Mining Incidents

Summit Materials Inc operator

Controlled by Summit Inc
MSHA operator ID: L02967
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
5
Mines on record
2
Years on record
1983–1988

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Incident timeline

1988
1
1984
1
1983
3 (1f)

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
April 15, 1983 WY · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · MACHINERY
Summit Materials Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

DOZER OPERATOR ENTERED AN AREA WHICH HAD BEEN STRIPPED OF TOP SOIL AND DRILLED FOR BLASTING. HE CAP ROCK LAY AT A 15 DEGREE SLOPE AND WAS WET. THE DOZER SLID SIDEWAYS FOR 50 FT, HITTING A HUM P IN THE CAP ROCK AND ROLLED. THE OPERATOR WAS CRUSHED. THE DOZER WAS MANUFACTURED IN DEC. OF 1968, RECEIVED BY CATERPILLAR DEALER 1/10/69, AND PURCHASED BY SUMMIT, INC. ON 3/13/69. VICTIM WAS

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