Mining Incidents

Victory Rock CorsicanaMetal/Nonmetal

Corsicana, Navarro County, TX · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104474
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
2009–2012
Latest incident
Oct 2012
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

7 on file

2012 · 2 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee was using his pocket knife to cut a hole in his belt to shorten it. The knife folded causing a laceration to his right index finger.

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

Unloading screen and caught finger between the screen and hand rail of the catwalk.

2010 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was adjusting a fork on the skid steer, his left hand was pushing the fork in to adjust while holding the fork with his right hand.His right hand slipped off the end of the fork, the fork fell quickly crushing the tip of the left long finger.

2009 · 4 incidents

Struck by flying object

Employee was loading scrap steel into loader bucket when he threw a large piece into bucket causing it to bounce out and strike him on the left side of his head. His hearing aid broke inside his ear canal. Employee went to the ER to remove the foreign objects from his ear canal.

Struck against a moving object

EE was driving haul truck across haul road, ran over a washed out spot on the road, the movement in the truck caused his seat to bottom out and he hit his hip on the bar at the bottom of the seat. EE reports pain in low back and right hip.

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Installing screens on scalper. While prying screen over with rock bar, bar slipped and he fell back on the catwalk onto buttock.

Struck against a moving object

Employee states was driving a haul truck at approximately 12 noon when his front driver-side wheels dropped off in a hole. He reports this caused him to bounce up and down hard in his seat. Reports pain in lower back.