Mining Incidents

HJ HOVEMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Robar Enterprises Inc
Indio, Riverside County, CA · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0401854
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
10
Years on record
2001–2020
Latest incident
Aug 2020

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
Struck by rolling or sliding object

Employee clearing crusher, rock came down chute and entrapped employee in crusher.

Reportable incidents

9 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2008 · 1 incident

Contact with hot objects or substances

While cutting a plate with a torch, flames followed the fumes into his glove and burned his left hand fingers, middle & ring.

2007 · 1 incident

Struck by flying object

Employee was changing the teeth on the bucket of the excavator. He was loosening a tooth with a sledge hammer. A small piece of metal broke off and struck the employee in the stomach.

2005 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

operating a loader in the yard. When he stood up, he felt numbness in leg and back.

2003 · 2 incidents

Contact with hot objects or substances

GASOLINE OVERFLOWED ONTO PUMP MOTOR & IGNITED. EE REACHED TO RETRIEVE GAS CAN & BURNT HIS ARM.

Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

SHOVELING MATERIALS AND A WASP BIT HIS RT. HAND.

2002 · 3 incidents

Struck against a moving object

EE WAS HAULING MATERIAL IN A HAUL TRUCK FROM THE PIT TO THE JAW, STRAINING HIS LOWER BACK AT SOME POINT DURING THE SHIFT.

Struck against a moving object

EE WAS DRIVING A HAUL TRUCK & WENT UNDER AN OVERHEAD CONVEYOR WITH THE BED UP, RESULTING IN A SUDDEN STOP, INJURING EE'S BACK & HIPS.

Contact with heat

EE WAS CHANGING SCREENS IN THE WET PLANT WHEN HE STARTED FEELING DIZZY, NAUSEOUS AND EXPERIENCING A HEADACHE. TEMPERATURE AT THE TIME WAS 110 DEGREES F. WITH HIGH HUMIDITY. EE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS TREATED FOR HEAT EXHAUSTION AND RELEASED.

2001 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS PRYING STUCK MATERIAL FROM AJW WHEN THE BAR SLIPPED FORWARD CATCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE PRYBAR AND A CROSS MEMBER OF THE JAW.