Mining Incidents

EnkaMetal/Nonmetal

Enka, Buncombe County, NC · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3100084
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
9
Years on record
2000–2024
Latest incident
Nov 2024
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

9 on file

2024 · 2 incidents

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee tripped over a rock on a footpath that leads to the highwall. Employee injured shoulder as EE fell to the ground.

Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Sometime before 06/24/2024 a trespasser entered property and fell off the active highwall. Body was discovered at ~4:20PM by two EEs. MSHA hotline called at 4:27PM along with police and rescue. Sheriff's office has ruled it an accident.

2017 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee finger was smashed while holding pipe wrench.

2015 · 1 incident

Struck against stationary object

The injured employee was working with a co-worker performing maintenance on a conveyor belt. The guard to the bend pulley was partially removed and the employee was using an adjustable wrench to try to remove a grease fitting when he received a laceration/avulsion injury to his right hand.

2010 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee received laceration to the right hand while throwing a small piece of metal from conveyor belt to the ground.

2005 · 1 incident

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

Partial amputation to left thumb after it was caught between the rod and toggle beam while removing a tension rod on the primary crusher.

2002 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects

EES WERE INSTALLING TOGGLE BEAM IN HTE JAW CRUSHER, THE BEAM HAD BEEN INSTALLED AND ADJUSTMENTS WERE BEING MADE. THE BEAM IS HELD IN PLACE BY HYDRAULIC CYLINDERS. THE BEAM STOPPED MOVING AND E E WAS LOOKING TO SEE IF CLEARANCE WAS AVAILABLE. HE HAD HIS HAND ON THE CYLINDER WHEN THE BACK END BLEW APART SNAPPING THE CYLINDER FORWARD AND PINCHING HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER CRUSHING THE END

2001 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A 8 LB HAMMER TO REMOVE RACK FROM GRIZZLY FEEDER WHILE HITTING RACK, HAMMER GLANCED OFF RACK AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT FOOT.

2000 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

ON 7/18/00 18:30 EE REPORTED HE HAD GOTTEN SOMETHING IN HIS EYES. HE SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW WHETHER HE HAD GOTTEN IT IN EYE ON THE 18TH OR ON THENIGHT BEFORE THE 17TH, HE DIDN'T KNOW HOW IT HAD GOTTEN INTO HIS EYE