Wisconsin tiene 24 muertes mineras registradas ante la MSHA, en 6,986 incidentes reportables (1985–2025).
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UNKNOWN AT TIME OF REPORT. A miner died when the front-end loader EE was operating went over a highwall and fell approximately 70 feet.
As a large piece of steel framing structure was being slid out of a cargo container, it tipped over and crushed employee.
A miner was servicing a floating pump. While working, the pump capsized, trapping the miner underwater.
A miner entered a surge bin to free stuck material. The material collapsed and engulfed the miner.
The victim was using an excavator to free a dragline from an ice-covered pit floor. The excavator traveled over an ice-covered, 10 feet deep ditch and broke through the ice. The victim was ejected and was recovered from the water about 6 hours after accident.
(MSHA Report of Investigation: Loading a steel plate (5' wide x 10' long x 3/4" thick; approx. 1,500 lbs.) onto flatbed truck using chain attached to front-end loader. The victim was on bed of the truck steadying & guiding plate onto the truck when the hook (no safety latch) became detached from the plate, and the victim & plate fell to the ground. Plate crushed victim.)
GAS BUILDUP IN SCALE PIT- EXPLOSION- THAWING OUT SCALE.
THE INDIVIDUAL WAS DRILLING BLASTHOLES. HE TIED DOWN THE HYDRAULIC LEVER SO IT CONTINUED TO OPRATE (ROTATE) BY-BY PASSING A SAFETY DEVICE. HE THEN WENT IN FRONT OF THE DRILL AND STEPPED OVER THE DRILL AUGER. HE BACAME ENTANGLED WITH SOME PART OF HIS CLOTHING HE GOT PULLED INTO THE DRILL AND BECAME SO ENTANGLED THAT HE COULD NOT BREATH. THIS ACCIDENT IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION
FATALITY- WENT OVER BANKS IN LOADER- ENGULFED IN MATERIAL.
A FOREMAN FOR SELECT ERECTING WAS DISMANTLING A HOPPER. AFTER CUTTING A 42" X 120" SHEET OF 3?16" STEEL FROM THE TOP OF THE HOPPER, HE ATTACHED A SHACKLE AND STEEL CHOKER. HE WAS WORKING FROM AN AERIAL BOOM LIFT. HE THEN DISCONNECTED HIS LANYARD FROM HIS FULL BODY HARNESS AND LEFT THE LIFT BASKET. HE WALKED OUT ON AN I-BEAM AND TURNED TO SIGNAL THE CRANE OPERATOR TO PICK UP THE PIE
ON TOP OF QUARRY CHECKING ON WORK CREW. FELL TO FLOOR OF QUARRY. DEATH OCCURRED.
EE & 5 OTHER WORKERS IN AN AREA WERE INSTALLING A NEW CRUSHING PLANT. THE OTHER WORKERS WERE NOTIN DIRECT SITE OF INJURED WORKING.
OPERATOR OF H-100C FRONT END LOADER S/N359-307-UO1578.WHILE DESCENDING A RAMP, NORTH-SOUTH RAMP APPEARS TO HAVE DRIVEN OFF WEST EDGE OF RAMP TAKING BOOM OFF RAMP EDGE WITH BUCKET OF LOADER.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING DOG HOLES IN STONE HE WAS PINNED BETWEEN THE PLUG DRILL WHICH HE WAS OPERATING & THE COUNTERWEIGHTS ON THE LOADER WHICH WAS BACKING UP CRUSHING HIM TO DEATH
APPARENTLY THE FRONT END LOADER GOT TO MUCH SIDEWAYS ON THE GRAVEL HILL AND IT ROLLED OVER AND PINNED VICTIN UNDERNEATH.
EE WAS DRIVING HIS CAR HE HAD JUST LEFT THE TOOL GARAGE IN THE PIT AREA & WAS MAKING ENTRANCE TO A HAUL ROAD WHEN HE CAME IN CONTACT WITH A 25TON VOLVO ARTICULATED TRUCK(S/N5350-5719) DRIVEN B Y EE BOTH VEHICLES WERE TRAVELING FORWARD & THE LEFT SIDE TIRES CRUSHED THE CAR & ITS DRIVER
FELL INTO HOPPER WHILE RUNNING WASHING PLANT AND WAS COVERED WITH GRAVEL.
VICTIM BECAME ENTANGLED IN AN EXPOSED STUB SHAFT ON THE TAIL PULLEY OF THE CRUSHER DISCHARGE CONVEYOR. THIS RESULTED IN FATAL INJURIES.
A PRIMARY CRUSHER OPERATOR WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY THE BUCKET OF A FRONT-END LOADER. THE VICTIM ENTERED THE CRUSHER FEED HOPPER AND WAS STRUCK BY THE BUCKET WHEN THE LOADER OPERATOR STARTED DUMPING MATERIAL INTO THE HOPPER, NOT KNOWING THE VICTIM WAS IN THE HOPPER. THE VICTIM WAS STRUCK ON HIS LEFT SIDE AND RECEIVED MULTIPLE, FATAL INJURIES TO HIS HIP, BACK, SHO
BACKED OVER BY TRUCK