Mining Incidents

Mobile Aluminum Refining Plant: 5 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Alcoa Inc
Mobile County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0100650

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
Ownership history
  1. Aluminum Company Of America 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Mobile Aluminum Refining Plant sits in Mobile County, Alabama, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Mobile County, Alabama · Population 413,162
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$58,119
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

1985 · 1 incident

July 23, 1985 AL · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Aluminum Company Of America · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PLACE THE SCREEN INTO A SCREEN BOX HE LOST CONTROL OF IT AND IT STRUCK HIS UPPER LIP.

1983 · 4 incidents

November 10, 1983 AL · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Aluminum Company Of America · Fall from ladders

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

October 3, 1983 AL · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Aluminum Company Of America · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

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.

September 12, 1983 AL · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Aluminum Company Of America · Struck against stationary object

ATTEMPTING LOOSEN TRUCK BUMPER BOLT. ...WRENCH SLIPPED CAUSING STRIKE FINGER AGAINST BUMPER.FINGER BECAME INFECTED .LOST TIME BEGAN ON 10-11-83.

April 28, 1983 AL · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Aluminum Company Of America · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

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