Mining Incidents

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3,112
Years on record
1983–2026
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October 23, 1995 MI · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Natural Aggregates Corporation · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

A LARGE ROCK HAD BECOME JAMMED BETWEEN THE SYTRON FEEDER AND THE CONVEYOR RECIEVING BOX SIDES. WHILE TRYING TO FREE THE ROCK, IT BECAME UNJAMMED MOVED BACKWARDS SUDDENLY AND PINCHING EMPLOYEE 'S FINGERS BETWEEN THE ROCK AND THE FRONT OF THE FEEDER.

March 18, 1991 MI · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger POWERED HAULAGE
Natural Aggregates Corporation · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED OFF OF TRACK OF A DRAGLINE JANNING HIS FOOT.THIS FOOT WAS ALREADY SORE DUE TO A BRAKE PEDDLE HITTING HIS FOOT 2 WEEKS EARLIER.THIS DRAGLINE HAD BEEN IDLE SOME TIME WHEN THE EM PLOYEE STARTED THIS MACHINE.THE BRAKE HAD BEEN RUSTED TO THE DRUM.

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