Mining Incidents

Wheeler Rock Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Ralph H Wheeler
Lansing, Leavenworth County, KS  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1401723

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2010
Latest incident
Oct 2010
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
5
citations
1
significant & substantial
$421
proposed penalties
$421
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
2010 Q4 80 5 1 62500.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
October 7, 2010 KS · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Wheeler Construction Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Haul truck was dumping a load of dirt when the dozer operator approched from blind side to get driver's attention when he was struck by the truck and was fatally injured.