Mining Incidents

Premier Magnesia LLCMining Incidents in 2014

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Premier Magnesia LLC operations in 2014. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2014
0
Total incidents
8
Year
2014

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS3 incidents
  2. 02HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)2 incidents
  3. 03SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident
  4. 04EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE1 incident
  5. 05OTHER1 incident

All incidents in 2014

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was using a pry bar to loosen a part. He put the pry bar on the ground and began to step away and felt a sharp pain in his back.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was moving a full bottle of acetylene onto the welding trailer.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was scraping a gasket off of a timing belt cover with a razor knife. The knife slipped and cut his right hand.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

employee was stepping to the side to access a computer mouse and rolled her ankle on an uneven surface in the lab. She caught herself before falling.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee disconnected airline after turning valve off. The pressure in the hose came out and hit inner left arm at joint.

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee was pulling chain out of D-119 elevator and felt a pull in groins area.

(Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee said he had chest pains while driving to work but decided to come to work anyway. He said he was sweeping and climbing stairs in the cooler building when he felt chest pains again and started to sweat, one hour after his shift started. He decided to leave work. He sought medical treatment at 5:00 p.m. the day after his shift.

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

This is a truck driver that is not our employee. He was guiding our truck to attach to his pup when the cover got stuck. He attempted to move the cover over the tongue, it moved smashing his third finger on his right hand. Eight sutures to the finger. No lost time or restricted 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 Premier Magnesia LLC's numeric MSHA operator ID.