Employee was hooking a lifting chain to unload a piece of steel pipe from a trailer and stepped in between the pipe and loader bucket as the loader was stopping. Leg got pinched between the pipe and top of the loader bucket.
Irions PitMetal/Nonmetal
Galena Road Gravel Inc · Surface
Controlled by Peter E Powell
Chillicothe, Peoria County, IL · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1102372
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 5
- Years on record
- 2001–2016
- Latest incident
- Feb 2016
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file2016 · 1 incident
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
2014 · 1 incident
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
A spring loaded door to an enclosure pinched finger, resulting in laceration.
2009 · 1 incident
Struck against stationary object
EE was performing maintenance work on an 5/14/09 endloader. When he hit his head on the endloader causing a scalp laceration on the top of his head. He was taken for treatment at 8:12 am and received staples to repair the laceration. Return to duty 5/15.
2003 · 1 incident
Over-exertion in lifting objects
LIFTING LOG PADDLES AT ONE OF THE PLANTS, FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
2001 · 1 incident
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE REPORTED NUMBNESS IN BOTH HANDS INITIALLY TO HIS FAMILY DOCTOR, WHO DIAGNOSED AS BILATERAL CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME. EE THEN INFORMED EMPLOYER. THIS INJURY IS BEING REPORTED BASED ON THE USE OF NIGHT SPLINTS, ONGOING MEDICATIONS, AND CONTINUED TREATMENTS BY DOCTOR.