Freedom Proppant-Monahans Mine — Accidents

Total: 20 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
04/18/2024 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 21d lost, 49d restricted Dryer trunnion guard rails had been taken down in order to replace unit. Maintenance technician was finishing up the job greasing unit and as EE turned and walked away, EE tripped and fell 8-10 feet f...
11/19/2023 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 38d restricted Employee was cutting up some scrap metal when a piece of steel plate had fallen, striking the employee's right foot behind the steel cap on EE's boot. This resulted in a non-displaced fracture of the...
03/21/2023 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was leaving loadout on a utility vehicle, as EE was reversing, EE was traveling too fast and cut the wheels sharply resulting in the buggy flipping onto the driver's side. Was observed at the...
03/18/2022 OTHER DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 2d lost, 3d restricted Employee was checking the 202 conveyor as it was catching on something. While observing it, something popped. This startled the employee and they abruptly jumped back twisting upper body away from it....
03/13/2022 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 37d restricted Maintenance Tech. was changing troughing rollers on a conveyor, while EE was handing out a bad roller EE's helper had lost grip of the roller resulting in the maintenance tech smashing EE's left hand...
11/11/2021 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee using breaker bar to help customer truck driver close bottom gate. As employee was exerting force employee rolled right ankle resulting in a spiral fracture of the right ankle. Employee was...
07/19/2021 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost Injury was not reported to company until Tuesday July 27, 2021. Employee was installing a speed bump at the Load Out area. While kneeling down on the right knee EE began to swing hammer side to side t...
07/15/2021 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was working on a product spout in silo 1A and attempted to manipulate the limit switch in order to make the spout go down. EE had the guard off of the electric motor and when EE reached in to...
06/23/2021 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee working on bucket elevator 306 heating a bearing with torch trying to wedge out of place. Employee hit with hammer and was hit by piece of shrapnel on right hand across knuckles causing lacer...
12/12/2019 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 33d restricted The employee was working as a wet plant operator when a sump started overflowing, the employee was on EE's way to turn off a pump when EE had slipped on the wet concrete. When the employee slipped EE...
05/30/2019 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted Employee was operating a skid-steer in the wet plant and struck a concrete curb. This resulted in the employee striking the lap bar of the skid-steer in the abdominal area, and striking their left kne...
03/23/2019 STRIKING OR BUMPING DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 28d restricted On 3/23 employee was working as the ground person at our safe rack, EE was walking to a truck, and bumped EE's knee on a conduit that goes to our kiosk. Upon stepping back EE stated that EE took a mis...
02/27/2019 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 8d restricted Employee was in route to clear an obstruction in a surge bin; while ascending a vertical ladder the employee lost their gripping and fell to the platform below. This fall was approximately 9 feet, and...
02/07/2019 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 14d restricted Employee approached me after the pre-shift safety meeting stating that employee's hip had been bothering employee for approximately one month. Employee said that it seems to be more aggravated when em...
01/08/2019 EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 2d restricted Employee was hooking a wash hose, to wash out the tunnel. Upon turning on the water supply valve only a little water came out and then it stopped. While employee was reaching to turn off the water and...
09/10/2018 OTHER NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Wind blew sand that went under employees' safety glasses and in left eye.
09/07/2018 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 37d lost, 13d restricted Employee was assisting the maintenance crew change bags on the bag house and it started to rain so they set the cover to the access hole back on top of the hole to wait out the rain, after doing so em...
07/16/2018 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 19d restricted Employee was moving floc bag and stepped on wood rolling ankle
06/09/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 87d lost, 58d restricted EE was helping with rotex screens and lost balance and strained back.
03/09/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None An employee was standing next to a load of 3 26'x 24""x6"" I-Beams while a forklift was trying to reposition them away from the stack., one beam started to fall and the employee reached out to stop it...