Over-exertion in lifting objects
Drill steel dropped down from grippers on to drill deck; employee lifted drill steel from deck and felt pain in right bicep. The right bicep bruised and swelled, felt weak after incident.
NORTHBORO PLANTMetal/Nonmetal
Kimball Sand Company Inc · Surface
Controlled by Scott Kimball; Wayne Kimball
Mendon, Worcester County, MA · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1901072
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2012–2022
- Latest incident
- Nov 2022
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file2022 · 1 incident
2012 · 1 incident
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
(Injured) operating a Cat 769C. while being loaded in quarry, a Cat 345B with a NPK GH-18 hammer approximately 60 feet away was breaking oversize rock. a piece of fly rock from the GH-18 broke the drivers side glass on the 769C. (operator of 769C) got a piece of glass in left eye.