Employees were cleaning under the main feed belt. Foreman failed to properly lockout plant. Pulley became energized & employee that was using a rod to turn the pulley was struck on hand/side of face(small cut on head). Broke two fingers/lacerated both tendons on left hand(pinky/ring fingers. Everyone involved was suspended & entire plant was re-trained on LO-TO-TO procedures.
Conroe Wet PlantMetal/Nonmetal
Liberty Materials, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by James E Welch; Evelyn Welch
Conroe, Montgomery County, TX · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104196
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 3
- Years on record
- 2015–2016
- Latest incident
- Nov 2016
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
3 on file2016 · 1 incident
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
2015 · 2 incidents
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
EE was conducting maintenance on the truck scale. A trucker drove onto the scale despite EE telling the trucker to stop and wait for him to finish. The scale shifted slightly and smashed EE's finger, causing the right ring finger to break.
Struck against a moving object
The Loader Operator was loading on-road commercial trucks with concrete sand. The operator strained his neck while getting a bucket full of material out of the stockpile. A doctor visit revealed the injury to be a minor strain. The employee was on light duty until 3-9-15. The suspension on the loaders chair was replaced to insure a similar injury does not occur again.