Hampton Corners Mine and Retsof Bagging — Accidents

Total: 230 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
02/16/2008 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Employee stepped onto running board of pickup truck and slipped. Twisted his right knee, causing a sprain. Employee missed three (3) days of work.
02/02/2008 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was cutting conveyor belting material with a razor knife when he accidently cut his right index finger. Cut required sutures.
01/17/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee pinched finger between trailer hitch and the hitch of a pick up truck, cutting finger. Employee needed one suture to close wound.
01/14/2008 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 29d restricted Employee slipped off of catwalk of scaling machine straining back. Employee was given light duty.
01/10/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was removing a broken drill steel from the Fletcher Drill. He received a steel sliver in his right index finger. The finger became infected and he had to go to the doctor on 01/17/2008 for...
12/14/2007 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None The powdermen were loading 22 Right Cross Cut in 2 Yard South when the compressor running the ANFO Pot caught on fire. The fire engulfed the truck, compressor, and ANFO Trailer. The mine was evacuat...
11/12/2007 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was using hand drill. Drill caught in wood and snapped back, causing a sprained right wrist. Employee was placed on light duty until sprain heals.
11/04/2007 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 10d lost Employee was prying with pry bar on head shaft of crusher feeder, the bar slipped causing the employee to fall backwards. Employee struck middle of his back against a cross member of crusher.
10/30/2007 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Employee stepped on rock and twisted right ankle while putting engine oil in locomotive.
10/29/2007 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 48d lost Employee walked between a forklift and 3 1/2 yard loader. Forklift rolled back a little bit and pinched employee's left thight between rear of forklift and rear of loader, causing a contusion.
10/24/2007 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While employee was hand scaling the roof, a scale struck the scale bar, causing the scale bar to strike the employee's right knee. Laceration of knee needed sutures.
08/06/2007 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 145d lost Closing gate on a railcar, the bar slipped and employee fell to the ground (crushed stone). Injured right shoulder and right elbow.
07/31/2007 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The Production Hoist stopped operating. It could not be re-started. It was discovered that an overtravel switch at the bottom of the Production Shaft was damaged. The switch was replaced and the ho...
06/28/2007 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Production Hoist stopped operating. Discovered that there was a blown fuse in the drive unit. Fuse was replaced and Production Hoist began to operate again.
06/20/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 36d lost Employee was lifting copier paper box. When she lifted the box she felt a sharp pain in her lower back.
06/12/2007 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Employee tripped and fell while moving undercutter cable out of the roadway, tripped over cable.
05/16/2007 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The west brake potentiometer failed on the Production Hoist. The Production hoist is the second escapeway out of the mine. The potentiometer was replaced.
05/05/2007 OTHER DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Employee was walking from Shop to YPS Building, felt a spasm in his back. Lost three days of work.
05/01/2007 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The gear box that contols the resolver for the HSS (Hoist Safety Supervisor) and the computer programmer on the Service Hoist started to make noises. It was felt that a bearing was going bad in the g...
04/17/2007 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None There was a problem with the Production Hoist so it would not operate. Discovered a blown fuse on main number 1 that was replaced. Changed the mother board in drive number 1 and repaired an air leak...
03/12/2007 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 17d lost Employee stepped out of the cab of the ANFO Truck. Not knowing there was a drop off, he lost his footing and fell forward. EE said his back started hurting later in the shift.
02/22/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 21d lost Employee was standing on top of Pepco Chute Car helping to move it. When car was moved, employee pinched his left ankle between a steel I-Beam and a steel channel.
02/15/2007 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted Employee was servicing Number 1 Drill. When he stepped off of the drill he slipped, fell to ground and hurt his left knee. Was given three days of light duty.
01/31/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 15d restricted Employee was installing left side boom swing cylinder on Undercutter 5.Cylinder dropped down on his left middle finger crushing the end of his finger.
12/21/2006 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 18d lost He was a passenger in MV-12 (Ford Pick-up Truck), operator lost control and vehicle hit rib.
09/06/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 19d lost The employee was loading a crane on a truck. While putting chains and binders on the truck, the employee must have twisted wrong and pulled something in his back. The Doctor states that it is a lumb...
08/30/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee has chronic bad right shoulder (surgery in past). Employee was putting flag back into proper position on emergency stop cord. When flag was placed back, the emergency cord snapped tight, pu...
