MSHA's accident file records 132 fatalities at US mines in 1983. Each links to its incident record.
WHILE MAKING HOIST REPAIRS MAIN POWER CONTACTOR WAS OPENED AND ROLLED OUT ON TO FLOOR TO CHANGE COIL APPARENTLY OPERATING LINKAGE HAD STUCK NOT ALLOWING MECHANISM TO OPEN ALL THE WAY TO THE LATCHED POSITION AND WHEN CONTACTOR WAS PUSHED BACK IN IT OPERATED THE SWITCH LINKAGE IN REVERSE PULLING CONTACTOR IN TO HOT BUSS CAUSING FATALITY
EMPL OPERATING JEFFREY HELIMINER 122M NEAR FACE OF SUB-MAIN ENTRY ROOM #1 IN AREA 169.WHILE LOADING ELMAC RAMCAR,ENTRY FACE AND BACK FAILED DUE TO NATURAL DEPOSIT OF INERT COMPRESSED GASSES LO CATED IN FISSURE IN ADVANCE AND SLIGHTLY ABOVE WORKING FACE.FLYING MATERIAL STRUCK EMPL AND CAUSED MULTIPLE INJURIES TO HEAD,CHEST AND ABDOMEN...FAILURE DIDNT RESULT IN IGNITION.
A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE 2 WEST SECTION IN THE INTERSECTION OF THE #2 ENTRY INBY THE FEEDER BREAKER. THE FALL AREA HAD BEEN MINED TO THE ROOF ROCK & BOLTED WITH 4\ MECHANICAL ROOF BOLTS ON 5\ CENTERS. THE FALL TURNED LOOSE APPROX 4\ TO 5\ ABOVE THE ANCHOR ZONE OF THE ROOF BOLTS. ONE PERSON RECEIVED FATAL INJURIES RESULTING FROM THE FALL.
#2 DIGESTER UNIT WAS BEING PREPARED FOR A VALVE CHANGE. THIS REQUIRES THAT THE HEATERS AND HOLIZONTAL DIGESTERS IN BLDG. 30 BE SHUT DOWN AND DRAINED. AS THE UNITS DRAIN, THE TRENCH IN BLDG 60 XX 30 OVERFLOWS UNTIL THE SUMP PUMP CAN APPROPRAIATELY TRANSFER THE LIQUOR. THE INJURED EMP WAS COLLECTING SHIFT REPORTS FROM THE VARIOUS CONTROL ROOMS ON A TWO-WHEELED BICYCLE FROM OFFICE TO
FAILING TO BLOCK OR OTHERWISE SECURE BOOM OF A TRUCK CRANE BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO INSTALL A S ECTION OF BOOM
MOUNTAIN BUMP CREATING AN OUTBURST OF COAL & THE IMPACT THREW THE INJURED PERSON & HIS HEAD STRUCK THE CONTROL OF THE MACHINE & CAUSED HEAD INJURIES.
EE WAS TOLD BY FOREMAN TO CUT SOME TREES THAT WERE ALREADY ON THE GROUND. THAT THE FOREMAN WOULD BE THERE IN A FEW MINUTES TO HELP HIM. WHEN HE WAS FOUND LATER HE WAS PINNED UNDER A T REE AGAINST A ROCK. APPARENTLY TREE FELL ON HIM & HE WAS PINNED AGAINST A ROCK.
EMPLOYEE APPARENTLY HAD HIS BELT AND CLOTHING TO BECOME ENTANGLED ON SHAFT CAUSING CONSTRUCTION TO CENTER OF BODY RESULTING IN DEATGH
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OFF PLATFORM OF CONE CRUSHER ROCK BOUNCED OFF OF SCREEN H ITTING EMPLOYEE AROUND BASE OF NECK KNOCKING EMPLOYEE UNDER GUARD RAIL TO CONCFRETE APRON BELOW
THE VICTIM WAS CHECKING POWER CONNECTIONS IN THE 4160 VOLT COMPARTMENT OF THE SECTION TRANSFORMER WHEN HE CONTACTED AN ENERGIZED POWER CIRCUIT.
2 EMPLOYEES WERE CHECKING FOR LEAK IN 980B CAT FRONT END LOADER CADY OPERATOR RAISED BUCKET UP APPROX 8-10FT MCSWEENEY VICTIM LOOKED UNDER BY STANDING BY TIRE A HOSE BROKE ALLOWING BUCKET TO DROP AND CRUSHED MCSWEENEY TO GROUND UNDER BUCKET
MEN WERE TIMBERING IN PILLAR SPLIT WHEN ROOF FELL IN.
MEN WERE TIMBERING IN PILLAR SPLIT WHEN ROOF FELL IN.
BILL GREENE LOST HIS BALANCE AS THE TWO BARGES BUMPED TOGETHER AND WAS ENOUGH TO DUMP HIM OFF IN THE RIVER THIS BUMPING OF THE DREDGE D B SKOOKIM AND A MATERIAL BARGE WAS WHEN THE CREW WAS CHANGING THE BARGES
DRAGLINE GROUNDSMAN ATTEMPTED TO PASS IN FRONT OF THE 2570B DRAGLINE. THE RIGHT SHOE STRUCK REAR OF DOZER CAUSING IT TO FALL ACROSS THE DIGGING FACE OF THE DRAGLINE INTO THE PIT BELOW.
