Cargill Deicing Technology-Cleveland Mn — Accidents

Total: 357 accidents | Fatalities: 1

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
08/03/2007 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None A maintenance mechanic was doing miscellaneous cleaning in the surface maintenance shop. He attempted to dispose of an old chlorine gas cylinder (over 15 years old). He checked cylinder pressure by...
05/07/2007 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 120d restricted Roof bolter was installing his second roof bolt. Employee then inserted the roof bolt into the hole and was holding the bolt in position to bring up the drill motor carriage to accept the roof bolt....
05/02/2007 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The rope slip indicator wheel (JPLX wheel) came loose from the service hoist head rope. The mine was evacuated at 10:40 pm and MSHA was called at 10:43 pm (incident #1-42557090). JPLX wheel was repa...
03/12/2007 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None An air valve on the service hoist brakes was sticking that caused the hoist to kick out in automatic. During troubleshooting the hoist would not go back into service immediately, so the mine was evac...
11/29/2006 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Hoist down- a brake pressure transducer on the service hoist had a loose wire causing a voltage drop. Evacuation was called underground. The problem was fixed in approximately 40 minutes, before any...
11/28/2006 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Miner was operating LHD on first shift. As he turned into an intersection to approach the muck pile he ran over a large piece of salt on the ground. The jolt of hitting the large chunk caused him to...
11/14/2006 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None A broken brake shoe on the production hoist was discovered during the routine test inspection. The mine was immediately evacuated for the repair, which lasted approximately two hours. MSHA field off...
11/13/2006 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted Employee was cutting a hole in the plastic cover of a golf cart with a hawk bill knife. The employee was in the process of securing the cover to the cart. The knife cut through the plastic cover and...
09/15/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 2d restricted EE was assigned to the Powder Truck for the afternoon shift of Friday 9/15/06. After completing two rooms EE was loading the lifters on the third and as he stood up he felt a minor pain in his lower...
09/10/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 13d restricted Employee was working to install wooden dividing timbers in the production shaft. The employee does not recall a specific movement or incident that caused any pain and did not report an incident to the...
09/07/2006 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Production skip overtravel. While waiting for the release from high surge bin on surface to resume the hoisting cycle, the loaded west skip began to roll back and came to rest when the east skip enco...
07/20/2006 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None A loop contactor switch went out on the hoist controls and had to be replaced. MSHA Newark field office was notified by phone. No miners had to be evacuated.
06/12/2006 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Service hoist brakes had no air pressure getting past the main panel. This locked the brakes in the closed position. Mine evacuation was started at 4:00 am through the production shaft and the Newar...
04/03/2006 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Cleveland Public Power lost an electrical feeder that supplied most of the mine electricity. When the power went out the service hoist was lost. Underground employees were evacuated out the producti...
12/16/2005 POWERED HAULAGE INJURIES INVOLVNG NONEMPLOYEES None While Cargill employee was loading a flatbed truck in the yard, the truck driver moved behind the forklift, causing the steering tire to run over both feet, when the forklift backed up. No fractures....
11/28/2005 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Production hoist outage. A brake valve on the production hoist would not release at the beginning of afternoon shift. The mine was evacuated to repair the problem at approximately 3:20 p.m. MSHA fi...
11/18/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted Injured was repositioning an MCC panel on a pallet. As he slid it to his left, he felt a pop or strain in his right knee. Employee had a pre-existing condition with past problems in the injured knee...
10/24/2005 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None A 1' section of the deflection wheel was found on top of the production skip during a routine inspection of the hoist switches. The deflection wheel had deteriorated and a piece broke off the outer r...
09/16/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Injured was attaching rigging to old conveyor section. A piece of rust or scale came off of conveyor and entered the right eye of the injured. Injured rubbed eye and removed foreign body, however, s...
09/09/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 7d restricted EE, coworker & supervisor were removing guarding for the drag-flight conveyor after a malfunction. Conveyor was locked out. Coworker released one side of the guard, allowing the other side to drop d...
08/29/2005 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Production hoist outage. Contractors installed new steel in the production hoist headframe, leaving little clearance. Positioning magnet on the west skip contacted the steel and was broken out of pl...
08/17/2005 HOISTING NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee boarded the skip to ride down with the first shift. His hand was positioned on top of the closing handle as he was sliding the gate closed. When the gate slid to the closed position hi...
07/21/2005 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Temporary hoist outage. A crack was noticed in a brake shoe on the production hoist at 7:30 am. The mine evacuation system was initiated, but the brake was repaired at approximately 7:54 am, before...
07/15/2005 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Temporary hoist outage. A resistor controlling the zero biasing for current on hoist motor went bad. The hoist motor kicked out as the third shift crew left the mine. First shift miners coming in t...
04/29/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 56d restricted EE attempted to manually turn a turntable to the home position on a manual stretch wrapper. EE's right ring finger contacted a bolt on a roller under the table that allows the table to turn. The cru...
04/17/2005 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Temporary hoist outage. The service hoist was pulling electricity while stopped at the shaft bottom. Problem discovered at 8:00 am. All underground employees (5) evacuated the mine through the prod...
02/17/2005 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None AN ADMINISRATIVE EMPLOYEE MISSED THE BOTTOM STEP TRAVELING DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS. EE LANDED ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE FOOT & ROLLED THE RIGHT ANKLE. THE EE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH CL...
01/24/2005 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Discovered damaged tail rope on service hoist. Rope was damaged by bracket on dividing timber. Removed tail rope and replaced with new. Back running 11:45 am. Evacuated mine at 7:35 am to repair t...
01/05/2005 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Employees noticed Crosby clamps had turned. Called evacuation at 5:45am. Conducted full length inspection of rope including diameter, and connections. Changed out 9 Crosby clamps on #1 rope. Torqued t...
