Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects
Swinging 3 pound sledge hammer on mill screens, when he developed light shoulder pains.
Strodes MillMetal/Nonmetal
Eastern Industries Inc. · Surface
Controlled by New Enterprise Stone & Lime Company Inc
Strodes Mills, Mifflin County, PA · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3603175
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 2002–2010
- Latest incident
- Aug 2010
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file2010 · 1 incident
2007 · 1 incident
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Driving wooden wedge with 3 pound sledge hammer, hammer glanced off wooden wedge striking left ring finger.
2002 · 2 incidents
Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
WHILE TRYING TO LOOSEN A STONE IN CRUSHER THE DIGGING IRON SLIPPED. THE ROCK CAME LOOSE CATCHING EMPLOYEE'S LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN ANGLE IRON GUARD AND DIGGING IRON.
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
ROCK JAMMED IN ROCK CRUSHER. EE USING PRY BAR TO LOOSEN ROCK WHEN HIS RIGHT THUMB GOT BETWEEN ANGLE IRON GUARD & DIGGING IRON.