Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
While using a compressed air line with nozzle attached, it slipped from EE's gloved hands striking EE on the lens of the safety glasses and EE's right cheek. The impact caused bruising of EE's left eye.
Orbisonia QuarryMetal/Nonmetal
New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Inc. · Surface
Controlled by New Enterprise Stone & Lime Company Inc
Orbisonia, Huntingdon County, PA · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3600198
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 2009–2024
- Latest incident
- Aug 2024
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file2024 · 1 incident
2020 · 1 incident
Over-exertion in lifting objects
EE was shoveling dirt from the floor onto a non-moving conveyor in the surge tunnel and suffered a muscle strain in upper thigh
2012 · 1 incident
Over-exertion in lifting objects
aggravated tendonitis in right shoulder unloading a box from delivery truck
2009 · 1 incident
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Miner was using an impact wrench backing a bolt out of a screen deck when the length of the bolt caused the left hand of the miner to be pinched against the top area of the screen deck where he was working.