Farmington Pit — Accidents
Total: 47 accidents | Fatalities: 0
| Date | Classification | Injury | Days Lost | Narrative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/15/2025 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 22d restricted | Individual attempted to lift a 5-6 ft. long chunk of I-beam (weighing approximately 150 lbs.) and toss it over the handrail of an elevated screen deck to the ground below. The I-beam shifted and pinch... |
| 09/01/2023 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 10d lost | On 9/11 individual reported injury of unknown origin. EE later states that on 9/1 EE was attempting to obtain leverage with EE's shoulder on a wrench handle, and injured EE's shoulder trying to break... |
| 01/26/2021 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 16d restricted | Had wrench resting on left shoulder for leverage. Pushed upward with arm and shoulder, felt a pop in shoulder then pain. |
| 07/21/2020 | POWERED HAULAGE | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 1d lost, 24d restricted | Employee was driving an end spill and was backing up the equipment when they fell a pop in the shoulder. |
| 06/10/2020 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 5d restricted | Installation of guard. When guard was put into place employee's hand got caught in a pinch point. |
| 05/09/2019 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 83d lost, 291d restricted | Employee positioned their upper body between the belts to knock a rock loose from tail pulley and belt using a hammer. When rock was freed stored up energy caused the belt to move in an unexpected for... |
| 07/23/2018 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 9d restricted | Work was being performed on screens. Employee 2 was on an upper level shoveling off material to the ground and employee 1 walked under the area where employee 2 was shoveling material off to. Employee... |
| 04/18/2018 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 16d restricted | Employee was coming off of scalper when foot came down onto an incline and twisted their ankle. |
| 08/31/2017 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 8d lost, 7d restricted | Employee was installing new boards to lowboy trailer. They bent over to pull out a new board, when they felt a pop in their back, no pain at the time. Employee did not request help to move the board w... |
| 07/21/2017 | POWERED HAULAGE | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 159d restricted | Employee was operating a loader when a Haul truck backed into the loader jostling the driver in the seat and hurt lower back. |
| 11/30/2016 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 3d lost, 5d restricted | Employee held on to the head of a worn plow bolt while another employee tried to take the nut off. Bolt spun in employees fingers and cut them. |
| 09/23/2016 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was helping to install a V-Belt on motor sheave, and got ring finger caught between the two crushing the finger. |
| 08/26/2016 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Using a wrench and hammer to remove a scraper from a reject conveyor |
| 07/28/2016 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 2d restricted | Employee smashed finger against concrete wall behind tail pulley while adjusting the belt using a ratchet. Was on modified duty for two days and then released to full duty. |
| 04/12/2016 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee cutting belt with knife and cut right hand pointer finger. |
| 03/04/2016 | POWERED HAULAGE | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 11d restricted | Employee was putting tools away in vehicle after repair of water line when loader backed up and pressed employee against vehicle. Employee sought medical attention at approximately 1 PM and was diagn... |
| 12/08/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 9d restricted | Employee did not report the incident to his supervisor until 12/16/15 which was diagnosed by a doctor to be tendonitis. Employee incident report stated that he was dismantling the suspension on a 1 to... |
| 11/12/2015 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 1d restricted | At approximately 9:20 PM an employee was removing and replacing a section on 9505 and while taking a better stance he slipped and fell on his RT elbow causing a contusion. |
| 10/16/2015 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 2d lost, 7d restricted | Lifting and throwing rock out of haul road. Employee developed lower back pain. |
| 09/18/2015 | MACHINERY | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 1d lost, 11d restricted | Employee was using a hand grinder with a cutoff wheel to remove a seized up bolt. The grinder grabbed and threw itself into his leg, causing a cut to left knee. |
| 11/18/2014 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 16d restricted | Employee was removing an I-beam when one end of it unexpectedly dropped, raising the other end, pinching his finger between the beam and a chute causing his right middle finger to be cut. |
| 04/22/2014 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 21d restricted | Walking down stairway, slipped and caught himself causing a strain to the SI joint in his back. |
| 07/02/2013 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 4d lost, 62d restricted | Pulling on screen gates when he felt a burning sensation in his abdominal muscles. |
