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.
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 file2013 · 1 incident
Aggregates West Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
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
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