Mining Incidents

Gerken Materials- Hillsdale PlantMetal/Nonmetal

HILLSDALE, Hillsdale County, MI · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2002344
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2000–2026
Latest incident
Feb 2026
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2026 · 1 incident

Fall onto or against objects

Employee was exiting the scale house office and slipped on ice and fell on steps and fractured four ribs in their back.

2019 · 2 incidents

Struck against stationary object

Employee stated that the guard from the dredge winch was removed to replace the cable, at some point the cable started to slide off the deck into the water and EE jumped over the guard to stop it and cut the back of EE's leg on the guard.

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

Employee was moving a bearing housing for installation on the screen plant and pinched gloved finger between two one hundred pound housings. When they removed glove they realized that they had severely cut a finger right behind the finger nail. Several days later the finger tip was removed.

2011 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Connecting ladder chain together and cutting head flopped over and pinched EE's finger tip causing a laceration and fractured finger tip above his knuckle.

2000 · 2 incidents

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

THUMB PINCHED BETWEEN ROCK AND CHAIN WHILE OPERATING DREDGE. THUMB NAIL TORN OFF.

Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING NEW PIPE LINE ON THE BACK OF DREDGE, SLIPPED AND FELL ON PONTOON, DISLOCATING RIGHT SHOULDER.