Mining Incidents

Ventucopa QuarryMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Mike Lima
Ventucopa, Ventura County, CA · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0405481
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
24
Years on record
2001–2023
Latest incident
May 2023
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

24 on file

2023 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

employee cutting hose with exacto knife and slipped cutting through EE's left thumb

2018 · 1 incident

Struck against a moving object

miner was driving 1989 Kenworth water truck up the haul road and either shifted or stalled the water truck the truck began rolling backwards rolled into muddy conditions truck began sliding and overturned. Employee climbed out of water truck and complained of some low back pain.

2015 · 1 incident

Struck against stationary object

Employee was cleaning hammermill and stepped on rock causing right ankle to twist.

2013 · 2 incidents

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee standing next to handrail by prep screen on flat ground and went to turn to walk in the opposite direction and twisted knee.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee was pushing a wheel barrow full of dirt/gyp and stepped wrong on his right foot causing it to twist.

2012 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee stepped out of service truck and twisted left ankle.

2011 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee was using a come along to draw in dozer track frame to line up and insert pin for track. The come along chain broke hitting the employee in right side of jaw. He received a small cut on ouside of jaw and inside of mouth and it knocked a tooth loose on lower jaw.

2010 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Injured person reported at 3:00 p.m that at approx. 7:45 a.m. he was shoveling and his back started hurting. He continued to work and then later got off of his escavator to move a rock and he felt something pull in his lower back.

2008 · 5 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Moving pin to to align and put in excavator, the pin grazed up against employee's left knee/shin area.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

employee cut right middle finger required two stitches and tetnus shot returned to work same day no lost time

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Stepped off small berm by conveyor 9 and hurt lower back.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee climbed up to get into the dozer (to begin operating it) and twisted right knee

Struck against stationary object

Employee states he was exiting the time clock room and stepped wrong on his left foot. He has multiple fractures on top of left foot.

2007 · 2 incidents

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was removing a nut from impactor with a pipe wrench lost balance and pulled something in lower back

Unclassified, insufficient data

Employee was sitting down in control tower, started experiencing extreme pain to lower abdomen right side.

2006 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was cleaning out the feeder and a rock hit his finger

2005 · 5 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was re-tarping in the plant area. A piece of baling wire used to tie off the tarp poked him in the right eye.

Struck against a moving object

Employee was driving a 1991 325M Dresser empty up to the top of the mountain to get a load of Gypsum Rock. The road was too wet and the truck slid down the haul road in reverse rolling into a burm and rolled on its side.

Struck by falling object

Employee was cleaning the hammermill when a co-worker stepped on the bearing causing one of the hammers to fall on the top of his left hand. Employee had a small abrasion on the top of his left hand causing tenderness to the top of his hand, two fingers, wrist and upper forearm.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Getting out of the Water Truck and stepped on foot wrong

Struck by flying object

Dust flew into employee's left eye This was not a lost time accident the dr looked at his eye administered eye drops and wrote out a prescription for eyedrops. EE returned to work no restrictions immediately. No Follow up visit to the doctor is required.

2004 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was working on the # 6 belt, tightening a bolt by hand. The ratchet slipped and came back and hit the employee above the left eye. He sustained a small cut and lump above the left eye. Immediately after injury he was transported by a company official to the company doctor, who stitched him and returned him to work the same day.

2003 · 1 incident

Unclassified, insufficient data

SHOULDER PAIN, CHEST PAIN ON LEFT SIDE, DIFFICULTY BREATHING. GOT HURT OFF THE JOB, PULLED A CHEST MUSCLE, NOT WORK RELATED.

2001 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING ON RED SCREEN WHEN GRINDER SUDDENLY SHUT OFF. EE SAW THAT IT HAD UNPLUGGED FROM THE ELECTRIC SOURCE, SO HE REACHED OVER AND PLUGGED IT BACK IN. THE SWITCH ON THE GRINDER WAS STILL ON THE ON POSITION, SO WHEN HE PLUGGEDIY IN, IT TURNED BACK ON AND IT MADE A SMALL CUTON HIS LEFT LEG JUST NELOW THE KNEE.