Employee was installing new tracks on a excavator driving a steel pin with a sledge hammer to hold tracks together when a very small piece of steel fragment broke off and went into his rigt leg. Employee received 4 stitches in his right leg.
Apex QuarryMetal/Nonmetal
Sidwell Materials Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Jeffrey R Sidwell
Jewett, Harrison County, OH · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3304321
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 8
- Years on record
- 2007–2012
- Latest incident
- Sep 2012
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
8 on file2012 · 1 incident
Struck by flying object
2009 · 1 incident
Struck against a moving object
While operating the D11 Dozer the operator ran over a rock causing the machine to jump and landing on a rock, teetering then falling back down to level ground, causing the operator to be jarred.
2008 · 2 incidents
Struck against a moving object
Digging hard stone with 1100 excator. When digging, exavator track picked up off ground and slammed down hard several times, jamming lower back.
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Snow/icy - shoveling scales - slipped on ice & cut thumb.
2007 · 4 incidents
Fall onto or against objects
Muddy conditions - he slipped and fell off track and landed on rock.
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Drill chain broke-caught in mid air
Struck against a moving object
Driving parts truck, he wrecked with vehicle on road. Driver of our truck not at fault.