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Eastwind Portable Crusher: 3 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Veco Inc
Anchorage County, AK  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 5001528

Eastwind Portable Crusher has had no fatalities among 3 reportable incidents since 1995.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1995
Latest incident
Sep 1995
Ownership history
  1. Eastwind-Div/Norcon Inc 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1998 0
1997 13
1996 12
1995 14
1994 4
1993 3
1992 8
1991 3
1990 0
1989 0
1988 1
1987 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Eastwind Portable Crusher sits in Anchorage Municipality, Alaska, where the Census mining category is 2.2% of county employment.

Local economic context
ⓘ County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Anchorage Municipality, Alaska · Population 289,069
2.2%
Mining share of county employment
$98,152
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

1995 · 3 incidents

September 20, 1995 AK · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Eastwind-Div/Norcon Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

IT WAS RAINING & LOADER WAS WORKING IN MUD & WATER & WHEN OPR STEP ON BOTTOM RUG OF LOADER HIT HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF IT

September 13, 1995 AK · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Eastwind-Div/Norcon Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

CHANGING A IMPACT SHOE ON A VSI CRUSHER HE LIFTED A SHOE WRONG (WHICH CUT 106LB) & GOT A HERENIA

June 2, 1995 AK · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Eastwind-Div/Norcon Inc · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

POUNDING ON SCREEN AND PULLED SHOULDER. EMPLOYER INFORMED OF INCIDENT ON 6/9/95.