Mining Incidents

Wisconsin Industrial Sand Company, LLCMining Incidents in 2018

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Wisconsin Industrial Sand Company, LLC operations in 2018. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2018
0
Total incidents
2
Year
2018

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident
  2. 02POWERED HAULAGE1 incident

All incidents in 2018

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Initially this was a first aid injury until surgery was required on 3/29/2018. Employee was pushing a camera through pipe. EE was kneeled down pushing hard when ee felt a pain. This incident resulted in surgery to repair hernia.

Struck against a moving object

While grading the road with a loader, employee struck the edge of a concrete pad, causing the loader to stop. Employee hit head against something resulting in a cut on the right side of head requiring stitches.

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.