Employee was unhooking a generator trailer and using a tool to release the fifth wheel plate. Tool slipped off fifth wheel plate and employee feel backwards on to the ground hitting their head.
300 Cone PlantMetal/Nonmetal
L R Falk Construction Co. · Surface
Controlled by Lindsey R Falk
St. Ansgar, Mitchell County, IA · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1302104
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 6
- Years on record
- 2004–2023
- Latest incident
- Apr 2023
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
6 on file2023 · 1 incident
Fall to the walkway or working surface
2022 · 1 incident
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Pinched left hand index finger requiring stitches. Quarry worker was removing a pin from a hydraulic cylinder when the cylinder moved and pinched the finger between the pin and the sleeve on the cylinder.
2011 · 1 incident
Fall onto or against objects
The miner was working on a walkway greasing the plant and stepped backwards into a small opening next to the motor and lost his balance. He fell directly onto the motor which had a eye bolt sticking out of it. The miner fell only backwards landing on the motor and eye bolt.
2010 · 1 incident
Struck against stationary object
MINER WAS WORKING AROUND THE PLANT AND WALKED BEHIND PARKED SERVICE TRUCK AND HIT HIS LEFT KNEE ON THE TRAILER HITCH OF THE SERVICE TRUCK.
2005 · 1 incident
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Installing a discharge hose on a water pump.
2004 · 1 incident
Struck against stationary object
HE WENT TO CLIMB LADDER TO PLANT; FOOT SLIPPED ON LOOSE ROCK.