Struck against a moving object
While preparing the pad to load hauling trucks; the side wall gave out causing the excavator to slide down approximately 12 to 15 feet; once the excavator got to the bottom, it tipped on it's side.
The Standard MineMetal/Nonmetal
Double D Mining LLC · Surface
Controlled by Santokh Toor
Blythe, Riverside County, CA · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0405663
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2012–2017
- Latest incident
- Jun 2017
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file2017 · 1 incident
2012 · 1 incident
Contact with hot objects or substances
Clear night, no wind. Employee was welding when a hot piece of slag fell and burned threw the tongue of his boot burning into his foot.