Mesabi Metallics Company LLC — Accidents

Total: 18 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
02/16/2026 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None The injured worker states that EE has right elbow pain. Today, while adjusting the pipe bender with a coworker, EE felt/heard a ""pop"" in EE's right elbow. There is no appreciable bruising at this ti...
02/12/2026 MACHINERY ALL OTHER CASES (INCL 1ST AID) None EE in a seated position had completed grinding and set grinder down. They then placed a hand on the duct next to the grinder that had not completely stopped spinning. As they applied weight to their h...
12/11/2025 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Two ironworkers were working inside a cylindrical hopper at the rail pellet loading area. The task involved welding steel plate sections together as part of the hopper construction. A come along was b...
11/26/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Snowing & cold day while outside installing a fire suppression system on a Hydraulic excavator. Employee was wearing insulated bib overalls, as EE was descending the stairs off excavator EE's bibs cau...
11/11/2025 OTHER DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 46d lost Was bending over and twisting when serving a telehandler to install a plastic cover that allows access to the HVAC box as EE had just finished servicing the blower motor. Felt pain in EE's lower back,...
10/24/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee tripped and impact caused cut bleeding on little finger on right hand. After employee left for the day the employee decided to go in to get finger looked at and it was found that little finge...
10/22/2025 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE cutting off a stiffener inside a piece of ductwork on the fab table with a 6"" cut off wheel/grinder. As the cut was getting complete the piece had some stored energy and sprung in toward the cut,...
10/21/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Removing bolts from larger bolt, 45# bolt slid down onto EE's left thumb/hand.
10/20/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee jumped up on a 3' platform, missed, landing back on ground.
09/18/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee tripped while walking on path, knee made contact with ground causing laceration.
09/11/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee tripped while walking on steel. Chin made contact with steel during fall.
05/06/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Doubler plate became dislodged from it's rigging and dropped, pinching the workers fingers between the doubler plate and the steel under it.
04/28/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Forklift brought in a piece of 3'x15'x1' rubber, 3 people lifting together, EE bent down to lift it up and felt pain in back while starting to lift.
02/25/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE states EE was lifting a 3""x3""x8' piece of dunnage that wasn't heavy. EE twisted wrong and felt immediate pain.
02/15/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY None While worker was flying in a section of steel into place, the steel slipped down catching the workers right thumb between another piece of steel.
02/07/2025 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was holding a large wrench while assisting coworker tightening a nut. When coworker tapped the end of wrench with hammer, wrench fell off the ring and landed on EE's right pointer finger.
01/27/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Carrying a 1' X 1' X 3/4"" piece of steel when the employee tripped and fell, landing on the right hand that the employee was carrying the piece of steel with.
11/01/2017 OTHER INJURIES INVOLVNG NONEMPLOYEES None 11/1/17 of a deceased person on proper of the mine. The deceased person was a trespasser on the property, and had no connection to any mining activity.