Mining Incidents

Summit Station QuarryMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by CRH PLC
Summit Station, Schuylkill County, PA · Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 3600246
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
9
Years on record
2006–2013
Latest incident
Nov 2013
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

9 on file

2013 · 1 incident

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

Employee pinched pinky finger while trying to adjust wooden platform. Laceration to right pinky finger, four sutures.

2009 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Was dismounting from water truck. Lost footing on step and fell backward. Grabbed steering wheel and jerked left elbow in the process of stopping fall.

2007 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cutting belting, knife slipped and he cut the top of his left hand.

2006 · 6 incidents

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

He was helping set the tightness of a gyrapheric crusher and pinched his left ring finger. I reported this on a 7000-1 on 10/12/06 but it is not showing up in the system.

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Side skirting was being re-installed to conveyor. A pry-bar techique is used to get rubber back into position. A slip occurred during prying process causing bar to pinch left ring finger tip.

Struck against stationary object

Employee was shoveling stemming holes. He hit a semi large rock which stopped his movement. Employee began to experience pain in shoulder.

Struck against a moving object

Operating a loader with no ride control and he developed pain in back. This was a temporary replacement for regular ride control loader. (This accident was denied and only picked up as a reportable recently.)

Struck against stationary object

Stepped on a rock and twisted ankle

Fall from ladders

Was using a ladder as a work platform. Reached to far out from ladder and fell approx. 8 ft. to the ground. Injured his right elbow.