CIMBAR Resources Inc. Metal/Non-Metal

Operator was using a 50lb weight to calibrate the table scale when 50lb weight slipped and fell on left foot.

Operator was cutting a bag using utility knife when the blade got stuck on bag. Operator pulled on knife causing cut on index finger.

Employee was attempting to refill the injection pod that was under 20psi of pressure. The employee attempted to relieve the pressure by slowly removing the fill port plug on top of the pod. The plug flew off, hit a metal beam above the pod and ricocheted back & struck employee on the head.

Employee was walking towards front office door, after exiting front office tripped over a shipping box employee landed on left knee and twisted leg. Also bruised right thumb when hand hit the floor.

MAINTENANCE OPERATOR NOT FOLLOWING WORK RESTRICTIONS GIVEN BY PHYSICIAN AND SUPERVISOR. MAINTENANCE OPERATOR WAS ASSISTING WITH JOB ON VALVE FOR MILL 2 FEEDER. RIGHT HAND PUNCTURED THROUGH GLOVE WITH A BESSY CLAMP OPERATED BY ANOTHER MAINTENANCE OPERATOR USING THE CLAMP WITH AN IMPACT WRENCH.

MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEE WORKING TO ROTATE ROTARY VALVE. EMPLOYEE FAILED TO SECURE VALVE BEFORE REMOVING SECURING BOLTS. VALVE SLIPPED OUT OF PLACE AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON LEFT ARM. EMPLOYEE TAKEN TO CLINIC FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT. DR DIAGNOSES: STRAIN TO LEFT BICEPS (S46.212A)

Employee bagging on production line reported lower back pain. Told supervisor EE was ok. Reported to Supervisor a 2nd time that EE slipped. Co-worker reported that the employee had another Operator crack EE's back prior to the reported incident as well. Employee was treated at Hospital same day and issued a DR. excuse to return to work in 2 days without any restrictions.

Employee was cleaning around grinding mill #5 when mill puffed a cloud of dust into the air due to back pressure in the mill system. Natural barium sulfate (barite) material got into employee's eyes and back. Employee flushed eyes with water and eye saline. Employee was treated for eye abrasion and prescribed for eye drops.

Employee was clearing bridging wet Aluminum Trihydrate material from bucket elevator inlet chute with a shovel. The area was restricted access with barricade and signage. Shovel got caught to rotating buckets of elevator causing fingers to pinch between the shovel handle and inlet chute. EE received treatment from hospital ER for finger closed fracture and nail avulsion.

Employee was lifting a bag of additive approximately 50 lbs weight to prepare a blend for production process and EE felt a pain on EE's back

Employee rolled left foot when stepping down from forklift truck

Employee was diagnosed for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome on his left wrist on 10/15/2015 and was restricted from operating a forklift. Employee is a shipping operator and his job requires him to operate forklift. He sought additional medical attention.

EE was holding a tapered bull pin size 13 1/2" x 2" diameter with a channel lock pliers. Another ee was striking the pin with a sledge hammer. They were dismantling the drive shaft of a bead mill. The pin ejected out, hitting ee on his left side of upper lip causing a cut and bleeding. Medical treatment was given with four stitches.

The miner was working on installation of a new dust collector. He had to reposition his safety harness by standing on a "X" brace of the dust collector to adjust himself. He slipped on the angle iron of the "X" brace about 8 ft and his right foot hit the end of the brace. X ray revealed that he had fractured bone on his fifth (smallest) toe of his right foot.

The miner struck the back of his head on a hopper steel frame while inspecting the support legs at the bottom of the hopper. He was wearing a hard hat. There was no swelling or bleeding. Employee did not report the incident to his supervisor until 9/27/12 after he went in to ER for dizziness and vomitting. Employee is undergoing medical test to determine cause of symptoms.

Fainted Heat Exhaustion

The employee was trying to get the material to flow from a silo by hitting onto the conical bottom of the silo using a plastic mallet. The mallet slipped from his hand and his right hand knuckles hit the metal ring on the silo. The employee did not request for medical treatment until 11/21/2011 and was on restricted duty.

