Mining Incidents

Drummond Rock QuarryMetal/Nonmetal

Colony, AL, Cullman County, AL · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103126
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
11
Years on record
2001–2007
Latest incident
Oct 2007
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

11 on file

2007 · 2 incidents

Fall from machine

Employee was cleaning windows on dozer and slipped off tracks and fell to ground on left shoulder.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was helping tighten bolts on a cone crusher. He was using a 2 lb hammer and a wrench. While striking the wrench with the hammer, he missed the wrench and hit his 3rd finger on his left hand, breaking his finger.

2006 · 2 incidents

Struck by flying object

Employee was using comealong on crusher to help free small debris when the cable broke and came back striking his left thumb and hand.

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee was removing rock from crusher and pulled muscle in his lower back.

2005 · 3 incidents

Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING AS LABORER AROUND CRUSHING CIRCUIT. WHEN HE WAS FINISHED, HE STEPPED OFF OF CONCRETE PAD ONTO A ROCK HE DID NOT SEE AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A LODGED JAW PLATE AFTER REMOVING HOLDING PINS AFTER JAW COULD NOT BE REMOVED. CRIBBING HAD BEEN USED TO REMOVE PINS AND WAS REMOVED TO EXTRICATE JAW PLATE. WHEN JAW PLATE COULD NOT BE REMOVED, CRIBBING WAS NOT USED WHEN ATTEMPTING TO FREE JAW PLATE AND PLATE SHIFTED, CAUSING EE'S RIGHT FOOT TO BE TWISTED.

Fall from machine

EE WAS STEPPING OUT OF THE CAB OF THE FORD BOOM TRUCK WHEN SLIPPED AND FELL ON SPILLED DIESEL FUEL. EE FELL APPROX 45"" TO THE GROUND. EE HAD FUELED THE BOOM TRUCK AND SPILLED THE FUEL.

2002 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

MINER WAS CLIMBING DOWN THE CAB ACCESS LADDER VOLVE 25 ROCK TRUCK WHEN HE STEPPED FROM THE LAST RUNG TO THE GROUND HE FELT A BURINING SENSATION IN THE CALF MUSCLE OF THE LEFT LEG.

2001 · 3 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

MINER WAS HELPING CLEAN AROUND PLANT WHEN DUST FELL INTO FACE. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES W/SIDE SHIELDS. DUST GOT INTO RIGHT EYE. HE RUBBEDHIS EYE. SUPERVISOR NOTIFIED ON 8/3/01.

Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

OPERATOR WAS ON D25C CAT HAUL TRUCK WHEN DASH OF HIS TRUCK APPARENTLY SHORTED OUT & CAUSED A FIRE, SMOKE FROM THIS FIRE WAS INHALED BEFORE THE TRUCK COULD BE STOPPED & THE DRIVER COULD GET OUT OF THIS CAB.

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE REPLACING BELT DRIVE ON MOTOR TO FEED BELT TO SCALPING SCREEN, FINGER CAUGHT IN PULLEY WHILE CHANGING BELT. RESULTED IN A FRACTURE TO THE AREA BETWEEN THE KNUCKLE AND 1ST JOINT. SUTURES WERE USED ON A SMALL LACERATION IN THE AREA BETWEEN THE 1ST JOINT AND FINGER TIP.