Mining Incidents

Portable Crushing Plant #205Metal/Nonmetal

Waterloo, Black Hawk County, IA · Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1302076
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
19
Years on record
2000–2026
Latest incident
Mar 2026
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

19 on file

2026 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Grizzly bar made it into the Impact, Employee entered and tried to dislodge the bar, resulting in a strain to their lower abdomen.

2022 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee twisted knee while fueling truck due to uneven ground. Was seen by physician on 5/5/22. Diagnosed with sprained knee. Employee was released to work with no restrictions and no medical treatment was given. On 5/23/22 employee was seen again by physician. Was placed on restricted work duty due to continued issues with knee. Injury became reportable as on 5/23/22.

2021 · 1 incident

Struck against a moving object

Snowy conditions lead to truck sliding during turn and tipping onto side.

2020 · 2 incidents

Fall down stairs

Employee was repairing engine on secondary crusher. Upon exiting the working platform employee tripped over extension cord, causing employee to lose balance and fall down steps, landing on the ground at bottom of steps. Fall resulted in bruising to employee's right side/back and two cracked ribs on right side.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was working on a shot bench and twisted their knee.

2017 · 1 incident

Struck against a moving object

Employee was cleaning around crushing plant with the skid loader and hit a big bump causing employee's head to hit the roof of skid loader. Told supervisor 9/28/2017 what happened. Did not go to doctor because employee did not think it was a big deal until headache would not go away. 10/16/2017 went to the doctor.

2016 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Was pulling electric cords and hanging them in the rack on a bin. Thought that is was a pulled muscle. On 8/10 went to doctor and said do physical therapy. On 9/6 was placed on light duty because no progress. On 11/9 reached out of dump truck to shut lime bin off and got pain in shoulder. Had MRI same day and on 11/10 was diagnosed with left torn rotator cuff. Surgery 12/13.

2015 · 1 incident

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Washing the plant shack with a power washer. Stepped backwards and tripped on the hose. Fell on right shoulder. Original injury report was 12/17/2015. The employee was under evaluation until it was determined on 02/01/2016 that the right rotator cup was torn and needed surgery. Thus needed to be reported as an accident.

2014 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

He was removing a dump truck tire from the tire rack. While pulling the tire out of the rack he felt a pull in his left shoulder. This was last day of work week and was decided to see how shoulder felt the following week. On 8/5/14 he was sent to occupational health because shoulder was still bothering him. He was placed on light duty. 8/12/14 recheck sent to therapy.

2013 · 1 incident

(Not Elsewhere Classified)

Hearing loss of 25 dBa in right ear.

2011 · 2 incidents

Struck by flying object

Changing bucket tooth on Caterpillar 988F. After removing the pin that holds the tooth, he hit the edge of the tooth with a hammer to loosen the tooth from the adapter when a piece of metal chipped off. The piece of metal struck the right inner thigh of his right leg.

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Kneeling on floor sliding crusher liners, when he felt a pop/sharp pain in his back.

2009 · 2 incidents

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Driver of stockpile truck was getting out of truck when his shirt sleeve caught on the door handle as he was getting out of the truck. Causing a muscle strain to right forearm.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Putting skirt boards on piggy back conveyor of surge bin. Was reaching out and lifting in an awkward position and pulled something in his back.

2008 · 2 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Went to exit cab of dump truck and pushed down on door handle. The handle broke, cutting his hand.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Attempting to take the baffle off the 60' conveyor that was feeding the screen plant when the baffle slipped and cut the top of left hand.

2004 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

Attempting to hook the fuel wagon to a pick up, when the tongue fell off of pickup hitch and hit top of right foot.

2002 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WAS GRINDING THE ROUGH EDGES OFF THE GRIZZLY BARS ON THE IMPACT FEEDER WHEN THE GRINDER SLIPPED & CUT HIS KNEE

2000 · 1 incident

Struck by flying object

STRONG WIND BLEW DEBRIS IN LEFT EYE WHILE RUNNING AGGREGATE SAMPLE.