Mining Incidents

Kasota QuarryMetal/Nonmetal

Mankato, Blue Earth County, MN · Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2102961
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2007–2023
Latest incident
Aug 2023
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2023 · 1 incident

Struck by flying object

Employee was staged in designated safe area for blast, along with 2 other employees. When the blast was initiated, a fly rock approximately 5"" x 6"" x 2"" struck an employee in the right hand index finger and knuckle, landing approximately 30 feet behind EE.

2021 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was replacing shanks on a loader bucket. EE got a bolt partially loose and it dropped out of square shank. EE held it up with hand and when EE hit it with the impact, it spun and cut EE's right hand.

2015 · 2 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cutting a piece of torn belting that was wrapped around a head pulley shaft, when the utility knife slipped. He cut the inside of his left wrist.

(Not Elsewhere Classified)

Recordable hearing loss.

2013 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was leaning over the undercarriage attempting to grab his lifting chain while installing the belly pans. EE was leaning directly over the lifting eye. He grabbed the his chain and was backing out away from the undercarriage when the lifting eye caused a contusion to his left chest area.

2007 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Working on a cone crusher changing liners. During a procedure of setting nuts into a tramp iron system, worker got his right hand 1st digit finger pinched setting one of the nuts.