Mining Incidents

WOODWARD PLANTMetal/Nonmetal

Prineville, Crook County, OR · Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3503478
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
2000–2007
Latest incident
Mar 2007
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

7 on file

2007 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Scraper operator jammed elbow straining shoulder while loading material into scraper.

2003 · 1 incident

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

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CHANGE A BELT AND SMASHED HIS FINGER WHEN IT GOT PINCHED BETWEEN A BELT AND A ROLLER.

2002 · 1 incident

Struck by flying object

OPERATOR WAS IN A BOBCAT SKIDLOADER & GOT WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS DUST IN HIS EYES. 2 DAYS LATER HE WENT TO DR. AND HAD A PIECE OF ROCK IN HIS EYE

2000 · 4 incidents

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

SUBJECT STEPPED OUT OF THE BOBCAT WHILE IT WAS RUNNING. HE PLACED HIS FOOT ON BUCKET CONTROLS CAUSING THE BUCKET TO RAISE AND PIN HIM AGAINST THE MACHINE.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

SPROCKET & TENSIONER CAME LOOSE & FELL UPON WORKER (TWO METAL PARTS FORM DRILLING MACHINE).

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE LIFTING ANVILS AND FELT SHARP PAIN IN HAND.

Fall from machine

OPERATOR/ LABORER FINISHED WELDING ON ROCK TRUCK. JUMPED DOWN OFF OF TRUCK AND TWISTED KNEE WHENHE LANDED.