Mining Incidents

TWIN STATE SAND & GRAVEL CO., INC. Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Seth Ames
West Lebanon, Grafton County, NH  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2700070

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2000–2015
Latest incident
Mar 2015
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
51
citations
21
significant & substantial
$55,769
proposed penalties
$40,769
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
2015 Q2 3,086 4 0 1296.2
2015 Q1 2,151 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 3,057 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,487 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 4,519 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 3,353 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 3,093 1 0 323.3
2013 Q3 1,690 0 0 0.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
October 1, 2007 NH · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Twin State Sand & Gravel Company Inc · Struck by falling object

Employee was retrieving pry bar from storage area on the ground, when personnel above him lost control of new return roller they were changing out. The return roller fell, striking the employee on the ground. While the employee was wearing proper safety equipment at the time, the impact of the roller resulted in his death.

Reportable incidents

5 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2015 · 1 incident

March 6, 2015 NH · Metal/Non-Metal lab technician HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Twin State Sand & Gravel Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee States he is not sure how it happened, but felt discomfort in right eye Friday night, checked his eye, but could see anything, still felt discomfort in eye Saturday night, went to hospital and doctor discovered small piece of metal in eye, removed it, and employee is back to work at full duty

2009 · 1 incident

August 10, 2009 NH · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Twin State Sand & Gravel Company Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was checking tire of welding trailer so it could be unhooked from vehicle. Left "pinkie" finger became pinched between tire of trailer & wheel chock, resulting in injury to pinkie finger, laceration to pinkie finger.

2005 · 2 incidents

November 29, 2005 NH · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Twin State Sand & Gravel Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING RUBBER CONVEYOR BELT MATERIAL WHEN UTILITY KNIFE EMPLOYEE WAS USING CAME FREE FROM MATERIAL HE WAS CUTTING, RESULTING IN A LACERATION OF HIS RIGHT KNEE.

October 10, 2005 NH · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Twin State Sand & Gravel Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was operating crusher plant facilities, when he noticed that there appeared to be some spillage from one of the conveyor belts carrying material from crusher to stockpile, upon inspection saw that rubber skirting was out of place, Employee tried to push on rubber skirting with metal prybar, resulting in prybar getting caught between the conveyor and roller, kick back

2000 · 1 incident