Mining Incidents

Custer Crushing SpreadMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Tim Sonnentag
Marathon, WI, Portage County, WI · Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4703453
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
9
Years on record
2008–2017
Latest incident
Aug 2017
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

9 on file

2017 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Unchaining the pin on a sand screw. Stepped back awkwardly and twisted back.

2015 · 3 incidents

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

Moving the conveyor and right index finger got pinched between a bolt and a hook.

Struck by falling object

Shoveling out sand from under the outtake conveyor of the cone crusher, a rock off the cone fell and hit employee in his left shoulder.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

While picking rocks pivoted on left ankle the wrong way instead of stepping to the side. This caused a strain/sprain to his left ankle.

2013 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Right ring finger was crushed between timber and blocks causing an abscess of the nail and eventually the nail to fall off.

2012 · 2 incidents

Struck by flying object

Employee was operating the Sure-Strike machine breaking boulders into smaller pieces when a busted piece came through the right side window striking employee in the mouth. The piece of rock chipped his right front tooth, and he experienced pain in his lips.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was picking up a large rock off of the table at the crushing plant. When he felt a ""pop"" in his left arm. Employee was diagnosed with left wrist strain and shoulder pain.

2009 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was pushing oversized fieldstone over the side of the belt, when the stone he was pushing rolled and struck another getting ee finger smashed. His left middle finger was smashed; Diagnosis was a tuft fracture to his left middle finger. Finger was splinted.

2008 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

EE was picking up 8"" - 12"" fieldstone from off of the crusher pitching table. As he picked up a 12"" rock to throw it into the truck, he felt pain in his right forearm. Diagnosis was right forearm tendonitis.