The plant was shut down for the day and the miner was inspecting the plant and went to inspect the crusher blow bars. The miner opened the inspection door on the crusher to check the blow bar condition. When moving the rotor to inspect the gap the miner's hand got caught between the rotor and the inspection door frame and bent EE's wrist back fracturing EE's wrist.
Inertia Crusher Metal/Non-Metal
Inertia Crusher has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2023–2024
- Latest incident
- Sep 2024
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.Inertia Crusher has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.ⓘ
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q4 | 1,653 | 1 | 0 | 605.0 |
| 2025 Q3 | 2,977 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q2 | 4,423 | 3 | 0 | 678.3 |
| 2025 Q1 | 2,375 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q4 | 4,994 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q3 | 4,709 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q2 | 5,965 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q1 | 6,483 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Q4 | 6,314 | 1 | 1 | 158.4 |
| 2023 Q3 | 3,581 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q2 | 3,212 | 4 | 1 | 1245.3 |
| 2023 Q1 | 3,814 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q4 | 3,319 | 3 | 1 | 903.9 |
| 2022 Q3 | 2,055 | 15 | 0 | 7299.3 |
| 2022 Q2 | 1,803 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q1 | 1,441 | 7 | 0 | 4857.7 |
Reportable incidents
2 on file2024 · 1 incident
2023 · 1 incident
The miner was installing brackets for teeth on a loader. The brackets were tight and a sledge hammer was used to get the bracket in place. When the miner made one of the swings with the hammer a piece of the bracket chipped off and lodged in the miners left thigh. The miner was taken for medical attention to get the piece removed and stitches were used to close the wound.
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