3M - Downtown Plant — Accidents

Total: 97 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
12/18/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Employee slipped and fell due to icy accumulation at the exit door.
06/29/2025 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Employee experienced pain in right shoulder while pounding down a chute.
11/04/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted A 3 person team was removing 11"" round metal ductwork for cleaning. A 5' section came free of the quick-camp and dropped down 5' hitting an employee in the metatarsal area of the Left foot resulting...
05/01/2023 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 52d lost, 61d restricted Employee walking through a doorway carrying two buckets of tools. Tripped and fell on shoulder. Initially got better then pain did not go away. Went to doctor months later and found tear requiring...
07/29/2022 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None During Annual Hearing Tests employee had a 25 dbA MSHA STS right ear. Followed up with employee on retraining, selecting other hearing devices, reviewed work area for opportunities to reduce noise. Do...
06/07/2022 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 35d restricted Employee was trying to move two chutes in the shipping basement and felt a pain in their back. Employee did not report it at that time. Employee did report it several days later. Employee does have so...
03/15/2020 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 2d lost, 34d restricted Employee was trying to line up a bolt hole opening on 42 elevator gearbox. The employee had EE's finger inside of bolt hole feeling for when 2 sides were lined up so bolt could be installed, the 2 par...
12/27/2019 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost While employee was conducting a screen change employee came in contact with sharp edge of screen resulting in a laceration that required 20 stitches
04/17/2019 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost While grabbing and cutting bags at Mixer station started to feel some pain and numbness in both hands and arms around Mid April. Employee started to stretch and treat self but symptoms have not gone...
03/06/2018 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 48d lost, 74d restricted Individual was walking across outside work area and it was snowing. EE slip and fell on right knee. Strain right knee.
09/27/2017 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 13d restricted Employee was opening bags at mixer station and felt pain in left shoulder. Went to doctor and has a 5lb lifting restriction on left arm.
11/04/2016 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 14d restricted Employee was walking up the stairs and felt a pop in their left calf. Employee went to walk-in and received restrictions
07/09/2015 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 59d restricted Individual was using a 4.5 inch hand held grinder with wire wheel brush to clean mortar off of a hand trowel. Wire wheel brush caught corner of hand trowel and broke a piece off. Broken piece struck...
05/24/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee stated they bumped conveyor hood which dislodged dust/material which got into employee's eye. Employee flushed eye and still felt like something in it. Went to ER as precaution flushed eye...
02/24/2015 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 1d lost, 2d restricted Employee was walking on top of rail car and stepped on latch which strained metatarsal part of foot. Employee went to doctor and was written work restrictions.
02/23/2015 OCCUPATIONAL SKIN DISEASES OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 9d restricted Employee developed an allergic reaction at work while working in coloring. Skin turned red no blisters. Employee feels it was from working with red pigment. Employee went to doctor and they wrote r...
02/01/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee reported slipping on ice and falling outside in shipping's railroad yard. Strained low back has now started chiropractic treatment.
01/30/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 14d restricted Employee was tightening a bolt and rubbed the back of his hand on sharp area cutting the back of left hand, 27 stitches.
12/15/2014 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 34d restricted Employee was making an adjustment to a thermocouple on line 3 kiln exit and the Thermocouple tube caught something in kiln discharge causing tube to shift and smash / cut right thumb. Employee was br...
09/23/2014 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 7d lost, 124d restricted While fueling truck downtown fueling station employee reached for fuel nozzle and felt pain in left shoulder. Went to doctor 6 weeks later because pain did not go away completely. Found a torn rotat...
04/11/2014 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 7d lost, 57d restricted Employee was opening a shipping tank car and strained right shoulder.
02/17/2014 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 42d lost, 30d restricted Employee was walking to get to loader, slipped on a patch of ice and twisted knee. Employee hyperextended knee and heard a pop. Went to doctor. MRI Scheduled for 2/25/2014.
07/29/2013 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 10d restricted Employee reported trigger finger condition to Index finger and middle finger right hand. Prolonged overuse of power tools is what doctor determined cause. Employee hand surgery to fix condition.
01/17/2013 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 18d lost, 110d restricted Emp. reported to supervisor he had fell from 18 conveyor tripper car and fell on his left elbow. His left arm was in pain. Employee was descending stairs (2 steps) had right hand on railing and left f...
10/17/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 36d restricted Employee was guzling rock next to a conveyor and when he pulled on hose his elbow hit metal railing. Bumped right elbow employee did not go to doc until 11/6/2012
03/03/2012 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Jackhammer task in silicate tank clean out over 8 hour shift. Following morning very stiff back muscles, strain. Employee went to doctor week Later and they prescribed an anti inflammatory.
