While installing a new movable jaw die, the lifting eye was to tall hitting the cat walk. He tried holding the die in place with his foot while the welder cut the lifting eye. The weight of the die came back crushing his foot between the stationary wall and the jaw die.
Plant #15Metal/Nonmetal
Salt River Materials Group · Surface
Controlled by Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
Mesa, Maricopa County, AZ · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0202101
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 6
- Years on record
- 2000–2004
- Latest incident
- Aug 2004
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
6 on file2004 · 1 incident
Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
2003 · 3 incidents
Contact with heat
AROUND NOON HIS BODY BEGAN TO CRAMP. HE THEN ENDED HIS SHIFT AND WENT HOME. HE BEGAN TO FEEL WORSE AND WENT TO THE HOSPITAL.
Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
AS HE WAS REMOVING ROCKS OUT OF THE MACHINE HIS RIGHT LEG GOT STUCK IN THE MACHINE AND CAUSED THE TWISTING OF THE KNEE AREA.
No Value Found
HE STEPPED ON A ROCK IT ROLLED OVER AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE, AS HE WAS WALKING TOWARD THE CONVEYOR TO ADJUST THE BELT. ""EMPLOYEE DIDN'T FEEL THE NEED FOR MEDICAL ATTENTION AT THE TIME OF THE INJ URY.""
2002 · 1 incident
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
AS HE WAS WALKING BY THE CRUSHER HE SLIPPED ON THE MUD AND HIS ANKLE TWISTED. HE FELT TWO VERY PAINFULL POPS ON HIS LEFT KNEE.
2000 · 1 incident
Struck against stationary object
MATERIAL FROM UNDER A BELT, WHEN A 1"" PIECE OF METAL FROM THE GUARD PUNCTURED HIS LEFT ARM.