Mining Incidents

BLAISDELLMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Donald R Peterson
Yuma, Yuma County, AZ · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0202470
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
17
Years on record
2000–2014
Latest incident
Feb 2014
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

17 on file

2014 · 1 incident

Fall from machine

Rocks lodged in loader belt. Employee was instructed to stay with loader while proper safety procedure was put into motion by other employees. Employee willfully climbed on loader bucket and attempted to remove rock, subsequently falling and striking face on belt cover. He broke a tooth and required stitches to his lip.

2012 · 2 incidents

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was shoveling sand away from belt area of screen and injured lower back. Not sure how.

Fall onto or against objects

Employee was removing rock from sand screen. He lost his footing, slipped and fell on rocks next to him. Sustained bruising and soft tissue contusion. Awareness of surroundings, conscious of footing and balance would help to not repeat accident.

2011 · 1 incident

Struck against a moving object

While moving loader on site, employee had bucket too low to ground. He hit bump in surface of ground and bucket dug into ground stopping loader abruptly. Employee was thrown into windshield, lacerating forehead. Employee received stitches. Loader required repair to joystick, not parts, mechanic time only.

2010 · 1 incident

Struck against stationary object

Employee was walking on ground going to grizzly and stepped on a rock and sprained his left ankle.

2009 · 1 incident

Fall onto or against objects

EE was walking up conveyor belt to clear any large boulders that might be stuck on shaker chute when he tripped and lost his balance from his own two feet. He hit the shaker on his left side of his chest. He got up and told his supervisor.

2008 · 1 incident

Accident type, without injuries

Operator was cleaning spoils up around jaw. Right hand door on backhoe hit a protruding iron beam on upper platform on jaw, breaking the door glass and damaging the door frame, there were no injuries. He will receive a review of task training.

2007 · 2 incidents

Struck by falling object

Was dislodging a rock on the grizzly rock crusher, rock came loose and hit EE on the lower right leg.

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

Employee was using prybar to dislodge rock and when rock moved he smashed his finger between prybar and metal chute.

2005 · 2 incidents

Struck by flying object

EE was doing routine maintenance and the wind blew debris into his right eye (conjunctivitis).

Contact with hot objects or substances

While employee was welding up on the tower on the crusher plant, he dropped the welding torch and burned his left hand.

2004 · 4 incidents

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

WHILE PULLING 36"" CONVEYOR BELT INTO PLACE, EE STRAINED ABDOMINAL WALL.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE LIFTING A METAL BEAM WITH A CHAIN & FORKLIFT EE GRABBED THE BEAM CAUSING THE CHAIN TO COME LOOSE & THE BEAM FELL & LANDED ON HIS RIGHT FOOT.

Fall down stairs

WHILE WALKING DOWN SHAKER STEPS, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND SPRAINED HIS RIGHT ANKLE

Over-exertion in lifting objects

HE STRAINED HIS ABDOMINAL WALL (UMBILICAL HERNIA) LIFTING A HEAVY STEEL FRAME. (HERNIA REPAIRED 9/29/04 PER CALL)

2003 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

REMOVING BOULDERS FROM MAIN FEED BELT USING BAR WHICH SLIPPED AND HIT FINGER.

2000 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS UNCLOGGING THE OVERSIZED ROCK DISCHARGE SHAFT WITH A STEEL ROD. WHEN THE ROCKS WERE MOVED HIS HAND WAS HIT BY THE FALLING ROCKS CRUSHING HIS FINGER ON THE STEEL ROD.