Mining Incidents

Harrison Gypsum, LLCMining Incidents in 2015

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Harrison Gypsum, LLC operations in 2015. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2015
0
Total incidents
3
Year
2015

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS2 incidents
  2. 02MACHINERY1 incident

All incidents in 2015

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

Employee was in the shop area storing bucket pins on a storage rack. A pin fell over pinning his Right index finger between the pin and shelve causing the laceration of the finger.

Struck by falling object

The miner was using an acetylene torch to remove an unsupported section of an iron platform. The miner chose to make the final cut from below and to the side instead of from above the section. The section fell at an angle striking the miners right foot breaking the cuneiform bone.

Struck by flying object

The miner was using a hand grinder to remove a burr from a piece of metal when a piece of debris bypassed his safety glasses striking him in his left eye.

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 Harrison Gypsum, LLC's numeric MSHA operator ID.