Mining Incidents

Edmonston Rock PlantMetal/Nonmetal

Griffith Company · Surface
Controlled by Tom Foss
Lebec, Kern County, CA · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0403447
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2005–2011
Latest incident
Jul 2011
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2011 · 1 incident

Contact with hot objects or substances

Operator loosened radiator cap while machine was hot

2008 · 1 incident

Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Stretching and flexing - while doing these exercising movements, his lower back started hurting.

2005 · 2 incidents

Struck against stationary object

INSTALLING AN ACCESS LADDER TO CATWALK ON DOZER TRAP CONVEYOR. STEPPED OFF DECK ONTO A ROCK. ROCK MOVED AND EMPLOYEE LOST BALANCE AND HURT LEFT KNEE.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A 12LB.HAMMER TO LOOSEN A NUT ON A CONE LINER WHEN A PIECE OF STEEL BROKE OFF & LODGED IN HIS LEFT LEG JUST AROUND THE KNEE.