Twin Creeks Mine — Accidents

Total: 335 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
11/27/2007 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 18d restricted Helper was running an impact wrench to tighten a dog collar on pipe. Driller attemped to flip a toggle switch to turn on air compressor, but hit the rotation lever by mistake. The pipe rotated and pin...
11/01/2007 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 46d restricted Employee was performing maintenance on the circle driver of a grader. He was using an impact wrench to remove the lower shaft support from the main housing. He was removing bolts when a piece of the...
10/05/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was unloading angle iron from a truck when his thumb got pinched between two pieces of iron.
10/01/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted Employee was doing maintenance on a pump when he got his finger caught between sheave and drive belt. This resulted in an open fracture requiring sutures.
09/28/2007 STRIKING OR BUMPING NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was climbing down a ladder when his arm caught on a sharp piece of metal on a pipe support bracket. The laceration required sutures.
09/22/2007 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using a bar to break down a tire. The bar slipped off of the lock ring and sprung back hitting the employee in the mouth.
08/15/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was doing maintenance in the ball mill, when a ball exploded and a piece of the shattered ball struck him behind the right ear, requiring sutures.
07/22/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 26d restricted Employee was climbing a ladder when he strained his right shoulder.
06/26/2007 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee was walking by a scrubber return tank. The tank overflowed with hot liquid and some of it fell onto the employee who was walking by.
06/14/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 128d lost The employee states that while lifting a bag of mud out of a support vehicle at shoulder level, he felt a pain in his shoulder. He did not want to seek any medical attention at that time. He had sch...
05/10/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 44d restricted Employee was mounting a motor onto a sump pump frame when it slipped and landed on the pinky finger of his left hand.
04/12/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee was cleaning out a cooling fan when dust particles got into both of his eyes. He recieved a prescription medication for his eyes.
04/11/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None IW alleges drivers side door wasn't working so she climbed over the radio console and caught her back. She twisted her back and neck.
03/09/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 23d restricted Employee strained his left shoulder while putting hoses onto a loader. The injury required surgery in January 2008 and became a restricted duty case on 1/19/08.
03/05/2007 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee was using an air operated die grinder when it kicked back and struck his hand causing a laceration that required sutures.
02/28/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 16d restricted Employee was lifting a haul truck chock block when she strained her back.
02/28/2007 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Operating a scraper, hit a bump and popped his neck.
02/24/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Employee states that while cleaning an auto splitter between loads the lid of the splitter fell onto her left hand/wrist causing a contusion.
02/14/2007 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 63d lost The employee slipped on ice, aggravating a non- occupational left shoulder injury. Her next scheduled work day after the accident was 2/18/07.
02/07/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted EE was participating in Mine Rescue Team practice when his neck and shoulder area started to hurt.
02/02/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee was attempting to replace the bolts in a Blader when he strained his right elbow. The employee did not report the incident until March 8, 2007.
01/29/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 58d restricted In the course of repairing a launder a Kambalda screen wiper blade struck the employee's foot.
01/09/2007 FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 233d lost IW was scraping bed of truck when a chunk of Drycon fell from top of the bed striking her in the elbow.
12/31/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 2d lost, 2d restricted While walking down some stairs, the employee's right knee locked up causing him to fall forward and in the process of catching himself twisted his back.
12/30/2006 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was leaving the scraper cut. He went over uneven ground which caused the scraper to bounce, resulting in a lower back injury.
12/18/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee states while putting away stock in warehouse, she lifted three pieces of steel and felt a pop on her left wrist, resulting in a sprain of the left wrist.
12/06/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 41d lost, 81d restricted While doing some repair work inside a mill a piece of the lining struck his right ankle.
11/21/2006 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 7d restricted While doing some fabrication work, EE had to use the grinder and his thumb made contact with the grinding stone.
10/24/2006 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None normal duties (welding - received a flash burn)
10/10/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT None EE was cutting a 2"" plastic pipe with a chainsaw. He didn't cut all the way through the pipe, which put the saw in a bind, stopping the saw. EE tried kicking the pipe and his left foot slipped off, t...
10/04/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 122d lost normal duty
09/30/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None normal duty: EE caught his hand between the tool cart and tray while handling his tools.
08/16/2006 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Tech was sliding fork over on the fork lift when the forks were binding up resulting in a smashed finger and laceration which required stitching
08/14/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While descending a ladder, employee lost his footing causing him to land awkward, twisting his left ankle. Light duty & prescription.
07/27/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee received laceration on right index finger when it was caught in rigging. Employee was helping rig forklift to be lifted by crane from one level of mill to another. Laceration required stitc...
07/03/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Employee was operating a scraper and was told to go help dozer operator who was covering 4 inch drain pipe. The pipe pulled away from the 8 inch connector. They removed about 2 wheelbarrows of dirt to...
06/27/2006 OTHER NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee was holding on to the edge of the door of a pickup speaking with the driver of another pickup who also had his pickup door open. A gust of wind blew catching one door blowing it into the...
06/23/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 67d restricted Employee was installing structual iron deck, it hung up on mounting bolts, He was prying into place and caught hand under the iron.
05/31/2006 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using a 2# hammer and screwdriver attempting to unplug lime silo feeder. Hammer bounced of end of screwdriver, striking employee's right thumb against housing on feeder.
05/12/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 1d lost, 32d restricted Employee was removing sample buckets from the back of pickup, stepped in a pot hole and twisted her ankle.
04/07/2006 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 23d lost Employee pinched her arm between the arm rest and truck door. She didn't wish to seek medical attention at time of accident. It continued to bother her and in July was treated and released to full d...
03/29/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 1d restricted While climbing on truck EE felt pain in lower back. He was treated and placed on restricted duty.
03/21/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE tripped over 3' waterhose after filling water tank straining his upper back. EE received vicoden from Dr making this reportable.
02/18/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 7d lost, 83d restricted Employee was loading ore samples into bin on contractor's truck when he felt a ""pop"" in his shoulder. He was treated and released to Restricted Duty.
12/09/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 24d lost, 37d restricted Employee was pulverizing samples and was turning the bowl over to dump out the samples and the bowl slipped out of her hand. She reached for the bowl to keep it from rolling off the table and in the p...
12/09/2005 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EMPLOYEE WAS IN CAB OF DOZER USING HAND SIGNALS TO DIRECT TRUCK TRAFFIC. HE HIT THE XM RADIO MOUNT WHICH HAD A ROUGH EDGE CUTTING THE END OF HIS FINGER ON IT. THE CUT REQUIRED 2 STITCHES.
11/20/2005 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 9d lost Operating a Case farm tractor & disk, disking clag. Turned out of the clay raising the disk, turned in the seat to look back at the disk & drove over a rough area causing him to turn & twist in the se...
11/17/2005 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted WHILE USING T-POST DRIVER TO DRIVE IN GROUND ROD, EMPLOYEE LIFTED THE DRIVER MISSED THE ROD AND THE TPOST SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HAND & LANDED ON TOP OF HIS FOOT.
11/14/2005 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Employee stepped out of tire service truck into a rut causing his ankle to twist.
11/14/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee knelt on floor to help position forks on a pallet lift. Later in the morning the employee noticed blood on the knee of his pants and found he had a laceration. Employee did not know what he m...