Mining Incidents

Wiseman Sullins/ChalkMetal/Nonmetal

Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, NC · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3100117
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2005–2014
Latest incident
Dec 2014
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2014 · 2 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Contract employee was finishing a weld near the jaw crusher when the 4"" hand grinder wheel he was using caught or bound up, and the whole unit kicked back into his mouth area (no grinding face shield was being worn at the time).

Contact with hot objects or substances

EE was welding in a tight area when a welding rod ember rolled onto his jacket burning a small area on the cuff and into the right top forearm causing a minor burn.

2013 · 1 incident

Fall onto or against objects

survey crew member attempted access for survey rod placement on steep bank, when he slipped and fell onto a small sapling stump (about 1"" in diameter) that he had cut about 18"" from the base minutes earlier causing the severe injury

2010 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee received a laceration to his upper lip when the edge of a metal panel that he was pulling upward struck against his mouth.

2006 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Driver had pushed truck tarp arm back. It was raining heavily at the time. Driver was on scale catwalk, slipped and lost footing and fell. Driver's leg went down between catwalk and scale platform.

2005 · 1 incident

Fall from piled material

Rock breaker was sitting in the middle of a pile of big rock (150 - 300 lb); had to climb over them to fill rock breaker. On the way back down rock pile began to slide causing me to lose my balance and fall on rock. The edge was sticking up like a wedge and hit me in the spine. I lay there about 10 to 15 minutes with breath knocked out of me before returning to the truck.