Dicaperl Minerals LLC — Accidents

Total: 63 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
09/22/2025 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None 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 b...
08/02/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 11d lost Employee stepped incorrectly and sprained/strained their right ankle.
04/22/2025 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 84d lost 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.
12/10/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was sitting in the maintenance shop and unknown debris entered the employee's eye.
06/27/2024 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was grinding without eye protection and got debris in right eye.
08/16/2023 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee attempted to move a gearbox with a prybar when EE felt a burning in EE's left arm and chest.
06/24/2023 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was wearing sunglasses instead of safety glasses or goggles while bagging fine ore. Debris entered employee's right eye.
05/11/2023 OTHER NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was operating water truck to reduce dust is high wind conditions. Wind blew dust debris into employees left eye.
03/23/2023 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee went to remove strap caught on pallet. While moving they accidentally got a splinter stuck under their right thumb nail.
12/21/2022 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee advised stepped wrong and twisted knee while working cleaning a car.
08/24/2022 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None 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.
07/15/2022 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 10d lost While lifting with a crane, an elevator belt snapped and injured a contractor and an employee.
07/15/2022 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While an employee was assisting carrying an injured contractor to an ambulance, the employee injured their shoulder.
07/15/2022 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 238d lost 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...
12/19/2021 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Miner attempted to lift piping. Miner advised ""Pulled something in Miner's back"".
10/18/2021 OTHER DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost 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.
10/08/2021 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost 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...
06/15/2021 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None 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.
05/23/2021 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 109d lost 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.
02/17/2021 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 271d lost Employee lost footing, slipped or fell into belt manlift, internal injuries to upper torso.
07/07/2020 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None 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.
06/14/2020 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None 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.
10/23/2019 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 93d lost, 72d restricted 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.
06/27/2019 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 87d lost 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.
06/14/2019 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 53d lost 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 day...
04/25/2019 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 52d lost While using cutting torch, slag burnt through pants and fell into left booting burning left foot
02/12/2019 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Pulled muscle in arm shoveling.
01/23/2019 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Missed step tried to catch self and pulled EE's leg.
12/09/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 8d lost EE was attempting to unclog a chute when right arm became trapped.
09/06/2018 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 145d lost Employee turned EE's ankle walking to a fire drill.
08/16/2018 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None 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.
07/14/2018 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 35d lost Slipped injured knee and ankle/foot
09/27/2017 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 195d lost Lifting a motor for installation.
02/19/2017 OTHER DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost Miner was bitten by a spider
01/18/2017 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 45d lost 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...
05/13/2016 POWERED HAULAGE ACCIDENT ONLY None 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...
04/12/2016 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None 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.
11/06/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY 29d lost 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 ha...
07/20/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 19d lost 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.
05/21/2013 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee changing out a k-screen when rubbed arm against sharp corner of screen railing causing employee to cut his right forearm.
12/05/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 22d lost Employee was pulling on elevator belt to hook belt on to a wrench when he felt pain in his lower back.
10/08/2011 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None 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...
08/29/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee caught his left index finger between two motors causing a laceration on both sides of finger.
09/27/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost 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.
04/12/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 31d lost 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 hou...
07/03/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 1d restricted Employee was cleaning perlite with a shovel and was putting it into a wheel barrow.
04/12/2006 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 38d lost EE removed guard and was cleaning off area. Motion sensor arm came around and trapped EE's finger between arm $ sensor resulting in injury.
01/25/2006 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost EE was having to use a bar to close railcar bottom door when the bar slipped out of the door socket causing EE to hit right hand onto the concrete.
12/23/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 5d lost Employee pulled a muscle in his lower back while performing his regular duties. The exact cause is unknown, however, he had been sweeping,shoveling, operating a back hoe, and around 3:30 p.m. he helpe...
08/17/2005 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Employee was fueling loader off of fuel/lube truck. He stepped onto bed of lube truck to shut off fuel switch when he tripped over a pipe on the truck bed causing him to fall.