While digging overburden, the 6030 excavator struck a blasting cap and or booster. This caused the blasting cap and or booster to detonate. The windshield on the 6030 was cracked by fly rock.
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- Muertes
- 0
- Incidentes totales
- 19
- Años en registro
- 2006–2014
- Último incidente
- Dec 2014
| Trimestre | Horas trabajadas | Citaciones | S&S | Por 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2015 Q3 | 10,317 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q1 | 23,255 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q3 | 31,487 | 1 | 0 | 31.8 |
| 2012 Q2 | 39,339 | 7 | 1 | 177.9 |
| 2012 Q1 | 50,021 | 3 | 2 | 60.0 |
| 2011 Q4 | 58,450 | 4 | 1 | 68.4 |
| 2010 Q2 | 44,467 | 13 | 6 | 292.4 |
Incidentes reportables
19 en archivo2014 · 2 incidentes
While descending a set of steps attached to the front of a fuel tank on fuel truck (MACK) PS37676, employees foot slipped. Employee tried to hold on and regain his footing. Employee fell to the ground. Fall resulted in a shoulder injury.
2013 · 3 incidentes
Employee was cutting a water with a utility knife and the knife slipped and cut his right forearm.
Strain to the left arm and neck.
Employee was using a hammer to hit the metal bucket of the dozer, he was replacing the dozers bucket tip and a piece of metal chipped off and hit his left forearm.
2012 · 8 incidentes
He was stepping out of his service truck heard pop under right foot
Coupling hose from an emulsion truck tanker was being detached, the driver did not allow time for the air to release from the hose when he uncoupled the connection thus being under pressure the coupling struck the driver in the side of the head, as a result the driver sustained a concussion.
Employee was climbing off of a dozer and slipped on the track and grabbed a handle to keep from falling and pulled his left shoulder.
Employee had just finished setting a water pump and was walking up a hill and felt something in his knee popped.
Employee was loading and unloading water pumps and hoses and pulled the muscle in his lower back.
Employee was shoveling coal from conveyer belt and slipped hitting the crusher, resulting in a contusion to the left chest wall.
Contract Mechanic was changing the track on a D-11 dozer and the track flipped over mashing his left index finger.
While loading blasting agent onto the blast hole the blasting agent caught fire, detonated and caused the detonation of additional primers that had been placed around the blast hole area. Fire was caused by Blaster smoking near blast hole. See attached MSHA Citation #8521062.
2011 · 2 incidentes
Employee was backing over a rock with the bulldozer and the dozer caught on the rock pulling, jerked the emplyee pulling his left shoulder.
Employee was preparing to weld a C-clamp, he sat the clap on a table to measure it and the clamp slipped mashing his right finger.
2010 · 2 incidentes
Employee was sliding a 4x8 screen and lifted up on it and pulled a muscle in his chest wall.
He was driving an equalizer pin into an equalizer bar; a piece of the pin chipped off and went into the thumb on his left hand. He had to have the chipped piece removed from his finger.
2008 · 1 incidente
Rock truck operator backed 100 ton rock truck off dump, over-turned rock truck, was flown to University of Alabama Hospital where he was treated and released with a hairline crack in L1 vertebrate.
2006 · 1 incidente
Employee was lifting 5 gallon can of antifreeze.