Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee was operating a loader and began feeling pain in his lower back.
PORTABLE WASH PLANTMetal/Nonmetal
Grand Junction Concrete Pipe Company · Surface
Controlled by Marie E Tipping
Grand Junction, Mesa County, CO · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0504625
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 2003–2007
- Latest incident
- Feb 2007
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file2007 · 1 incident
2006 · 1 incident
Fall from machine
Employee was exiting a loader and proceeding down the steps of the loader. His foot slipped on a step and he fell approximately two feet to the ground. The employee landed on his feet. He began experiencing pain in his lower back
2005 · 1 incident
Fall from piled material
Employee stepped onto an elevated wood block. The wood block was not stable and rolled. The employee fell and sprained his left ankle.
2003 · 1 incident
Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE WAS EXAMINING A NOISE AT THE PULLEY HEAD MOTOR OF A CONVEYOR BELT. EMPLOYEE LIFTED THE GUARD TO EXAMINE ASSEMBLY AS IT WAS RUNNING. EE LOST HIS FOOTING, HE REACHED FOR A HANDHOLD. HIS HAND WAS GRABBED BY THE V-BELTS AND HIS FINGERS WERE MASHED BETWEEN THE PULLEY AND THE V-BELTS