Struck against a moving object
Operating load in the pit. A rock rolled out at shot pile, hit loader bucket, made hand slip and jammed thumb which broke a bone above the thumb.
Glasgow Quarry Pit #2Metal/Nonmetal
Hinkle Contracting Corporation · Surface
Controlled by CRH PLC
Glasgow, Barren County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518712
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2004–2006
- Latest incident
- Jun 2006
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file2006 · 1 incident
2004 · 1 incident
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Injured and other ee's were setting a truck bed for a retaining wall. Loader operator thought that chain was unhooked and also thought that ee had motioned for him to go back. The chain was still hooked taking bed backwards causing crane boom to swing around. Crane blocked came unhooked and swang around knocking ee over the wall.