Mining Incidents

Walker Sand and GravelMining Incidents in 2018

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Walker Sand and Gravel operations in 2018. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2018
0
Total incidents
3
Year
2018

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident
  2. 02STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT1 incident
  3. 03SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident

All incidents in 2018

Struck by falling object

Employee was attempting to perform fluid samples on machine and was needing to take the coolant sample. While the employee was attempting to pull the coolant sample, the employee placed hand on the hood to get off the machine and to hand the coolant sample to the operator and the hood fell down on top of the employee's leg and caused fracture in 2 places near ankle.

Struck against stationary object

Employee was dismounting a conveyor frame and stepped onto a rock twisting EE's ankle.

Fall to the walkway or working surface

As the miner was stepping off of a 980 CAT Loader,ee stepped onto uneven, Snow covered ground causing ee to fall and break left Ankle.

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.