Mining Incidents

CR #3Metal/Nonmetal

Holdingford, Stearns County, MN · Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103717
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
2014–2023
Latest incident
Oct 2023
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

7 on file

2023 · 1 incident

Fall from machine

Employee was cleaning the rock piles out of the shoots. Employee was standing on the cross conveyer doing this. Another employee accidentally activated the conveyer, which caused employee to fall from the conveyer to the ground. They landed on their ankle, and this caused the ankle jam/sprain.

2021 · 1 incident

Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE was walking from the backhoe to the loader and slipped and fell on the ice.

2019 · 1 incident

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee unhooked the chain from the conveyor and dropped it over the end. EE was walking back down and the chain accidentally re-hooked on a beam and jerked the conveyor and that is when EE lost balance and fell to the ground on EE's back.

2018 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

Employee was rolling a conveyor belt to the back of the pickup and ee was unable to stop it when it got to the back of the pickup. The belt rolled to the ground and hitting the employee causing ee to fall to the ground and the belt then roll over right leg.

2016 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

Replacing roller on conveyor and was tapping clip out of roller when something fell in right eye. EE had safety glasses on but they were fogged up so EE moved them down just a little to let the moisture out of the lenses.

2014 · 2 incidents

Struck by falling object

Was removing rock from feeder and rock fell off lid and hit him on his forehead causing the laceration.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Was wearing safety glasses and was hand grinding when a foreign object got into his eye.