Mining Incidents

Globe QuarryMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Williamson County-TN
Franklin, Williamson County, TN · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4000130
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
2001–2010
Latest incident
Jul 2010
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

7 on file

2010 · 1 incident

Accident type, without injuries

Employee was unloading a load of crusher run into the storage pile and failed to fully lower the bed of the A40 Volvo truck. He drove under the belt of the rock crusher and hung it with the bed of his truck and destroyed it. It was pulled from the building and bent and is no longer operational.

2009 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was clearing a jammed rock from the jaws of the rock crusher with a long metal tool. The jaw caught the tool and thrust it upward and hit him in the throat/neck area.

2008 · 2 incidents

Struck against stationary object

Employee was loading rock in the quarry and stepped out of the loader and onto a large rock and twisted his ankle resulting in a slight fracture.

Struck against a moving object

Employee was driving a rock truck from the quarry to the crusher and lost control of it.

2007 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was dispersing a cluster of rock on the conveyor belt with a tamping bar. The tamping bar caught on the belt and was flung back and hit him in the chest.

2006 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The injured employee was helping to clear material from a jam in the crusher. Co-worker (uninjured) pulled a large rock from the crusher, causing him to stumble backwards; he miss-handed the rock to the victim and the force of the rock stripped the skin and tissue off the side of his left hand and little finger.

2001 · 1 incident