KIMBALLTON PLANT #1 — Accidents

Total: 85 accidents | Fatalities: 2

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
03/20/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was removing a belt roller to free up netal that was wedged in a chute and the roller fillped over smashing the middle and ring finger of the left hand.
01/28/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 56d lost Employee pulled on a concrete form to strip it from the concrete. He did not report that he was in pain at the time. He worked his shift and returned to work the next day and worked. He was in obviou...
01/21/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 10d restricted Installing fan on #9 loader and felt a pull/pain in groin. Went to doctor a couple of days after incident due to pain. Had no hernia but doctor put him on light duty for 7 days.
01/13/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 18d restricted Working on the coal crusher and a sledge hammer lying on an elevated surface fell, contacting his left hand. Went emergency room for x-rays but nothing was broken. Doctor placed him light duty for 1...
01/07/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 7d lost, 42d restricted Moving gantry crane to support loader bucket and employee states he felt his knee pop. This is the same knee he had surgury on in 2008. It was thought this was an aggrevation of an existing conditio...
07/06/2008 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Employee was loading shells in the kiln gun and laid his left hand on the gun (on or near the re-coil spring) and once the gun was fired the spring pinched his hand. Went to the emergency room to hav...
07/01/2008 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted Employee was cleaning spill behind mills & tripped over cover {unsecured} in floor. Employee went to catch himself & fell to his knees & felt strain in center of lower back.
05/23/2008 EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY 26d restricted While loading a shot, the employees right index finger was struck by a rock and needed to be surgically removed at the second knuckle.
03/27/2008 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 34d restricted Employee was stepping over a screwline when his foot got caught on the screw causing him to fall. When he went to catch himself he sprained his wrist. X-rays revealed a small chip in his wrist.
11/20/2007 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 73d restricted Employee was climbing down off #2 belt when his right foot slipped on rail and got hung on energency pull cord. Once off balance employee went to put his left foot down on ground causing his left kne...
11/12/2007 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employees was tramming the Fletcher 2-boom jumbo drill when it disengaged causing it to free wheel. Operator reached for park brake and pulled/strained right shoulder.
10/11/2007 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 62d lost, 43d restricted Employee was changing out fan blades on a ventilation fan and stepped down from an elevation of approx 1 foot when his foot slipped and twisted his right knee.
08/02/2007 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using a knife to cut a piece of belting; the knife slipped and cut the top of his thumb requiring 7 stitches.
06/25/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was bagging lime when some lime got under his shirt sleeve & he didn't wash off & worked all day and burned his wrist.
06/21/2007 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was scaling the roof of a recently blasted area when a rock fell from the roof grazing the left side of his face and striking his right forearm causing a laceration that required 5 stiches.
05/14/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None A metal plate was cut with a torch leaving jagged edges. The employee was attempting to help move the metal when his wrist came into contact with one of the jagged edges cutting it.
11/05/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Apparently at approx 1:00 am on November 5, 2006 employee was stepping down on a railcar to close the hatches; he had one foot on the ladder and one on the top of the car. When he put his weight on th...
07/21/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee used a compressor to climb down from a belt line. When employee stepped on the down dip of the axle it created a seesaw effect and employee fell off spraining his ankle.
07/07/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 7d restricted Employee was on stomach working on a Fletcher Scaler trying to re-connect a #20 hose. Employee felt left rib pain and could not finish the job. Physician?s diagnosis was contusion to left chest wall...
05/07/2006 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was cleaning with a bobcat loader and some heated dust blew out of the hopper and burnt his arm, face and neck.
03/03/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 70d restricted Employee was getting out of haul truck and mis-judged where the handrail was causing him to come down hard on his foot, which caused a hairline fracture.
07/11/2005 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None WAS COMING OFF A COAL CAR. WHEN THE CAR STOPPED, IT JERKED THE CABLE HITTING HIS LEG AND CUTTING IT.
06/03/2005 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was check scaling when a small rock fell and struck the employee.
04/01/2005 MACHINERY FATALITY Fatal Plant maintenance employees were installing a bearing housing back into the fan on the #3 coal mill. An employee was fatally injuried by one of the tools being used to install the bearing.
02/08/2005 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None OPENING IN FLOOR *Original EDoc # 152347*
09/08/2004 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was moving a tailpulley into place and pulled a muscle in his back.
08/10/2004 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None Unknown conditions. Was found by a foreman (Jeff Morgan), as he was traveling in the mine. No one was working in the area when the fall occurred.
01/22/2003 NO VALUE FOUND DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 9d lost, 22d restricted ROLLING UP A BEAM, BEAM SLIPPED & MASHED LT. RING FINGER BETWEEN FORK & BEAM. WHEN BEAM HIT THE FLOOR, IT FELL ON LT. FOOT. CUT BIG TOE & BROKE SECOND TOE.
07/16/2002 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted WAS SCALING AND A ROCK HIT THE SCALING BAR CAUSING HIS FINGER AND HAND TO COME UPWARD AND CONTACT WITH THE BASKET AND THE BAR.
07/13/2002 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 7d restricted WAS UNSTOPPING THE OXYGEN ANALYSER ON THE BACK OF #1 KILN WHEN A PUFF OF STEAM AND HOT GAS CAME BACK IN THE PIPE AND BURNT HIS ARM.
03/21/2002 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None HE WAS CLEANING OUT BALL MACHINE WHEN MATERIAL FELL FROM THE SIDE OF THE MACHINE AND STRUCK HIS HARD HAT.
02/06/2002 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 43d restricted EE WAS TRAVELING UP IN A SCALING RIG WHEN THE BAR HIT THE SIDE OF THE RIB AND A ROCK DISLODGED, HITTING THE SCALING BAR AND GLANCING OFF HIS ARM.
01/12/2002 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE WAS TAKING A STONE SAMPLE WITH PLASTIC BUCKETWHEN THE BUCKET HIT HIS FINGER & BENT HIS FINGER
02/16/2001 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None WAS CLIMBING UP ONTO CAT HAUL TRK WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED & HE FELL APPROX 5' TO THE GROUND
02/01/2001 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None WAS REMOVING FITTINGS FROM BURST HYUDRAULIC HOSE ON HOSE MACHINE, GLOVE GOT CAUGHT ON HOSE AND TWISTED HAND.