Mining Incidents

COOKE COUNTYMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Peter R Dawson
Decatur, Cooke County, TX · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104836
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2011–2013
Latest incident
May 2013
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2013 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Two employees took the initiative to remove a rock hammer on a 360 excavator and to install a rock bucket, one of the employees was pushing out the pin and it went to far out falling on his right hand causing a pinch point. He tried to hold it but since it was to heavy it pinched his right hand finger.

2011 · 1 incident

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

EE was working to clear jam in jaw crusher while crusher was running by throwing small rocks into jaw crusher to disolve hung rock.EE reached in and grabbed a rock that hadn't landed the way he wanted and his finger was pinched between the rock and the wall of the crusher.