EMPLOYEE BECAME OVERHEATED AND DISORIENTED WHILE BAGGING PRODUCT IN PRODUCTION LINE.

Injury occurred inside of a building. Injury cause was a stuck bolt on a piece of equipment.

EMPLOYEE WAS STRETCH WRAPPING PALLETS USING THE WRAPPING MACHINE. THE STRETCH WRAP RAN OUT, HE WENT TO REPLACE NEW ROLL, AND AS HE LIFTED A NEW STRETCH WRAP ROLL, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

DISASSEMBLING SCAFFOLDING, STEPPED ONTO PLATFORM AND SCAFFOLDING COLLAPSED. HARNESSED EMPLOYEE FELL, CAUGHT ARM ON RAILING STRAINING RIGHT SHOULDER.

Cutting galvanized plate steel - dry warm conditions.

While performing equipment repairs, the employee overextended his left arm, dislocating the same shoulder he had surgically repaired before. He popped it back in place and said he did not need medical attention. His shoulder started to hurt again on 4/8/08, so he went to see a doctor that day. The diagnosis is a dislocated shoulder with pain. He was placed on restricted duty.

Injured party and co-worker were working together to pick up the fork extension for a forklift. Co-worker was driving forklift & injured was holding the extension to help load. As co-worker was moving forward to pickup extension, injured's hand got stuck between fork extension & another piece of equipment injuring left hand distal finger. Left distal tip amputation.

A contractor employee was packaging material at his assigned bagging station when he slipped and fell on a wet spot on the floor where he was working. The treating physician diagnosed the injury as a right hand and right hip contusion. He was allowed to return to work on restrictive duty.

A janitor working through a cleaning service company was found deceased in the main office building at approximately 4:15 a.m. At this time, the cause of death has not been determined by the medical examiner. However a heart attack is suspected, since he had previously suffered a heart attack approximately 20 years ago according to his wife.

Employee slipped on a wet floor while climbing down a step ladder causing him to fall twisting and spraining his left ankle in the process.

The employee was clearing out a product collector when he stood on a pipe then lost his balance. In an effort to regain his footing and catch himself on a forklift below, he aggravated his lower abdominal region. The doctor diagnosised the injury as a muscle strain in the lower abdominal area.

Due to a wet area on the floor because of rain, the employee's right foot slipped and twisted as he stepped out of the control room. He tried rest and applied ice on his foot right after the injury, but had to see a physician the next day due to increase pain. The attending physician diagnosed the injury as an ankle sprain and placed him on restricted work duty.

The employee twisted and sprained his left ankle when he stepped on a pipe wrench while trying to close a valve under a slurry mixing tank. The treating physician prescribed medication and placed the employee on restricted duty.

The employee was palletizing 50 lb bags of product when he started to feel soreness in his groin area. However, he did not report the incident until the next day. Groin strain was the diagnois.

The employee was removing a mill slurry hose normally not under pressure, when the hose sprayed TiO2 slurry all over his face and in his right eye. He washed his face and flushed his eye with water but decided to see a doctor after his eye developed a thick mucus the next morning. The doctor washed his eye and prescribed an ointment for 7 day use.

The employee was cutting steel panels with a torch overhead and had some hot fragments splatter and get on his left eye lid through the top of his safety glasses. His skin blistered in two spots and had some swelling as well.

The employee was filling and palletizing 50 lb. paper bags of product when he started to experience pain in his lower back area. The diagnosis is a strained lower back. His physician prescribed a few days of light duty and will continue to evaluate him until he is able to release him to resume normal duties.

While walking to the main office, the employee was struck by another employee with the rear end of his automobile as he was backing up out of the parking area. The injuried employee was struck on the right side hip/leg area causing her to fall on her back side and elbows. The injuries sustained include fractures of the left wrist and tail bone as well as scrapes to both elbows.

