Mining Incidents

Graymont (PA) Inc.Mining Incidents in 2013

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Graymont (PA) Inc. operations in 2013. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2013
0
Total incidents
10
Year
2013

Top incident classifications

  1. 01SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 incidents
  2. 02POWERED HAULAGE2 incidents
  3. 03HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)2 incidents
  4. 04OTHER1 incident
  5. 05EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE1 incident

All incidents in 2013

Fall to the walkway or working surface

The employee slipped on ice and fell twisting his leg.

Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee bent over to pick up a switch and could not stand back up.

Struck against a moving object

The haul truck the employee was driving overturned and came to a rest on the passenger side

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was unloading trailer with lime and the agitator line came off end of hose and hit employee in the face-head.

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee was attempting to open a lid to our pneumatic tank. The lid was frozen shut. The employee pulled the lid to open it. This caused a hernia to the right side groin area.

Struck against a moving object

Employee was operating a haul truck traveling down rough roadway in mine. The back end of the haul truck bounced a couple times from hitting uneven road which caused injury to the lower back.

Fall from ladders

Employee was decending from ladder and his foot slid down bottom two rungs and twisted his knee when his foot hit the floor

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Was cutting zip tie from hose reel to be installed and cutting blade slipped and cut right index finger requiring stitches.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was tightening a fitting on water pump of roof bolter when wrench slipped hitting left thumb

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee started noticing symptoms of carpal tunnel and scheduled an appointment with physician on 1/31/13 to get it checked. Symptoms started about 3 months prior to accident date above. Physician scheduled surgery for 2/19/13.

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 Graymont (PA) Inc.'s numeric MSHA operator ID.