Mining Incidents

Geneva Rock Products IncMining Incidents in 2018

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Geneva Rock Products Inc operations in 2018. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2018
1
Total incidents
7
Year
2018

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)2 incidents
  2. 02HANDLING OF MATERIALS2 incidents
  3. 03MACHINERY1 incident
  4. 04SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident
  5. 05STRIKING OR BUMPING1 incident

All incidents in 2018

Struck by falling object

Placing a chute on a screen, the chute became lodged. The employee tried to dislodge the chute with a pry bar. EE was either hit by the chute or pry bar

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Slipped on ice while carrying objects and fell on shoulder.

Struck by flying object

A piece of bearing collar broke off after being hit by a hammer and punctured IW lower lip.2

Struck against stationary object

IW was replacing bolts on a cyclone dewatering screen discharge lip. Employee was removing the bolts with a pry bar when the bar slipped. IW's hand slipped and hit the discharge lip cutting their thumb. They received 3 stitches.

Struck by flying object

Shoveling dry screen deck when a rock came off the feed belt and hit IW's finger breaking it.

Struck against stationary object

Employee was walking between 2 cables at the conveyor line at the press. Left leg made contact with the cable fastener area & the frayed cable end ripped their pants & made a 3"" cut on their leg. Employee received 8 stitches.

Struck by falling object

putting things down on a railroad tie, other employee dropped crowbar on IW left hand resulting in a laceration. IW received 8 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 Geneva Rock Products Inc's numeric MSHA operator ID.