Bonito Pit — Accidents

Total: 9 accidents | Fatalities: 2

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
07/10/2025 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 1d lost, 1d restricted While using a grinder the miner had a small piece of debris enter the corner of EE's right eye. The employee was wearing safety glasses at time of incident. Employee was taken to urgent care and relea...
05/22/2025 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost While conducting R&R on a new conveyor (not energized) digging bar slid/fell onto a miner's hand causing a laceration to the miner's thumb. Initially it was believed to be controlled with gauze/bandag...
05/07/2024 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Crusher Maintenance employee fell onto EE's tail bone while walking on catwalk. Employee reported that EE did not fall onto EE's back or hit EE's head. Reported incident in the afternoon and an initia...
11/16/2023 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Plant Groundmen's left hand was crushed by a rock. Employee was accessing the catwalk on the Jaw Crusher. They lost footing and tripped crushing their left hand against the railing on the catwalk. Emp...
09/21/2021 POWERED HAULAGE FATALITY Fatal For unknown reason an independent driver lost control of belly truck which caused it to jack knife, throwning driver from the cab. Driver was then run over by same truck.
07/14/2021 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost EE was changing a conveyer belt, when a rock fell from an unknown location striking the conveyer frame. This rock then bounced up and struck EE on the right side of EE's head below EE's hard hat. EE...
07/08/2021 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost EE shut EE's D-10 dozer off and exited the cab through the left door. When EE stepped onto the tracks of the dozer, EE felt pain in EE's left ankle and heard a pop. EE was driven to urgent care by a...
10/15/2019 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted Employee was changing out center cutting edge of D155 dozer. Upon cutting off fastening bolts of cutting edge with sledge hammer the cutting edge fell on employee's foot causing injury.
03/24/2017 POWERED HAULAGE FATALITY Fatal Approx. 8-8:30 pm after shift, employee drove a vehicle onto mine site and stopped close to generator, left vehicle running, gear selector in drive position, did not set emergency brake or chalk wheel...