Mining Incidents

Fred Weber, Inc.Mining Incidents in 2009

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Fred Weber, Inc. operations in 2009. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2009
0
Total incidents
5
Year
2009

Top incident classifications

  1. 01POWERED HAULAGE2 incidents
  2. 02SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident
  3. 03HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident
  4. 04HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 incident

All incidents in 2009

Struck against a moving object

While driving an end dump truck, truck hit rough area in road, reports seat, bottomed out, causing neck pain with radiculopathy to right arm.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was walking back to the tower to start the plant up when he caught the toe of his boot on a frozed dirt clod, he tripped, stumbled and twisted his right knee.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was working in the crusher tower repairing the hammer mill. He handed another employee some tools and turned around and struck his upper front tooth on the lid of the mill. His front tooth was chipped toward the midline.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was aligning holes for bolts in a slide bed on a seperator bypass conveyor. While fitting steel plate EE struck left thumb with sledge hammer.

Struck against a moving object

Driving a scraper from the landfill , the back of the scraper started to swing around, the employee hit a dry spot and it turned over on its side. Laceration on right hand requiring 6 stitches, possible metacarpal fracture.

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 Fred Weber, Inc.'s numeric MSHA operator ID.