El Dorado Plant — Accidents

Total: 30 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
06/06/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted While Opening a Rotex Door Employees hand was pinched by the latch of the door causing a laceration to the left Ring finger.
03/10/2025 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost Employee was driving an articulated haul truck leaving the pit when they drove over a bump in the road causing them to hit their left arm on the arm rest. The contact resulted in the employee feeling...
12/16/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted Employee was opening and closing lids on customer trailers, and reported knee pain with no known cause.
12/11/2024 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 30d restricted Employee operated skid steer for 7 days from 12/05 to 12/11 and complained of knee soreness at the end of the week. Reported to plant on 12/23 that the knee was sore. Employee was sent to the doctor o...
11/13/2024 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was clearing a waste chute on Rotex 314 and hit their middle finger on right hand with a big bolt being used as a hammer.
11/05/2024 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 1d restricted While cleaning around the bucket elevator, employee tried to step back, when employees leg slipped, and EE felt a pop in their left knee.
09/30/2024 FIRE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 16d lost While working on the Dryer 4 Platform Employee went to light a cigarette and Employee's right glove caught on fire leading to severe burns on hand.
07/05/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 86d lost While on a ladder beneath double dump on bag house 3, cleaning with one hand, employee suddenly felt a sharp pain around mid back region. Medical treatment diagnosed with thoracic muscle spasm, given...
01/23/2024 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 36d restricted Employee was on SafeRacks opening and closing hatches during rain. Employee got on top of a box truck to close a box lid and slipped causing rib/stomach pain.
01/19/2024 EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost dry-plant employee (E1) was working closely by another employee (E2) using the air wand when the air wand slipped out of E1's hand, E2 attempted to control the wand and compressed air line, the wand a...
04/29/2023 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using a 36"" pipe wrench to close the isolation wheel valve of DWS108. EE had the pipe wrench placed on the top of the wheel at the 1:00 position and began pushing the pipe wrench counter...
07/16/2022 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 582d lost Employee attempted to lower the suspended counterweight. The chainfall failed causing the counterweight to fall & strike the employee in the right shoulder.
07/05/2022 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was cleaning the oversize protection on BE306, as they were putting the screen back in place it caught on something, and hit employee's lip, causing them to cut their lip
08/20/2021 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 138d restricted Employee was installing a new belt on the 410 conveyor. Employee was manually rolling the gear box. While doing so they pinched the tip of left middle finger between the drive belt & pulley.
05/01/2021 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was grinding off a seized bearing and a piece of metal got into EE's left eye. The metal was removed at a medical facility with no further treatment needed.
11/29/2020 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 15d restricted On 11/29/2020 Load-out operator was opening hatches on trucks and felt something pull on EE's left side. The operator stated EE did not need medical care at the time of the incident. On 12/7/2020 the...
03/06/2020 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While shoveling accumulated sand at the base of the Primary A hopper, employee slipped and fell backwards striking back of head on steel beam. All PPE was in place. Hard Hat flew of as slip occurred....
12/05/2019 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee did not report until 12-6-2019. Employee was welding in a closed area on 12-5-2019 with 2 other welders. Back flash while welding, reflecting off walls caused irritation to eyes. Employee did...
11/17/2019 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was walking down a stairway, tripped and fell, spraining right knee. Took employee to ER. Some swelling, no damage to knee other than sprain. Put knee in brace. Use crutches as needed. Stairs...
08/20/2019 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE attempted to mount the water truck & failed to obtain 3 points of contact. EE placed right hand on the handrail, then attempted to place right foot onto the lowest rung of the ladder. EE's foot mis...
03/12/2019 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Employee was pulling screen from equipment when screen slipped and hit employee in right side. Employee heard popping sound. Nothing broken, just bruising.
03/04/2019 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost While closing hatch on top of Sand Truck, Sand Truck lurched forward causing employee to wrench back. Fall Protection was in place and worked properly. Sand Truck driver admitted foot slip off of clut...
01/08/2019 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost While cleaning up spilled floc material employee slipped and fell onto 6 inch supply pipe that was crossing the slab, injuring tailbone. Bad bruise only. No breaks or other injury.
04/23/2018 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted installing a column for the tank, the weight shifted and the employee attempted to compensate this shift in weight by self causing a strain on the right side of EE's groin.
04/21/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The injured employee's right hand was caught between the pinch point of a conveyor structure and an idler. A laceration was received from the incident. The laceration required (2) two sutures. NOTE:...
03/26/2018 EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 98d lost Employee was operating a concrete pump truck at a new construction site, the flexible hose at the end of the boom became clogged. Instead of following procedure EE decided to hit the hose while it sti...
03/13/2018 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was using an magnetic drill when the power source became unplugged causing the drill to fall, the employee tried to catch the drill causing EE's arm to become strained.
03/08/2018 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 165d lost, 5d restricted The employee was rigging an I beam for the next lift when EE pulled on the choker too hard causing the I beam to roll over onto EE's foot.
03/04/2018 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was tightening bolts in a man lift when they pulled down on a spud wrench. The wrench slipped off the nut, coming down and impacting a finger between the wrench and the top railing of the man...
02/06/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was rotating a hopper section when EE lost grip and the piece of metal dropped onto EE's right foot causing a contusion. Minor injury resulting in 5 days of light duty.