HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Name: HANDLING OF MATERIALS at Empire Iron Mining Partnership
Start: 06/02/2007

220071590036 · 06/02/2007 · Empire Iron Mining Partnership

Details

Degree of injury: DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
Classification: HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Accident type: Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Occupation: Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
Activity: Machine maintenance
Injury source: METAL COVERS & GUARDS
Nature of injury: FRACTURE,CHIP
Body part: FINGER(S)/THUMB
Days lost: 1
Mine experience: 13 years

Operator

Controller (parent): Cliffs Natural Resources Inc; ArcelorMittal
Operator: Empire Iron Mining Partnership
Mine: 2001012

Narrative

Employee was assisting in aligning a shroud and ripper shank in order to insert the pins. In the process of pushing the shroud against the ripper shank, he got his left thumb caught between the shroud and the ripper shank. This resulted in a fracture of his left thumb and the physician took him off of work for 1 day.

Source

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