| 05/13/2013 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 23d restricted | Employee was lifting a piece of screen cloth to the screen deck when he bumped a piece of screen cloth that was staged to be lifted causing it to shift and strike his left hand cutting his fingers.... |
| 10/06/2012 | OTHER | INJURIES DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES | 5d lost | Employee felt pain and numbness on left side at approximately 9:00 a.m. |
| 05/08/2012 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 1d lost | Employee was installing a gear box. The gear box slid off the shaft and pinched the employees finger causing a cut on the finger. |
| 12/14/2011 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 1d lost, 1d restricted | Employee was replacing a sheave on a motor overhead. The taper lock came loose and the sheave struck the employee on the back of his hard hat causing a slight strain to the employees neck muscles. |
| 10/17/2011 | POWERED HAULAGE | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 2d lost, 2d restricted | The employee was operating an end dump and was preparing to travel down a haul road to enter the pit. As he began down the haul road he reported the brakes had malfunctioned. There was a front end l... |
| 10/17/2011 | POWERED HAULAGE | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 15d lost, 10d restricted | The employee was operating a front end loader to clear rocks from a haul road. It was reported that the brakes on an end dump malfunctioned as it traveled down the haul causing the end dump to hit th... |
| 09/27/2010 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 17d lost, 67d restricted | Doing cleanup shoveling under a conveyor, injured back. |
| 07/30/2010 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 66d restricted | The employee was disconnecting the road widener machine from the front of the loader boom. The left coupling pin got stuck and he was using a hammer and a large bolt to knock the pin loose. As he st... |
| 03/08/2010 | MACHINERY | PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY | None | The outside contractor was onsite working on the rock drill. A piece of drill steel started to fall out of the carousel. The contractor grabbed it to push it back in place as the operator engaged the... |
| 04/13/2009 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 7d lost | Employee was replacing a conveyor belt. The new belt was being pulled on by using ropes. While pulling the new conveyor on, one of the ropes broke, striking the employee in the face, causing lacerat... |
| 09/12/2007 | POWERED HAULAGE | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Employee was in endspill, when another endspill operator in a 2nd endspill, backed into his endspill. |
| 12/04/2006 | MACHINERY | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 4d restricted | Employee was operating the dozer (D8N cat), pushing out a shot that could not be dug out, and his neck started to hurt. |
| 08/31/2006 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | Box cutter blade was stuck while cutting belting. When EE pulled the blade free, his hand slipped and cut the knuckle of left thumb with blade. |
| 06/02/2006 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 259d lost | INCIDENT NOT REPORTED UNTIL OCTOBER 9, 2006. Employee claims original injury occurred 06/02/06. He did not inform the company until 10/09/06. EE claimed, ""Nothing out of the ordinary"" the he could r... |
| 10/21/2003 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | WORKER WAS CARRYING A STEEL GRATE. GRATE SLIPPED FROM HIS HAND AND STRUCK HIS LEG CAUSING LEG TO BE CUT & SCRAPED. |
| 01/09/2003 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | WORKER WAS UNLOADING 128TH ANVILS AND SMASHED/CUT FINGER ON LEFT HAND WHEN 2 ANVILS COLLIDED. |
| 10/12/2002 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 5d lost | WORKER WAS MAKING REPAIRS TO CONVEYOR WHEN HE FELL TO THE GROUND LANDING ON RIGHT SIDE. THIS RESULTED IN BRUISING OF NERVE IN LOWER BACK |
| 10/01/2002 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 29d lost, 5d restricted | WORKER WAS DESENDING LADDER. LADDER TIPPED OVER AND WORKER FELL TO GROUND LANDING ON LEFT FOOT RESULTING IN BROKEN HEEL. |
| 09/04/2002 | MACHINERY | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | WORKER WAS USING GRINDER & WELDER WHEN SMALL PIECE OF METAL BECAME IMBEDDED IN RIGHT EYE. |
| 06/28/2002 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING WET CONVEYOR BELTING. SAID THE CUTTING BECAME EASIER TOWARDS THE END OF THE CUT SO THE KNIFE CUT THROUGH EASIER THAN EXPECTED AND HE STABBED THE KNIFE IN HIS LEG. |
| 04/23/2002 | OTHER | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | EE HAD BEEN CHANGING SCREENS ON A CONVEYOR. WHEN HE FINISHED HE WALKED OUTSIDE & WAS HIT BY A GUST OF WIND THAT BLEW A SMALL PIECE OF METAL INTO HIS EYE. |
| 09/12/2001 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT | None | EMPLOYEE DROPPED HEAVY OBJECT ON LITTLE FINGER OF LEFT HAND AND CUT IT OPEN. |
| 03/29/2001 | OTHER | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 3d lost, 3d restricted | EE BENDED TO GO UNDERNEATH CONVEYOR AND POPPED HIS BACK OUT OF PLACE. |
| 01/02/2001 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT | 6d lost, 12d restricted | EE WAS REMOVING OLD WEAR PARTS FROM INSIDE THE CRUSHER. HE WAS HITTING ON CAST STILL INNER WHEN A PIECE OF COASTING HIT HIM IN THE EYE. |