Mining Incidents

Vista Proppants and LogisticsMining Incidents in 2015

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Vista Proppants and Logistics operations in 2015. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2015
0
Total incidents
3
Year
2015

Top incident classifications

  1. 01OTHER1 incident
  2. 02MACHINERY1 incident
  3. 03HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 incident

All incidents in 2015

Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The wet plant operator was changing screens on the screen deck, he had finished and was laying on his back moving back and forth to get out of the screen deck and tweeked his back.

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Injury occurred while installing new shaker motor. Motor was rigged to a Skytrak that was equipped with special rigging arm. All workers noticed beforehand that Skytrak would start to shake due to angle load was in. Skytrak shook pinching ee hand in between motor being lowered and another motor that was already installed on roof. Pinch caused lacerations requiring stitches.

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

Wet Plant operator was using a pipe wrench to tighten the take up on BF1 at primary plant. While applying pressure the wrench slipped off and hit his middle finger against the frame of the conveyor. His supervisor was notified around 5:30pm. The operator was wearing gloves at the time of the incident.

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 Vista Proppants and Logistics's numeric MSHA operator ID.