WE Soda @ WESTVACO

Safety activity

1. accident2026-03-04220260710016

   SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY

   Accident narrative

   Employee was walking and their foot slipped out in-front of them and sprained their back.

2. accident2026-01-06220260820022

   SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY

   Accident narrative

   While walking to their work area employee tripped on conveyor belt and fell to the ground. Employee tried to catch themselves with their left arm to dampen the fall and felt pain in their shoulder.

3. accident2025-12-11220253490028

   FALL OF ROOF OR BACK · ACCIDENT ONLY

   Accident narrative

   There was a roof fall in 18H 3 entry xc 5 intersection. It fell on the belt line and monorail in the entry. The fall was roughly 10' high, 30" long, and 20' wide. No injuries, no trapped miners, and no disruption to ventilation on the longwall face.

4. accident2025-12-10220253490026

   HANDLING OF MATERIALS · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY

   Accident narrative

   Employee was shoveling along side the crusher when a rock 28" x 30" x 4 1/2" fell and landed on their ankle. Causing a sprain/strain to their ankle.

5. accident2025-12-09220253490027

   FALL OF ROOF OR BACK · ACCIDENT ONLY

   Accident narrative

   Roof fall at 17hg return 3 entry xc 5. Roughly 10' high 20' wide and 30' long.

6. accident2025-12-08220253490025

   SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY

   Accident narrative

   Employee was walking down a walkway stepped down off a step planted their foot and slipped. Causing their ankle to roll.

7. accident2025-12-02220253380013

   HOISTING · ACCIDENT ONLY

   Accident narrative

   while turning power back on during a planned outage the generator for hoist shut down causing the hoist computers to shut down. This required the hoist computers to be rebooted causing the sync switch to fault out. The hoist was down for 37 minutes.

8. accident2025-11-16220253230029

   FALL OF ROOF OR BACK · ACCIDENT ONLY

   Accident narrative

   There was a roof fall in the tailgate of the longwall measuring 15ft to 20ft long and 7ft to 8ft high. The fall did not restrict ventilation, cause injury, or impede escapeways.

9. accident2025-11-09220253230019

   HANDLING OF MATERIALS · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY

   Accident narrative

   The miner was cleaning up the walkway when EE picked up a large rock and felt a pop in EE's back.

10. accident2025-10-28220253170570

    OTHER · NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT

    Accident narrative

    Employee was gritting their teeth while loosening a bolt. Employee chipped and bottom tooth.

11. accident2025-10-24220253170460

    IMPOUNDMENT · ACCIDENT ONLY

    Accident narrative

    There was a piping failure in the southeast corner of the lower impoundment that allowed water to flow out into the evaporation lake.

12. accident2025-10-16220253170399

    HANDLING OF MATERIALS · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY

    Accident narrative

    Employee was sprayed with 50% caustic. The caustic contacted the corner of left eye.

13. accident2025-10-10220253170267

    HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) · NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT

    Accident narrative

    EE was hammering a bearing sleeve. The bearing broke and struck EE's hand causing a laceration to EE's finger

14. accident2025-10-07220253170266

    SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY

    Accident narrative

    Slip, Trip, Fall, in the plant while walking across damaged concrete. EE fell and broke EE's clavicle

15. accident2025-09-21220252690003

    HOISTING · ACCIDENT ONLY

    Accident narrative

    8 shaft hoist went down for an electrical fault. No one was on the cage or injured when the fault occurred.

16. accident2025-09-21220252690001

    HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY

    Accident narrative

    Employee was tightening 2 1/2" bolts on a pump when EE felt pain in EE's right shoulder

17. accident2025-09-17220252690002

    HANDLING OF MATERIALS · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY

    Accident narrative

    Employee was removing a tag off a chain valve when EE felt a pop in EE's left shoulder.

18. accident2025-09-07220252530010

    HANDLING OF MATERIALS · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY

    Accident narrative

    Spacer plate for the cable handler slid and smashed EE's finger against the shear resulting in a right ring finger tuft fracture.

19. accident2025-09-04220252530013

    FIRE · ACCIDENT ONLY

    Accident narrative

    a fire was reported at the land fill pit. no injuries occurred.

20. accident2025-09-03220252530014

    FALL OF ROOF OR BACK · ACCIDENT ONLY

    Accident narrative

    there was an above anchor point fall above the overcast near 2 northwest pump station. the fall damaged the overcast causing it to outgas.

21. accident2025-08-29220252520008

    HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) · NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT

    Accident narrative

    Employees were drilling the hole when the pipe started to slip. Employee grabbed another wrench to put it on the pipe, while employee was setting the wrench they had a hold of the other pipe. The wrench slipped and the one they were holding accidentally grabbed and smashed their hand between the wrench and the mass of the drill.

22. accident2025-08-26220252470015

    HANDLING OF MATERIALS · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY

    Accident narrative

    Employee was carrying pin rollers when they tripped and fell on their shoulder. Employee tripped over grating outside the 4shaft airlock.

23. accident2025-08-19220252410008

    POWERED HAULAGE · NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT

    Accident narrative

    Madsen (contractor) Front end loader operator was cleaning material out of mono loadout silo 2. The material above the entryway came down on the front of the front-end loader and pushed the steering column and dash down into the operators' legs trapping EE in the loader.

24. accident2025-08-14220252330013

    MACHINERY · NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT

    Accident narrative

    While welding grating the bin over flowed dropping a small rock into the hood contacting right eye.

25. accident2025-08-12220252330012

    MACHINERY · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY

    Accident narrative

    Laying on right forearm when felt a pop in right shoulder while welding.