Mining Incidents

Georgia Stone Industries, Inc.Mining Incidents in 2017

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Georgia Stone Industries, Inc. operations in 2017. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2017
0
Total incidents
3
Year
2017

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident
  2. 02MACHINERY1 incident
  3. 03SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident

All incidents in 2017

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

Was chaining a block when a piece fell off of the block. Crushed right thumb and lost fingernail.

Struck by flying object

Employee was cutting metal with a grinder and disc shattered and penetrated right arm.

Fall from machine

Fall from excavator catwalk while trying to remove a tarp. Land on right shoulder resulting pain. Sent to the ER to get X-Ray done. No fracture was found.

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 Georgia Stone Industries, Inc.'s numeric MSHA operator ID.