While operating the front-end loader, the employee felt ill with chest pains. ambulance was called & employee taken to hospital. He was checked out & his heart was OK. He was diagnosed with COPD - a non-work related illness caused by years of smoking cigarettes.
Pit #76 NorfolkMetal/Nonmetal
Central Sand & Gravel Co · Surface
Controlled by CRH PLC
Madison, Madison County, NE · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2500510
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 2004–2011
- Latest incident
- Jun 2011
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file2011 · 1 incident
(Not Elsewhere Classified)
2008 · 1 incident
Struck against stationary object
EE was walking on the dredge deck and stepped on a H-Beam. His foot slipped off, rolling his right ankle laterally, causing pain in ankle.
2004 · 2 incidents
Fall to the walkway or working surface
The ee was walking across the dredge deck to turn on the pump shut off valve, when he slipped on some ice and fell onto the dredge deck, causing a minor strain to his back and neck-he was given a prescription.
Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances
THE EE WAS TAKING TRASH OUT TO THE DUMPSTER FROM THE SCALE OFFICE AND WAS STUNG BY TWO WASPS ON HER RIGHT WRIST AND CHIN. SHE HAD AN ALLERGIC REACTION AND WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND GIVEN A SHOT.