Mining Incidents

Atlanta Sand and Supply Co.Mining Incidents in 2008

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Atlanta Sand and Supply Co. operations in 2008. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2008
0
Total incidents
2
Year
2008

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident
  2. 02MACHINERY1 incident

All incidents in 2008

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Miner was feeding wire over a beam to wire in new lights at the dry plant. He felt no effects until the next day. He has pain in in his shoulder when he rotates his arm and has occasional numbness in his fingers.

Struck against a moving object

Haulage road was not properly constructed and the seat on the pan was not properly set to the right amount of pressure resulting in the miner receiving a back strain from the strong bouncing of the equipment.

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 Atlanta Sand and Supply Co.'s numeric MSHA operator ID.