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EE had their pinky pinched in between a piece of a wear steel plate and the side wall of a chute. Injury did not become reportable until treatment by a physician on 10/7/2025 where restrictions were issued.
Technician received a laceration to the palm of the hand while removing a bolt on a front-end loader bucket.
The worker was reinstalling a spring onto a tension pulley system. During this process the worker was holding the pulley up with EE's right hand and installing a plate with EE's left hand, when the pulley slipped from EE's right hand and made contact with EE's left thumb.
Employee was entering the wash tunnel. Employee lost their footing on staircase and fell forward impacting their hand on the concrete floor.
Employee was walking to the shop door which was locked so employee walked around to the south side of the shop and slipped and fell on ice hitting head and straining shoulder.
Employee was standing on a ground level catwalk, swapping out frozen water lines to the dust suppression system, when EE stepped backward rolling EE's ankle causing a fracture and dislocation to the ankle.
While using a pry bar to align an adjustment ring on an HP 300 cone crusher, the pry bar slipped out causing a popping in the employee's shoulder.
Approximately 6:05 AM the employee was unlocking the gate to the entrance of the pit. The employee inadvertently stepped on one end of the chain and as they pushed the gate forward it caused the other end of the chain to uncoil and whip around the gate striking the employee in the nose/eye area.
Employee attempted to manually roll and lift rock out of haul road. Employee reported to Employer injury after end of shift, employee sent for medical evaluation following morning.
Belt repairs being installed. Employee was cutting a v-shape cut at edge of belt and utility knife slipped, cutting hand.
Ruptured air compressor tank. Concussive noise.
Employee was removing the cap screw on the filter housing of the HP 300 cone crusher using a 36" aluminum pipe wrench. The wrench slipped off the nut causing the employees hand to strike a stationary object.
The operator of the base plant was standing on the guarded platform guiding the backhoe operator to place the rock breaker on the rock jam. The plant operator signaled the backhoe operator to swing to the left and it would not stop. The rock breaker struck the plant operator on the left cheek. EE fell down 4 stairs and injured.
Assembling slide sledge tool for use and caught finger between tool and service truck bed.
A miner was exiting a MCC connex which consisted of 1 step down to ground level. The Miner mis-stepped on the level ground and rolled EE's ankle.
The Miner was assisting another miner carry a 80 pound screen bearing from a storage conex to a cart for transport to the work location. The bearing started to slip off the cart, as it was moving the miner stepped back to avoid being struck by the bearing. As they stepped back steel protruding from the conex struck their left leg just above the top of their boot.
EE was helping move, roll-out, and cut old conveyor belting for disposal. While EE was manually moving some belting EE felt a pop in EE's lower back resulting in a lower back sprain.
Employee was climbing ladder to enter loader and stumbled, they reached out to catch themselves and cut their right ring finger
Hernia when lifting a bead flange for a Cat 980
Employee was handling a piece of wear steel and cut though company issued leather gloves cutting right index and middle fingers requiring stitches.
A retest confirmed a Standard Threshold shift for employee in the left year
EE positioned company f-150 truck behind a reversing 980M loader without alerting or making any eye contact with the loader operator. The counterweight on loader struck the right front fender but pickup was drivable. No injury was reported by EE the day of the incident nor the next day. The first report of an injury by EE was late the next day. January 17,2017.
EE stood up from a knelt position while repairing a conveyor belt and felt a small amount of pain in right knee. EE then climbed into the ford F-350 service truck and once ee place heel on the floor board ee felt a pop in right knee.
Flashburn on eyes due to welding in truck bed
Employee was replacing a screen panel when it slipped out of left hand and landed on right pinky finger, causing a puncture to right pinky finger.
Gust of wind came up while employee was inspecting screens and dust got under their safety glasses and they got a small piece of debris in their eye.
