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March 12, 1996 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE REPORTED SHE WAS PUTTING TWO PIECES OF YELLOW PLASTIC PIPE TOGETHER AND FELT PAIN IN HER LOWER BACK.

March 21, 1994 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS SEPARATING 2 PIECES OF YELLOWMINE PIPE, ONE OF THE PIECES STARTED TO SLIP DOWN THE EDGE OF THE HEAP LEACH PAD AND THE EMPLOYEE TRIED TO CATCH THE PIPE THAT WAS FULL OF WATER.

October 11, 1993 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Fall onto or against objects

IT HAPPENED WHIEL TRANSFERRING CARBON. EMPLOYEE SLIPPEDONT ANK #4 OF CARBON COLUMN AND WENT FACE FIRST INTO THE METAL BARREN LINE.

January 14, 1993 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

PUTTING TIES ON PRESS PLATE CLOTHES.

November 4, 1992 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

ACCIDENT HAPPENED WHILE PULLING PIPE OVER HEAPED ORE ON PAD 2.INJURED SLIPPED ON A ROCK LOST HIS BALANCE AND STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE TRYING TO REAGIN HIS BALANCE.

September 24, 1992 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

MAKING RIZERS AND SPRAYS STAND UP STRAIGHT SO THEY COULD COVER A BIGGER AREA.

February 12, 1992 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

YELLOW MINE PIPE BROKE LOOSE AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN THE MOUTH.

January 5, 1992 NV · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER AND LIFTED PIPE TO FREE IT FROM ROCKS. WHILE PIPE WAS BEING PULLED, THE SUDDEN JERK (RELEASE OF PRESSURE) RESULTED IN PAIN TO LEFT SIDE OF LOWER BACK.

December 3, 1991 NV · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Struck against a moving object

INJURED EE WAS BACKING INTO SPOT TO ALLOW LOADER 992 C TO LOAD HIM. EE WAS SPOTTING ON RASIED LOADER BUCKET. THE BED OF TRUCK STRUCK LOADER LIFT ARM JARRING TRUCK OPERATORS HEAD TO STRIKE BACK OF CAB.

November 11, 1991 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

INJURED EE ASSISTED BY A SECOND EE WAS ADJUSTING THE FORKS ON A FORKLIFT. INJURED EE WAS HOLDING FORK AND PUSHING INJURED SECOND EE LET HIS END OF FORK DOWN PINCHING INJURED EE FINGER BETWEEN FORK AND FRAME.

September 21, 1991 NV · Metal/Non-Metal driller, highwall operator, highwall drill operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Struck by flying object

EE WAS WALKING UP BANK ROCK FOLLOWING LUNCH BREAK HE SLIPPED ON LOOSE MATERIAL CAUSING THE GLASS SODA BOTTLE HE WAS CARRYING TO STRIKE ROCK THE PARTIALLY FULL BOTTLE EXPLODED.

September 4, 1991 NV · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS CHECKING ALTERNATOR BELT FOR TIGHTNESS OPERATOR SENGAGED STARTED CATCHING FINGER BETWEEN BELT AND PULLEY.

July 29, 1991 NV · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSIGNED TO INSTRUCKT ANOTHER EMPLOYEE IN THE OPERATION OF 120T HAULAGE TRUCK. WHILE INSTRUCTING EMPLOYEE INSTRUCTOR WAS REQUIRED TO OCCUPY BUDDY SEAT. BUDDY SEAT DOES NOT HA VE CUSHION RIDE CAPABILITIES.

May 10, 1991 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING SNUBBER PULLEY FROM MOUNTING PULLEY SLIPPED & PINCHED FINGER BETWEEN PULLEY & MOUNTING STRUCTURE

April 22, 1991 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator FIRE
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

WHILE EXTINGUISHING A BRAKE FIRE ON A 120 TON HAULAGE TRUCK EMPLOYEE WAS EXPLODED TO SMOKE & FIRE EXTINGUISHING DRY CHEMICAL

March 18, 1991 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSIGNED TO MONITOR CRUSHER OPERATIONS. IN THE COURSE OF HIS WALK AROUND,A FOREIGN BODY (FUGITIVE DUST) ENTERED THE AREA BEHIND HIS EYE. A MINOR SCRATCH WAS NOTED BY THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN.

February 1, 1991 NV · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING LAGGING ON HEAD PULLEY. MATERIAL (DUST) BECAME DISLODGED FROM STRUCTURE AND FELL DOWN. THE FINE DUST PARTICLES ENTERED AREA BEHIND EMPLOYEES GLASSES AND ENTERED EMPLOYEE S EYE.

November 26, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal pumper HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A SECTION OF LEACH PAD PIPE. PIPE BOUNCED ON GROUND WHILE EMPLOYEE HAD PIPE ON SHOULDER CAUSING SUDDEN JERKING MOTION.

October 6, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING END LOADER LOADING TRUCKS. WHILE FILLING THE BUCKET THE CORNER STRUCK A ROCK IN PIT FLOOR CAUSING THE MACHINE TO MOVE SUDDENLY TO LEFT.

October 1, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS STRIKING METAL WEDGE WITH HAMMER. A METAL SLIVER BECAME SEPARAED FROM WEDGE.

