Turquoise Ridge — Accidents

Total: 475 accidents | Fatalities: 2

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
05/02/2013 FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Injured was preparing and painting a working face prior to drilling a round of blast holes when some loose material fell from the face striking him on the head and left shoulder.
04/14/2013 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 7d lost, 18d restricted Employee was using a jackleg drill and he pinched his right fingers between the jackleg drill handle and the head. He was seen at the ER and diagnosed with a fractured right ring finger. Surgery requ...
03/11/2013 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None Small structure fire ignited plywood surrounding a temporary batch plant
03/09/2013 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 128d lost Employee strained back while shoveling material dumped on the borehole doors
02/10/2013 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None 4701 Hoist had a mechanical failure of a pressure control regulator. Faulty regulator was readjusted.
01/04/2013 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 8d restricted Employee caught his left hand on rib when he had his arm out the window of haul truck while hauling ore. Employee received stitches to left hand and was placed on restricted duty.
11/10/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee received a crush fracture to his right middle finger while loading a Jackleg. Finger was smashed against the side of the basket on the back of the tractor.
10/29/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 1d restricted Helper was changing out a ceramic pump liner. In the process of removing the liner, the liner shattered in the Helper's hand and the pieces when through his glove and cut his thumb.
09/25/2012 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Mine Site had power bump causing the 4703 Hoist to lose power, causing the Hoist to lose computer programming abilities. Electricians troubleshoot the problem and called contractor Tiley in Canada, th...
09/22/2012 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None An employee was using an extention on the porta power to remove a pin. The porta power slipped causing the extention to came loose striking employee above the right eye resulting in eight sutures.
08/15/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 71d lost, 29d restricted Miner was getting off haul truck, put weight on left leg and felt/heard a pop. Miner thought it was ok so she got in haul truck and tried to apply brake but was unable to. Miner just returned to work...
08/04/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 2d restricted Helper was moving the tongs from the deck to the black bin. He closed the tongs for storage when his finger was pinched latching the tongs closed.
08/01/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 9d restricted Helper was climbing into a pipe truck. He put his right foot on the first step, grabbed the handles to help pull himself up. When he lifted himself off the ground he put weight on his right foot. His...
06/19/2012 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 27d restricted Employee smashed left hand in door of truck resulting in stitches to finger
06/06/2012 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None Persistent water ingress through the rock had deteriorated the rock around the 8 foot swellex bolts, leading to ground failure.
05/24/2012 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee sprained left ankle while walking from tool room.
05/05/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 7d restricted Employee strained left knee while cleaning borehole. Employee got off balance, straightened out his left leg and felt a pop behind knee. Employee was placed on restricted duty.
05/04/2012 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 19d restricted A driller assistant sustained a smashing injury to the right index finger while tripping out pipe. The employee was running the hoist plug and as he spun the plug off the pipe it fell when it came out...
04/30/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted Employee sprained right thumb while unloading hardline out of bottom deck of cage, lip of hardline got caught up on edge of shaft collar twisting employee's thumb.
04/20/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 24d restricted The crew was in the process of setting core casing. The Helper was on the pipe truck. They were on the last row of pipe on the truck. The Helper lifted a joint of pipe to ""break"" the row. He lifted...
04/11/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted Driller grasped pulling plug and pulled to relieve cross thread. Strained back.
04/03/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was washing out bolt hole for mixer and had some water and material come back into his right eye. Foreign material was removed from his eye and employee returned back to full duty.
03/24/2012 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 8d restricted After pulling the core tube, Driller sat down behind control panel and started his rotation when control panel shot up in the air. Quill hose broke and control panel came down on Driller and pinned h...
02/25/2012 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None #1 Hoist Malfunction - Entire mine site without power due to Nevada Energy Company. Investigation showed that the mine site power outage was due to something on the NV Energy side of the power distrib...
02/21/2012 FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Miner had scaled down and was loading blast holes when a rock came loose from the face striking him on the right wrist causing a laceration which required staples to close the wound.
02/05/2012 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None During mandatory weekly shaft and hoist inspection the #1 hoist upper track limit switch was found to be defective. The track limit switch was cleaned and dried on 2/4/12 and decision was made to repl...
