Employee was stepping from a paddle boat being used as a temporary access to get onto the dredge. The boat shifted in the water as they were stepping onto the dredge. EE pulled the boat back with right leg, felt their knee pop, lost balance, and fell onto their knee. The dredge was inoperable and staged close to the bank. The boat was located between the bank and the dredge.
Plant 1348-GossMetal/Nonmetal
Arcosa Aggregates Gulf Coast, LLC · Surface
Controlled by Arcosa, Inc
Columbia, Marion County, MS · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2200812
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 2015–2024
- Latest incident
- Feb 2024
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file2024 · 1 incident
Fall onto or against objects
2018 · 1 incident
Struck by falling object
EE was putting a pontoon under a pipeline. While putting the cap on one of the pontoons, the cap fell and mashed finger.
2016 · 1 incident
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Employee was patching a pipe when the trackhoe bucket swung around crushing EE's left arm between the bucket and pipe.
2015 · 1 incident
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
A can of starter fluid was tossed to employee. He missed catching it and it hit a motor, bounced off and stuck him above his left eye. He had 6 stitches above eyebrow to close up the cut.