Mining Incidents

Area Pit Metal/Non-Metal

wetumpka, Montgomery County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103557

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2024
Latest incident
Jan 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2023
2
citations
1
significant & substantial
$519
proposed penalties
$519
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1 1,707 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 2,213 2 1 903.8
2022 Q4 80 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 793 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 4,404 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 4,751 0 0 0.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2024 · 1 incident

January 25, 2024 AL · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Little River Materials · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cranking an air compressor. The cord on the compressor hung up and EE twisted their left wrist causing pain. Accident date is approximate. It is unclear when the employee reported the incident to foreman. It was not reported to safety until a week or so later when the pain in EEs wrist did not go away. Employee requested a physicians visit on 2/13/2024.