Miner used a front-end loader to carve a path into stacked material, then exited the loader and entered the newly-carved path on foot. The newly-created unstable wall of the material collapsed and covered the miner, causing a fatality.
Spanish Springs QuarryMetal/Nonmetal
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 25
- Years on record
- 2001–2026
- Latest incident
- Apr 2026
Fatalities at this mine
1 recordedReportable incidents
24 on file (excluding fatalities above)2026 · 1 incident
miner was shoveling and felt a pull in EE's stomach, reported and was seen later by a doctor and diagnosed with a hernia
2024 · 1 incident
While operator was stepping down from a loader, they slipped on last step resulting in the employee falling.
2023 · 1 incident
2019 · 2 incidents
EE attempted to tap a bushing for a head pulley shaft in place with a hammer and a spud wrench. As the EE struck the spud wrench with the hammer, they missed and struck their left pinkie finger, causing it to break.
EE was shoveling material spilled at the plant next to an I-beam for the screen deck. As the EE shoveled, they struck the I-beam with the edge of the shovel causing their right wrist to bend backwards, causing a muscle strain.
2016 · 1 incident
The employee was working with two other crew members to move a screen over a handrail and onto the screen deck. Employees were wearing gloves. The injured employee lifted the screen while other employees pushed the screen and caught IE's finger between the screen media and handrail.
2012 · 1 incident
Employee was holding a piece of steel plate that he was going to set down in the slump pump area. The employee slipped on the muddy surface, and the plate slipped out of his hand. The plate cut through his glove, and cause a minor laceration to his right hand ring finger, requiring a few stitches.
2008 · 2 incidents
Employee slipped into open feeder hole. He fell approx. 30"" to feeder pan below. Landing with his left side on steel lip of feeder. Employee was taken to hospital and is being held for observation. He has no broken bones, just bad bruising and trouble breathing.
Employee was welding a pump housing (app 200lbs) that was resting on a piece of I-beam while it was preheating. The housing shifted and began to fall, the employee on instinct tried to catch the falling pump which smashed his hand between the pump and the piece of I-beam.
2007 · 1 incident
Employee hit left elbow on hand rail of loader causing it to swell. Went to Dr. and returned to work with no restrictions. Went back to Dr. a week later for a check up and they drained two syringes of fluid from elbow.
2006 · 1 incident
Two employees were working to clear drain on CMW so they could inspect. The drain was clogged with mud. One employee was using a bar to help break up the mud. As he was striking the mud (in the drain hole) with the bar, he missed the drain hole and hit employee's finger which was approx 7? above the drain.
2005 · 2 incidents
Opened electrical box door to CB8 with screwdriver in hand - it exploded in face.
SNOW HAD BEEN CLEARED FROM THE SCALE IN FRONT OF THE OFFICE ON SUNDAY, 1/9/05. THE REMAINING SNOW HAD MELTED & FROZE OVERNIGHT. EMPLOYEE STEPPED FROM A SNOWY AREA ONTO THE ICE COVERED SCALE & SLIPPED & FELL.
2003 · 5 incidents
STEPPED OUT OF HAUL TRUCK AND STRAINED TENDON IN RIGHT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE PINCHED FINGER WHILE SCREEN WAS COMING TO A STOP. INDEX FINGER WAS CUT.
WHILE HELPING OUT IN THE SHOP, EMPLOYEE WAS ASSEMBLING A BRAKE WHEN THE DRUM PORTION FELL ON HIS HAND.
EMPLOYEE CLIMBED OUT OF LCB LOADER STEPPING IN BUCKET AND GOING AROUND SIDE OF MACHINE, STEPPING ON ROCKS WHICH INJURED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.
EE WAS INSTALLING A 3"" CAP ON THE WATER TRUCK 1037 UDING A LARGE PIPE WRENCH. WHILE PULLING THE WRENCH DOWN, HIS LEFT THUMB HIT ANOTHER PIECE OF THE WATER TRUCK. ON 2-13-02 HE CAME INTO THE OF FICE AND SHOWED A SWOLLEN THUMB.
2002 · 5 incidents
WHILE TIGHTENING MOTOR MOUNT BOLT WRENCH SLIPPED & RIGHT HAND HIT ENGINE FAN BLADE CUTTING THUMB INSIDE A WELL LIT SHOP.
SMASHED FINGER OF RIGHT HAND BETWEEN TOP LIP OF MAN BASKET AND HAND RAIL.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLOSING THE ACCESS DOOR ON THE BLUE BARMAC WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS FINGER IN THE DOOR.
STUMBLED ON ROCKS LAYING ON THE GROUND AT THE JAW NEAR CONE CRUSHER. TWISTED FOOT THEN RECOVERED.
2001 · 1 incident
WHILE TRYING TO REMOVE TIRE, WHICH WAS PARTIALLY JAMMED ON THE AXLE FROM A HIGHWAY TRUCK FELT A SMALL PAIN IN LOWER BACK.