Fall from machine
Employee was changing a conveyor belt & coming down- foot slipped, body slipped, right foot got hung & employee fell approximately 1' to the ground
Mountain Home Materials QuarryMetal/Nonmetal
APAC-Central Inc. · Surface
Controlled by CRH PLC
Mountain Home, Baxter County, AR · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0301908
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 2005–2016
- Latest incident
- Aug 2016
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file2016 · 1 incident
2013 · 1 incident
Fall down stairs
Employee was walking on the stair walkway to the gray shaker and slipped and fell off. It had been raining. He caught himself with his hand and left middle finger was dislocated.
2007 · 1 incident
Fall to the walkway or working surface
EE was kneeling down inside the discharge chute of the shaker screen. He was at the discharge end of the chute using an acetylene torch to shorten the chute length. In essence, he was cutting off the very section of chute that he was kneeling on. As he cut through the chute; it destabilized and twisted. He fell 4.5', landing on his left side. He suffered broken ribs.
2005 · 1 incident
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
A BEAD BREAKER WAS BEING USED TO BREAKDOWN A TIRE ON CAT 980 LOADER. THE MODEL OF THE BEAD BREAKER BEING USED WAS NOT INTENDED FOR THIS TYPE OF JOB. AS THE BEAD BREAKER WAS BEING PUMPED UP, IT SLIPPED AND FLEW APPRX 6' & STRUCK EE IN THE FOREHEAD. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO BAXTER REGIONAL MED CTR WHERE HE REC'D SEVERAL STITCHES.