Employee used a torch to cut bolt off when slag built up and went under safety glasses into eye
Alexander CityMetal/Nonmetal
APAC-Alabama,Inc. · Surface
Controlled by CRH PLC
Alexander City, Coosa County, AL · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0102140
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 5
- Years on record
- 2000–2014
- Latest incident
- Apr 2014
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file2014 · 1 incident
Struck by flying object
2003 · 1 incident
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE WAS PUSHING ON PRYBAR WITHOUT GLOVE ON WHEN IT SLIPPED CAUSING EE TO HIT SHARP EDGE OF SHIM WITH HAND.
2002 · 2 incidents
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE WAS PRESSURE WASHING EQUIPMENT WHEN HE NOTICED SOMETHING HAD GOTTEN INTO HIS EYE.
Struck against a moving object
WHILE EE WAS DRIVING HAUL TRUCK INTO THE PIT AREA, HE WENT OVER HIGHWALL IN PLANNED DRILLING AREA, CAUSING TRUCK TO FLIP OVER. DRIVER HAD A MINOR CUT TO HIS LEFT LEG, SUSTAINED WHEN HE UNBUCK LED SEATBELT WHILE HANGING UPSIDE DOWN IN CAB, AND FELL ONTO DASH AREA.
2000 · 1 incident
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
TWO EE'S WERE SETTING THE BOTTOM PART OF THE SCREEN MOTOR GUARD. GUARD WAS IN PLACE AND EE WAS STARTING TO WELD ON IT. GUARD SLIPPED AND CAUGHT INJURED EE'S RIGHT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN GUARD AN D MOTOR CUTTING HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.