Mining Incidents

Atlas QuarriesMining Incidents in 2008

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Atlas Quarries operations in 2008. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2008
0
Total incidents
1
Year
2008

Top incident classifications

  1. 01OTHER1 incident

All incidents in 2008

(Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was in the office in charge of scales and answering phone. At noon he ate lunch with a co-worker and the co-worker went back to work at 12:30. The supervisor noticed that a truck was waiting to be scaled. The supervisor thought EE was asleep, so he went ahead and weighed the truck in. He then tried to wake EE and couldn't. He felt his pulse and realized he had none.

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 Atlas Quarries's numeric MSHA operator ID.