Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE was bending over frame of truck drilling out broken bolts, and installing ekc couplings. When he stood up straight he felt pain in lower back.
Wilkinson County MineMetal/Nonmetal
KaMin LLC · Surface
Controlled by IMin Partners
Gordon, Twiggs County, GA · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0900910
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 3
- Years on record
- 2002–2006
- Latest incident
- Feb 2006
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
3 on file2006 · 1 incident
2003 · 1 incident
Struck by falling object
WHILE CHANGING A DRILL BIT KELLEY BUSHING FELL 2-FEET AND HIT EE'S LEFT THUMB BREAKING BONE. KELLEY BUSHING WEIGH'S ESTIMATED 40 POUNDS. EE'S HAND WAS ON THE TURNTABLE WHEN BUSHING HIT IT.
2002 · 1 incident
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING ABOUT 30 LOBS OF TOOLS UP A FLIGHT OF STAIRS ABOUT 15 FT IN LENGTH TO GET TO THE BLUNGER CATWALK. HE HANDED THE TOOLS DOWN TO A CO-WORKER INSIDE THE BLUNGER. HE THEN CLIM BED DOWN INTO THE BLUNGER AND BEGAN SETTING UP HIS TOOLS. A SHORT TIME LATER HE FELT PAIN IN HIS CHEST AND LEFT SHOULDER.