Installing new motor on feeder hopper. While lifting motor into place with chain hoist, chain hoist came unhooked and motor fell, striking employee's shin and upper right ankle area.
Ionia PitMetal/Nonmetal
Top Grade Aggregates, LLC · Surface
Controlled by Thomas Brink; Ross Veltema
Ionia, Ionia County, MI · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2003496
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 3
- Years on record
- 2014–2024
- Latest incident
- May 2024
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
3 on file2024 · 1 incident
Struck by falling object
2022 · 1 incident
Fall onto or against objects
Employee was standing on the water pump structure waiting to hook a chain from the Pettibone (telescopic tractor) to the fresh water pump pipe. Employee stepped over handrail to hook and stepped onto the pontoon, it shifted and EE lost EE's balance. As EE reached to regain EE's balance EE's forearm slid across angle iron of catwalk steel structure cutting EE's forearm.
2014 · 1 incident
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
A Grizzly Rock Separator was being repaired, but it was not properly blocked against hazardous motion. It shifted forward and stuck a miner. The miner received a broken shoulder, arm, finger and head injuries.