May 25, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING SAMPLE BAGS FROM BED OF PICK-UP EMPLOYEE STOPPED FROM TAILGATE OF PICKUP TO GROUND LEVEL WITH SAMPLE BAGS IN HIS HAND EMPLOYEES FOOT TOUCHED GROUND IN AWKARD POSITION CA USING INJURY

May 12, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Struck by flying object

EMPL UNSCREWING BOWL LINER FROM CONE CRUSHER.A 1" CHOKER CABLE WAS WRAPPED AROUND BOWL,THEN HOOKED TO DOZER.TENSION APPLIED TO TURN BOWL LINER COUNTERCLOCKWISE.CHOKER FAILED AT EYE BILLET HOOK ED TO DOZER.CHOKER FLEW BACK STRIKING EMPL STANDING NEXT TO CRUSHER.

April 24, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man POWERED HAULAGE
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS STEADING SPRAY HEAD ON LEACH PAD LINE WHILE LINE WAS BEING MOVED ON PAD. LINE WAS BEING PULLED BY PICK-UP. WHILE BEING PULLED LINE SLIPPED LATTERALLY. SLIDING UP ON RIGHT ANKLE CAUSING ANKLE TO BEND/TWIST IN AN UNNATURAL MANNER.

March 16, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech FIRE
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

SLEEVES OF EMPLOYEES SHIRT HAD SOLVENT ON THEM WHILE UTILIZING ACETYLENE TORCH TO CUT BOLTS EITHER SPARK OR HOT METAL IGNITED SOLVENT IMPKEGNATED SLEEVES

February 12, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal security guard, watchman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

WHILE OPENING YARD GATE EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON A ROCK AT FALL YARD AREA HAD BEEN RECENTLY DUG UP FOR UNDERGROUND LINE INSTALLATION & THE WIND WAS BLOWING AT THE TIME OF ACCIDENT

February 5, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Fall from machine

WALKING ON DECK STEPPED IN CUTOUT SECTION TRIPPED FELL TO GROUND

January 2, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

WALKING ON LEACH PAD LINER,EMPL SLIPPED ON PATCH OF ICE AND FELL INJURING HIS BACK.

December 4, 1989 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

PROCESS PLANT EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING PLATE FROM PRESS WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF ANOTHER EMPLOYEE ASSISTING EMPLOYEE DROPPED H IS END OF THE PRESS PLATE & INJURED EMPLOYEE COULD NOT MAINTAIN THE ENT IRE WEIGHT PLATE DROPPED HITTING AGAINST PRESS &CAUSING SPRAIN TO RT WRIST OF EMPLOYEE

October 30, 1989 NV · Metal/Non-Metal rock driller HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING WHILE HOLDING ONE END OF A DRILL HAMMER (APPROX 225LBS). THE EMPLOYEE HOLDING THE OTHER END OF THE HAMMER DROPED HIS END. INJURED STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK TRYING TO HOLD ON TO THE HAMMER.

September 14, 1989 NV · Metal/Non-Metal pumper HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

TIGHTENING NUT ON MAIN WATER LINE COUPLER SLEEVE BROKE RELEASING HIT WATER EMP REC 2ND DEG BURN TO UPPER LEG

September 5, 1989 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

WHILE RIDING ON A FORKLIFT EMPLOYEE STRUCK HAND ON FORK RAILS OPERATOR LOWERED FROKS SMASHING EMPLOYEES FINGER IN RAIL.

August 29, 1989 NV · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

WHILE CLEANING PRESS ANOTHER EMPLOYEE TAPED A SCRAPER ON PAN TO CLEAN IT OFF PRECIP FLEW OFF OF SCRAPER INTO HIS EYE.

August 18, 1989 NV · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A 4X4 LODGED UNDER A CRUSHER TIAL PULLY GUARD THE 4X4 CAME LOSE AND STRUCK HIM IN THE FACE

July 30, 1989 NV · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS BREAKING A WOOD PALLET;A BOARD BROKE AND PUNCTURED HIS ARM.

July 19, 1989 NV · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Struck against stationary object

WHILE STEPPING OUT OF TRUCK EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON A ROCK TWISTING LEFT KNEE

June 5, 1989 NV · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Struck by flying object

WHILE LOADING ROCK FROM WORK FACE, LARGE ROCK ROLLED DOWN FACE AND STRUCK BUCKET A SMALL ROCK FLEW UP FROM THE BUCKET AND WENT THROUGH WINDSHIELD STRICKING OPERATOR ON LEFT ARM.

May 6, 1989 NV · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

WHILE DUMPING CAUSTIC SODA INTO MIX TANK FILLED WITH HOT WATER CAUSTIC HAD A VIOLENT REACTION.REACTION CAUSED CAUSTIC TO BLOW BACK INTO EMPLOYEES FACE.

April 26, 1989 NV · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Wind Mountain Mining Inc · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMTPING TO CUT DOWN PIT FLOOR WHEN LOADER BUCKET STRUCK HARD BOTOM AND CAUSED SUDDEN STOP OF LOADER. EMPLOYEE'S LEFT KNEE HIT THE STEERING COLUMN.

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