Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
While flopping the (metal) ""material fingers"" the employee right index finger was pinched and while trying to remove his right index finger his left thumb was crushed on the left side.
TULE RIVER/SUCCESS DAMMetal/Nonmetal
PORTERVILLE ROCK AND RECYCLE INC · Surface
Controlled by Mitchell Brown
TULARE, Tulare County, CA · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0405313
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2007–2010
- Latest incident
- Nov 2010
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file2010 · 1 incident
2007 · 1 incident
Fall from machine
Employee was washing the floor deck of a 355 Komatsu. Once finished he stepped down to the track and slipped with his right foot. His left foot became wedged in between the blade push beam and track frame as he fell from the top of the track to the ground level. The employee was immediately taken to the local emergency room and determined that he had broken his left ankle.