Mettiki General — Accidents

Total: 122 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
11/24/2025 STRIKING OR BUMPING DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Employee banged EE's left shoulder on a trunk duck at the three-way in the plant. EE then tried to pick up a hose that was laying on the floor and EE heard a pop and felt a tingling sensation and pain...
05/20/2025 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was drilling a 5/16"" hole in a 10"" I-beam with a 1/2"" drill. The drill bit caught twisting EE's left thumb.
01/25/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was going to turn on the clean coal filter drain pump. When they walked around 74 tail piece, the employee slipped on ice on the plant floor causing them to fall. Employee was placed in a kne...
06/20/2024 OTHER INJURIES DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES None The employee was having some type of medical issues and fell in between the D 8 Dozer tracks and the push arm.
03/03/2024 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 21d lost Was stepping down out of the back of a truck twisting left ankle on a rock.
01/19/2024 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 45d lost EE exited truck to clean the wiper blades. When EE went to get back in the truck, slipped and fell on the snow covered road and struck left elbow.
11/22/2023 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was driving a steel wedge between 2 16"" steel flanges to spread apart. The steel wedge came out striking employee above left eye.
10/06/2023 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None A trailer loaded with hay bales was discovered on fire at the end of Red Oak road, approx, 200 yards from Refuse Fill #2 (ID#1211, MD 300-172-01). There were no injuries, no property loss. Local fire...
09/07/2023 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee went to tram the cable hoist on the 11th floor of the prep plant to bring a load in. While tramming the hoist, the mechanism broke causing the pulley to fall and strike the employee in the sa...
04/05/2022 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 42d lost Employee was in a chute pushing the plastic chute liner back in place with a porta power. When an employee above IE lost EE's grip of the ram and it fell on IE's hard hat causing IE's neck to hurt.
04/02/2022 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None An EE was handing a 5 gallon bucket full of concrete into the screen that they were patching underneath. When EE let go IE caught it twisting IE's left arm/shoulder.
10/12/2021 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 84d lost EE lost balance while removing metal sheeting from inside 32B drive house, falling approx. 16' to the concrete floor below.
10/09/2021 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Was putting metal in a forklift basket from the ground and when the weight of the metal caused the basket to drop down and spring back up hitting the employee in the left side stomach/rib area.
11/13/2020 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was cutting a section of chute out with a 6"" grinder with a cutting wheel when the grinder became bound and kicked back cutting employee's left hand in between the pinky and ring finger.
10/07/2020 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 32d lost EE was dismounting off of 49-K screen when foot slipped causing a pain in left knee. EE continued to work without restrictions. Due to Covid-19, surgery was postponed until 7-8-2021
10/01/2020 OTHER NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was walking down stairs with a grinder in hand,turned awkwardly onto last step and twisted right knee.
09/30/2020 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 68d lost Employee was running a screw gun above EE's head installing sheeting and EE's right shoulder popped out of socket.
11/05/2019 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 107d lost EE slipped and fell while walking up steps in prep plant and twisted knee. EE continued to work until an MRI could be scheduled. MRI on 5/4/20 revealed a meniscus tear and other damage and was taken o...
06/17/2019 STRIKING OR BUMPING NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was setting up to sandblast. EE set the sandblasting nozzle on the floor and when EE stood up EE hit left cheek on a 2"" ball valve causing EE's 2nd molar to break off. EE found out that the...
03/25/2019 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 95d lost Employee felt a pain in lower left back and left leg while attaching a hoist hook to a basket. Injury became a lost workday injury on Sept. 1 2020.
11/20/2018 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was cutting a piece of 1/2"" thick ceramic tile when the tile became wedged between the tile saw blade and the base.
08/20/2018 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee hurt left wrist/hand when the employee slipped and fell while carrying a sample bag of coal down a flight of steps at the Analyzer Building.
06/14/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was taking down some scaffolding and when lifting up to separate the two sections they smashed the right pinky between the scaffolding and unit 92 belt structure.
02/20/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee said that EE was picking up a piece of concrete the size of a softball and right shoulder dislocated. EE was able to put it back into place by self.
02/16/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Driver was hooking toe strap back to D ring on back of Dozer and sprained left wrist.
