Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects
PULLING CORD ON OUTBOARD MOTOR TO START IT.
Portable Dredge Dept 484Metal/Nonmetal
Wendling Quarries, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Manaco Corporation
Tama, Tama County, IA · Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1300715
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2011–2021
- Latest incident
- Sep 2021
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file2021 · 1 incident
2011 · 1 incident
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Dredge pipeline was plugged, EE turned on the booster pump to clear the line. The EE was standing next to the plastic pipeline when it came apart. The pipeline hit the EE slamming him into the I-Beam on the booster framework. The EE had his leg broken in 3 places and his ankle bone was crushed.