Mining Incidents

Plant #21-IndependenceMetal/Nonmetal

Independence, Jackson County, MO · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2302378
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2010–2012
Latest incident
May 2012
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2012 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was trying to release the anchor rope on the Guppy Boat when he lost the slack in the rope severing the tip of his left index finger.

2010 · 2 incidents

Struck against a moving object

Injured was driving loader through stock pile/loading area and hit a pot hole covered with water. (Water was flowing across entire roadway). Upon impact, the seat in the loader bottomed out and he felt a snap in his lower back.

Fall from machine

Driver was standing on tail gate of truck fixing his tarp when he lost his footing and fell off the truck.