Mining Incidents

Rockingham QuarryMetal/Nonmetal

Richmond, Richmond County, NC · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3100198
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
36
Years on record
2000–2025
Latest incident
Oct 2025
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

36 on file

2025 · 1 incident

Struck by flying object

Employee was removing bolts from the pit pump when the wrench slipped and made contact with their lip.

2024 · 3 incidents

Fall onto or against objects

Was removing silt fence, after cutting fence EE went to step away, slipped in the mud and stabbed self in wrist. EE was wearing gloves, cut was just above glove.

Struck by flying object

Driller was out of EE's drill checking holes. The ground conditions were very dry. It also was windy, the wind was blowing drill dust around. A gust of wind blew a bunch of dust in the face of the driller. Some particles went around or up under EE's safety glasses and got into EE's eye.

Struck by flying object

Driller was out of EE's drill checking holes. The ground conditions were very dry. It also was windy, the wind was blowing drill dust around. A gust of wind blew a bunch of dust in the face of the driller. Some particles went around or up under EE's safety glasses and got into EE's eye.

2023 · 2 incidents

Fall from ladders

IW was attempting to gain access to the scale office when EE noticed the door was blocked by a portable trash receptacle. EE then grabbed a chair and attempted to climb over the ½ door to the office. On EE's way over the door the top board on the ½ door broke and EE fell to the ground landing on EE's ankle. Did not seek medical treatment until 9/18/2023

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

Employee was in the process of using a come-along to hoist a section of angle iron which was to be welded to a conveyor belt head roll structure for bracing. As they tensioned the device and were setting the brace in place, the hook slipped up the brace and pinched their right middle finger between the hook and the brace. This resulted in a laceration to their right middle finger.

2022 · 2 incidents

Struck by falling object

Oil/debris from under crusher dripped into employees right eye.

Fall onto or against objects

Employee was working on the bottom deck screen when they dropped a pry bar into the chute feeding conveyor 17. The employee decided to retrieve the bar so they climbed down the chute to the 45 degree slide where they lost balance and fell onto the deadbed just above the belt resulting in a contusion to shoulder and ribs and a muscle strain in their neck.

2020 · 2 incidents

Contact with heat

Employee suffered from Heat Exhaustion.

Fall onto or against objects

While doing maintenance in a chute a weld broke causing employee lose balance and slide into the adjacent bin resulting in an ankle and calf sprain.

2019 · 3 incidents

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee hurt knee while putting down chock blocks.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee slipped on smooth metal causing a hyperextension of the right knee.

Struck against a moving object

Employee struck a large rock with F550 lube truck while driving in the pit resulting in a laceration to EE's lips.

2018 · 1 incident

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

Employee was tying a rope around electrical conduit when the rope broke and left index finger got caught in the rope resulting in a laceration.

2017 · 3 incidents

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee alleges while stepping into haul truck EE felt a pain in EE's lower back.

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee and site employee were moving a 48"" Dual Return Trainer over a hill and under the conveyor belt by hand. As the employee was dragging the trainer under the belt, they were lying on their side and pulling the trainer and the other site employee was pushing. Employee sustained shoulder pain.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Injured employee entered an area at screen 2 unannounced while work to remove deck was being performed by others. The corner of a screen deck that was being removed contacted employee's left foot when it was cut free.

2015 · 1 incident

Struck against a moving object

Employee was operating a haul truck when it was struck by a loader bucket.

2013 · 1 incident

Struck by flying object

8/9/2013 employee was walking from shop when he felt a sting in his right forearm and noticed a small cut.It's believed a small piece of metal from the track of excavator 60' away popped off and hit his arm. After a few days of discomfort he went to the dr. on 8/23/2013.A surgeon removed a tiny piece of metal on 8/30/2013 at which time the injury became reportable.

2008 · 1 incident

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

The rear wheels of a service vehicle sank into a small drainage trough in the plant while the truck was parked. The employee was standing at the rear of the truck. The step on the rear of the truck smashed the employees foot behind the steel toe, causing a laceration and fractures of the foot.

2006 · 2 incidents

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE right shoulder dislocated after slipping and falling off the second rung of a step ladder in the shop.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE sprained right ankle at screen #9 after stepping off a channel step and foot landed onto a rail to guide a roll-away box and slipping.

2005 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Operator was exiting equipment. Foot slipped off last rung on ladder on haul truck and got entangled in ladder causing employee to fall to ground twisting knee.

2004 · 2 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cutting rubber with a knife when his right hand slipped causing the knife to cut him between the webbing of his pinky finger and ring finger. 6 stitches were required to close the laceration.

Fall from machine

Employee was tramming a manlift from its parked location to the plant. The front wheels went into a depression of about 15-18 inches causing the basket to shake. Employee fell out of basket to the ground suffering a hairline fraction of the pelvis and a compression fracture of a vertabrae in the lower back.

