Mining Incidents

Curt B JamisonController

MSHA Controller ID: M30576
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
23
Mines on record
1
Period

Top causes

  • FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS1 fatality
  • MACHINERY8 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON7 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS3 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)3 non-fatal
  • STRIKING OR BUMPING1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2019
1
2016
1 (1f)
2011
2
2008
2
2007
4
2006
7
2005
3
2001
2
2000
1

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

Wash plant operator was operating a front-end loader during the overnight shift as normal. EE exited the loader and entered the hopper filled with sand the EE had just dumped. EE was fatally injured when they were engulfed in the sand, as it vibrated to the bottom of the hopper. EE may have entered the hopper to try to retrieve two pieces of metal inadvertently dumped into hopper.