Mining Incidents

Point West LehiMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by CRH PLC
Lehi, Utah County, UT · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4202043
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2001–2016
Latest incident
Jan 2016
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2016 · 1 incident

Struck against stationary object

While stepping up into skidsteer, lost balance knocking hard hat off and while pulling up hit head on cab causing scalp laceration requiring staples.

2005 · 1 incident

Struck against a moving object

EE WAS DRIVING THE LOADER TO RETRIEVE ROCK MATERIAL. DRIVING ON THE DESIGNATED HAUL ROAD WHEN THE HYDRAULIC TILT BLEED OUT, CAUSING THE BUCKET TO TIP DOWN AND DIG INTO THE GROUND. WHEN THIS OCCURED THE EE WAS THROWN FORWARD STRIKING HEAD, EE WAS WEARING SEAT BELT.

2002 · 3 incidents

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

USING THE DOZER BY THE HIGHWALL OF PEA GRAVEL, WHEN THE WALL FELL ONTO THE DOZER, BREAKING OUT THE WINDOW, AND COVERING THE OPERATOR WITH GRAVEL UP TO HIS WASIT.

Fall onto or against objects

EE WAS WALKING PAST A BOBCAT WHEN HE STEPPED ON AN APPLE, SLIPPED AND FELL HITTING HIS BACK ON THE STINGER OF THE BOBCAT.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

7EE WAS LOADING A PIECE OF SHEET METAL, APPROX 4X8 INTO THE BUCKET OF A 980G LOADER, AFTER PLACING IN THE LOADER, THE SHEET SLID BACK OUT, HITTING THE EE IN THE ANKLE/FOOT.

2001 · 1 incident

Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS SERVICING THE LOADER HE OPERATES, WHEN HE WENT TO FILL THE HYDRAULIC OIL, THE CAP FLEW OFF HITTING HIM ABOVE THE LEFT EYE, CAUSING A LACERATION.