Mining Incidents

Palmer Loading StationMetal/Nonmetal

Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna County, AK · Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 5000883
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2004–2025
Latest incident
Mar 2025
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2025 · 1 incident

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

The team member was assisting with the installation of a new Dredge bucket when their left index finger became caught in-between a becket and the work platform causing a laceration.

2023 · 1 incident

Fall from machine

Employee was cleaning the deck of the dredge off using a hose and was backing up while pulling the hose. They tripped over the anchor cable and their leg was momentarily caught beneath the cable during the fall causing a dislocation of the kneecap and fracture of the right femur lateral condyle.

2005 · 1 incident

Fall from machine

Employee stepped down off loader, let go of the ladder and stepped back when his heel rolled causing him to fall to the ground striking his wrist on the ground. X-ray revealed a broken bone in his wrist.

2004 · 1 incident

Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE was walking back to the maintenance shed when he started to walk down on gentle slope, heater conductors had melted some snow and then it re-froze into ice. EE slipped and fell to ground, at the end of the shift, the ee's ankle was swollen and painful. EE took the following day off of work.