Mining Incidents

Bluff City Minerals, LLCMining Incidents in 2015

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Bluff City Minerals, LLC operations in 2015. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2015
0
Total incidents
3
Year
2015

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS2 incidents
  2. 02HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 incident

All incidents in 2015

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee was climbing up the ladder on a haul truck and felt pain in EE's knee. Surgery on 9-8-16 made injury reportable.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

The employee bent over to pick up a wheel chock and felt pain in his lower back.

Struck against stationary object

The employee was manually scaling and bumped elbow on manlift basket handrail.

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 Bluff City Minerals, LLC's numeric MSHA operator ID.