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Alpine Silica, LLCMining Incidents in 2018

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Alpine Silica, LLC operations in 2018. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2018
0
Total incidents
2
Year
2018

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS2 incidents

All incidents in 2018

Alpine Silica, LLC
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Conveyor belt shifted causing overloads to trip. Maintenance discovered the take ups had failed. They were trying to remove them to do repairs when the load shifted catching the miner's arm.

Alpine Silica, LLC
Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee was in screen house A putting screens back on the top rack. Employee and another employee were pushing the screens back in and pulled a muscle in back.

Other years on record

Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) accident records, kept current weekly. Operator identity is MSHA's operator_id on the accident record; records are scoped to Alpine Silica, LLC's numeric MSHA operator ID.