Mining Incidents

Briar Hill Stone CoMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Frank Waller
McDermott, Scioto County, OH · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3300176
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
28
Years on record
2000–2014
Latest incident
Dec 2014
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

28 on file

2014 · 2 incidents

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Manually pushing a piece of rock on a manual roller conveyor. Left middle finger was below the roller and stone rolled up with his finger between stone and the roller on the roller conveyor, mashing the tip and nail of his left middle finger.

Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

MSHA inspector had been in plant and had EE wearing noise and dust sample collecting equipment for the day. The hoses from these devices got tangled up and he was trying to straighten them out. He straightened his arm out and hand went into radial saw. Fatty tissue between thumb and 1st finger was cut, also his thumb. Wearing 2 devices caused the entanglement.

2012 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Pulling a piece of stone across a roller conveyor and he had 2nd & 3rd fingers between bottom of stone and roller conveyor on left hand. Pulled 2nd & 3rd nail loose front fingers. no broken bones or stitches on the fingers, just dressing and bandage for 2 days.

2011 · 1 incident

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was getting off the fork truck in the garage and stepped down onto the concrete floor and tripped over a water pump and scraped left arm from five inches above elbow to three inches below elbow. Cracked bone around ankle area. Tripping over the pump or the concrete floor caused the injury.

2010 · 1 incident

Struck against a moving object

EE was leaving the work place after quitting time in his personal auto. Another private auto was moving on the same road and they hit head on, causing the auto accident.

2007 · 1 incident

Fall from ladders

He was climbing down a 7' ladder and his foot got tangled up in his pants leg and he fell and hurt his left wrist and wears a splint on left wrist.

2005 · 2 incidents

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee stepped up on lift truck to operate and felt something pull and sting in his left ankle or foot. Left ankle and foot sprain.

Fall down stairs

Walking down stone steps and went to step down on next step and missed the step and twisted or sprained left knee.

2004 · 2 incidents

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

STACKING STONE ON A PALLET AND LACERATED THE MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND BETWEEN TWO PIECES OF STONE.

Struck by flying object

Metal plug flew up from the ground after being hit by a sledge hammer and struck ee in the forehead causing a laceration on forehead.

2003 · 4 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HITTING A BLOCK OF STONE WITH BOTH HANDS ON A 5 LB SLEDGE HAMMER AND THE RIGHT 5TH FINGER (PINKY) SOMEHOW CAUGHT BETWEEN THE STONE AND HAMMER BREAKING THE LITTLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.

No Value Found

LIFTING A AIR HAMMER DRILLOUT OF DRILL HOLE & FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK REGION. SPRAIN LUMBARSCRIAL AREA.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

TIGHTENING CHAIN AROUND BLOCK OF STONE AND LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND GOT BETWEEN THE BLOCK OF STONE AND THE CHAIN AS THE CHAIN WAS BEING TIGHTENED BY THE CRANE, BREAKING THE LITTLE FINGER AND LACERATING THE FINGER.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

CABLE RUNNING THRU A SHEAVE AND SOME WAY FINGERS GOT BETWEEN THE SHEAVE AND SIDE BRACES. LEFT AND RIGHT FINGERS SMASHED AND SOME AMPUTATION ON LEFT AND RIGHT FINGERS.

2002 · 3 incidents

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

REINJURY OR PAIN IN LOWER BACK REGION FROM PREVIOUS INJURY 12/27/01.

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

SPRAINED LOWER BACK WORKING ON GANG SAW BY TWISTING A BOLT WITH A WRENCH.

Fall from machine

FELL FROM LOADER LADDER BOTTOM STEP TO STONE LEDGE AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK ON 9-20-02, BUT DIDN'T MISS ANY WORK OR SEEK TREATMENT UNTIL SEPT 5, 2002 SPRAIN LUMBAR REGION.

2001 · 10 incidents

Over-exertion in lifting objects

LIFTING A PIECE OF STONE TO STACK ON A PALLETT AND SPRAINED LOWER BACK.

Fall onto or against objects

WALKING IN STONE YARD AROUND A PICK-UP TRUCK AND FELL ONTO GRAVELS OR A PIECE OF STONE AND LACERATED RIGHT FOREARM WHEN FALLING. NOTHING CAUSED HIM TO FALL OR TRIP. HE CAN'T EXPLAIN WHY HE JUS T FELL.

Struck by falling object

STONE BROKE WHILE STACKING AND 3RD FINGER ON RIGHT HAND WAS HIT BU A BROKEN PIECE OF STONE.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

BILATERAL CARPAL TUNNEL RELEASES AND POSITIVE TINEL S SURGERY WAS PERFORMED TODAY ONT HE LEFT WRIST AND A LATER DATE FOR THE RIGHT WRIST. HE USED A HAMMER ON HIS JOB EVERYDAY.

Struck against stationary object

HIT RIGHT ELBOW ON DOOR LATCH AND CAUSED LATERAL EPICONDYLITIS.

Struck against stationary object

CUT LEFT SIDE OF HIS HEAD ON A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON WHILE UNLOADING RACKS.

Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

WALKING IN THE AREA WHERE FINISHED BUILDING STONE IS STORED FOR MOVEMENT TO ANOTHER LOCATION AND FELL OFF THE END OF FLOOR TO THE GROUND BELOW. FELL 3 FEET, SPRAINING BACK AND LEFT KNEE.

Struck against stationary object

STANDING ON WIRE SAW POST AND HIS RIGHT KNEE BRUSHED AGAINST THE SHEAVE LACERATING THE RIGHT KNEE.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

DRIVING STEEL KEYS WITH HAMMER WHEN A FOREIGN BODY WENT INTO RIGHT EYE.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

BENT OVER TO REMOVE A ROCK FROM ATOP A WATER VALVE COVER SPRAINING MY BACK.

2000 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INJURED LEFT KNEE SPRAIN CLIBMING OFF THE OVERHEAD CRANE AND TWISTED THE KNEE.