Employee removed lid from manhole to pump out water from scales. While waiting on water removal process to be completed, EE picked up an air hose and began walking backwards to remove slack from the hose and stepped into the manhole causing employee to partially fall into opening striking lower back
Buzzi Unicem USAMining Incidents in 2026
All MSHA-reportable accidents at Buzzi Unicem USA operations in 2026. Fatalities appear first.
- Fatalities in 2026
- 0
- Total incidents
- 6
- Year
- 2026
Top incident classifications
- 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS3 incidents
- 02SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident
- 03MACHINERY1 incident
- 04OTHER1 incident
All incidents in 2026
While removing slide above screw conveyor material inside the hopper moved and dust came out of the gap left from the slide removal and got into employees eyes
On February 4, 2026, an ACME field employee reported to EE's foreman that EE's right forearm felt strained but did not believe medical attention was needed. EE later requested medical attention, stating EE's forearm began hurting after using an air hammer for two hours removing excess concrete.
While moving a long handled scraper the handle hit a beam overhead that dropped dust on top of employee and EE got some in EE's left eye
While removing buckets from a bucket elevator employee got something in their eye. Eye doctor removed and prescribed antibiotic eye drops
Employee was working near the doorway at the alkali spray tower dump box when wind blew dust under EE's safety glasses. This caused EE's left eye to become irritated. This did not become reportable until the employee went to the doctor on 1/9/2026, when the doctor prescribed eyedrops.