02/04/2012 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None 4701 #1 hoist PLC received an activation signal from the upper track limit switch and the hoist pinion brake set. In troubleshooting why the pinion brake set maintenance found that moisture in the upp...
01/10/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 7d restricted Employee notified his supervisor on 1/15/2012 of pain in his forearm that began on 1/10/12 and progressively got worse. Seen by physician on 1/15/2012.
01/08/2012 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Crew was using SDX 200 tongs to break drill string apart, tongs bound up, helper put hand on the back of tongs to pull to help unbind, tongs came unbound right middle fingertip got pinched between ton...
01/07/2012 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None 4701 #1 Hoist had a computer malfunction. Electricians had to re-boot the computer system to get the hoist controls functional again.
01/01/2012 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None 4701 #1 Hoist had computer control malfunction. Electrician's had to re-boot the computer system to get Hoist controls functional again
12/26/2011 MACHINERY PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY 25d lost, 28d restricted Mechanic was working on a schwing concrete pump which had been sticking and not functioning properly. The mechanic noticed a piece of concrete in the discharge tube and reached into the tube to pull...
12/11/2011 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None 4701 #1 Hoist had computer control malfunction. Electrician's had to re-boot the computer system to get Hoist controls functional again.
11/05/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was pulling rods when he felt pain in lower back.
10/23/2011 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Passenger was riding in rear of Tractor Man Carrier. Employee hit head on framework of carrier receiving laceration to forehead requiring stitches.
09/30/2011 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The injured was using a portable grinder to cut a 7/8 inch hexagonal steel stock. The grinder blade caught in the cut while in use and kicked back striking the injured on the left forearm. The injur...
09/07/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Helper was adding a 5' quill rod on a -67 degree. He had the rod lifted up to add it to the string and the rod slipped and was going to fall. He lost his grip and while trying to keep the rod from fal...
08/23/2011 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 28d restricted Drill crew was tripping drill pipe out of the hole. Driller assistant lowered the breakout wrench to the table and pinched his finger between the table and the wrench.
08/22/2011 FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 22d restricted Miner was installing rock bolts with a jackleg drill. Drilling last row of bolts in the back when a rock came off the face and struck left knee.
08/11/2011 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Production Hoist Feeder and #2 Shaft Feeder tripped off-line at TR Sub-Station with #2 Shaft Feeder indicating a ground fault. Power for #2 Service Hoist HMI was re-routed. Power was then re-establish...
05/11/2011 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None During routine maintenance of the #1 Hoist a fault occurred on the hoist control panel showing residual air pressure present. The residual air pressure system gauge read zero indicating the hoist syst...
03/10/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 25d restricted Employee was working on UG-34 and was walking on the landing of the deck platform With his foot planted flat on the deck, the employee stepped with his right foot and his ankle rolled inside his boot...
02/13/2011 EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 11d lost, 52d restricted Operating Normet 6050 Concrete Spraymec truck #4102, can of aerosol paint ruptured striking miner's right hand causing a laceration and small fracture of the right little finger, third metacarpal bone...
02/03/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Cleaning up old maintenance shop, removing unused sling tool box. When moving tool box, lid closed on left hand, resulting in a fracture to the left middle finger. Employee returned to work next sched...
01/31/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 13d restricted Lifting support leg to place pin, strained shoulder.
01/15/2011 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Miner using 6yd elphinstone loader, enclosed cab with air conditioning, mucking rock from the face. Suspected inhalation of ammonia gas. Miner went to clinic and received prescription inhalers for tr...
12/15/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 2d lost, 76d restricted Handling portable M-12 Wilden Water Pump. Employee caught right little pinky finger between pump and tractor seat causing fracture to finger.
12/07/2010 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee smashed hand between drill hammer and stake
12/02/2010 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Miner was using a hammer to strike a wrench which he was holding in order to loosen a nut on a bolt. He struck his left middle finger causing a laceration.
09/18/2010 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The feeder breakers tripped out at the surface TIR substation which feeds the mine's dewatering system and # 1 secondary hoist. The breakers were reset and held.