Mining Incidents

Winfield QuarryMetal/Nonmetal

Winfield, Union County, PA · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3600079
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2000–2002
Latest incident
Aug 2002
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2002 · 2 incidents

Fall onto or against objects

CLEANING DRAIN AT WASHING PLANT USING A BAR TO MOVE MATERIAL FROM DRAIN. WHILE LIFTING BAR OUT, HE BACKED UP, HEEL CAUGHT ANGLE IRON CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL BACKWARDS. LEFT ARM WENT OUT INTO DOOR WINDOW. LACERATED LEFT ARM (ELBOW AREA) APPROX 6 STITCHES REQUIRED.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE STATES DEVELOPED NUMBNESS DOWN LEFT LEG AND PAIN UPWARDS FROM KIDNEY AREA INTO LOWER LEFT BACK. NOTE: CO. DR. FELT THIS WAS NOT A WORKERS COMP. CLAIM. HE FELT EE HAD GENERAL HEALTH PROBL EMS. WC DENIED CLAIM, SO DID NOT REPORT BECAUSE OF HEALTH CLAIM. WC NOW ACCEPTING CLAIM, SO THE REPORT IS BEING FILED.

2001 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING INTO SEAT TWISTED HIS RIGHT FOOT IN INDENT ON WORKWAY OF TRUCK.

2000 · 2 incidents

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE PRYING ROCK WITH A DIGGING IRON, ROCK CAME LOOSE AS EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING TOWARDS HIM. PINCHED LEFT THUMB BETWEEN IRON AND CORNER POST.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE CUTTING A PIECE OF RUBBER, UTILITY KNIFE SLIPPED CUTTING THIGH OF RIGHT LEG.