Mining Incidents

Colorado Quarries IncMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Bill Tezak
Canon City, Fremont County, CO · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0502172
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
17
Years on record
2000–2004
Latest incident
Apr 2004
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

17 on file

2004 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A PALLET & STRETCHED HIS BACK MUSCLE.

2002 · 1 incident

Fall onto or against objects

MISSED STEP TO MILL SHACK, WENT TO CATCH HIMSELF & FELL ON METAL GRAIT & PUNCTURED RIGHT PALM.

2001 · 10 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS CUTTING TREES. TREE UN FRINT IF A RAUK CAR & THE CHAINSAW HIT THE CAR SENDING THE CHAINSAW INTO LEFT THIGH AREA.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WAS BUILDING CRATES AND PUNCTURE LEFT THUMB WITH AN AIR GUN.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS GRINDING A PIECE OF METAL ON A DOZER & IT HIT A HARD PIECE OF METAL CAUSING THE GRINDER TO JUMP CATCHING HIS LEFT WRIST.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS BREAKING ICE AND THE PICK SLIPPED AND WENT THROUGH HIS FINGER.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

YE WAS PICKING BOULDERS AND A ROCK SLID DOWN THE PILE ONTO HIS HAND, SMASHING THE RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO KICK IN THE TAILGATE OF THE DELIVERY TRUCK AND SLIPPED AND FELL, TWISTINGKNEE AND BUMPING HEAD.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS USING A SLEDGEHAMMER TO BEAT THE HOPPER AND IT SLIPPED SMASHING HIS LEFT HAND

Struck by flying object

CRUSHER OPERATOR HAD PIECE OF ROCK GET INTO HIS LEFT EYE WHEN THE WIND PICKED UP.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS WORKING ON A DOZER AND HAD A SMALL PIECE OF METAL GET INTO HIS LEFT EYE.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE WAS LIFTING A CRATE AND SAID HE STRAINED HIS BACK. THIS HAPPENED ON THURSDAY. HE WORKED THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, REPORTED IT TO US ON MONDAY.

2000 · 5 incidents

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

WAS HITTING ROCK WITH SLEDGEHAMMER - HAND SLIPPED OFF AND WAS SMASHED BETWEEN HAMMER AND SCREEN.

Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS BREAKING A BOULDER IN THE CRUSHER AND A PIECE CAME OFF CUTTING HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER.

Struck by falling object

HE WAS PICKING UP A PIECE OF BLACK OBSIDIAN AND IT SLIPPED CAUSING A GASH IN HIS FOREARM.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS STACKING BAGS ONTO A PALLET & STRAINED HIS WRIST

Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EE WAS DRIVING THE FORKLIFT TO WRAP PLTS OF ROCK AND THE HYDRAULIC HOSE BUSTED SPRAYING OIL INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.