Mining Incidents

STEELSTONE INDUSTRIES IMetal/Nonmetal

HOULTON, Aroostook County, ME · Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1700256
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2001–2010
Latest incident
Aug 2010
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2010 · 1 incident

Fall from machine

Employee was welding on the wash rack. After he unhooked his safety harness to reposition himself, he slipped on some gravel and fell 16 feet to the ground below. There were no witnesses to the incident, he called on his cell phone to report the fall to a co-worker. He bumped his left temple and had a tail bone contusion.

2001 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

PLACED CONCRETE PAD UNDER STONE BIN. EMPLOYEE WAS TROWELING CONCRETE WHEN A PIECE OF I BEAM SLID DOWN CAT WALK OVER HEAD AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT SIDE OF HEAD. TWO EMPLOYEES WERE REPAIRING A CONVEYOR.