Four Corners — Accidents

Total: 363 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
10/25/2014 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee slipped from the second step of a maintenance truck, resulting in his left shin contacting the step causing a laceration.
09/12/2014 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Incident is under investigation.
07/30/2014 DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 1d lost Employee was working up in the bin area when he felt some cramping. After descending the stairs, employee's condition worsened and he was feeling severe cramping in his whole body. Employee was given...
07/24/2014 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 9d restricted Employees were removing a wooden box from the bed of a pickup truck for disposal. The top was laying beside the box and as the employees attempted to place the top on the box, the injured employee's r...
07/17/2014 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 145d lost, 9d restricted Employee was working on top of a floater platform that was pulled from the C/W ditch and sat on the ground to change out a 30 amp air cooled sealing water motor for the Z North #2 TLP. Employee finis...
07/13/2014 OTHER NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While operating engine #3802 the engineer was bit by a spider on his lower right side. This was on Sunday night and he reported it on Monday night.
06/04/2014 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 2d lost, 128d restricted Previously reported as first aid-""As employee was throwing 2-1/2"" x 15' sealing water hose off the truck, felt a pain in his right shoulder."" Injury became recordable when employee had surgery.
05/20/2014 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 2d lost, 68d restricted Employee injured his right thumb while making an adjustment to the forks on an off-road forklift in preparation for a lift. The fork came off of the support saddle and swiveled pinching the employees...
04/22/2014 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 53d lost Injured employee was a passenger in a pickup truck of which the driver lost control of the truck just south of the 18 BMP ditch. He drove through the south side BMP berm and landed on the North side...
02/22/2014 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee was repositioning cribbing when his thumb was caught between the boom point and cribbing causing a fracture.
01/15/2014 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 8d restricted While inspecting dragline 19 bucket employee went to step over a patch of high ground and right foot slid into low spot twisting leg and knee.
09/18/2013 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was in the process of removing a bracket that supports wire inside a switchgear cabinet. While pulling on the old bracket it unexpectedly broke causing the injured employee to strike the bac...
08/29/2013 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 26d lost, 174d restricted Employee was walking up a ladder when his retractable locked up causing him to lose his footing. He fell backwards off of the ladder and fractured both legs.
07/06/2013 OTHER DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was working in a wetland extracting herbaceous plants and was bitten on the right hand by a snake.
05/05/2013 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None On 5/5/2013 injured felt like something blew into his eye. Eye was flushed but incident not reported until next day. Employee was sent for X-rays and examination which showed no foreign body in the e...
04/26/2013 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 2d lost, 239d restricted Injured was sliding a hydraulic unit from truck, the unit toppled to the left snatching the left arm and shoulder of the employee. Injured treated In-house for severe shoulder strain; pain reoccurred...
04/12/2013 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 61d lost, 17d restricted Employee was walking back to the strainer and slipped on some mud/algae and fell to the ground. He landed on his left side.
12/18/2012 OTHER INJURIES DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES None Employee started having chest pains co-worker took him to the site nurse. The site nurse took hiss vitals and called the ambulance. The paramedics check him out and he refused to go in the ambulance....
10/25/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 2d lost, 68d restricted Injured employee was working in the area of a field switch gear when an arc flash occurred and in the process of evacuating the area tripped and injured his knee.
10/25/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Injured employee was standing on top of the gearbox pedestal and was using a pry bar to separate the coupling halves. While he was applying pressure to the coupling, the pry bar came loose and employe...
10/25/2012 ELECTRICAL DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 11d restricted EE was called to #2 MLP on the 26 side to reverse motor for maintenance to remove impeller. After he changed motor back he closed the motor disconnect and an arc fault occurred inside the switchgear c...
10/23/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 4d lost, 166d restricted Two E/I Technicians were re-installing the motor leads to the # 4 primary log. They hoisted the j-box into place and secured it. They then rigged the hoist to the 90 degree conduit fitting and were in...
09/18/2012 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 26d lost, 50d restricted EE was cutting rebar steel when the handle of the tool slipped, causing him to lose his balance and twist his right ankle.
08/15/2012 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While moving a trommel screen with a 20 ton overhead hoist, the trommel turned and the eye-bolt pulled through the urethane screen. A release of stored energy resulted in a laceration to the employee'...
07/27/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 5d lost After bending over to measure grating, injured EE stood up and felt lightheaded and dizzy. Employee fainted, collapsed, and struck the knockout drain frame on the log washer. Bruising was apparent....
