when he took off his glasses to clean them. He believes the particle came off of his glove. The particle was removed by a doctor and he was given an antibiotic to prevent infection. Upon return, the employee continued his normal work.

Employee was performing ring drilling. When inserting the drill steel and bit, steel fell from the centralizers. Employee attempted to control the falling steel. The falling steel pinched the finger between the steel and frame resulting in laceration of the right index finger requiring sutures. Treating physician did not prescribe any time away from work for injury.

The employee was tightening a 1in. ball valve with an 8 in. pipe wrench. The wrench slipped with extreme force. When this happened, he felt a sharp pain in the shoulder area. The shoulder was still sore through November. The employee had surgury on Dec. 3 for a torn ligament.

Employee was installing a self tapping screw with a hand held drill. The drill was equipped with a threaded hole for a side handle which was not installed. When the screw "grabbed", the torque twisted his arm and shoulder. He continued normal maintenance activity until the day he went for shoulder surgery.

EE had finished unloading pipe and was rolling the sections out of the roadway, approx. 6ft. While rolling a 15ft. section of pipe, he felt a sharp burning in his lower right pelvis. He was evaluated at Taos Holy Cross where it was determined he had a hernia. EE resumed his normal duties until Friday, May 18, when he had surgury on the hernia.

At 1300 incline station, employee was changing rollers from LHD bucket. LHD operator prepared to dismount and install chocks. LHD rolled several feet striking a Kubota which struck the employee. Taken to doctor initially, doctor found only bruising. After employees normal 5 days off, went to another doctor who gave restricted duty. Restricted duty started 4/20/07

Employee was performing housekeeping when he attempted to move a portable metal gate by hand. He felt a pinching sensation in his groin area which was later diagnosed as a hernia. The employee performed work with a 20lb. lifting restriction until 6/5/07, the date of the procedure to repair the hernia.

Erica was working the grizzly lines. She was on the west side of window #10, line 9 attempting to move a rock with a shovel. She was using a "prying" motion when a falling rock caused the shovel to twist, straining her right wrist.

Substandard Equipment-Cabinet was supplied with a sharp edge. Employee reached into a box six inches from the sharp edge and contacted the edge with his finger. An avulsion resulted requiring 5 stitches to close.

Inserting drill steel into jackleg, pinched finger bewteen chuck and drill steel.

Employee was bolting a heading with split sets. The split set driver momentarily stuck inside the set allowing the air to bleed off causing the Jack Leg to drop quickly. He tried to catch the falling Jack Leg. He felt a "popping" sensation in his left shoulder. Employee had surgery on his shoulder on 1/19/07.

Employee using a electric drill to bore a hole in an 6" x 8" timber. Bit bound drill spun and struck back of right hand. Fracture finger.

Contractor employee knocked a lens cover off of a sodium vapor light when removing tools from a ball mill after completing his work. Lens struck his chin causing a small laceration which received sutures to close.

The electrical power to northern Taos County was lost during a storm. Our main hoist suffered damage to a rectifier that became evident about an hour later when 51 miners were coming to the surface at the end of their shift. Electricians troubleshot the hoist to find the problem and replaced the part. Hoist returned to normal ops at 5:40 pm and all miners came to the surface.

Employee shoveling spillage from a belt. Felt sharp pain in groin. Saw doctor on 9/22/06 and was diagnosed with a slight hernia. Put on restricted duty for two weeks.

After removing his gloves for a better grip, employee was trimming the liner, cutting away from himself with his right hand while pulling the newly cut liner the opposite way with his left hand. This action resulted in a laceration at the base of the employee's index finger on his left hand. Laceration required 7 stitches.

Contractor employee was walking on go-between in line 6, window 8 when he stepped on a rock and twisted his right ankle. Later determined to have hair line fracture in right ankle.

Employee using 16# doublejack to break a rock. His wrist was twisted when he struck rock & sledge bounced off.

While chucking up a six foot drill steel, he slipped. The machine rotated on its leg and pinched his right ring finger, causing laceration.

Left thumb & index finger pinched between 2 rocks. No fracture. Soft tissue injury. Restricted work case.

EE developed chest pains and was transported to a medical facility. He later had surgery due to blocked arteries in the heart. This was ruled not job related.

Stepped off of boss buggy onto a small rounded rock and twisted his left ankle. Resulted in restricted work case.

Contractor employee prying rock with bar. Rock moved, pinched finger between bar and concrete. Fractured right ring finger.

Drilling a back hole, turned the machine off, pulled it out of the hole and his shoulder popped.

While rock bolting a rock rolled down the drill steel hitting employee's left wrist cutting him.

Contractor employee was poking a material in a window to start it moving. When material broke loose, it struck his pry bar causing the bar to strike him in the face. Employee sustained a fractured jaw.

EE was drilling in face when a rock fell and struck right knee causing strain/sprain.

Employee was striking rock with double jack when a piece of the rock flew off and cut his right index finger.

