Fall onto or against objects
While replacing dust bag on a filter motor the worker was reaching up and lost footing causing worker to reflexively grab at a bar and three finger tips on the right were pinched and cut between a bracket.
Telluride Airport PitMetal/Nonmetal
Telluride Stone Company, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by John B Gallegos
Telluride, San Miguel County, CO · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0505059
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 5
- Years on record
- 2015–2024
- Latest incident
- Jun 2024
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file2024 · 1 incident
2022 · 1 incident
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
While loading rock onto the stone splitter, employee's 3rd and 4th fingers on left hand were injured. The tips of the finger were clipped by the chisels coming down.
2017 · 2 incidents
Struck by falling object
EE was loading rock onto belt for splitting. Another rock fell on EE's finger. EE's right hand was caught between the rock EE was holding and the rock that fell. The 4th finger (ring finger) on right hand was broken.
Struck against stationary object
EE stumbled on a rock and twisted left foot and upper body.
2015 · 1 incident
Struck against a moving object
At the end of the shift at 3pm, the employee was experiencing lower back pain. Employee is excavator operator.