Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Two miners were replacing the drive belts on feeder when one of the miners got hand pinched between the belt and pulley, resulting in the tip of finger being amputated.
Wash Plant #1Metal/Nonmetal
Action Materials · Surface
Controlled by Wade Matson
Cheney, Spokane County, WA · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4503669
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2017–2018
- Latest incident
- Feb 2018
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file2018 · 1 incident
2017 · 1 incident
Contact with hot objects or substances
Two miners were installing a new gear onto a shaft on the Rolls Crusher. An unplanned ignition of propane gas occurred when they were heating the new gear with a propane grill and cooling the shaft with liquid propane. The propane contacted the grill flame and a fire occurred. Employee received burns to employee's face and neck.