Mining Incidents

BERRY QUARRYMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by S T Bunn Jr
Berry, Fayette County, AL · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0102039
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
11
Years on record
2000–2005
Latest incident
Oct 2005
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

11 on file

2005 · 1 incident

Fall from machine

He was weighing his truck. He went to get out of truck (they are instructed not to get out) and fell as he was getting out.

2004 · 2 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS WORKING NEAR ANOTHER EMPLOYEE THAT WAS WORKING ON A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. EMPLOYEE SWUNG A PIECE OF PIPE AROUND & IT STRUCK INJURED EE ON THE LEFT ARM.

Contact with hot objects or substances

Working on a pump and reached across a hot part and burned right forearm.

2003 · 1 incident

Contact with hot objects or substances

EE WAS USING BURNING TORCH WHEN HIS SHIRT SLEEVE CAUGHT FIRE CAUSING MINOR BURN TO ARM.

2002 · 4 incidents

Flash burns (welding)

EE WAS WORKING IN AREA WHERE WELDING WAS BEING DONE. RECEIVED FLASH BURN TO EYES.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS USING CROW BAR TO DISLODGE ROCK FROM HOPPER. BAR SLIPPED & MASHED FINGER.

Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON ROCK CRUSHER WHEN A PIECE OF METAL DROP ON HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.

Struck against stationary object

EE STEPPED FROM CONVEYOR BELT ON A ROCK AND TWISTED HIS LT. KNEE.

2001 · 2 incidents

Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING ROCK WITH FRONT LOADER WHEN HE BRUISED HIS BACK, CAUSED FROM JARRING AND SHAKING OF LOADER.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS USING PORTAPOWER WHEN HIS THUMB WAS PINCH.

2000 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

ROCK FELL FROM CONE FRAME, STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN BACK CAUSING BRUISE TO THE BACK.