Contact with hot objects or substances
Excavator overheated in 90 degree plus heat. Employee attempted to cool off excavator by spraying it with a hose. The radiator cap exploded spraying him with hot antifreeze.
Lucky Sand & Gravel CoMetal/Nonmetal
Lucky Sand & Gravel Co · Surface
Controlled by Bernard Udelson
Mantua, Portage County, OH · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3302387
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 5
- Years on record
- 2000–2006
- Latest incident
- Jul 2006
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file2006 · 1 incident
2002 · 1 incident
Over-exertion in lifting objects
HE WAS HELPING TO CHANGE A SCREEN ON THE SAND SCREEN. HE WAS HELPING PULL UP A PUNCH PLATE THAT WEIGHED APPROX 100 POUNDS AND TWISTED OR PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS LOWER LEFT BACK.
2000 · 3 incidents
Struck by falling object
ROCK FELL OFF SCREENING PLANT & HIT HIM RIGHT LOWER BACK AS HE WAS BENDING OVER.
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
HE WAS TRYING TO LOOSEN TOP BOLT ON LOADER DRIVE SHAFT. THE SHAFT KEPT TURNING & HE TRIED TO HOLD IT STILL WITH ONE HAND WHILE LOOSENING BOLT WITH THE OTHER HAND. AS HE WAS DOING THIS HE FELT HIS BACK SLIP OUT OF PLACE. HE SAID HE HAS A PREEXISTING HISTORY OF A L-4 DISC. RUPTURE AND HERNIATED.
Over-exertion in lifting objects
BENDING OVER MOVING CYLINDER IN ATTEMPT. TO GET IT ON BLOCKS SO IT COULD BE REPAIRED.