Contact with electrical current
A master electrician was fatally injured while trouble-shooting 460 volt electric motor. (question #26: experience at this mine TWO hours.)
Kinder PlantMetal/Nonmetal
Arena Industrial Inc. · Surface
Controlled by CrowdOut Capital LLC
Alexandria, Allen County, LA · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1600555
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 3
- Years on record
- 2002–2006
- Latest incident
- Jun 2006
Fatalities at this mine
1 recordedReportable incidents
2 on file (excluding fatalities above)2006 · 1 incident
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Employee shut down Megatex then using a pry bar, pushed Megatex over and reached into pipe with right hand to remove obstruction. Pry bar slipped causing Megatex to slide back over employee's right hand. Right wrist and hand were lacerated and smashed.
2002 · 1 incident
Struck against stationary object
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UNDER A PART OF THE PLANT TO GO TURN OFF A VALVE. HE DUCKED UNDER A PIPE. HE DID NOT DUCK DOWN FAR ENOUGH AND STRUCK HIS HEAD ON THE HANDLE OF A VALVE. THE HANDLE WENT UND ER THE BRIM OF HIS HARD HAT AND STRUCK HIS FOREHEAD. HE RECEIVED A 2"" LACERATION WHICH REQUIRED SUTURES.