Mining Incidents

Wisconsin Industrial Sand Company, LLCMining Incidents in 2011

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Wisconsin Industrial Sand Company, LLC operations in 2011. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2011
0
Total incidents
10
Year
2011

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS5 incidents
  2. 02MACHINERY3 incidents
  3. 03SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 incidents

All incidents in 2011

Struck by falling object

Moving a section of sand chute with a forklift and when one was lifted another chute shifted and fell on ee left foot. He was wearing steel toe boots but is still cut his little toe. Taken to hospital where he received stitches.

Fall from ladders

Associate was climbing down the extension ladder when the associate missed the second step from the bottom straining the right hip.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Associate was putting a side shield on the back of the loader when he tripped on a rock and the shield bounced off the rear tire striking the associate in the nose lacerating the nose requiring 9 stitches.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Holding bolt from loader with hand, bolt spun cutting left hand middle finger.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was hooking up chain to fuel barrel, was getting off of barrel and jammed shoulder

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

Drill #1 was stuck and EE was using outriggers to lift drill and get rocks under tires. Hand was in open door jam & door to truck slammed on left thumb while raising the outriggers.

Struck against a moving object

EE was changing cutting edges on loader at the shop, tightening bolt with air wrench and finger slipped and got cut by edge of bolt

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The associates were moving a retention pond boat by themselves and lost control. The boat slid down a water pipe and struck the associate in the face and arm, resulting in lacerations, requiring stitches.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

On February 8th, associate was walking into porthole, tripped on rock and twisted right ankle. Associate refused medical attention and incident was treated as a first aid case. On July 11th, associate went to doctor for a pain that had not gone away in his right ankle. Doctor x-rayed ankle and found fracture in right foot. Associate has no work restrictions and went back to work.

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

Operator was opening a rail car door, when wrecking bar slipped out of door clamp and pinched finger on right hand between the bar and the railcar.

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 Wisconsin Industrial Sand Company, LLC's numeric MSHA operator ID.