Mining Incidents

The Allen Company, IncMining Incidents in 2018

All MSHA-reportable accidents at The Allen Company, Inc operations in 2018. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2018
0
Total incidents
11
Year
2018

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS3 incidents
  2. 02POWERED HAULAGE2 incidents
  3. 03OTHER2 incidents
  4. 04MACHINERY2 incidents
  5. 05SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident

All incidents in 2018

Struck against a moving object

Miner was operating a ridged frame haul truck. EE was being loaded at the mucking pile and was jostled in the cab bumping head. Miner said ee had seat belt on at the time.

Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was working at the wash plant, the plant stopped up & EE was climbing over the conveyor to clean it out. While climbing over EE heard their Right knee pop out of place.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE REMOVED THE GEAR BOX FROM C3 WHICH WAS ATTACHED TO THE CATWALK WHEN IT WAS REMOVED IT LEFT A HOLE IN THE CAT WALK AND EE STEPPED IN THE HOLE.

Struck against a moving object

Employee was operating the excavator, when it became hung up on a large rock, the rock broke loose causing the excavator to drop back on the ground jarring the employee.

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE placed EE's hand on the tail pulley to turn it in order to access the set screws. Other employees were helping, and one employee turned the pulley at the same time resulting in EE's left hand being cut.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was running the anfo hose on the powder truck loading a shot, when EE felt a pain and a pop in EE's right forearm.

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

EE was cleaning under #7B belt using RL-994, RL-994 slipped & sunk in the mud, this caused the back end to raise up and pin the EE hand between RL-994 and the belt frame. EE was wearing all PPE.

Struck by falling object

EE was helping unload the crane off the lowboy being delivered to the Quarry.

Struck by falling object

Employee was loading plates onto the roof bolter, when they slipped and fell onto their pinky finger.

Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

EE was hammering on a piece of metal, trying to straighten it out. EE missed swinging at the metal and strained EE's right wrist. An incident report was filed on but no medical attention was administered. EE aggravated the wrist again on 3/12/18, and sought medical attention on 3/13/18.

Unclassified, insufficient data

*This was not an employee* A customer truck entered the yard, the driver exited the truck and advised the scale house they were having chest pain. At that time 911 was called along with an EMT on the job. Customer was transported to the local hospital.

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 The Allen Company, Inc's numeric MSHA operator ID.