Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Fixing tear in conveyor belt left hand got caught - smashing it. Employee has been treated at Union County General Hospital.
Portable Crushing Plant #3Metal/Nonmetal
Southway Construction Company Inc · Surface
Controlled by Estate of Henry T. Southway Jr.
Walsenburg, Las Animas County, CO · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2902223
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2005–2008
- Latest incident
- Jan 2008
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file2008 · 1 incident
2005 · 1 incident
Contact with hot objects or substances
Cutting a piece of metal from the jaw crusher & it fell onto the chute & slid down the chute pinning the employee's rt. hand under the piece of hot metal. It burned the back of his rt. hand. EE could be away from work for 3 weeks.