Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects
The employee was removing paddles from the course wash portion of the plant and employee felt back pain when pulling on a paddle in trying to remove it.
Portable Wash Plant (WP #4)Metal/Nonmetal
Oldcastle SW Group, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by CRH PLC
Glenwood Springs, Garfield County, CO · Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0503510
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 2003–2021
- Latest incident
- Aug 2021
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file2021 · 1 incident
2018 · 1 incident
Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee was changing a spring on the wash plant, when EE's hand became caught in the spring. EE sustained a broken right ring finger and a laceration that required stitches.
2015 · 1 incident
Fall from ladders
Employee fell off of a ladder and fractured his left wrist.
2003 · 1 incident
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A CONVEYER BELT USING A UTILITY KNIFE. THE KNIFE SLIPPED IN HIS HAND, THE KNIFE CUT HIS LEFT HAND, REQUIRING STITCHES.