HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Name: HANDLING OF MATERIALS at American Sandstone
Start: 06/08/2005

220051640085 · 06/08/2005 · American Sandstone

Details

Degree of injury: DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
Classification: HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Accident type: Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects
Occupation: Stone finishing and sizing personnel, Stone/Rock cut/Polish/Saw operator, Splitter, Cutter, Trimmer
Activity: Handling coal, Rock, Ore
Injury source: BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
Nature of injury: FRACTURE,CHIP
Body part: FINGER(S)/THUMB
Days lost: 3
Mine experience: 0.69 years

Operator

Controller (parent): Blaser Aquisition Corporation
Operator: American Sandstone
Mine: 0202746

Narrative

Employee was moving a slab of sandstone to a pallet when an adjacent slab of stone fell towards the stone being moved, crushing the first digit of his left index finger between the two slabs of stone. Physician's diagnosis crush injury, open fracture and laceration.

Source

Authoritative: MSHA Open Government Data
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown