Mining Incidents

Other

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

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Fatalities recorded
44
Total incidents
7,746
Of which fatal
1%

Operators with the most other fatalities

  1. 01Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc1fatal
  2. 02Twin State Mining, Inc.1fatal
  3. 03Paguay Stone LLC1fatal
  4. 04Coweta Sand & Transportation Inc1fatal

Recent other fatalities

Drowning

A contractor was found in a shallow pool of water at the base of a highwall.

Drowning

Based on investigation to date, employee suffered a personal medical event (cardiac arrest). ""Per Prelim: After washing a concrete pad, a miner drowned in a two-foot-deep pool of water.""

Drowning

Employee was assisting in installing a discharge line from a pump when Employee did not respond to verbal calls, Supervisor went to check and found Employee face down and unresponsive.

Drowning

326 FL Excavator operator tracked over berm into Settling pond

Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

The sub-contractor was found unconscious in EE's vehicle by EE's co-worker. The car was locked, co-worker attempted to wake EE. Co-worker called 911, then got mine superintendent, who came to the scene, broke the window, removed EE from EE's car, and started CPR. EE was then pronounced deceased at the hospital.

Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

Employee was operating front end loader in the coal shed. For unknown reasons employee left the loader and was engulfed in the coal pile near the grizzly bars for the feeding system.

Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

A miner entered the air separator to clear a blockage. The miner became engulfed in the material.

Struck by rolling or sliding object

Miner used a front-end loader to carve a path into stacked material, then exited the loader and entered the newly-carved path on foot. The newly-created unstable wall of the material collapsed and covered the miner, causing a fatality.

Drowning

Dredge operator was missing and eventually found at bottom of lake.

Drowning

Complicated seizure disorder (not work related)

Drowning

A miner was servicing a floating pump. While working, the pump capsized, trapping the miner underwater.

Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

EE entered feeder when gate would not close. While cutting out a piece of metal that was blocking the slide gate, material sloughed off and engulfed the EE.

Unclassified, insufficient data

Weld crew initiated an argon purge on a 30"" pipe that had been fit up afternoon prior. When argon purge was established, two welders began to make their root pass welds. Upon inspection ""sugaring"" was observed. a welder entered the open end of the 30"" pipe for unknown reasons where they were found by a coworker to be unresponsive. No witnesses observed them enter the pipe.

Contact with electrical current

Was beginning to storm, miner was walking towards cover when EE was struck by lightning.

Struck against a moving object

Rollover accident/fatality/ongoing investigation.

(Not Elsewhere Classified)

Contract employee entered rail car GATX 22394 at approximately 11:30 am, to wash out the rail car. At approximately 12:00, a Thiele employee went to check on him and observed him lying on the floor of the car. Emergency response was activated immediately. Employee was recovered from the rail car by EMS personnel and pronounced deceased.

Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

Truck driver entered empty bulk trailer tank for unknown reason, and was later discovered unresponsive inside the trailer.

Drowning

Security guard fell or slipped from the cab of his personal vehicle into a shallow diversion ditch at the base of a berm along a roadway. He was found with his face submerged in approx 12"" of water. The death was drowning & that a contributory condition was marked alcohol intoxication. The case was not determined to be chargeable until December 22, 2014.

Drowning

Victim was last observed accessing the stern if barge NBN-611. Shortly after, he was noticed to be missing. Snow was present on the barge. Damage or impairment is unknown at this time.

Drowning

A miner fell into the Tennessee River while attempting to take draft measurements on the barges parameter. EE had to cross from the permanent floating work-barge to the 1st empty barge EE was walking up-river on the barge. EE fell from the barge into the river workers immediately called for the Marshall County Rescue Squad.

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