Mining Incidents

Miller PitMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Connie Spiegel
Temple, Bell County, TX · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4103803
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
8
Years on record
2000–2003
Latest incident
Apr 2003
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

8 on file

2003 · 2 incidents

Fall from machine

EE WAS USING MACHINE TO BREAK BOULDERS. HE GOT OFF THE MACHINE TO USE BATHROOM. WHEN GETTING BACK ON MACHINE, HE SLIPPED AND FELL, LANDING ON HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

Flash burns (welding)

EE WAS HELPING OTHER EE WELD EQUIPMENT WITHOUT PROPER EYE PROTECTION.

2002 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WORKING AT PLANT HE STRAINED LOW BACK.

2001 · 2 incidents

Over-exertion in lifting objects

LIFTING 30 LB TUBES FROM ONE TRUCK & PUTTING ON ANOTHER TRUCK 10' AWAY. INJURY CAUSED BY TWISTING WHILE LIFTING. DIDN'T KNOW BACK WAS HURT UNTILTHAT NIGHT. DISCOMFORT ABATED AFTER WALKING FOR A MINUTE. WENT TO DOCTOR AS A PRECAUTION. DOCTORSAID IT SHOULD GO AWAY ENTIRELY IN A WEEK OR TWO

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT A LADDER OFF THE GROUND WHEN HIS BACK STARTED TO HURT.

2000 · 3 incidents

Fall to the walkway or working surface

WAS FINISHING GREASING ON TOP OF CONVEYOR AND WAS WALKING BACK DOWN THE CONVEYOR AND SLIPPED AND FELL ON CONVEYOR.

Contact with electrical current

WAS DUMPING PEA GRAVEL IN STOCKPILE AREA NEXT TO POWER LINES WHEN HIS TRAILOR GOT CAUGHT UP INTO THE POWER LINES.

Struck against a moving object

WAS LOADING TRUCKS ON STATE STOCKPILE, MATERIAL WAS PACKED HARD AND WHEN EMPLOYEE WAS DIGGING INTO STOCKPILE THE LOADER JERKED HARD AND EMPLOYEE'S BACK JERKED.