WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PLACE THE SCREEN INTO A SCREEN BOX HE LOST CONTROL OF IT AND IT STRUCK HIS UPPER LIP.
Mobile Aluminum Refining Plant: 5 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal
MSHA record for Mobile Aluminum Refining Plant (mine ID 0100650). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 5
- Years on record
- 1983–1985
- Latest incident
- Jul 1985
- Aluminum Company Of America 1950 to present
Mobile Aluminum Refining Plant sits in Mobile County, Alabama, where the Census mining category is 0.5% of county employment.
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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.Reportable incidents
5 on file1985 · 1 incident
1983 · 4 incidents
INJURED WORKING FROM A 16\ LADDER, LEANING AGAINST A 10" PIPE APPROX. 91/2\ ABOVE GROUND. LADDER WAS AT 45 ANGLE WITH 3\ EXTENDING ABOVE PIPE. IN AN EFFORT TO REACH PIPE FLANGE INJURED PLACE MAJORITY OF HIS WEIGHT ON PORTION OF LADDER EXTENDING ABOVE PIPE CAUSING FOOT OF LADDER TO LIFT ALLOWING LADDER TO SLIDE OFF PIPE. INJURED FELL 5 FT ON HIS CHEST ON ANOTHER 10" PIPE WHICH WAS
WHILE MAKING HIS ROUTINE SECURITY PATROL THE INJURED OBSERVED AN ALARM RINGING AT THE CAUSTIC UNLOADING DOCK EQPT. ROOM TO STOP THE ALARM HE HAD TO OPEN THE DOOR OF A CIRCUIT BREAKER BOX. THE DOOR LATCH WAS RUSTY HIS FINGER TO CAUGHT BETWEEN THE DOOR PULL RING AND THE EDGE OF THE DOOR.
ATTEMPTING LOOSEN TRUCK BUMPER BOLT. ...WRENCH SLIPPED CAUSING STRIKE FINGER AGAINST BUMPER.FINGER BECAME INFECTED .LOST TIME BEGAN ON 10-11-83.
WHILE LOWERING A SECTION OF GUARD WITH A CHAIN HOIST ONE CORNER OF THE GUARD CAUGHT ON A ADJACENT HANDRAIL WHEN EMP PULLED THE GUARD DISLODGING IT FROM THE HANDRAIL THE CORNER HE WAS HOLDING SHIFTED UNEXPECTEDLY CATCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE GUARD AND THE HANDRAIL