Mining Incidents

Dillsboro QuarryMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by CRH PLC
Dillsboro, Jackson County, NC · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3100557
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
2000–2024
Latest incident
May 2024
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

10 on file

2024 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was pulling wire through conduit and injured right shoulder and bicep. The injury on May 6, and employee reported it but did not get it checked until May 15, and they sent them for Xrays and they had surgery on July 3, 2024.

2019 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Loading the presplit and accord, cut the accord to tie, hand slipped, cut left shin.

2018 · 1 incident

(Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee became dizzy on the job, transported to the hospital.

2010 · 1 incident

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

Employee had just cleaned out from under tailgate of stockpile truck. Employee started to step up on a concrete platform and placed his right hand on tailgate gate latch. It closed pinching right hand.

2009 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cleaning up the tunnel area when a rock fell off the belt. He was using a garden hoe and the rock hit the hoe handle which struck him under the lip/mouth.

2008 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was trying to give a report to the operator of a D8 dozer when he was struck by the dozer on the left lower side of the blade. Fracture to both legs.

2007 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

EE was greasing bobcat bucket pins. He released the couplings holding the bucket & bucket fell on left ankle.

2003 · 1 incident

2001 · 1 incident

2000 · 1 incident