Employee clearing crusher, rock came down chute and entrapped employee in crusher.
HJ HOVEMetal/Nonmetal
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 10
- Years on record
- 2001–2020
- Latest incident
- Aug 2020
Fatalities at this mine
1 recordedReportable incidents
9 on file (excluding fatalities above)2008 · 1 incident
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
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
operating a loader in the yard. When he stood up, he felt numbness in leg and back.
2003 · 2 incidents
GASOLINE OVERFLOWED ONTO PUMP MOTOR & IGNITED. EE REACHED TO RETRIEVE GAS CAN & BURNT HIS ARM.
SHOVELING MATERIALS AND A WASP BIT HIS RT. HAND.
2002 · 3 incidents
EE WAS HAULING MATERIAL IN A HAUL TRUCK FROM THE PIT TO THE JAW, STRAINING HIS LOWER BACK AT SOME POINT DURING THE SHIFT.
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.
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
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.