01/27/2012 OTHER DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 9d lost, 23d restricted In the cource of The employee's normal work and over time the employee has had pain on his Left middle finger he believes with discussions with the Nurse that his normal work activities have contribut...
01/18/2012 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 58d restricted EE REPORTED HIS RIGHT KNEE WAS HURTING AND GETTING WORSE. HE THINKS IT HAPPENED A WEEK OR 2 BEFORE (HE DOES NOT KNOW WHEN FOR SURE) WHILE HE WAS CLEANING THE SILICATE TANK. HE SAYS IT MIGHT OF HAPPENE...
09/09/2011 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None Hearing Loss greater than 25dba
06/20/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While releasing air on car the employees hand brushed up against bracket and there was a sharp edge. scraped backside of hand knuckle. Infection started a few days later and he was given antibiotics
02/17/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 51d lost While standing on trailer tire to adjust gate, hands pulled out of gloves causing employee to fall 3 ft to the ground injuring his hip. Dislocated hip.
02/08/2011 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 5d lost, 45d restricted Employee had right wrist pain from normal work activities in maint which turned out to be Carpal Tunnel. he had surgery before he retired.
02/05/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee bumped head on chute and strained neck. Did not hurt right away but got worse over time. Employee went to doctor and got 10 hour work restrictions.
01/25/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee was putting away tools after finishing a job. While pulling a cart (oxy/accetlene torch kit), the cart started to tip. The employee reached over to straighten the cart and caught his righ...
01/13/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 87d restricted Strained back while assembling hub nut on 4 Roll. Hub nut weighs about 150 lbs. A crane is used to get the hub nut close to the shaft, but then it requires a person to lift/position/turn nut onto sha...
08/10/2010 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None Employee had a 25 db STS shift change in their hearing in both ears.
04/22/2010 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 21d lost, 109d restricted Wrench slipped off the hex nut. When the wrench slipped, the box end of the wrench made contact with the base of the separator. The employee's hand slipped, from the orignal grip position, down the sh...
07/23/2009 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 14d restricted Employee was shoveling up and hit a metal plate that was under a pile. Strained right wrist and arm. Was fine at time but months later employeee went to doctor and got prescription meds.
06/22/2009 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None He was dumping a wheel barrow in #1 elevator, after wheel barrow was empty, he stepped back & fell. He believes he stepped on the side of his foot causing the fall. He scraped his elbow, no other inju...
05/22/2009 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None Employee noticed soreness/pain in right wrist when shoveling and sweeping. Employee stated pain is still in wrist with sharp pain going into forearm and his hand falls asleep. On 9/9/2009 employee wen...
05/12/2009 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 12d restricted Employee had a sore back for about one week prior to injury. Not sure how it got hurt. Then on 5/12/2009, Employee was pounding down a spout with a sledge hammer for about 45 minutes. Afterwards he...
04/06/2009 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 1d restricted Employee reported injury while guzzling 2 days after it happened. on 4/8 The Plant Nurse looked at his eye it was red, irritated, and had a visible abrasion to it. She instructed employee to see eye...
01/05/2009 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None Fire started in dust collection duct work off of line 3 in our coloring dept. Fire lasted about 40 minutes. Fire Dept called. No injuries
12/26/2008 POWERED HAULAGE ACCIDENT ONLY None 3M front end loader operator was removing snow while plant was shut down. A Per Mar Security guard pulled up in a truck behind loader. Loader operator backed into truck. No injuries.
12/26/2008 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Injured party was in a Per Mar Security Company Vehicle and was parked, a Front End Loader that was plowing snow backed up and crushed the front end of the truck while he was in the truck. Large pile...
11/01/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While performing checks on thermocouples outside on double dump platform, employee felt something in his right eye. He thought that he was able to get it out immediately. Later that night and early...
10/29/2008 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None Our #11 baghouse bags started on fire. The fire went on for approximately 25 minutes. Once fire was put out it smoldered for another hour as fire crews tried to gain access to the inside of the bagh...
10/20/2008 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 7d restricted While retrieving a pallet of chemical, an employee was backing up slowly with a forklift and struck an upright building support that was in his blind spot. The forklift came to an abrupt stop. The e...
08/25/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 2d restricted Carloader reported, that while closing the top cover of a railcar, he had sprained his middle finger on his right hand. He stated he was lifting the car cover with his left hand and he put out his rig...
07/08/2008 DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None Employee was working in Shipping department and felt weak and tired. Asked to go to hospital. Diagnosed and dehydrated and suffering from Heat exhaustion. Work area or work load was not any differe...