(Not Elsewhere Classified)
Contract truck driver had a heart attack in truck and passed away.
Purdy MaterialsMetal/Nonmetal
Purdy Materials Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Edward Purdy
Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, IN · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1202211
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 6
- Years on record
- 2000–2022
- Latest incident
- Jul 2022
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
6 on file2022 · 1 incident
2014 · 1 incident
Over-exertion in lifting objects
Employee really has no Idea of when and where the accident happened, but first noticed when he bent over to remove a rock from the feed hopper.
2013 · 1 incident
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Mechanic was lifting air hammer into position & touched the trigger when not ready to activate. His left hand was forward the bit & the bit pinned his finger. Bit of air hammer fired landing on finger. Finger was between bit & pin being driven out.
2012 · 1 incident
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
It was a sunny, dry day and EE stepped off of the bobcat and twisted his right knee
2010 · 1 incident
Contact with hot objects or substances
he was lying on his side using a cutting torch and a hot piece of slag went in right ear Now July 15,2010 had surgery to repair a hole in eardrum will miss 7-10 days