Mining Incidents

Portable Plant (902)Metal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Cary G Whipple
Newport, Sullivan County, NH · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2700388
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2005–2007
Latest incident
Apr 2007
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2007 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING INSTALLING MATERIAL BELT ONTO CRUSHER. NYLON ROPE BROKE AWAY FROM WIRE CABLE UNDER TENSTION, HITTING EMPLOYEE IN CHEST AREA CAUSING INTERNIAL INJURIES. EMPLOYEE WAS TRANSPORTED TO AREA HOSPITIAL. EMPLOYEE HAD EMERGENCY SURGERY LATE LAST NIGHT.

2005 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A ROCK WHICH WAS JAMMED IN THE CRUSHER. THE EMPLOYEE STRUCK HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER WITH THE SLEDGE HAMMER.