Struck by flying object
Drilling holes to bolt guards into place, steel piece got into right eye, employee said was wearing safety glasses, no witnesses.
US Aggregates, Inc.Mining Incidents in 2019
All MSHA-reportable accidents at US Aggregates, Inc. operations in 2019. Fatalities appear first.
- Fatalities in 2019
- 0
- Total incidents
- 3
- Year
- 2019
Top incident classifications
- 01MACHINERY2 incidents
- 02HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident
All incidents in 2019
Struck by falling object
Using hammer to loosen wedge pins on desander. After removing wedges, leaned down to remove rubber spacers. Sand material fell from above, landing on the right side of face, entering an eye. EE was wearing safety glasses at the time. They tried flushing eye, but they needed to be seen by an eye doctor, who had to use a tool to get the eye cleared of debris.
Struck by flying object
Welding braces to a stand, metal flaked off, getting into left eye.