Mining Incidents

Striking Or Bumping

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

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Fatalities recorded
1
Total incidents
2,476
Of which fatal
0%

Operators with the most striking or bumping fatalities

  1. 01Fillmore Industries Inc1fatal

Recent striking or bumping fatalities

Struck against stationary object

Technician found unconscious and transported to hospital where he died the following day. He had reported bumping his head earlier that same day but never filed an injury report.

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