Mining Incidents

Cherokee Rock QuarryMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by John Mitch Potter
Bean Station, Grainger County, TN · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4003529
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2021–2024
Latest incident
Mar 2024
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2024 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

Employee was using a spoon attachment on a Bobcat. When EE emptied it, the spoon came off and fell inside the Bobcat hitting EE's right knee.

2021 · 2 incidents

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

Employee was drilling a battery powered drill to drill a bolt out of a crusher and the drill hung and twisted EE's hand catching it between the drill and the crusher resulting in a fracture to the left hand. No days were lost.

Struck by falling object

Employee was cutting a tree with a chain saw in the pit with help of an excavator. The excavator operator pulled the tree instead of pushing and the tree fell hitting the employee on the right hand resulting in a fracture to EE's wrist.