Contact with hot objects or substances
EE WAS WELDING. HE STOPPED AND LIFTED HIS HEAD. A PIECE OF SLAG POPPED AND HIT HIS NOSE AND EYE.
PUEBLO CONCRETEMetal/Nonmetal
Transit Mix Of Pueblo · Surface
Controlled by Continental Materials Corp
Pueblo, Pueblo County, CO · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0500960
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 7
- Years on record
- 2000–2001
- Latest incident
- Nov 2001
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
7 on file2001 · 4 incidents
Over-exertion in lifting objects
EE PULLED A ROCK OFF THE CONVEYOR & STRAINED HIS BACK.
Fall to the walkway or working surface
EE WAS INSPECTING THE CONVEYOR AND TRIPPED AS HE WALKED-HE CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT HAND AS HE HIT THE GROUND AND SPRAINED HIS WRIST.
Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects
EE IS A PICKER. HE PULLED ON A ROCK TO PULL IT OFF THE BELT AND HIS SHOULDER DISLOCATED.
2000 · 3 incidents
Over-exertion in lifting objects
EE WAS CHANGING BELTS ON THE CONVEYOR, WHEN HE PICKED UP THE GUARD TO RE-INSTALL IT, HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE WAS BENDING A PIECE OF REBAR TO USE AS FILL FOR A WELD. HE STUCK THE BAR IN A HOLE IN THE WELD TRUCK AND WAS PULLING ON IT. THE BAR SLIPPED OUT OF THE HOLE AND HE WAS STRUCK BY THE BAR.
Fall from machine
EE WAS REMOVING THE PAN LINERS ON THE CONVEYOR, HE HAD ALL THE LINERS LOOSE BUT TWO WHEN HE STEPPED ON A LOOSE PAN WHICH FELL OUT, HIS OTHER LEG WHICH WAS ON THE LAST PAN THEN BROKE THROUGH TH AT PAN AND EE FELL ABOUT 4' TO THE GROUND.