Mining Incidents

Delta Sand & Gravel CompanyMining Incidents in 2021

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Delta Sand & Gravel Company operations in 2021. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2021
0
Total incidents
5
Year
2021

Top incident classifications

  1. 01MACHINERY2 incidents
  2. 02HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident
  3. 03SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident
  4. 04HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 incident

All incidents in 2021

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE was picking up 3 boxes of filters. The boxes were sitting on a piece of concrete about knee height. EE lifted all 3 boxes and felt a pain in groin area.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was getting out of the water truck and slipped due to mud on EE's shoes. Injured right shoulder when EE grabbed the handrail.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was laying on a creeper replacing a clutch brake. The tool slipped out of EE's hand, bounced on the ground and hit EE in the left eye.

Struck by flying object

While wearing Bouton Optical Clear safety glasses, grinding 3/4"" thick piece of steel, secured in a vise, on a workbench, with a 4 1/2 inch Makita corded grinder, a small piece of steel ricochet behind EE's safety glasses and went into EE's right eye.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was making a hydraulic hose, using a die. When employee went to set the die on the hose, it slipped, and the die smashed the middle finger on employee's left hand.

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 Delta Sand & Gravel Company's numeric MSHA operator ID.