Mining Incidents

ENSLEY SAND & GRAVEL, INC.Metal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Ray Oppenhuizen
Newaygo, Newaygo County, MI · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2002709
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2000–2002
Latest incident
May 2002
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2002 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE & CO-WORKER WERE ATTEMPTING TO PLACE AN UPPERTOGGLE PLATE SEAT (250 LBS.) IN THE CRUSHER BY PLACING A PIPE THRU THE HOLES IN THE CONVEYOR FRAMING USING A COME-A-LONG. THE PIPE THAT WAS HOL DING THE WEIGHT SLIPPED OUT OF ONE OF THE HOLES FALLING DOWN 6"" STRIKING EE ACROSS THE SHOULDERS& PINNING HER WITH THE WEIGHT OF THE SEAT. SHE WAS PINNED NOT MORE THAN 2 MIN. TAKEN TO HOSP.

2000 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS STANDING ON BUMPER OF 1-TON TRUCK WHILE TRYING TO RETRIEVE TOOLS FROM BACK OF TRUCK. EE STEPPED OFF VEHICLE ONTO THE GROUND. GROUND HAD ""SLUSH"" BUILDUP, LARGE ROCK WAS HIDDEN IN SLUSH.