Mining Incidents

Rawson Materials Plant #10Metal/Nonmetal

Rawson Materials · Surface
Brooklyn CT, Windham County, CT · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0600632
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
2003–2019
Latest incident
Mar 2019
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

7 on file

2019 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

Cleaning Dump truck body and a piece of frozen mud broke free and hit leg.

2006 · 1 incident

Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Was on catwalk, rotated to face the opposite way & twisted knee. Knee popped.

2005 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee said he was shoveling stone about a month ago and felt lower back soreness. He attributed it to doing something he seldom does. It got continually worse and now is under doctor's care.

2004 · 3 incidents

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee was climbing into dump truck and as he pulled himself up his left shoulder popped out.

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS RIGGING CHAINS TO PICK UP A SCREEN. HIS BACK WAS TO THE LOADER, AND HE WAS LEANING OVER SCREEN TO ADJUST RIGGING & ANOTHER EE OPENED WINDOW TO EXPLAIN AN OBJECTIVE & THE MONEY POUCH FE LL OUT OF THE WINDOW. THE LOADER WAS OFF & BRAKEWAS ON AS THE EE LEANED OUT TO RETRIEVE THE POUCH, HIS LEG HIT THE BUCKET CONTROL PINNING THE INJ EE.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

PLANT SHUT DOWN FOR SEASON. DOING REPAIRS ON FEEDER CONVEYOR IN SHOP. HE WAS ON LADDER REPLACING SPEED REDUCER. HE STEPPED OFF LADDER ONTO A JAR OF PUTTY LEFT ON FLOOR AND HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE .

2003 · 1 incident

Contact with hot objects or substances

WELDING IN A CONFINED SPACE WITH HEAD TILTED. WAS WELDING A BRACKET WITH FULL HELMET ON WHEN SPLINTER WENT IN RIGHT EAR.