Mining Incidents

Ballenger StoneMetal/Nonmetal

Ballenger Stone · Surface
Controlled by James O Ballenger
Laurel, Franklin County, IN · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1202064
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2009
Latest incident
Jul 2009
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2009 · 1 incident

Struck by rolling or sliding object

There were excavators working in the area. The Labor thought he was going out far enough around the excavator. He was on the blind side of the excavator of the boom. EE was going along the side of the pile when the operator put another rock on the pile the rock rolled down. He saw the rock coming toward him & proceeded to move out of the way. The rock hit his lower right leg.