Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher A Metal/Non-Metal

Aggregates West Inc · Surface
Controlled by David Grainger
Everson, Whatcom County, WA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4503228

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2003–2013
Latest incident
Nov 2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
59
citations
16
significant & substantial
$8,877
proposed penalties
$8,877
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2015 Q2 2,070 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 2,409 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 3,409 6 1 1760.0
2014 Q3 2,713 6 0 2211.6
2014 Q2 1,453 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,377 1 0 726.2
2013 Q4 2,099 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 3,433 0 0 0.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2013 · 1 incident

November 18, 2013 WA · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man POWERED HAULAGE
Aggregates West Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee placed his left hand in door jam of loader, door wasn't securely latched which allowed the door to slam shut breaking his finger.

2005 · 1 incident

November 17, 2005 WA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Aggregates West Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Material in a cone discharge conveyor tailpully caused the belt to stop, the plant operator radioed ee to check out the belt. He climbed up on the plant grabed the drive belts to turn the conveyor backword by hand to clean the tailpulley out. As he did the plant operator started the conveyor.His thumb went arond the Vee Belt Pulley severing the tip of his thumb.

2003 · 1 incident

December 8, 2003 WA · Metal/Non-Metal NO VALUE FOUND
Aggregates West Inc · No Value Found

Employee sliped and fell off the Screen Deck landed wrong on his foot which resulted in a possible sprained ankle