Mining Incidents

Newmont CorporationController

MSHA Controller ID: M00165
Fatalities
7
Total incidents
1,000
Mines on record
17
Period

Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE3 fatalities · 55 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 188 non-fatal
  • OTHER1 fatality · 24 non-fatal
  • HOISTING1 fatality · 7 non-fatal
  • FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS1 fatality · 6 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS352 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2025
3
2024
9
2023
18
2022
7
2021
8
2020
11
2019
34
2018
38 (1f)
2017
65
2016
67
2015
77 (1f)
2014
61
2013
104 (1f)
2012
109 (1f)
2011
106 (1f)
2010
90
2009
82 (1f)
2008
110 (1f)
2007
1

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

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

A miner was fatally injured when the miner was run over by the LHD loader the miner was operating underground.

Struck against stationary object

The employee was fatally injured when he was travelling on a shaft conveyance and came in contact with the shaft furnishings.

Struck against a moving object

Employee was in the procees of building a berm when his loader went into the stope.

Fall down raise, shaft or manway

A fatal accident occurred at the Exodus underground mine on Friday August 31st at approximately 13:30. The employee was preparing the top cut of the 4410-315 long hole stope, when he fell into the stope.

Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

While performing a section repair in sidewall of a large earthmover tire the associate was discovered unconscious and unresponsive inside the tire by a mining company worker.

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

Surface Mine Engineering Sampler was backing up his flatbed pickup on a a drill pattern. A Drill Operator had dismounted his drill and was walking on the pattern. The drill operator walked behind the pickup and the sampler was not aware the the driller was there. The driller stopped walking and was run over by the flatbed pickup, resulting in fatal injuries.

Struck by falling object

Two employees (welders) were dismantling a large tool rack. The welders were cutting 8'X4""X1/4"" plate steel from the frame. The rack became unstable and tipped over on top of the employees. One employee sustained fatal injuries and the other received injuries to his back and legs.