Mining Incidents

Northwest AggregatesMining Incidents in 2009

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Northwest Aggregates operations in 2009. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2009
0
Total incidents
1
Year
2009

Top incident classifications

  1. 01MACHINERY1 incident

All incidents in 2009

Struck against a moving object

Affected employee was operating a dozer during his shift. He complained of back pain but indicated that no particular incident had occurred causing this pain but thought it was from operating the dozer. The employee was taken for medical observation where it was determined that he had a strain to the lower back. He was placed on modified duty.

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 Northwest Aggregates's numeric MSHA operator ID.