Mining Incidents

Triangle Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Hartness T Scott
Edgecombe County, NC  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3101498

MSHA record for Triangle Mine (mine ID 3101498). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1989–1990
Latest incident
Nov 1990
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

1990 · 2 incidents

November 17, 1990 NC · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Triangle Sand Products Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS CLIMBING UP INTO THE EXCAVATOR WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT LOWER BACK AND DROPPED BACK DOWN TO THE GROUND. HE SHUT OFF THE EXCAVATOR AND QUIT WORK FOR THE DAY. HIS BACK CONTINUED T O BOTHER HIM AND HE WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM FOR TREATMENT THE FOLLOWING EVENING.

June 22, 1990 NC · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Triangle Sand Products Inc · Fall onto or against objects

PULLING BARGE UP TO BANK WHEN LINE BROKE CAUSING HIM TO LOSE BALANCE,FALLING BACKWARDS.TURNED TO RIGHT TRYING TO BREAK FALL WITH RIGHT HAND AND STRUCK HAND ON CORNER OF GAS TANK.

1989 · 1 incident

January 23, 1989 NC · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Triangle Sand Products Inc · Struck by flying object

THE OPERATOR WAS WASHING SAND OUT OF A HOPPER WITH A WATER HOSE HE SAID WATER SPLASHED UP IN HIS FACE AND GOT SAND IN HIS EYE CONTINUED TO BE IRRITATED HE HAD SAND GRAINS REMOVED BY A DR AND R ECEIVED PRESCRIPTION EYE DROPS NO TIME LOST

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