Mining Incidents

WAI Plant #2Metal/Nonmetal

Waterford, Erie County, PA · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3604033
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2000–2007
Latest incident
Mar 2007
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2007 · 1 incident

Contact with hot objects or substances

Spark from welding fell on pant leg. Employee has no feeling in this leg due to a prior injury and did not feel it. When he discovered it, he did not feel it was a problem. Later he developed an infection.

2000 · 2 incidents

Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects

HAND SLIPPED WHILE, UNPLUGGING JAW CRUSHER TO A FINGERS WERE CAUGHT BETWEEN BELTS AND CRUSHER DRIVE PULLEY.

Fall from machine

EE FELL ABOUT 5' WHILE STANDING OR BOTTOM OF CONVEYOR GREASING ANOTHER CONVEYOR.