Employee was picking up a 5 gallon bucket full of material. As EE prepared the bucket for a split QC sample, EE felt a pain in EE's back and a sharp pain down EE's right leg.
Cherokee Co QuarryMetal/Nonmetal
Harrison Aggregates · Surface
Controlled by CRH PLC
Murphy, Cherokee County, NC · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3102138
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 6
- Years on record
- 2000–2021
- Latest incident
- May 2021
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
6 on file2021 · 1 incident
Over-exertion in lifting objects
2010 · 1 incident
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE had just parked loader; started down steps of loader when his left foot got hung in the ladder. EE fell backward; regained his balance and landed on his feet with all of his weight on the left side and left ankle buckled.
2007 · 2 incidents
Struck against a moving object
Employee was operating front-end loader lifting a jaw dye & moving it from yard area to jaw crusher on the haul road. As he made a 90 degree turn on haul road with a slope, loader turned over onto its right side resulting in bruises to right ribs/lung.
Struck against a moving object
EE was backing up loader & abruptly stopped when he noticed water truck behind him. EE's chest hit steering wheel.
2000 · 2 incidents
Fall from machine
EMPLOYEE'S FOOT SLIPPED AND FELL FROM BUMPER OF MECHANIC'S TRUCK.
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
LIFTING LEGS OF CONVEYOR FRAME WHEN HOOK SLIPPED CAUSING LEG ASSEMBLY TO FALL.