Mining Incidents

Nonpowered Haulage

Every reportable mining accident MSHA has classified under Nonpowered Haulage. Fatalities and serious injuries are the bulk of these records; some categories also include reportable non-injury events.

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Fatalities recorded
2
Total incidents
608
Of which fatal
0%

Operators with the most nonpowered haulage fatalities

  1. 01Superior Silica Sands LLC1fatal
  2. 02Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.1fatal

Recent nonpowered haulage fatalities

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

On June 23, 2018 at approximately 9:20 am an employee mounted a pair of slow moving rail cars to apply the brakes. The employee fell and was struck by the pair of freewheeling hopper rail cars. The employee was fatally injured because of the fall and being struck by the moving rail cars.

Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects

An R-35 Euclid Haul truck and a rail car collided.

Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) accident records, kept current weekly. Classification labels are MSHA's own coding.