Southwest Critical Materials LLC safety activity

Drill helper removed stuffing box, tube lowered to safety block, pulled overshot off tube, stepped back. The driller ran rods up to release tube from rods. Once the driller ran the rod string up, a piece of slipped core (or core stuck in bit/shoe) fell out of the rod string as rods moved forward, striking the helper in the shin.

At approximately 3:00pm the service cage was downed due to the brakes being applied and not releasing during a pm of the conveyance hoist. A relief valve was not releasing pressure to release the brakes.

At approximately 8:25am, the supervisor was notified that an a ground fall had occurred in an inactive drift near the face. The wire was hanging down and SX ground support bolts were attached to the wire.

Auxiliary Cage (MaryAnn Cage) was shut down at approximately 6:00 pm on October 30, 2025 due to accumulator leak of the hydraulic power unit. Accumulator was slowly leaking off nitrogen charge.

EE was walking in GEHO Sump area #1 when left foot slipped on a small rock causing EE to lose their balance and putting full weight on the left foot on the ground surface. This cause a left Achilles tendon rupture.

At 5:02 p.m., the hoistman was raising the Service Hoist to the surface with one miner on the cage. The Shaft Crew had just finished installing a new remix on the bottom of the slickline, approximately 650 feet from the surface. The hoist tripped out due to the electrical drive overheating.

Around 9:30 am an Employee was loading a UTV on the service cage at the surface collar and the overhead door came down catching the buggy bending the door pulling it out of the track. The cage is used for either personnel or equipment and at no point were persons endangered. Operator is filing this report under duress.

Employee was drilling vertical holes above head with a Hilti gun using a 1 �" bit to install anchor bolts to secure a 10' pipe. Employee was taking a break and wiped their face off with a rag, and got a piece foreign object in their right eye. EE then attempted to flush it out. Foreign object was later removed by optometrists.

Employee was at the 3090-refuge chamber pulling the 3/C #10 AWG cable around to the back of the refuge chamber to land the cable into the junction box. Employee threw the cable towards the back of the refuge chamber and stepped down from the first rung of the ladder. Employee slipped as employee stepped down and felt a sharp pain in right ankle and fell to the ground.