The driver was trimming EE's load on an end dump trailer. EE closed the tailgate using the in cab controls and then went to the back tailgate to clear the seal so the tailgate could shut. EE placed EE's hand on the dog ear on the tailgate when the tailgate closed on EE's left hand crushing EE's hand and causing a laceration to EE's hand.
Employee was replacing a guard on a tail pulley and strained shoulder and lower back.
Employee was attempting to free a screen tightening rail with a four foot bar and the rail came loose. The bar then came back and struck the employee on the left side of the face causing safety glasses to cut employee just above the eyebrow.
Changing screens hit elbow on steel cross member of screen
Employee was stepping down off of a ladder when he stepped on a rock causing his ankle to roll, spraining his ankle.
Individual was cutting flashing and the blade slipped, cutting the bottom part of the thumb. The cut required 3 stitches.
Employee was changing screens and got the tip of his right ring finger pinched underneath the screen railing, causing the finger to bruise and swell. Injury was reported and the employee was taken to Concentra to get finger looked at, x rays were taken and the tip of the right ring finger was broken.
Employee picked up a 140 pound log washer part and threw it causing a lower back strain.
Employee was picking mud and sprained / strained right wrist
The miner was installing screens on the bottom deck of a rinse screen. As he was swinging the hammer hit the cross member above deflecting the hammer striking his left middle finger causing a fracture to the tip of that finger. The impact of the hammer chipped the bone on the end of his finger.
Employee slipped on ice while working in the plant and injured his shoulder.
Employee was using a grinder to buff a shaft. While he was running the grinder one of the strings from his hooded sweatshirt fell out of his coat and got wound up in the shaft of the grinder behind buffing wheel. This caused the grinder to get sucked up to his face striking him in the mouth. When it hit him it chipped a corner off of his front tooth
Struck tooth on loader bucket with hammer while attempting to remove. A piece broke off striking the thigh
Employee, blaster, was dewatering blast holes, when he went to lower the dewatering pump into a blast hole a worn spot on the dewatering hose showing metal cords caught his middle right hand finger. He tore the skin in a v shape 1/2" by 1/2". Employee was sent to the clinic and had 5 stitches to close up the wound.
Employee told to shovel bottom steps under bins. He was pulling shovel and scraping when he pulled a muscle. Employee to aggressive for the task at hand. Need to scope, not pull.
Employee failed to wear safety glasses while walking accross the yard when the wind was blowing. Claimed to have gotten something in his left eye.
Installing large bull gear on roll crusher at Wash Plant One, using a 8 lb. hammer to strike a hammer wrench to secure the nut that holds the gear. Hammer glanced off wrench and hit left knee.
While EE was installing screens in the middle deck of the 6x20 he struck his little finger with a 4lb sledge. Causing a laceration and fracture. EE's aim was deflected when he struck the deck at the beginning of his swing.
Employee was walking across the 8x20 top deck screen and stepped on a soft spot on the screen media with the outisde of his right foot, while the inside of his foot was on a ridgid support beam, causing his foot to roll to the outside and causing an ankle sprain.
Employee was holding a piece of steel (crusher mainframe liner) underneath crusher #2. The piece of steel was held on to the mainframe by some welds. As the other non injured employee was cutting it off, the steel recoiled and pushed injured employee's arm back into his shoulder.
Employee was climbing a ladder. As he got to the 4th rung, the ladder slipped out from underneath him. He tried to grab a picking eye to regain balance but could not do so and slid to the ground.
While doing a slump test the employee was packing down mud with a tamping device & caught his finger between the cone and the tamper. It caused a small open wound on one finger, and partial removal of a fingernail. The tamper was hand-held and the employee misjudged the distance between his finger and the item he held in his other hand.
Employee came into my office on the 2nd of Aug. complaining of irritation in his eye that happened on the 1st of Aug.
Replacing idler on CB2 tail section. As EE was tryng to line up the idler frame with the conveyor frame, the idler slipped off the frame hitting EE's finger.