Mining Incidents

Soledad QuarryMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by James M Syar
Soledad, Monterey County, CA · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0404906
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
13
Years on record
2000–2004
Latest incident
Nov 2004
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

13 on file

2004 · 6 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Driving a bushing with a chisel when a piece of the chisel broke off and punctured left knee.

Contact with hot objects or substances

CUTTING WITH A TORCH AND A PIECE OF MOLTEN METAL BURNED THROUGH SOCK AND BURNED FOOT.

Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

Employee was hospitalized on 9/28/04 with pneumonia and on 11/9/04 tells us the doctor says it was Valley Fever and he contacted it at work.

Struck by flying object

Grinding on excavator bucket when foreign object entered left eye.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

GETTING DOWN OUT OF A WATER TRUCK TO FILL IT. STEPPED OUT & FELT PAIN IN LEFT KNEE.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WORKING ON A CONVEYOR UNDER JAW CRUSHER, TWISTED AND STOOD UP.

2003 · 1 incident

Struck against a moving object

WHILE LOADING RIP RAP WITH A ROCK BUCKET A ROCK FELL FROM THE BUCKET AND THE LOADER'S REAR LEFT TIRE RAN OVER IT CAUSING IT A SUDDEN VIOLENT MOVEMENT THAT HURT EE BACK.

2001 · 2 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WAS CHISELING ON SCALPER PLANT WHEN SMALL SHAVING EMBEDDED ITSELF IN WRIST.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CHANGING LINERS. PIECE OF METAL HIT WORKER IN LEG.

2000 · 4 incidents

Struck against stationary object

HE PUT HIS HAND INSIDE OF GARBAGE CAN

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

A ROCK GOT STUCK IN JAW ON MAIN PLANT AND EMPLOYEE WAS USING A PRY BAR AND ANOTHER ROCK CAME DOWN AND HIT THE BAR, AND HIS FINGERS GOT SMASHED BETWEEN THE BAR AND THE SIDE OF METAL PLATE ON IN SIDE JAW.

Contact with hot objects or substances

CHECKING OIL IN WATER TRUCK AND HIT THE EXHAUST PIPE WITH ARM.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

TAKING OFF A CUTTING EDGE ON LOADER #17-365, HOLDING THE BOLT WITH HAND AND USING IMPACT WRENCH TO TAKE BOLT OFF AND THE BOLT CUT THOUGH MY GLOVE AND CUT MY HAND.