Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher #1Metal/Nonmetal

Ontario, Malheur County, OR · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3503255
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2017–2025
Latest incident
Sep 2025
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2025 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

Employee was letting down an electrical cord hanger brace. Brace slipped out of employee's hands and the whole contraption fell on EE's leg, right above the ankle. Accident resulted in a bone fracture in lower right leg.

2019 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

Miner was shoveling on the ground under a cone crusher unit when a rock fell out of the cone crusher and hit the miner on top of EE's hard hat. The miner was brought to the hospital to be examined in worries of a Concussion. Miner was examined and released back to work the same day.

2018 · 2 incidents

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

Employee was helping tear down a conveyor during mobilization of the plant. The telescoping conveyor leg tubing hit employee's hand against the frame of the conveyor. This in turn smashed the employee's right pinky.

Struck by falling object

Employee was shoveling and cleaning around the crusher when a rock fell and hit hand.

2017 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cutting a rubber skirt board for a crusher unit conveyor when then knife slipped and cut employee's inner thigh on employee's leg. Received 3 stitches and was back to work the same day.