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Employee stepped onto driver's side tire to grab the vehicle chocks from the bed of the truck. While stepping off of the tire, the employee placed EE's foot onto a loose rock. When the rock spun out beneath the employee, the employee felt their right knee "pop".

Employee stepped incorrectly and sprained/strained their right ankle.

Against SOP employee carried metal up the belt manlift and was caught in a pinch point resulting in a fracture of their middle toe on their right foot.

Employee was sitting in the maintenance shop and unknown debris entered the employee's eye.

Employee was grinding without eye protection and got debris in right eye.

Employee attempted to move a gearbox with a prybar when EE felt a burning in EE's left arm and chest.

Employee was wearing sunglasses instead of safety glasses or goggles while bagging fine ore. Debris entered employee's right eye.

Employee was operating water truck to reduce dust is high wind conditions. Wind blew dust debris into employees left eye.

Employee went to remove strap caught on pallet. While moving they accidentally got a splinter stuck under their right thumb nail.

Employee advised stepped wrong and twisted knee while working cleaning a car.

Employee tripped demounting a platform in a packaging area hurting their knee. Employee finished working the shift and returned to work the following day to complete their weekly work schedule. On Nov. 7th employee sent for medical evaluation due to pain. Employee removed from work due to fractured left patella.

Employee was repairing our 988B teeth. While employee was hammering in the teeth, a shard of metal came off of the teeth and entered employee's arm.

While lifting with a crane, an elevator belt snapped and injured a contractor and an employee.

While an employee was assisting carrying an injured contractor to an ambulance, the employee injured their shoulder.

Employee and contractor were installing a bucket elevator when it came free. Employee was tossed to the side and the contractor had the bucket elevator collapse upon contractor. Employee was released from the hospital after a few hours, and the contractor was sent to a hospital in Albuquerque.

Miner attempted to lift piping. Miner advised "Pulled something in Miner's back".

Employee was operating a dozer to haul waste ore. Employee stepped out of the dozer and a gust of wind blew debris into employee's eye.

Employee was working on the Secondary Screen grinding on its rails. Employee advised employee felt something land in eye, but did not think anything of it. Employee advised employee was wearing safety glasses. Employee continued to work from the date of incident (Friday) into Tuesday 10/12/21 before advising what had occurred and that the eye was irritating employee.

EE was assigned to replace guards on a roller mill. EE was adjusting the guard for placement, and a burr on the guard snagged EE's arm and cut through the skin.

Employee was traveling between the maintenance shop and the "Bubble", to shut off cutting torch bottles. Employee states they "stepped wrong" and rolled their left ankle.

Employee lost footing, slipped or fell into belt manlift, internal injuries to upper torso.

Delivery driver from Rhinehart Oil preparing to pump oil from truck tank to Dicaperl tank. Truck bed has raised seam which cause delivery driver to trip and hit head on a rail.

Motor being lifted by chainfall, motor came loose & chain tightened pinching employee's fingers. Tearing skin on middle & pinky fingers, stitches needed on pinky finger.

Miner was opening the bottom door of a train car when steel bar slipped out of the hole and crushed the tip of the left hand ring finger against the rail.

While opening doors on top of train car, employee dropped hammer in compartment. Went in train car to get it, slipped and hit right elbow on middle beam.

Shoveling perlite gravel on the bottom floor of the mill building. When shoveling, hit a part of concrete that was uplifted from the rest of concrete slab. Made shoulder jerk. Felt sharp pain. Ten days later pain/movement getting worse.

While using cutting torch, slag burnt through pants and fell into left booting burning left foot

Pulled muscle in arm shoveling.

Missed step tried to catch self and pulled EE's leg.

EE was attempting to unclog a chute when right arm became trapped.

Employee turned EE's ankle walking to a fire drill.

EE was helping Maintenance Mechanics replace the teeth on the bucked of the 988H loader. They were striking the tooth with hammers when it splintered sending a piece of metal into EE's groin area.

Slipped injured knee and ankle/foot

Lifting a motor for installation.

Miner was bitten by a spider

Employee was removing a come along from a whizzer fan table and in the process the fan blade fell and hit employee's left hand. At a later time was swinging a hammer to bend the edge of screen felt a shift in employee's hand bones causing the hand to swell.

Contractor was hauling perlite ore to the Socorro Plant and as EE was dumping the ore would not slide out, the truck and trailer weren't parallel causing the trailer to flip on its side. After further investigation it was found that the tailgate was never opened.

Employee was striking a 4 inch pipe to spread the opening in the pipe. Striking with hammer causing the pipe to pop up hitting the employee in the mouth.

Employees were installing new liners on dryer drum manually turning the dryer by hand. The drum began to move very fast. The injured employee grabbed the v-belt to attempt to slow drum down but his hand got hung up in the pulley.

Employee was cutting and welding on to apron of 631 scraper. When lifting the loft sheet of metal twisted back feeling a sharp pain in lower back.

EE was on top of railroad car to move storm lids from opening on the car to prepare to move the car to the next loading position. He stated that he was moving the lid and slipped falling into the hopper car partially loaded. he did not have his safety belt on at the time of the incident.

Employee changing out a k-screen when rubbed arm against sharp corner of screen railing causing employee to cut his right forearm.

Employee was pulling on elevator belt to hook belt on to a wrench when he felt pain in his lower back.

Employee was changing anvils on turbo crusher. Employee was hitting anvils with a two pound sledge hammer when a piece of metal struck upper lip. Employee did not report incident to management until 10/18/11. First treatment was basic first aid. Employee sought medical treament on 11/11/11 to have a removal of foreign material from upper lip. There was no lost time involved.

Employee caught his left index finger between two motors causing a laceration on both sides of finger.

Employee was spreading forks on skytrac. Employee was holding the fork up with his left hand when the fork slipped off causing the fork to swing back and smash the right hand.

Employee states he was welding (hard facing) lifter for dryer. Employee states when he moved lifted on table he felt a hot spot in midsection. Employee states that this was during the morning work hours but he does not remember the exact time. Employee did not report this as a workman's comp until 10 am on 4/17/2008.

Employee was cleaning perlite with a shovel and was putting it into a wheel barrow.

Employee was hauling pallets to warehouse and wind blew perlite into his eyes.

EE removed guard and was cleaning off area. Motion sensor arm came around and trapped EE's finger between arm $ sensor resulting in injury.