Contractor employee's right foot struck by rock on 1/4/06. Employee continued to work. Incident became restricted or light duty work on 1/19/2006 due to foot hurting and slight contusion. Was not restricted until 1/19/06.

Employee was using a prybar to loosen muck in a chute. Left Thumb pinched between prybar and chute gate rail when rock started to run in the chute.

The # 1 Hoist was down due to a power failure at the Tri-State # 69 substation caused by a bad jumper. The power failure effected all of the Molycorp facility. All of the underground personnel were evacuated from the underground mine. Power was re-established at 9:11 AM. The hoist systems were checked and found OK.

PULLED A DRILL STEEL OUT OF HOLE AND PINCHED RIGHT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN STEEL AND DRILL CHUCK. FRACTURED TIP OF FINGER.

Employee was washing out a pump with a 1" water hose, stepped backward and slipped on the hose. Employee strained lower back muscle. Employee missed 8 work days.

Employee was struck by a pry bar while in the process of cleaning off a grizzly. The employee recieved 10 sutures from the pry bar hitting his safety glasses, which hit his face and eye brow.

EMPLOYEE STATED THE DROVE HIS PERSONAL VEHICLE TO WORK AND PARKED IN THE EE PARKING AREA. THE EE ALLEGED THAT AFTER HE EXITED HIS PERSONAL VEHICLE, HE WALKED AROUND TO THE PASSENGER SIDE TO TAKE HIS LUNCH COOLER, WHEN HE NOTED SOME ANTS ON THE GROUND. IN TRYING TO AVOID THE ANTS THE EE ALLEGED THAT HE SLIPPED & PULLED HIS LEFT CALF MUSCLE.

CUTTING CHAIN LINK FENCE WITH 24" BOLT CUTTER. WHEN THE WIRE GAVE WAY, THE BOLT CUTTERS STRUCK EE BETWEEN EYES AND CUT THE BRIDGE ON NOSE REQUIRING 6 SUTURES TO CLOSE

MOVING BOXES THAT CAN WEIGH UP TO 50 LBS. HAD MOVED 15-20 BOXES THROUGHOUT THE DAY. FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND RIGHT SIDE OF NECK, SHOULDER. BOXES CONTAINED CORE SAMPLES

Hoist power problem due to power company signal system to the hoist sub station. The Westinghouse 4160 switchgear dropped out when it recieved the signal, the unit worked properly. The hoist was out of service for more than 30 minutes.

Driller's helper (Progressive Diamond Drilling) was removing core from a core barrel when he was struck by the core and sustained an avulsion to his right middle finger pad. Medical exam shows no fracture. The driller received 4 sutures.

WHILE USING A PRYBAR, A ROCK FELL FROM A LOADING CHUTE AND STRUCK EE ON LEFT RING FINGER. EE SUFFERED A FRACTURED FINGER.

BREAKING ROCK WITH 16 POUND DOUBLEJACK. SWUNG AT A ROCK AND FELT PAIN IN GROIN.

EE was working on a welder to adjust idle speed. As he worked the throttle linkage, his glove got caught in the fan belt and pulley. Ee left index finger was struck by fan place and cut severly. Dr amputated end of finger.

HELPER ACCIDENTLY HIT LEVER IN WRONG DIRECTION CAUSING THE WRENCH TO SWING AROUND STRIKING EE IN THE FACE.

WHILE LOADING A 4"PIPE ONTO A TRUCK BED EE PINCHED LEFT THUMB UNDER PIPE, FRACTURED TIP OF LEFT THUMB.

A FACILITY OPERATOR ALLEGED THAT HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK WHILE WEIGHING AND RESTACKING WOODEN PALLETS. THE EE STATED THAT HE WAS PLACING THE LAST OF ELEVEN PALLETS ONTO A STACK WHEN HE FELT A PAIN TO HIS LOWER LEFT BACK.

A POWER OUTAGE FROM DENVER, COLORADO AND AFFECTING SEVEN COUNTIES IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO CAUSED THE FAILURE OF OUR MINE VENTILATION FANS. WE EVACUATED ALL UNDERGROUND PERSONNEL AND NOTIFIED MS HA.

WHILE STRIKING A METAL GRINDING BALL WITH A DOUBLEJACK, A PIECE OF METAL FLEW OFF OF THE BALL STRIKING EE IN LEFT ARM. METAL PENETRATED MUSCLE. INCIDENT BECAME LOST TIME ON 8-18-03 WHEN HE MIS SED WORK DUE TO SURGICAL REMOVAL OF METAL.

EE WAS DESCENDING A 12% GRADE IN THE EMPTY HAUL TRUCK AND FAILED TO MAINTAIN CONTROL AT A SLOWER SPEED. THUS UNABLE TO NEGOTIATE A CURVE IN THE HAUL ROAD AND DRIVING OVER THE EDGE OF THE ROAD AND WRECKING THE TRUCK.