Mining Incidents

South Friendsville Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Vulcan Materials Company
Friendsville, Blount County, TN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4003067

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2000–2001
Latest incident
Jun 2001
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
106
citations
45
significant & substantial
$14,865
proposed penalties
$5,136
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2007 Q1 337 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,635 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 6,713 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 5,866 1 1 170.5
2006 Q1 5,273 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 5,972 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 6,312 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 5,739 1 0 174.2
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2001 · 1 incident

June 15, 2001 TN · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Champion Rock Products Of Tennessee · Contact with hot objects or substances

EE WAS CUTTING A PIECE OF STEEL, WASH BARS, ON THE WASH PLANT & HE SLIPPED & HIS HAND HIT THE HOT SURFACE.

2000 · 2 incidents

September 28, 2000 TN · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner ELECTRICAL
Champion Rock Products Of Tennessee · Flash burns (electric)

PRIOR TO ACCIDENT I HAD A CONVEYOR SHUT DOWN ON THE WASH PLANT. CHECKED IT OUT, COULD NOT GET IT TO RESTART SO ASKED INJ EE TO HELP ME GET IT RESTARTED.INJ EE PROCEEDED TO TEST THE VOLTAGE GOING TO THAT CONVEYOR WHICH IS NORMAL PROCEDUREHE WAS CHECKING IT GOING FROM 1 CONNECTOR TO THENEXT & SUDDENLY THERE WAS A FLASH EXPLOSION CAUSING AN ELECTRICAL BURN TO EE'S RIGHT HAND & ARM

April 7, 2000 TN · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator OTHER
321 Stone · Unclassified, insufficient data

BACK & HAND &LEG & THUMB