Mining Incidents

Journagan Portable #12Metal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Leo Journagan
Reedsprings, Taney County, MO · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2302068
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2000–2007
Latest incident
Apr 2007
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2007 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Worker slipped on gravel and sprained left ankle.

2005 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

While repairing the Vertical Shaft Impactor (VSI),the LAR ring slipped and pinched a workers finger tips fracturing two finger tip bones.

2002 · 3 incidents

Struck against stationary object

DISMOUNTNG MINER HAUL TRUCK AND STEPPED ON SOFT BALL SIZE ROCK. THIS WRENCHED AND STRAINED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WORKER WAS EXPERIENCING SORENESS IN HIS RIGHT WRIST WHILE OPERATING A FRONT LOADER NO SPECIFIC INCIDENT COULD BE LINKED TO THE SORENESS.

2000 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WORKER WAS INSTALLING A NEW BEARING IN A REMOVED CONVEYOR ROLLER. HE WAS USING A 4 LB SLEDGE HAMMER AND A 1 7/16"" CHROMED SOCKET. AS THE HAMMER STRUCK THE SOCKET, IT TILTED AND THE HAMMER SLID , MASHING THE TIP OF HIS INDEX FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND. THE TIP OF HIS FINGER WAS BROKEN AND THE UPPER PORTION OF THE FIRST JOINT, INCLUDING THE FINGERNAIL, WAS PEELED OFF THE BONE.