On Sunday, 12/18/05, the employee notified his supervisor he had had to go to the hospital emergency because his left knee was hurting due to an old injury. Four days later the employee told his supervisor he might have actually injured himself at the job site on 12/17/05 while stepping off a front end loader and will need an MRI to determine the severity of the injury.

The employee's foot slipped causing him to hit his shin right below his right knee on a wooden pallet. The injury was described as a contusion of the lower right leg.

The employee was working underneath a dryer removing a lip seal when the seal fell and struck him on his head right above his forehead. The injury resulted in a laceration on his head.

The injured person was trying to pry open the chamber door to a Drais mill, when the pry bar he was using slipped. The injury occured when he over extended his right elbow. The doctor diagnosised the injury as a lateral epicondylitis of the right elbow.

THE EMPLOYEE WORKED ON REPLACING FILTER BAGS ON A DUST COLLECTOR & MEASURING RAW MATERIAL PILES ALL DAY, BUT HE NEVER INDICATED THAT THERE WAS A PROBLEM. LATER THAT EVENING AFTER WORK, HIS WIFE CALLED HIS SUPERVISOR TO NOTIFY HIM THAT HE WOULD NOT BE IN THE NEXT DAY, BECAUSE HE WAS AT THE HOSPITAL BEING TREATED FOR DEHYDRATION. HE MISSED THE NEXT DAY & RETURNED THE DAY AFTER THAT.

EE WAS WORKING OFF AN EXTENSION LADDER WHICH WAS NOT TIED DOWN, LADDER SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER EE CAUSING EE TO FALL AND CUT LEFT LEG IN THE CHIN AREA. THE WOUND, 5 STITCHES, WAS CAUSED WHEN EE SCRAPPED LEG ON THE LADDER RUNG AS EE WAS FALLING. EE ALSO RECIEVED MINOR SCRAPS AND BRUISES TO BOTH KNEES AS WELL AS RIGHT HAND.

While stepping in shower he reached to turn on the water thereby wrenching his back

Spider bite leading to infection and hospitalization

Floor mat was on wet, slippery floor. Subject was starting up equipment when the floor mat he was standing on slipped thereby wrenching his back.

pain in neck and joints (elbows and hands) from repetitive use of hand tools and impact wrench

wet, slippery concrete floor due to rain, roof leaks, and spilled product; broken right wrist

The ee was walking on the sidewalk when she twisted her ankle. She just stepped wrong causing her to twist her ankle. the ee has a sprained right ankle.

EE was operating forklift and ran over pallet. A board flipped up & hit his nose.

THE EE WAS CLEANING UP UNDERNEATH THE CRUSHER WHEN HE REAGGRAVATED AN OLD SHOULDER INJURY. HE WAS USING A HAND TOOL TO REACH UNDERNEATH AND SCRAPE UP THE LOOSE BARITE SPILLAGE WHEN HE FELT HI S LEFT SHOULDER POP OUT OF PLACE. HE IMMEDIATELY POPPED IT BACK INTO PLACE. THE DOCTOR'S DIAGNOSIS WAS A "CLOSED POSTERIOR DISLOCATION OF HUMERUS."

EMPLOYEE RECEIVED A TWO INCH LACERATION REQUIRING STITCHES WHEN A MILL COMPONET HE WAS WORKING ON SLID OFF OF A FORKLIFT. THE COMPONENT WASN'T PROPERLY SECURED.

THE EE WAS CLEANING UP BY SHOVELING MATERAIL SPILLAGE INTO A WHEELBARREL AND INTO THE BUCKET OF A FRONT END LOADER. HE FELT SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER ABDOMINAL AREA WHEN HE CLIMBED ONTO THE L OADER.

EE EXPERIENCED A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER WHILE ON HIS BREAK. HE STATED HE HAD BEEN SHOVELING PRODUCT SPILLAGE RIGHT BEFORE HE WENT ON BREAK. EE ATTRIBUTES THE INJURY TO THE SHOVELING O F PRODUCT. PHYSICIAN DIAGNOSIS: LEFT SHOULDER STRAIN.

