2 Miners were lowering a jackleg drill down from a raise, the drill slipped from their grasp and 1 miners hand was caught between the drill and a piece of wooden lagging.
Arizona #1Metal/Nonmetal
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 8
- Years on record
- 2007–2013
- Latest incident
- Jan 2013
Reportable incidents
8 on file2013 · 1 incident
2012 · 1 incident
While bolting the back a 6 inch rock came loose from the back and struck the miner on the hand on top of the drill causing a cut that needed 4 sutures.
2011 · 2 incidents
A miner was kneeling on the ground repairing an airline, when he went to stand up, his leg made a pop and gave out. He went to the hospital for examination.
Electrician was wiring in a starter box when he stepped on a 4 inch rock rolling over his ankle. causing a small bone to break.
2009 · 1 incident
Working in the # 2 manway compartments at approximately the 770 foot steel set, he was removing an old piece of lagging. While attempting to remove the wood cribbing from the bottom the top started to tip towards him. He put his hand up to stop it from falling.
2007 · 3 incidents
Miner was attempting to install splitset rock bolt. Miner inserted bolt into drilled hole. While positioning driver into splitset, miner bumped splitset causing it to dislodge and fall from back striking him on bridge of nose. This caused a laceration requiring 6 stitches.
While riding the conveyance down the shaft at a slow pace, employee tried knocking off a piece of timber from the shaft steel set getting his right index finger caught between conveyance and guide resulting in a laceration requiring 8 sutures.
Crew was using a cutting torch to remove inaccessable guide bolts; a piece of molten metal inadvertantly fell down the shaft. It is unknown what was smoldering as the shaft is under rehabilitation at this time and it is unsafe to travel down the shaft to extinguish the fire.