Every injury and fatality MSHA has on file. Filter by state, year, sector, classification, experience, or any keyword from the investigator's narrative.
Email me when a new incident matches these filters. One confirmation email; unsubscribe anytime.
Changing out carrier roller on bulldozer. Employee struck the roller with a ball pin hammer, causing a piece of metal from the roller to be a projectile which then caused a laceration to the employee's left forearm. The laceration required stitches.
Welder was welding on 6040 Bucket in the shop all day with no complaints of eye irritation. Welder finished shift, went home and woke up from sleeping at 10:30 pm complaining of eyes irritating. Took employee to doctor where employee was diagnosed with arc flash burn.
While conducting Pre-Shift Inspection on equipment, engine compartment door abruptly fell smashing left hand thumb.
Supervisor was loading water transfer pump fittings into the bed of pickup truck and cut left thumb requiring 3 stitches.
After extinguishing a small engine fire, the individual started to dismount the bulldozer. The individual fell and hit their right knee on the blade push arm of the bulldozer causing a small laceration. Two stitches were used to close the laceration.
Changing out bucket teeth on 6040 Excavator. Used a sledge hammer to hit tooth, and a piece of the hammer chipped off. This caused a small laceration on right side of stomach.
While closing set of rear compartment doors on Fuel/Lube Truck, gust of wind blew door abruptly causing left pinky to be smashed into other closed door. Individual refused to go see a doctor that day, but on Monday April 9th, requested to go get looked at by doctor. X-Rays indicated dislocated pinky tip and doctor put back in place.
Mechanic was using pressure washer to wash off mud from left hand and injected degreaser into palm of their left hand. Mechanic was taken into doctor and treated for infection.
Stepped wrong on the bed of the truck while stacking cribbing, started to fall and caught self twisting right knee
While individual was getting down from service truck, they slipped and hit right knee against steps. Follow up doctor visit/diagnosis on 6/15/17 indicated individual could not return to work under doctor restrictions.
Climbing on equipment frame to check for leak. Slipped off equipment frame and hit right knee on edge of equipment frame causing laceration.
End dump step bolts on R.S. fell out during operation. Employee was dismounting equipment using 3 points of contact. Employee fell backwards off the steps and landed on employee's back on the ground. MRI on 5/8/2017 revealed herniated disk and employee not allowed to return to work.
Employee placing sidewall density logging tool into test borehole felt a hitch in back. Continued to work through the week with back pain going from bad to good. On Sunday back pain became so severe that Cardno nurse case management was called and Cardno became aware of the injury.
Individual welded majority of Monday with no signs of injury and completed full shift. Early Tuesday morning, individuals eyes were burning. Went to doctor and confirmed individual burnt cornea from welding. Eyes were more sensitive due to lasik surgery previously had and was unaware long periods of time welding would effect EE. Doctor prescribed prescription eye drops.
Tech was using hydraulic ram to push new studs into the hub. Tech went to release pressure off the ram, when doing so before ee could grab it, it slipped out and struck ee in the right side of the face.
Received notice on March 4th, 2016 that employee has filed a claim for hearing loss
EE was welding, in an awkard position and as he went to get up in upright position he felt something in his lower back.
Employee stated that while using a 250rpm mag drill to drill holes for bolts in the baseplate of the escape tube fan he believes he incurred fragments into his eye. The employee had utilized his hand to wipe sweat from his face during the task possibly resulting in the fragments entering his eye causing an corneal abrasion to his left eye.
The employee was cutting angle iron with a torch. The angle iron was positioned on pipe stands. The employee stated that while cutting, he attempted to move the angle to make another cut. As he turned his body his foot stuck in the mud, causing his knee to twist, resulting in the injury. Medical evaluation determined a sprained knee, employee released to modified duty.
While 2 individuals were unloading poly pipe from bumper pull trailer, 1 individual had poly pipe side at the same height as top rail on trailer. Other individual at other end pushed poly pipe forward towards the other individual instead of lifting directly up, causing pipe end flange to smash individual's right hand ring finger between top rail on trailer and poly pipe flange end.
While climbing ladder to enter his maintainer, employee reported straining his lower back.