06/13/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While installing the drive coupling on new bearing unit, the taper lock bushing was spread with a small steel wedge. After positioning the bushing on the shaft, the employee started to tap the wedge...
04/21/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 197d lost, 100d restricted Employee tripped in feed product landing on his hands, after draining choked sump. Employee said hands and wrists where numb, first responders checked him out then ambulance came to check him out furt...
04/02/2012 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None According to hearing tests performed it has been determined that employee has sustained a hearing loss threshold shift in the right ear.
01/06/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 50d restricted Employee was cleaning up the lab area when she tripped on a rubber mat and fell to the floor landing on her right shoulder.
11/29/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 31d restricted Employee was disconnecting cable from Junction Box on Electric Sled when he felt a burning sensation in his groin area as he was pulling out cable.
11/01/2011 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using a socket universal on a air impact to remove 1"" bolts, as the mechanic was removing one of the bolts the swivel pin on the universal dislodged and the universal came apart in the m...
11/01/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While repositioning a buried high voltage power cable employee stepped into a hole causing him to lose his balance. The employee fell to the ground injuring his right shoulder. The injured was treated...
09/14/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None When changing out 45ft 22in pipe being lifted into place with a 60 ton crane. The injured employee pulled the tag line to position pipe the pipe swung past the attachment point. The injured grabbed t...
08/08/2011 DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None Employee was performing work/labor in hot outside environment. Employee became dehydrated causing employee to succumb to heat exhaustion.
07/26/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Employee was disconnecting the #6 sealing water pump electrically for relocation. The cable associated with the pump was partially buried. As the employee was pulling on the power cable, he experien...
06/29/2011 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 63d restricted Injured employee was holding a 2 1/4"" wrench on bolt head supporting the middle of the wrench with left hand. He was holding the end of the wrench with his right hand. When the torque wrench was enga...
06/16/2011 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using a 1"" drive impact wrench un-bolting a flanged coupling on a 24"" joint of pipe. He was loosening the nut when it flew out of the socket striking the employee on the right side of h...
05/20/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 15d restricted Employee was working in the plant area under one of the concentrate bins. Employee went to dismount from the rear of the truck (FL70) step onto a brace bar then to the ground. When he placed his rig...
05/08/2011 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 232d restricted On road truck driver was exiting mine on paved entrance road with a fully loaded dump truck. Truck wheels dropped of right shoulder, driver steered back to the right, lost control and overturn on the...
05/05/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 33d restricted IW was removing a 167lb cutting edge from the cab of a dozer (Komatsu D275AX-5). The cutting edge slipped from his grasp and landed across both feet behind the steel toe portion of his boots.
04/11/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 113d restricted Employee was walking across a dry non-skid floor in the sample chopping area of the laboratory and the toe of his steel-toed boot caught the floor prior to completing a full stride step causing him to...
02/07/2011 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The injured employee was holding the head of a bolt with an end wrench while another employee was getting an impact wrench in position to remove a nut. The air hose caught on work platform causing the...
02/05/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 350d restricted Employee slipped while descending stairs and fell down 3 steps landing on asphalt.
01/31/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 14d lost, 184d restricted Employee was trying to hoist overloaded trash bag into dumpster with right arm while holding the dumpster lid with left arm. On the employees drive home he began to feel pain.
12/08/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 19d restricted While Employee was walking down the stairs of the 19 dragline he missed a step causing his right leg to miss the rest of the steps; hitting the dragline shoe. When the right leg slipped, employees lef...
11/16/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 37d restricted EE smashed right thumb on existing flange of a pipe, while he was guiding the replacement pipe into place.
09/14/2010 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted Mechanic was driving freightliner 089 truck to 18 dragline for repair day, when he felt something hit him in his left eye. When he arrived to the dragline he noticed his left eye was irritated and he...
08/28/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 1d lost, 34d restricted Employee was adjusting the packing on the #7 MLP on the 19 MTX line. After completing the task, the employee was exiting/dismounting the pump platform using the steps provided. Upon stepping off the l...
08/16/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 140d restricted Employee was dismounting locomotive with remote control in her right hand. She was facing the machine and backing down the stairs while carrying the remote control box. By carrying the remote she di...
07/26/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 17d restricted The injured employee finished guiding a reel of ground wire onto the back of truck. The injured employee descended down from the bed of the truck down to the first step (driver's side). The employee...