Mining Incidents

Alden Portable Plant #1Metal/Nonmetal

Portable Hardin, Hardin County, IA · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1302031
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2002–2006
Latest incident
May 2006
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2006 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was helping unplug a hammer mill. He inserted a steel bar into a clean put door just as the spinner was rocked over. A hammer caught the end of the bar and kicked it causing it to strike the employee in the right side of his face. The resulting injury was a broken jaw.

2003 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING PUT A DECK BACK IN A SCREEN. WHEN THE DECK SLID INTO PLACE IT PINCHED THE EE'S THUMB AND TORE THE SKIN OFF THE END.

2002 · 1 incident

Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE ALLEDGEDLY TRIPPED ON A POWER CORD. HE FELL LANDING ON BOTH HANDS AND COMPLAINED OF A SORE RT. WRIST. HE DID NOT INFORM MANAGEMENT OF HIS INJURY UNTIL THE FOLLOWING DAY 9/20/02. HE WAS EXAMINED BY A LOCAL DR. & GIVEN A WRIST BRACE & A 10 LB. WEIGHT RESTRICTION FOR SEVEN DAYS.