12/14/2004 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Production hoist rope slip-tach failed during production hoisting. Repairs made to slip-tach coupling. This is located on the deflection wheel on surface. Operational at 2:45pm.
12/01/2004 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None (2 EMPLOYEES INJURED IN THIS ACCIDENT.) TWO EMPLOYEES WERE HANGING BRATTICE FROM A LIFT TRUCK. A FITTING BROKE ON THE BASKET LEVELING VALVE CAUSING THE BASKET TO TIP FORWARD UNEXPECTEDLY. THIS EE H...
12/01/2004 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted (2 EMPLOYEES INJURED IN THIS ACCIDENT.) TWO EMPLOYEES WERE HANGING BRATTICE FROM A LIFT TRUCK. A FITTING BROKE ON THE BASKET LEVELING VALVE CAUSING THE BASKET TO TIP FORWARD UNEXPECTEDLY. THIS EE F...
10/29/2004 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None employee was re-palletizing 80# bags of salt. She crossed the warehouse carrying a bag and slipped on a moist floor that had some salt spillage on it. This caused her to strain her lower back.
07/01/2004 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The S1 brake caliper had a bad seal in the piston of the lower cylinder (actuator). The brake shoe was dragging and chattering on the disc. The midnight crew was held out of the mine while the brake c...
06/17/2004 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Brake pad on the production hoist brake caliper came loose and a portion of the pad broke loose. To make repairs the production hoist was taken out of service and the mine was evacuted. Hoist was te...
05/25/2004 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Failure of ARCNET communication card on the #2 hoist drive of the production hoist. Mine was evacuated. Card was replaced and hoist was tested and back in service by 7:50am. No injuries.
05/10/2004 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None At approximately 1:30pm the production hoist stopped due to a problem with the computer control network. Informational network isolated problem, reset and running at 2:10pm. The mine was evacuated by...
05/05/2004 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None An air conditiioner contractor was working on the AC unit in the production hoist control room. When contractor re-energized the AC unit, several fuses in the production hoist control panel blew, caus...
02/02/2004 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON 2/2/04 AND EMPLOYEE CHOSE NOT TO GO TO DOCTOR AT THAT TIME. HE DID CHOOSE TO GO TO THE DOCTOR ON 2/11/2004 AND IT BACAME REPORTABLE AT THAT TIME. EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING A BI N GATE...
01/16/2004 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE WAS TRYING TO DRILL A HOLE IN A PIECE OF PIPE WITH A 1/2"" CHUCK ELECTRIC DRILL. HE HELD THE PIPE WITH HIS LEFT HAND AND AS HE WAS DRILLING, THE BIT CAUGHT CAUSING THE DRILL TO RAPIDLY TWIST HIS RI...
12/29/2003 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None THE PRODUCTION HOIST WENT DOWN. A BAD BYTE ON THE OUTPUT CARD OF THE CONTROL WOULD NOT ALLOW THE BRAKES TO RELEASE. A GE REPAIRMAN CAME IN TO DIAGNOSE AND FIX THE COMPUTER PROBLEM.
12/23/2003 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None WHILE PERFORMING A SHAFT INSPECTIONS, THE CREW FOUND THE #3 HOIST ROPE SLAPPING THE GUIDE ROPES. AFTER FURTHER INVESTIGATION, THE GROOVE IN THE HOIST DRUM FOR #3 ROPE SHOWED EXCESSIVE WEAR. TH E OTHER...
12/03/2003 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None THE SERVICE HOIST UNDERGROUND CONTROL PANEL: THE E-STOP PUSH BUTTON FAILED.
10/28/2003 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 1d restricted INCIDENT WAS REPORTED ON 11-19-03. THE EE WAS OPERATING A SKID STEER TO MUCK IN A HOLE. HE STARTED DIGGING AND THE HYDRAULICS GAVE WAY AND THE KID STEER BUCKED HIM. AS THIS HAPPENED, HE WENT F ORWARD...
10/18/2003 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None THE GE 90-70 SERIES PLC PROCESSOR FAULTED ADN HOIST COULD NOT BE OPERATED. A NEW GE 90-7- SERIESPLC PROCESSOR WAS INSTALLED AND THE HOIST WAS BACK UP IN ABOUT 2 HOURS, 5:15PM
08/22/2003 NO VALUE FOUND NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None CLIMBING DOWN OFF OF IRON STRUCTURE, HE STEPPED OFF A 4""X4""X8' CRIB BLOCK AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE AND FELL TO THE FLOOR.
08/14/2003 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None THE POWER OUTAGE OCCURRED IN THE NORTHEAST. BOTH HOISTS WERE DOWN AND WE HAD TO USE GENERATOR TO GET THE MINE EVACUATED.
07/30/2003 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None BRAKE ADJUSTMENT LINKAGE ON PRODUCTION HOIST CALIPER BRAKES BROKE, PREVENTING BRAKE FROM RELEASING. MINE EVACUATION BEGAN AT 3:40 PM.
07/24/2003 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None SECONDARY HOISTWAY, PRODUCTION HOIST OUTAGE REQUIRING A MINE EVACUATION. BRAKE RELASE SWITCH STICKING CAUSED APPROX. 2 HOURS DOWNTIME. MINE EVACUATION COMPLETE AT APPROX. 1:30 PM AND CREWS RET URNED T...
07/24/2003 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted EE WAS TRYING TO PULL HIMSELF UP ON TO A PLATFORM FROM THE GROUND. AS HE USED THE GRATING TO PULL UP, THE GRATING MOVED AND PINCHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE GRATING AND THE ON THE PLATFORM. WHIC H CUT H...