Mining Incidents

Love PitMetal/Nonmetal

Hernando, De Soto County, MS · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2200389
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
9
Years on record
2004–2025
Latest incident
Jul 2025
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

9 on file

2025 · 1 incident

Contact with heat

Employee overheated while lacing conveyor belt, claimed they got dizzy and sat down beside the conveyor road, did not communicate to anyone and called 911 themselves! Employee ate and drank throughout the day. With a group of co-workers all day including the supervisor to allow breaks (water, shade, cooling) due to the extreme heat.

2024 · 2 incidents

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was walking backwards from front of pickup truck along conveyor. Stepped onto the grated ground berm, twisted ankle underneath self landing with all EE's body weight. Believed ankle was just sprained and went home. Two days later (6/14/24) found out it was a nondisplaced fracture of lateral right fibula.

Struck by falling object

Laceration to left leg requiring stitches. While attempting to disconnect bucket from skid steer, the bucket slipped off the bucket moment and contacted left leg resulting in a laceration.

2013 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was giving hand signals to a front end loader operator as they were splicing a belt. The nylon choker broke and struck employee in the chest.

2009 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

Employee states he was driving a hinge pin into an ejector pan with a sledge hammmer.

2006 · 1 incident

Fall onto or against objects

ee alledgedly slipped & fell & struck a wing wall as he was climbing down from a conveyor after he removed material from the conveyor.

2005 · 2 incidents

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

SHOVELING FROM UNDER THE CONVEYOR AND STRAINED HIS BACK

Struck against stationary object

CLEANING ROCK OUT OF TAILPULLEY, PRY BAR SLIPPED AND HIS HAND HIT THE FINS IN THE PULLEY, CUTTING HIS LEFT POINTING FINGER.

2004 · 1 incident

Struck against stationary object

RIDING A 4-WEELER ACROSS THE PIT AREA AND RAN OFF A 6 TO 8 FOOT HIGHWALL. THE IMPACT CAUSED HIM TO HIT HIS FACE ON THE HANDLE BARS.HE RRECEIVED LACERATIONS TO HIS NOSE AND FACE ALSO BRUISES TO HIS BODY.