Mining Incidents

Portable 2Metal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Thomas C Sturgeon
Topsham, Sagadahoc County, ME · Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1701042
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2021
Latest incident
Apr 2021
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2021 · 1 incident

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

Starting up the portable crushing plant for the day. The Belt conveyor was frozen stuck due to cold weather. Two employees were freeing it by pulling on the electric motor drive belt. When the belt came free, injured employee's finger got caught between the sheave and the belt. Resulting in the laceration of the skin and the fracture in the finger.