Mining Incidents

Walker Sand and GravelMining Incidents in 2012

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Walker Sand and Gravel operations in 2012. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2012
0
Total incidents
2
Year
2012

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 incident
  2. 02MACHINERY1 incident

All incidents in 2012

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

Employee was using a pry bar to lift steel plate to remove a rock that was stuck behind the plate. His hand slid off bar and pinched his right hand between the plate and the rock that he was removing.

Struck against a moving object

An employee operating a Komatsu dozer was pushing an ripping material on a downward grade, somehow the dozer slid sideways and continued to slide 35 feet off a 27 ft high embankment. The equipment rolled one revolution and landed back on its tracks. 911 was called, and then the employee was life flighted from the scene to the University of Utah 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 Walker Sand and Gravel's numeric MSHA operator ID.