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Kimaterials, Inc.Metal/Nonmetal

Kimaterials · Surface
Fieldon, Jersey County, IL · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1100081
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2002–2004
Latest incident
Jun 2004
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2004 · 1 incident

Valstad Quarry, Inc.
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS GREASING JAW CRUSHER AND WAS CHECKING HEAT TEMPERATURE ON JAW BEARINGS AND HIS RIGHT HAND GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN BEARING AND CAT WALK.

2002 · 1 incident

Valstad Quarry, Inc.
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

LARGE BOULDER IN JAW CRUSHER WAS BEING PULLED BACK OUT WITH CABLE AND CHAIN ATTACHED TO PIT LOADER. EMPLOYEE USED TOO SMALL OF CHAIN FOR SIZE BOULDER BEING PULLED OUT. CHAIN SNAPPED CAUSING CA BLE TO FLY INTO LOADER WINDSHIELD SHATTERING GLASS AND HITTING EMPLOYEE'S LEFT SHOULDER.