Mining Incidents

Cold Spring Granite CompanyMining Incidents in 2016

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Cold Spring Granite Company operations in 2016. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2016
0
Total incidents
7
Year
2016

Top incident classifications

  1. 01SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 incidents
  2. 02POWERED HAULAGE1 incident
  3. 03HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident
  4. 04HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 incident
  5. 05DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)1 incident

All incidents in 2016

Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Employee was hooking up remote start to turn over motor on Ford tractor. Had finger on timing gear, motor turned over and smashed fingertip; leading to amputation of partial fingertip. EE lost one day of work, returned to work 5-9-16, taken off work again on 5-31-16, returned to work 7-12-16 modified duty. Lost time injury.

Struck against stationary object

Employee was climbing up into Grove Crane, hit top of knee on bottom of cab. Employee thought it would be fine. Over weekend had issues with it, went to ER on Sunday and reported injury to employer today, 7-25-16. No work until 7-28-16. Lost time injury for right knee contusion.

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was prying a part granite vertical slab with pry bar, attempting to place a wooden wedge between the slabs, when the pry bar slipped, rapidly closing slab back up, pinching tip of left index finger, causing loss of nail. No lost time.

Fall onto or against objects

Employee was putting a diamond wire cable on an idler wheel when EE slipped in the mud causing EE's hand to contact the wheel.

(Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee has a change in hearing from baseline (9-13-1989) test - STS right ear - 27 dB. Age adjusted.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was coming down the ladder, slipped on ladder step, twisting EE's ankle when stepping on next ladder step. Had pain in left ankle, sought medical treatment, diagnosis acute left ankle pain. Received 14 day prescription for pain. Returned to work next scheduled work day, no lost time.

Unclassified, insufficient data

Employee has a change in hearing from baseline (1/31/1992) test - STS Left Ear - 35 dB. Age adjusted.

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 Cold Spring Granite Company's numeric MSHA operator ID.