North Plant — Accidents

Total: 28 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
06/13/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Miner was leaving the office and traveling down a flight of stairs when they realized that they had forgotten something. Turned in the middle of the stairs and lost balance and fell scraping left shin...
01/02/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 21d restricted On 1/2/2025 employee was removing QR caps from a rotary crusher. As EE was removing one of the caps it fell before EE had a good grip smashing EE's right middle finger between the cap and housing. EE...
06/11/2024 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 22d lost, 18d restricted Pit Foreman was climbing up on the off-side of a Volvo L-250 Rubber tire loader to tighten a bolt on the tension spring to scaler. While stepping to designated location, EE's right foot slipped and ca...
09/29/2020 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 20d lost Employee was driving a CAT 775 rigid frame truck from stock pile. While being loaded the truck was hit with the bucket of 988 CAT loader. Employee said they felt something back pop. There was no immed...
09/19/2019 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 39d lost, 45d restricted On 9/19/2019 EE reported at 10:00am they exited a loader put on a harness and went up on to a conveyor to clear off some rocks from a belt and a screen feeder. EE said they tweaked their back. EE call...
05/24/2019 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 27d restricted On 5/24/2019 at approximately 3:45pm. EE was power washing rubber tire loader when EE over extended the wand causing it pull back causing the wand to travel across EE's boot cutting boot and causing 2...
02/27/2019 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was trying to install a CB radio antenna on a pickup truck using a knife to cut zip ties. Knife slipped cutting the left index finger. Knife cut through the finger nicking the middle finger. EE wen...
08/22/2018 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 11d lost EE was washing the cab of the 740 truck. While exiting the cab ee reported that ee was using three points of contact and foot slipped out. One foot was up on the second rung and the other on the groun...
05/09/2018 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While working on screen conveyor at lime shed ee tried to catch a falling piece of pipe, that had been hit by manlift above ee to keep it from hitting another employee. Pipe slipped through ee hand ca...
12/20/2017 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Plant operator was helping with a screen change. EE was tightening bolts with right hand and had EE's left arm resting on screen. Being that EE had previously dislocated EE's shoulder in April of 2016...
05/08/2017 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was conducting a maintenance action on the DBT Crusher. Employee was helping with moving cribbing blocks from the tail pulley of feeder chain and was reaching up when the chain settled and sh...
11/15/2016 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 155d lost Operator did not maintain control of 1999 dump truck. Truck drifted into ee car striking truck driver & pushing ee against the car injuring left leg. Truck was on a 3% grade at entrance road to quarry...
04/01/2016 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was changing a grease hose when EE slipped and fell, injuring EE's left shoulder. EE was taken to an emergency and the Employee was treated at the hospital where EE was diagnosed with a sepa...
03/30/2016 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost While backing up the truck to dump, employee stated that the truck downshifted, thus hurting employee's back. Employee was diagnosed with a pulled muscle and missed two days of work.
06/21/2014 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None SNI was cleaning up after finishing changing the conveyor on our #3 belt. He was carrying a board back to the service truck. As he placed the board onto the back of the truck, the back of his right ha...
03/10/2014 OTHER NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Said Named Individual (SNI) was preparing to replace the bags in the Sly Baghouse. He had just opened the door to the bag area, leaned down to latch the door when the wind caught the door. The door cl...
08/24/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Windborne debris caused minor irritation to the right eye during land clearing operations which resulted in medical treatment and a prescription for eye drops to be issued.
05/06/2008 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 38d lost As Contractor backed his tool truck, he struck the bucket of the Excavator. Injured EE was located next to the bucket and was pinched between the service truck and the 345B bucket. EE was transported...
11/07/2005 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 4d lost, 13d restricted EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A ROLLER ON A CONVEYOR & FELT A PULL/TIGHTNESS IN THE RIGHT CENTER OF HIS BACK AFTER PUSHING ON A PRY BAR FOR LEVERAGE. EE REPORTED FOR WORK THE NEXT DAY AS NORMAL & AGAIN ON 1...
09/09/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 3d lost, 5d restricted EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A HAUL TRUCK ON 9/9/05 & A SMALL ROCK FELL FROM THE BED OF HIS TRUCK. HE EXITED HIS TRUCK & ATTEMPTED TO ROLL THE ROCK FROM THE HAUL ROAD WHEN HE EXPERIENCED A STINGING PAIN IN...
09/22/2004 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Due to an incident prior to working for the quarry, ee re-injured his lower back while moving flight bars at the DBT crusher. He reported his injury to foreman and went to see chiropractor.
05/25/2004 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 35d restricted OPERATOR WAS TIGHTENING BOLTS WITH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE ON THE CRUSHER WITH A MANUAL TORQUE WRENCH. THE TORQUE WRENCH BROKE AND CAUSED HIM TO STUMBLE BACKWARDS AND TWIST HIS ANKLE, LEFT LEG. HE WORKED THE...
11/12/2003 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON ALL OTHER CASES (INCL 1ST AID) None DRIVER ENTERING DRIVERS SIDE OF TRUCK, SLIPPED ON STEP & SPUN AROUND, GRABBED HANDLE ON CAB, STRIKING HIS LT.ELBOW ON POST OF TRUCK SHED STRUCTURE. DRIVER WAS FOLLOWING 3 PT. CONTACT RULE WHEN INCIDEN...
08/27/2003 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 8d lost TRUCK DRIVER WAS DESCENDING THE FRONT LADDER OF THE TRUCK. HIS FOOT SLIPPED OR HE MIS-JUDGED THE STEP AND FELL ABOUT 4 FEET TO THE GROUND, LANDING ON HIS FEET. WORKED THE REMAINING SHIFT BUT H AD TO B...
02/12/2003 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None MECHANIC WAS ASSISTING THE BOBCAT OPERATOR IN REMOVING THE BUCKET. AFTER THE PINS WERE RELEASED AND THE OPERATOR STARTED TO BACK AWAY, HE ACCIDENTLY MOVED THE CONTROL THE WRONG WAY CAUSING THE EDGE OF...
03/26/2002 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost EE WAS CUTTING SECTIONS OF CONVEYOR BELT W/UTILITY KNIFE. HE HAD TO BEND OVER A LOT AND PHYSICALLY HANDLE THE SECTIONS. THE SECTIONS WERE 10' LONG AND 16"" WIDE. THE REPETITION OF THIS MAY HAVE CAUSED...
08/28/2000 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 11d lost, 6d restricted EE EMPTYING BIN INTO TRK FROM GR17 PLANT USED BRACE TO HOLD OPEN BIN & UNDER HANDLE. BRACE SHIFTED ALLOWING HANDLE TO FALL ACROSS HIS LEFT HAND THIS RESULTED IN NUMBNESS TO LITTLE FINGER & RING FINGER...
04/03/2000 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 5d lost WHILE CONDUCTING EXPLOSIVE INVENTORY OF ANFO, EE WAS MOVING 50 LB BAGS. WHILE MOVING A BAG FROM RIGHT TO LEFT EE FELT PULL IN BACK. EE REPORTED INCIDENT 1 WEEK LATER ON 4/10/00.