Mining Incidents

Spread 1Metal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Helm Group Inc
Freeport, Stephenson County, IL · Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1101575
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2001–2019
Latest incident
Jun 2019
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2019 · 1 incident

Struck by powered moving object

Employee failed to make sure that their foot was clear of an Impactor Bar when they pulled out the lock out safety device. The Bar rotated and struck their Steel Toed boot causing 2 hairline cracks to the foot bones and 1 to the Tibia bone. EE was treated and released from FHN Hospital, but further examination of the foot is going to require mechanical immobilization.

2008 · 1 incident

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

Employee pulled the pins from a removeable transport dolly tongue. The dolly tongue fell to the ground onto the employee's right foot steel toed boot. The impact caused the right side front part of the steel toe to push down through the sole of the boot resulting in a fracture of the right foot big toe.

2002 · 1 incident

Struck by flying object

WARMING UP AN AIR STARTER ON AN ENGINE OF A POWER UNIT, NOTICED ETHER CAN ON TOP OF IT, SO REACHED TO TOSS IT OUT OF THE WAY. CAN RUPTURED & CUT FINGER.

2001 · 1 incident

Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE WAS WALKING ACROSS QUARRY WHEN HE STEPPED ON SOME ICE, SLIPPED AND BROKE HIS ANKLE.