Mining Incidents

Deweyville PlantMetal/Nonmetal

Deweyville, Newton County, TX · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4101472
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2000–2007
Latest incident
Oct 2007
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2007 · 1 incident

Contact with hot objects or substances

The man was stacking bags of sand using the palletizer. A bag of sand was sliding out of position; the man stuck his hand in the table to straighten bag and was caught between the table and the bag of sand. The man was burned by the hot sand before he could get released.

2000 · 2 incidents

Struck against stationary object

WHILE CLOSING THE GATE ON THE BOTTOM OF SILO, EE RAN INTO HANDLE WHICH WAS STICKING OUT ON SIDE OF THE WALKWAY. HE HIT HIMSELF IN THE CHEST AND NICKED HIS FOREHEAD.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A DRUM OF HYDRAULIC FLUID AND PULLED HIS RIGHT GROIN MUSCLE CAUSING A HERNIA.