2003 · 1 incident

Fall to the walkway or working surface

INJURED PERSON WAS A CONSULTANT FOR VULCAN. HE WAS WITH A VULCAN EE AND WALKED UNDER A LOW SECTION OF CONVEYOR. UPON TRYING TO STAND UP HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL BETWEEN TO RAISED SECTION OF CONCRETE STRIKING HIS ARM AND RIB AREA ON THE EDGE OF THE CONCRETE PAD. HE RECIEVED STITCHES IN HIS LEFT FOREARM, ONE FRACTURED RIB AND BRUISED KIDNEYS.

2002 · 5 incidents

Accident type, without injuries

TANDEM DUMP TRUCK DRIVER WAS USING A ROAD THAT IT WAS NOT COMMUNICATED TO FEREBEE CORP THIS DRIVER WOULD BE USING. ARTICULATED TRUCK DRIVER DID NOT SEE THE DUMP TRUCK UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE TO AVOID A COLLISION. ARTICULATED TRUCK HIT DUMP TRUCK BED, BED HIT CAB & KNOCKED DRIVER INTO STEERING WHEEL. TANDEM FRAME WAS BENT- TOTAL LOSS. ARTICULATED TRK DAMAGE UNKNOWN.

Struck against a moving object

ACCIDENT WAS CAUSED WHEN BRAKES FAILED ON 6 WHEEL HAUL TRUCK.

Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS WATCHING HOW TO UNSTOP A GATE. WHEN THE MATERIAL STARTED TO FLOW, HE PANICKED AND MOVED TOWARDS THE PERSON GIVING THE INSTRUCTIONS.WHILE SHUTTING OFFTHE VALVE ON WATER HOSE, THE P RESSURE BECAME TOO MUCH FOR INSTRUCTOR AND HE LOST CONTROL OF THE WATER HOSE, THE METAL PIPE ATTACHED TO THE END OF THE WATER HOSE WAS FORCED OUT STRIKING HIM ON SIDE OF HEAD CUT EYE.

Fall from machine

WHILE DRILLING ON BENCH #5, MATERIAL FELL OUT FROM UNDER ONE OF THE OUTRIGGERS CAUSING IT TO APPEAR THAT THE DRILL WAS GOING TO GO OVER THE HIGHWALL. EE EXITED THE DRILL AND JUMPED TO THE GROU ND. HE REPORTED ON THAT DAY THAT HE FELT A SLIGHT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. THIS HAS PERSISTED AND THE PAIN NOW HAS BEGUN TO AFFECT HIS LEG.

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

DURING THE CHANGING OF THE BOTTOM DECK FRAME OF THE SCREEN 6 WASH TOWER, EE'S FOOT BECAME LODGED BETWEEN THE FRAME & A PIECE OF DECKING ON THE CATWALK FLOOR. WHILE REPOSITIONING COMEALONG THE DECK SHIFTED PINNING HIS FOOT UNDER THE FRAME.

2001 · 4 incidents

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

EE WAS WALKING ALONG THE SIDE OF THE C-1 CONVEYOR INSPECTING ROLLERS WHEN HE SLIPPED. HIS HAND WAS CVAUGHT BETWEEN A ROLLER AND THE BELT, WHICH BROKE HIS WRIST AND CAUSED A FRICTION BURN TO HI S LEFT ARM. THE EE WAS ABLE TO PULLE HIS ARM OUT AND GET HELP.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

SUPERIOR CRANE EE WAS LOADING A PIECE OF FLAT IRON ON THE BACK OF A TRUCK. VULCAN MATERIALS EE PUSHED THE FLAT IRON FORWARD CAUSING THE FLAT IRON TO CATCH AND CUT THE SUPERIOR CRANES EE'S FING ER.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS LEAVING PARTS SHED, STEPPED OFF OF WET PLATFORM, LOST HIS BALANCE AND CAME DOWN WRONG ON HIS ANKLE. THIS CAUSED A SPRAINED ANKLE.

Fall from machine

EE CLIMBED ONTO CRUSHER ADJUSTING RING TO BREAK MATERIAL LOOSE FROM THE INSIDE OF THE FEEDER. WHEN MATERIAL BROKE FREE, EE JUMPED OFF OF THE RING TO THE DECK BELOW. THE DISTANCE FROM THE RING TO THE DECK WAS 38 INCHES. EE LANDED ON A ROCK CAUSING A SPRAINED ANKLE.

2000 · 1 incident

Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EE HAD A PERIODIC SCREENING CHEST X-RAY FILM READ BY 2 ""B"" READERS USING THE ILO PROCEDURES. THE X-RAY FILM WAS CHARACTERIZED AS CONSISTENT WITH PNEUMOCONIOSIS WITH READINGS OF 1/1 AND 1/2 DAM AGE OR IMPAIRMENT. CANNOT BE DETERMINED SOLELY BY READING CHEST X-RAY FILMS. THIS REPORT IS BEING SUBMITTED TO SATISFY MSHA PROGRAM POLICY LETTER P2/III/2.