Mining Incidents

QUARRY SLATE IND.Metal/Nonmetal

Poultney, Rutland County, VT · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4300012
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
2001–2025
Latest incident
Sep 2025
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

10 on file

2025 · 1 incident

Fall from machine

Climbed on rollers, fell, ankle fracture

2024 · 2 incidents

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

Employee put hand inside of guard for a drill, glove hit the drill bit and pulled hand into the drill bit injuring left ring finger.

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Slip and Fall

2022 · 1 incident

Fall onto or against objects

Slip and fall, fell on a metal dump box, fractured jaw

2017 · 1 incident

Fall onto or against objects

Slip and fall on ice, cut knee on stone block

2016 · 1 incident

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Slip & fall on cement floor, hairline fracture to right heel.

2015 · 1 incident

Fall onto or against objects

Employee was climbing on a series of power rolls to change a light bulb. The employee mis stepped falling through the rolls. Possibly fracturing his right femur

2005 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE suffered a severe finger inury at 2:30 pm while operating a barrel trimming machine. He wipe away debris from the machine was operating to wipe the tile clean of debris. He failed to turn the rotary blade off. Blade struck his left ring and middle fingers. removal of approx. half inch of the left ring finger and approx. one inch of the left middle finger.

2002 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE HIT FINGER WITH SLEDGE HAMMER.

2001 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE CLEAVING A STONE, THE HAND HELD HAMMER FELL AND HIT THE EMPLOYEES LEG. EMPLOYEE NOTIFIED THE COMPANY THE LEG WAS BROKE.