Mining Incidents

United States Gypsum CompanyMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by USG Corporation
New Orleans, Orleans County, LA · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1600190
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2003
Latest incident
Jan 2003
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2003 · 1 incident

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

EE WAS BACKING DOWN A RAMP ON A WORKSAVER. THE WORKSAVER BECAME UNSTABLE & HE STRUCK A PARKED FORK TRUCK. HIS RIGHT LEG WAS OUTSIDE THE WORKSAVER & WAS PINCHED BETWEEN IT & THE PARKED FORK TRU CK. DUE TO THE UNSTABLENESS OF THE WORKSAVER, HE LOST HIS BALANCE, CAUSING HIS RIGHT LEG TO BE OUT OF THE WORKSAVER DURING THE COLLISION.