Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher No 1Metal/Nonmetal

Cottonwood, Idaho County, ID · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1001666
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2000–2007
Latest incident
Feb 2007
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2007 · 1 incident

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

Employee was releasing a chain binder from a load of crusher equipment. The binder twisted causing his right index finger to be crushed against the trailer frame and also resulting in a laceration that required sutures.

2003 · 1 incident

Struck against stationary object

SLEDGE HAMMERING HEAD WIPE ON CRUSHER CONVEYOR. HAMMER SLIPPED FROM HAND. LEFT HAND PULLED INTO WIPE RESULTING ON PARTIAL AMPULATION OF LEFT INDEX FINGER.

2001 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE CUT RIGHT INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGERS UPON GETTING HIS HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN PINION GEARS OF ROCK CRUSHER CONE.

2000 · 3 incidents

Struck against a moving object

EE NWAS DRIVING ON OFF HIGHWAY TRUCK STOCKPILING GRAVEL. HE GO TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGE AND TIPPED THE TRUCK OVER. HE WAS THROWN AROUND IN THE CAB PRETTY HARD. HE STARTED COUGHING UP BLOOD AND TA STING BLOOD IN HIS MOUTH SINCE THEN. HE QUIT WORKING FOR US THE FOLLOWING WEEK.

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

EE WAS HELPING TEAR DOWN JAW CRUSHER AND THE PIN ON THE HYDRAULIC JACK STUCK SO HE WAS HOLDING IT ON IT WOULD OPERATE CORRECTLY AND THE JAW SLIPPED AND SMASHED HIS LEFT THUMB BETWEEN THE JAW F RAME AND WINGWALL. HIS THUMB WAS REATTACHED AND HAS MORE SURGERIES TO HAVE DONE IT.

Struck by flying object

A ROCK SHOOK OFF THE CONVEYOR AND HIT HIM IN THE BACK WHILE HE WAS SHOVELING ROCK UNDER THE CRUSHER.