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Sierra Ready Mix QuarryMetal/Nonmetal

Sierra Ready Mix · Surface
Jean, Clark County, NV · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2602594
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2021–2023
Latest incident
Sep 2023

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
Sierra Ready Mix
Fall from headframe, derrick or tower

The employee was last seen on top of the tower and determined to be missing. The employee was found in a pipe traveling from the cyclone discharge box to the thickener tank. Investigation has revealed that the employee traveled outside the provided safe access to the cyclone discharge box. It is not yet determined how the employee entered the pipe.

Reportable incidents

1 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2023 · 1 incident

Sierra Ready Mix
Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was using marking paint to create a new berm that runs along the high wall. As the employee was marking the area along the high wall, this is when the EE fell from the high wall approximately 14 feet from the top of the high wall to the point where the EE laid at rest at the bottom of the high wall.