FRONT END LOADER OPERATOR WAS CHECKING COOLENT LEVEL IN MACHINE REMOVED RADIATOR CAP WENT PAST SAFETY AND PRESSURE OF HOT WATER SPILLED OUT ONTO HIS FACE AND ARMS CAUSING 1ST & 2ND DEGREE BUR NS
K-2 PORTABLE SCREENING PLANT: 2 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal
Horstman Enterprises Inc
· Surface
Controlled by
Horstman Terry
Lagrange County,
IN
·
Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1200736
MSHA record for K-2 PORTABLE SCREENING PLANT (mine ID 1200736). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 1983–1984
- Latest incident
- Jul 1984
Ownership history
- Brudi Stone & Gravel Company Inc 1950 to 1992
- Horstman Enterprises Inc 1992 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year | Employees |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 1 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
K-2 PORTABLE SCREENING PLANT sits in LaGrange County, Indiana, where the Census mining category is 0.0% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.LaGrange County, Indiana · Population 40,596
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$83,741
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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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.Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 Q4 | 262 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2000 Q3 | 389 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2000 Q2 | 491 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2000 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file1984 · 1 incident
July 19, 1984
IN · Metal/Non-Metal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Brudi Stone & Gravel Company Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances
1983 · 1 incident
May 12, 1983
IN · Metal/Non-Metal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Brudi Stone & Gravel Company Inc · Fall onto or against objects
INJURED STEPPED ON A PILE OF 2 X 4 LUMBER THAT WAS STACKED IN THE WALK-WAY OF A METERIAL STORAGE AREA CONNECTED TO THE GENERAL OFFICE. THE LUMBER PIECES SHIFTED SLIGHTLY CAUSING THE INJURED T O LOOSE HIS BALANCE AND HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE RESULTING IN AN ACUTE STRAIN TO THE LEFT KNEE.