08/11/2006 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 51d restricted The employee was scaling the ribs with a hand scaling bar when a section of scale fell hitting the scaling bar. This caused the bar to bend his right wrist back. A bone was fractured in his wrist....
07/31/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 12d lost Employee was placing roof bolts on to his truck. He felt as though he pulled a muscle in his stomach. X-rays showed a hernia. He had surgery on 8/23/06 for the repair. He will be off work for appr...
05/08/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Employee stated he was loading face with explosives when he got dizzy and felt sick. It is felt that he received elevated exposure of CO2 and low oxygen when he took out explosives from the magazine...
04/17/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 10d lost The employee stepped off of a cut in the floor at the face of the mine (approximately 6""), slipped and sprained his back.
02/27/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Injured employee tossed an empty Gatorade bottle at General Mine Foreman to get his attention. Bottle struck and bounced off of Foreman's leg and landed at the feet of another employee. The employee p...
02/11/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 12d restricted Employee was working on undercutter Number One. He stated that during the shift he felt a pain in his knee. The employee did not go to the doctor until three days later. Doctor recommended that he...
02/10/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 18d lost The employee was moving the trailing cable on a 15RU Joy Undercutter. During the procedure, the employee slipped. He caught himself and doing so he hurt his neck.
02/02/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 10d lost Employee was drilling in 3 Yard East, 9LXC, with Fletcher #3 twin boom face drill. After drilling a test hole in the roof, the employee went up to check the depth of the drill hole. He slipped and c...
01/07/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 36d restricted The employee was lifting a 50 Horsepower electric motor out of the dust collector in the Process Gallery. While lifting he felt a strain in his right shoulder. No lost time from job but given light...
12/28/2005 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 120d lost Employee step out of cockpit of LHD. When he dismounted he stepped on a chunk of salt causing him to twist his left knee. Employee felt slight pain in knee but went back to work. Employee came to w...
10/18/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 11d lost Employee was lifting steel covers on 500 KVA power center. Pulled muscles in lower abdomen. Employee was refered to a specialist after diagnosis by personal physician of a hernia. Employee went for...
10/04/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was removing the hydraulic pump from underneath the fuel truck when it slipped out of his hands and struck him in the face, cutting his face between his nose and upper lip. He received four...
10/04/2005 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall took place on the west escape roadway going into 1 Yard North, apprximately 1,000 feet east and 200 feet north of the Service Shaft. The roadway was partically covered. The fall was appr...
09/22/2005 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 51d lost Employee was directing another employee to dump a bucket of salt from the LHD into the stamler crusher-feeder. When the bucket was dumped, a chunk of salt rolled down the pile next to the stamler tow...
05/02/2005 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted EE was helping install channels for an extension onto a conveyor with a forklift. One channel slipped off of the forks of the forklift and pinched three fingers of EE's right hand, causing fractures....
04/12/2005 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Main Production hoist kicked out and would not restart. Electrical system on hoist was checked and discovered that 1100 amp, 1000 volt fuse had blown. A replacement fuse was installed after delivere...
03/30/2005 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was cutting a zip tie with a knife. When he cut through the tie the knife stabbed into his left hand between left thumb and index finger. Employee needed sutures to close the wound.
02/21/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 10d restricted Employee was helping another employee sand blast a head shaft for a stamler flight chain. The shaft was sitting on a cart and the employee was rolling the shaft for the sand blasting. The cart flipp...
01/11/2005 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was operating Elphinstone LHD #5 when the LHD went over a jump in the floor causing the operator to strike his head on the roof of the canopy causing an injury to the neck. Employee was give...
12/10/2004 ELECTRICAL DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 12d restricted Employee received electrical burns when checking voltage on 995 vac receptacle. Burns were on both hands. Second degree burns. Received light duty.
12/01/2004 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 26d restricted Employee states that he hurt his back while driving Getman Lift Truck on or aboout December 1, 2004. Pain grew worse in his back over past few weeks until employee finally went to the Doctor of 01/05...
12/01/2004 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted Employee was taking off transmission cover off of LHD #4, the cover slipped out of the employee's hand and struck him in the right shoulder. Employee was given light duty.
10/07/2004 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 38d restricted Employees were putting the man basket on to the forklift. In the process, the employee pinched the tip of his left thumb between the top rail of the forklift mast and the top rail on the man basket.