Mining Incidents

PMC Wet Plant @ B&W SiteMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by George Douglass Jr
Pearl River, St Tammany County, LA · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1601464
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2007–2009
Latest incident
Nov 2009
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2009 · 3 incidents

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was washing out the loader bucket with a fire hose. The hose became tangled and the employee was attempting to untangle the hose when he tripped over a roller frame that was holding one end of the hose down.

Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was entering a storage container to retrieve a piece of equipment. The step gave way and the employee fell twisting his right knee.

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was attempting to free a cable that was jammed in a winch. When the cable suddenly came free, the employee lost his footing and fell, striking right shoulder on the deck of the sand dredge.

2008 · 2 incidents

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

Employee was replacing a 50 lb motor on dredge screen plant. In process of removing motor, the come-a-long came loose and the motor slid down and hit employee's right knee pinning his leg against the pole.

Struck against stationary object

Employee was replacing a sharp bolt on the guard to dredge shaker and cut his right index finger.

2007 · 1 incident

Fall onto or against objects

EE was working on a dredging screen. EE lost footing in sand and slipped and fell backwards, landing on a padeye. EE suffered left chest wall contusion.