Mining Incidents

G S MATERIALS INCMining Incidents in 2012

All MSHA-reportable accidents at G S MATERIALS INC operations in 2012. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2012
1
Total incidents
1
Year
2012

Top incident classifications

  1. 01FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS1 incident

All incidents in 2012

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Miners were removing a counterweight from an excavator, standing side-by-side, when the counter-weight dropped unexpectedly to the ground.The victim stumbled backwards,fell landed on the back of his head on the shop floor. He was unresponsive during CPR. The autopsy report concludes the proximate cause of death as""commotio cerebri""noting also cardiac arrest.

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 G S MATERIALS INC's numeric MSHA operator ID.