Mining Incidents

CARMEUSE LIME, INC.Mining Incidents in 2016

All MSHA-reportable accidents at CARMEUSE LIME, INC. operations in 2016. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2016
0
Total incidents
3
Year
2016

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)2 incidents
  2. 02HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident

All incidents in 2016

Struck by rolling or sliding object

Employee was trying to unblock a frozen coal chute when a steel access plate jarred loose and slid down onto employee's left foot above the safety toe portion of the boot.

Struck by falling object

EE was walking outside office area heading to work area and dust entered left eye from outside of respirator when putting it on en route to work area. Eye was flushed but irritation continued visit to doctor resulted in precautionary antibiotic ointment.

Struck against stationary object

EE was removing a piece of foreign material from a head pulley with a crowbar when it came unjammed, EE's left arm came down on an edge of metal cutting wrist. ER Treatment - 6 stitches.

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 CARMEUSE LIME, INC.'s numeric MSHA operator ID.