Mining Incidents

Lucerne ValleyMetal/Nonmetal

Robertson's · Surface
Lucerne Valley, San Bernardino County, CA · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0405690
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2006–2023
Latest incident
Feb 2023
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2023 · 1 incident

(Not Elsewhere Classified)

Miner has had an audiometric standard threshold shift in R-ear, pending retest, which results won't be available within the 10-day reporting criteria. Miner stated hobbies as music and guns, and worked with hearing protection directly before the initial test was performed.

2020 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Manual Labor, shoveling, clean up. Miner has a left inguinal hernia.

2019 · 1 incident

Fall to the walkway or working surface

miner tripped and fell injuring EE's right shoulder, right shoulder contusion injury

2013 · 1 incident

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

The primary jaw had bridged over causing rocks to overflow the jaw. The injured miner was cleaning rocks off the deck and misjudged the distance between the rock in his hand and another rock. The result was a broken left index finger.

2006 · 2 incidents

Fall from machine

EE was inside the cone crusher inspecting the crusher for a problem and opened the hatch door to let some fresh air into the inspection area, after several minutes he forgot the hatch was open and leaned back and fell through the door and fell approximately 10 feet.

Struck by falling object

Employee fabricated a lifting device out of steel to lift a sheave for a v-belt drive assembly, upon lifting the sheave one of his weld broke and the sheave dropped a couple feet hitting the ground and rolling over his right foot, thus he incurred a bruised right foot needing a few days to recover.