Mining Incidents

Portable Plant #5 Metal/Non-Metal

Cornejo & Sons LLC · Surface
Controlled by Summit Materials LLC
Pittsburg, Bourbon County, KS  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1401648

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2008–2017
Latest incident
Aug 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
74
citations
14
significant & substantial
$17,625
proposed penalties
$17,625
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q1 943 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,498 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,959 1 0 510.5
2020 Q4 520 5 0 9615.4
2020 Q3 3,788 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,624 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 4 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,250 3 0 923.1
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2017 · 1 incident

August 1, 2017 KS · Metal/Non-Metal weighman, scale person SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Midwest Minerals LLC · Fall down stairs

Employee was walking down the stairs which provide access to the front end loader and employee's foot slipped, causing employee to fall on employee's back. Employee has 4 non-displaced fractures of transverse processes, lumbar vertebra 1, 2, 3, 4.

2015 · 1 incident

January 12, 2015 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Midwest Minerals LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE reported on 1/13/15 that he was loading a smoker into his pickup at home and fell on the trailer hitch ball. On 1/14/15 he said it happened on the job assisting another employee, hooking up a pallet to a front end loader. They argued and another ee grabbed ee and threw him on the ground, breaking a rib.

2013 · 1 incident

August 3, 2013 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Midwest Minerals LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was using a shovel cleaning up spilled material. He slipped in the mud and twisted his left knee.

2012 · 2 incidents

July 25, 2012 KS · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Midwest Minerals LLC · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was adjusting a parking brake on a haul truck. He was using a pry bar that slipped and he fell back against the frame of the truck, fracturing his 10th rib.

May 14, 2012 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Midwest Minerals LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was clearing rock out of the primary crusher feed hopper and smashed his finger between a rock and the metal feed hopper. His left fifth finger was lacerated, requiring seven stitches.

2008 · 1 incident

April 28, 2008 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Midwest Minerals LLC · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Employee was cleaning rock out of the primary crusher & smashed his toes on his right foot. He received first aid treatment and returned to work. On 5\19\08 at a follow up doctor visit, it was determined that poor circulation would require the amputation of three toes, making this a lost time accident.