Mining Incidents

FreedomMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Daniel R Gernatt Jr
Arcade, Cattaraugus County, NY · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3001539
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
2005–2025
Latest incident
Mar 2025
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

7 on file

2025 · 1 incident

Struck by flying object

Employees were moving a divider box with a front-end loader and chains. One of the chains broke and stuck the employee in the arm.

2020 · 1 incident

Struck against a moving object

EE was driving a haul truck when EE struck a pothole in the haul road and reported back pain. EE left work at 11:00 am, called off the next two days and saw a physician on 07/14/2020.

2017 · 1 incident

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was cleaning out trailer and somehow fell and fractured wrist. Accident was reported to management on 4/10/17.

2014 · 3 incidents

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

3 employees were assembling conveyor sections to extend the field run. One section was not lined up properly. An employee attempted to pull it into alignment by hand & felt pain in his abdomen. He didn't immediately seek treatment. He later saw a doctor & was diagnosed with a hernia & will be scheduling surgery. He reported the injury on 5/23/14.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was grinding steel. Wearing safety glasses but no face shield. Material got into his eye.

Struck by flying object

Employee was cleaning the spirals of a sand screw with a wire grinding wheel. A wire from the wheel broke off and struck his eye.

2005 · 1 incident

Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was guiding a pan onto a lowboy trailer when he fell through a hole in the trailer bed, injuring his knee.