02/15/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Assisting a co-worker turn 80-c cross flow and got hand caught between cross flow and beam.
12/07/2017 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Employee was drilling a 3/8"" hole in a beam to give the torch a place to start cutting from and a piece of drill shavings went into left eye.
07/11/2017 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost Employee was letting some rags tied to a rope down from a catwalk under u-34 belt and caught left arm in between the bottom return roll and the belt.
03/21/2017 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost EE was installing floor drain boxes into the ceiling of the 8th floor of the preparation plant. Said EE fell off the scaffolding falling 5' hitting left shoulder.
02/15/2017 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost EE was walking towards the thermal dryer from the shop when another worker hit EE with the 1994 f-250 truck from behind hitting EE on right back and right elbow.
09/30/2016 STRIKING OR BUMPING NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Hit head on an X-brace beam with hard hat causing neck pain.
08/12/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 33d lost EE was lifting a sieve up from inside the screen to spin it because of wear when EE heard a pop and felt pain in EE's right elbow.
07/28/2016 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 15d lost Employee was lifting a 3 ton chain hoist (Roughneck Brand from northern tool + equipment -weighs 48 lbs.) out of the hole we were working when employee felt something pull on the left side of stomach...
07/08/2016 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was doing preparation plant maintenance repair and utilizing a hammer while extracting a retainer pin when EE miss-struck the pin with the hammer, and incurred a puncture wound injury to the...
04/27/2016 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost The employee was descending down a metal permanent ladder backwards and slipped on the second rung from the bottom landing on EE's feet twisting EE's right knee in the process.
04/04/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was taking well water samples using a 1"" bailer. When the bailer exited the well casing it stuck the employee in forehead causing a laceration that required medical treatment, (2) sutures.
03/31/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost Removing bad 4"" steel channel from the side of the thermal dryer to install new siding to be installed. EE was holding the opposite end that was being cut free when it was cut loose it seesawed and s...
02/01/2016 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Cutting the tape off of the cord that was keeping the cord rolled up to use it and when EE went to pull the tape off after it had been cut EE forgot to close the folding razor knife and stabbed self i...
12/31/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None He said that he was shoveling dirt off of the floor and something got into his eye. He thinks it was something from the other guys that were working behind him at the time.
11/19/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Crawling between the top and bottom belts on V-98 train 10 about conveyor to remove 2 (berthold) ash analyzers that were not in service anymore and twisted his neck wrong in the process of removing th...
07/22/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Driver was getting out of truck to use bathroom at wide spot top of 10 on private road. As he was exiting truck missed bottom step & fell to ground pull hid groin muscle.
05/21/2015 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Driver was coming out on private road and when coming our at log landing and dozed off lost control of truck ran off left side of road
05/02/2015 STRIKING OR BUMPING NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None He was coming down the steep incline of the catwalk from the twin silos sliding his hand down the hand railing and caught a piece of metal between his pinky and ring finger on his right hand, The met...
04/07/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 84d lost Employee found a wood board stuck in belt chute. The employee jerked on the board in an attempt to remove from the belt chute and felt a pop in his left shoulder. Employee continue to work from date...
03/06/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 179d lost Snagged pant leg on a piece of metal plate in the shop and tripped while carrying a piece of 1/2""x8""x48"" flat bar and fell to the floor landing/catching himself on/with his right hand. Per phone ca...
02/21/2015 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 106d lost Driver was inbound loaded with coal came around turn #4 on private haul road. Lost control of trailer & tractor sliding into ditch and over turned truck & trailer.
10/04/2014 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Was driving truck 2242 coming onto Mettikis scale struck pole with left front steer tire causing steering wheel to spin catching right ring finger in wheel.
09/17/2014 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was helping install beam when beam slipped he had a hold of and said he felt pain in lower back - Employee said he didn't want to fill out accident report - which was done - employee went to...
12/07/2013 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 98d lost I am filing this report because employee called me on the 18th of December stating he had to have emergency surgery on the 17th of December stating that he thought he had come down with the flu on the...
11/06/2013 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 50d lost Employee pulled muscle in upper right arm while picking up material to move. Employee did not start missing time for this accident until after being examined by a physician for arm pain and it was det...