Mining Incidents

Heidelberg Materials Northeast-LLCMining Incidents in 2018

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Heidelberg Materials Northeast-LLC operations in 2018. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2018
0
Total incidents
8
Year
2018

Top incident classifications

  1. 01SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON4 incidents
  2. 02MACHINERY2 incidents
  3. 03HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident
  4. 04HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 incident

All incidents in 2018

Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

A hydraulic hose on the employee's service truck outrigger got caught. The employee reached in to free the hose. EE began to retract the outrigger to gain slack in the hose and did not realize that a hand was in a pinch point. The outrigger broke several bones in the left hand.

Fall to the walkway or working surface

While adjusting crusher setting employee tripped over cable strung between crusher assembly and loader. Employee fell onto walkway causing contusion on left knee.

Fall from ladders

While descending a portable ladder, employee missed the last rung and fell backwards. The employee received a fracture to the left foot.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee received a slight bruise to EE's right leg while moving a metal plate on top of a crusher.

Struck by flying object

While hammering a bucket guard on a loader a small piece of metal broke off and went into the employee's leg.

Fall from ladders

Employee was climbing a ladder and about 8 ft high employee went to step on an angle and it broke which caused employee to fall and strain left lumbar and shoulder.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was in impact crusher welding - employee was on knees. When EE stood up EE felt pain in lower back and left leg.

Fall onto or against objects

The injured employee was on the ground, as a rigger for the crane operator. EE and another employee were hooking up the crane cables to the crusher operator building platform. The injured employee stepped up onto the platform to grab the hook, when EE stepped through a hole in the platform. The edge of the expanded metal deck caused a laceration to EE's R/ shin.

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 Heidelberg Materials Northeast-LLC's numeric MSHA operator ID.