Mining Incidents

Fabtech3455 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Vic DiGeronimo Jr
Smithland, Livingston County, KY  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 1519978

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2025
Latest incident
Oct 2025
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 2,013 0 0 0.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2025 · 1 incident

October 30, 2025 KY · Metal/Non-Metal master mechanic, foreman, supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Independence Excavating · Struck by falling object

The crew was working on pulling power cables getting the plant set up. When two employees were pulling cable through a hopper extension. One employee was pulling cable with their hand resting on the back of the conveyor. The hopper extension slipped out of workers causing it to fall onto the resting employees fingers lacerating their middle, ring, and pinky finger.