Mining Incidents

Vinita QuarryMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by CRH PLC
Vinita, Craig County, OK · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3400893
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
9
Years on record
2000–2024
Latest incident
Jun 2024
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

9 on file

2024 · 2 incidents

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

Employees were performing maintenance on the jaw crusher. While attempting to adjust the shims, the employee caught their hand.

Unclassified, insufficient data

Employee was operating a haul truck when another employee noticed they were slumped over the steering wheel. The manager came down to check on them and they were unconscious. Upon wakening, the employee did not know who they were or where they were. Employee was taken by ambulance but found to be completely fine at the hospital.

2007 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was changing the screens on a 5 x 16 shaker, when he lifted a screen and strained his lower back.

2005 · 2 incidents

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee using a cable come along to realign a tail pulley when he felt a pain in his right groin region.

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

EE was resetting a steering cylinder in a Caterpillar 773A haul truck when the cylinder's weight shifted and smashed his finger in between the cylinder and the frame of the truck, causing a small laceration on his ring finger on his left hand.

2003 · 2 incidents

No Value Found

EE WAS OPERATING A LOADER WITH THE WINDOWS OPEN & DUST/DIRT FLEW INTO HIS RT. EYE. EE WASHED EYE WHEN INCIDENT HAPPENED BUT HIS EYE WAS SWOLLEN & SORE THE NEXT MORNING & HE WANTED TO SEEK MEDI CAL ATTENTION.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS CUTTING BELT ON CONVEYOR WHEN KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT HIS LEFT KNEE. STITCHES WERE NOT INCLUDED ON DR.'S REPORT BUT AFTER QUESTIONING EE FURTHER ON 3/25/03, APAC FOUND OUT THE EE HAD RECI EVED 2 STITCHES IN KNEE.

2002 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE IMPROPERLY BENT OVER TO LIFT AN 8"" DISCHARGE HOSE AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK. SENT TO DR., X-RAY NEGATIVE, PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION, RESTRICTED DUTY, DIAGNOSED AS L-S STRAIN.

2000 · 1 incident

Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM HIS LOADER TO FUEL, LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL ON HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND HEAD ON THE GROUND. SENT TO DOCTOR 5/1/00, WHEN SHOULDER STILL SORE. SMALL CUT TO RIGH T SIDE OF HEAD AND SPRAINED RIGHT SHOULDER. PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION, RESTRICTED DUTY.