Mining Incidents

IMI/Kewanna Sand & GravelMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by John Tiberi
Kewanna, Fulton County, IN · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1200646
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
11
Years on record
2001–2011
Latest incident
Jan 2011
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

11 on file

2011 · 1 incident

Contact with hot objects or substances

Employee was hard surface welding. When he lifted up his welding helmet, the surface he was welding began to pop and a piece of slag got in the corner of his right eye.

2010 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee picked up piece of steel to weld on top of dragline bucket. Holding piece at chest level twisted slightly to install piece and his back popped.

2009 · 2 incidents

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was getting off dragline, stepped on track and slipped and fell between track and frame. He caught left arm on handrail.

Contact with hot objects or substances

Building new hand rail, another IMI EE heated the hand rail to form it. EE walking up stairs, grabbed rail and burned right palm, not knowing that the hand rail had been heated up.

2008 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE was at the store to pick (2) 12V equipment batteries when he picked it up, he said his back popped, and took him to his knees.

2006 · 2 incidents

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was exiting haul truck when his wedding ring became caught on the lid of the truck bed cutting his ring finger on his left hand. The laceration required three stitches.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OFF A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT & WHEN HE TOUCHED THE GROUND HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

2005 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE hurt back by moving 100 pound anvils out of VSI crusher. He attached a hook to the anvils and pulled them up and out.

2004 · 2 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS USING IMPACT TO TAKE NUT OFF A SQUARE LEAD BOLT IN WHICH THE BRACKET HAD A PIECE ON IT TO KEEP THE BOLT FROM SPINNING, BUT THE BOLT SPUN OUT AS EE WAS PUTTING PRESSURE ON THE BOLT WITH HIS FINGER. THE BOLT CAUGHT EE'S FINGER, CAUSING A LACERATION.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE CHAIN SAW JUMPED OFF OF THE BAR. IT HIS A SMALL TREE LIMB WHICH SENT IT INTO HIS LEG CUTTING THROUGH HIS JEANS AND LEAVING A LACERATION THAT REQUIRED STITCHES.

2001 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

RIGHT INDEX FINGER WAS PINCH & REQ 2 STITCHES