Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee was shoveling, put the shovel in the dirt and pulled with right arm and pushed with the left arm and said his shoulder, ""Popped out.""
NEVADA SLAG, INC.Metal/Nonmetal
NEVADA SLAG, INC. · Surface
Controlled by Layton Sonerholm
MC GILL, White Pine County, NV · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2602551
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 5
- Years on record
- 2005–2012
- Latest incident
- Dec 2012
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file2012 · 2 incidents
Over-exertion in lifting objects
While shoveling slag into wheel borrow the Employee turned wrong with a shovel full of slag and felt pain.
2011 · 1 incident
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Shoveling slag overrun out of tank into a wheelbarrow. Employee kept doing the shoveling for long enough that it overused the wrist/arm.
2005 · 2 incidents
Struck by flying object
SLAG WAS BLOWING OFF OF THE CONVEYOR DUE TO HIGH WINDS. SOME OF THE SLAG BLEW INTO HIS EYE.
Struck against stationary object
EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING A 100# BAG ON THE SPOUT OF THE BAGGING MACHINE AND HE HIT HIS THUMB ON THE SPOUT OPENING WHERE THE SAND COMES OUT.