Mining Incidents

PLANT NO 2Metal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Greg Bruening
Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA · Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1302119
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2002–2011
Latest incident
Mar 2011
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2011 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Clearing blast holes of ice & snow with bar & hammer. Pinched finger between bar & hammer lacerating finger requiring stitches.

2010 · 1 incident

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Unloading drill from low boy trailer. Fell striking head on quarry floor. Truck driver was at scene but did not witness the fall, found drill operator on the ground.

2002 · 2 incidents

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

RE-SETTING PLANT AFTER SHOT, WAS ADJUSTING CONVEYER AND LIGHTS. CLIMBING DOWN LOWER LADDER (2 FTFROM GROUND) FOOT SLIPPED BETWEEN RUNGS, FELL BACKWARD BREAKING LOWER LEG.

Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

PERSON FELL FROM 90 FOOT HIGHWALL SOMETIME BETWEEN LATE SATURDAY NIGHT OR EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.