EE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE WHILE BAGGING PRODUCT. HE SAID HE FELT THE PAIN WHEN HE STEPPED TO HIS LEFT WHILE PACKAGING 50 LB. BAGS OF PRODUCT. HE DID NOT REPORT THE INCIDENT UNTIL 7/7/03 WHICH WAS 11 DAYS LATER AND COULD NOT GIVE A SPECIFIC TIME OF THE INCIDENT.

THE EE WAS CLOSING OFF A COMPARTMENT GATE OF A HOPPER RAILCAR USING A LARGER METAL BAR, WHEN THEBAR SLIPPED AND FELL ONTO THE TRACKS BELOW THE RAILCAR. HE DID NOT LET GO OF THE METAL BAR BEFOR E IT HIT THE TRACK AND THEREFORE SMASHED ONE OF HIS FINGERS ON HIS RIGHT HAND. THE EE SUFFERED A FRACTURED FINGER TIP OF THE RIGHT HAND AND WILL HAVE TO BE ON RESTRICTED WORK DUTY.

EE WAS PACKAGING 50# BAGS OF PRODUCT WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN UPPER MIDDLE SECTION OF HIS BACK. HE SAID HIS BACK POPPED AT THE TIME & THAT HE FELT THE PAIN FROM THE MIDDLE OF HIS BACK UP T O THE LEFT SHOULDER BLADE. THE PHYSICIAN'S DIAGNOSIS WAS A "THORACIC STRAIN." HE TOLD EE TO TAKE A DAY OFF & THEN RE-EXAMINED HIM NEXT WORKING DAY (11/4) & RELEASED HIM FROM RESTRICTED DUTY.

THE EE WAS ASSISTING OFFICE PERSONNEL MOVE SOME BOXES USING A DOLLEY WHICH NORMALLY IS NOT INE OF HIS DUTIES. THE DOLLEY THEY WERE USING NEEDED TO BE LIFTED UP PAST A 3" STEP GOING INTO THE BU ILDING. THE EE REACHED UNDER THE DOLLEY AND TRIED TO LIFT IT UP PAST THE STEP BUT PULLED TOO HARD CAUSING LEFT SHOULDER TO DISLOCATE. PLACED ON RESTRICTED DUTY TWO WEEKS.

THE EE SAID HE DID NOT EXPERIENCE ANY SIGNS OF AN INJURY DURING HIS SHIFT BUT WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING WITH EXTREME PAIN IN LOWER BACK AREA. HOWEVER, HE DID NOT REPORT THE INJURY UNTIL LATER THAT AFTERNOON AT APPROX. 2:30PM. AT THAT TIME HE WAS SENT TO SEE A DR. WHO DIAGNOSED A LUMBAR STRAIN AND PLACED EE ON RESTRICTED DUTY.

EE WAS STACKING 50LB. BAGS OF PRODUCT ON A PALLET WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN ON HIS LOWER BACK. ALTHOUGH HE FELT HE COULD CONTINUE, WE SENT HIM TO THE DR. AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE. THE DR. DIAGNOSED A LUMBAR STRAIN AND PLACED EE ON RESTRICTED DUTY.

EE WAS PACKING 50LB BAGS OF PRODUCTS WHEN HE FELT SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK. EE DID NOT NOTIFY ANYONE OF HIS INJURY UNTIL THE NEXT DAY AT 1:53PM HE WAS SENT TO DR ON 8/17/01 & WAS DIAGNOSED WITH LUMBAR STRAIN

THE INJURED PERSON WAS HELPING ATTACH A BUCKET ON TO A SMALL BOBCAT LOADER. WHILE HE WAS TRYING TO PUSH DOWN A LATCH WITH HIS FOOT, THE OPERATOR WAS IN THE DRIVER SEAT AND LEAN FORWARD ACCIDEN TALLY PUSHING THE FOOT PEDAL THAT ACTIVATED THE TILT MOTION WHICH PINCHED THE INJURED PERSON FOOT BETWEEN THE BUCKET AND THE FRAME OF THE HEADER.