Mining Incidents

BanningMetal/Nonmetal

Robertson's · Surface
Banning, Riverside County, CA · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0402815
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
16
Years on record
2001–2024
Latest incident
Mar 2024
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

16 on file

2024 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Miner was shoveling sand onto conveyor belt and felt pain in right shoulder and biceps.

2023 · 1 incident

Struck against a moving object

Operator of a 777F haul truck drifted into haul road berm, momentum and inertia of truck carried over into an impoundment. Operator sustained minor injuries, but taken to hospital to error on the side of caution and released from hospital after observation.

2022 · 2 incidents

Struck by flying object

Miner was wearing Safety glasses, but a gust of wind blew dust up under the glasses while they were walking to their service truck.

Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

Bee hive near primary MCC, miner was walking by when a bee stung EE's left eyelid causing an allergic reaction.

2021 · 2 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Come-along hook struck miner in the upper lip.

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

Miner was in a boom lift with another miner who was operating it, miner was holding on the outside railing with right hand when the lift basket bumped into the the crusher they were working on and pinched right thumb.

2020 · 1 incident

Struck by flying object

Miner claims to have been struck by a rock that jumped from a guarded shaker deck causing a laceration to left index finger and sprained wrist.

2015 · 2 incidents

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Miner was installing a new roller finger was pinched between roller frame and conveyor frame. Miner received closed displaced fracture of left little finger.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Miner was leaving mine office stepped down wrong and sprained his ankle

2013 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was using a porta-power to spread the arms on a 966F loader to replace the bucket attachment. After releasing the pressure, the porta-power became wedged beween the dog bone and the lift arms. Employee used a sledge hammer to try and dislodge the porta-power. Upon striking the porta-power, it dislodged, traveled upward and struck him in the chest

2010 · 1 incident

(Not Elsewhere Classified)

While driving on the 60 freeway west in Riverside Cty a Robertson's Transport truck driver began to feel chest pains and continued to drive to a familiar location to seek aid. The driver pulled into the Banning quarry and requested medical attention. 911 was called and the driver was transported to an area hospital.

2006 · 3 incidents

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

Loader rolled down an embankment about 40' several minutes after the operator set the hydraulic brakes, the loader had the forklift assembly attached and it pinned the employee between the forks and the guard assembly surrounding the primary incline belt gravity take-up, EE sustained cuts to his right middle finger and right leg with a possible broken left ankle.

Contact with hot objects or substances

Inj employee was working with an electrician they were having trouble shutting the power off a particular electrical service, so inj ee continued to try and disconnect the power and in that process there was an arch of electricity that caught ee's left arm and jacket on fire, he received a serious flash burn to the face and his left arm.

Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

Injured employee received smoke inhalation from the incident when another employee caught fire from an electrical arch.

2001 · 2 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE EE WAS JACKHAMMERING A ROCK WHICH WAS CAUGHT IN THE JAW, THE JACKHAMMER SLIPPED OFF THE ROCK AND HIT HIS LEFT FOOT CAUSING HIM TO LAND AGAINST THE JAW HITTING HIS HAND.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE EE AND ANOTHER EE WERE BUILDING A HOPPER THE 2 SIDE PANELS WERE BEING HELD BY TACK WELDS WHICH BROKE WHEN THE PANELS WERE BEING ALIGNED CAUSING ONE PANEL TO FALL ONTO EE.KICKERS WERE ALS O IN PLACE.