Mining Incidents

Blue Sky Quarries, Inc.Mining Incidents in 2017

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Blue Sky Quarries, Inc. operations in 2017. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2017
1
Total incidents
1
Year
2017

Top incident classifications

  1. 01FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS1 incident

All incidents in 2017

Struck by falling object

Cracked stone fell and crushed employee. Employee didn't follow procedure. Employee's lanyard wasn't tied off and the employee was using a foot wedge and jackhammer with 1 1/4"" bit. Employee should have been using 3/4"" plug drill and 5"" tether and wedge. The employee was drilling from the base and should have been drilling at the top.

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 Blue Sky Quarries, Inc.'s numeric MSHA operator ID.