VICTIM WAS IN THE PROCESS OF CLEANING THE BENCH IN PREPARATION FOR DRILLING HE WAS APPROXIMAT ELY 35FT BELOW A SUBLEVEL UNDER A BLUFF WHEN HE WASSTRUCK BY LOOSE ROCK THAT FELL FROM THE RIM OR RUCK HIM ON SIDE OF HEAD AND SHOULDER CAUSING FATAL INJURIES VICTIM WAS WORKING ALONE ON AN APPARENT 45 DEGREE SLOPE & WAS PROPERLY TIED OFF WITH SAFETY BELT & LINE
EMPLOYEE FELL INTO CUMBERLAND RIVER FOR NO APPARENT REASON & DROWNDED EMPLOYEE HAD LIFE VEST ON BUT NOT FASTENED LIFE VEST CAME OFF DURING FALL
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING BULLDOZER ON SLIGHT INCLINE HE STOPPED MACHINE FAILED TO SET BRAKE & LOWER BLADE TO GROUND HE PUT MACHINE IN NEUTRAL & STEPPED ONTO TRACK (APPARENTLY TO RESET SENTRY SWI TCH OR TO CHECK OIL) BULLDOZER ROLLED BACK PULLING EMPLOYEE BENEATH TRACK & CRUSHING HIM
BELT STAND WAS WELDED TO BEAM TO ACT AS GUIDE FOR WINCH LINE. COGER WAS STANDING ON TIGHT SIDE OF OPERATION. LEG ON BELT STAND BROKE, CABLE HIT COGER & PROPELLED HIM INTO BRICK WALL.
GEORGE WAS OBSERVING PLUGGED BELT AND ASK JOHN YOHOVICH TO START CONVEYOR GEORGE EITHER WAS PULLED FELL OR SLIPPED ON TO BELT AND HE BECAME LODGED BETWEEN BELT AND FEED BOX OF CONVEYOR
VICTIM WAS ELECTROCUTED IN AN AREA WHERE HE WAS NOT AUTHORIZED TO BE AFTER HAVING ENTERED THRU A WINDOW DOOR PADLOCKED. VICTIM WAS APPARNETLY ATTEMPTING TO RECOVER AN UNUSED PIECE OF HIGH VO LTAGE CABLE & AFTER CLIMBING TO THE CEILING OF THE BUILDING, FELL & CONTACTED ENERGIZED 4160V BUZZ BAR.
VICTIM WAS OPERATING D8K BULLDOZER WHILE DOING SLOPE & BENCH WORK IN A VALLEY FILL AREA, THE AREA WAS APPAROXIMATELY A 2:1 RATIO. BEGINNINGT ON EITHER THE FACE OF THE SLOPE OR THE BENCH AR EA ITSELF, THE DOZER BEGAN TO TRAVEL IN A REVERSE MOTION CONTINUING OVER THE EDGE OF THE BENCH AND DOWN THE SLOPE FOR A DISTANCE OF APPROXIMATELY 400 FT. TO THE VALLEY FLOOR. AS THE DOZER WE
A COAL OUT BURST OCCURRED ON 3 SOUTH SECTION #5 SPLIT CAUSING FATAL INJURIES.
A COAL OUTBURST OCCURRED IN SOUTH SECTION #5 S PLIT CAUSING SERIOUS INJURIES.
WHILE NEAR RIGHT REAR TIRE OF SEMI-TRAILER STOCKPILE SLID STRIKING MR ALBRECHT
VICTIM WAS TRAMMING BATTERY-POWERED TRACTOR PULLING 4 LOADED CARS FROM WORKING FACE TO SURFACE.FOUND LYING BETWEEN 2ND AND 3RD CARS 1 MI FROM FACE.VICTIMS CAP-LAMP CORD WAS BROKEN AND APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN CAUGHT BY WHEEL OF 1ST LOADED CAR PULLING HIM FROM OPERATOR COMPARTMENTBENEATH WHEEL OL LOADED CAR.
EMPLOYEE FELL FROM STAGE AFTER RROPE FAILURE
VICTIM WAS RIDING CAGE FROM BOTTOM LOADING LEVEL TO SURFACE WHEN FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON HE STUCK HIS HEAD OUT OF THE CAGE AND HIS HEAD WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE HOIST CONVEYANCE AND THE SHAFT TU MBER
STEPPED THRU INSULATION FELL 60.8 FEET TO SOLID GROUND
AN INSULATOR BROKE DURING SWITCH THROW OPERATION ALLOWING THE SWITCHING ARM TO CONTACT THE SWITCH STRUCTURE AND BASE CAUSING AN ELECTRICAL FAULT IN THE 34.5 KV SYSTEM. THE INJURED, ALTHOUG H WEARING PRESCRAIBED APROTECTIVE GLOVES, APPARENTLY CONTACTED THE SWITCH THROW HANDLE DURING THE FAULT CONDITION IN THE AREA OF HIS CHEST, A FINDING INDICATED BY THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS REPORT.
GRAVEL BANK CAVED ON LOADER.
IT HAD RAINED EARLY IN MORNING & VICTIM WAS WET VICTIM WORKED AT CLEANUP AROUND PLANT & THEN WAS STANDING BESIDE PLANTS LIME MILL WATCHING LOADER PUT SPILLED AGRICULTURAL LIME IN TRUCK HE REA HED UP & GRABBED RUNG OF LADDER GOING UP LIME MILL & COULD NOT LET GO FELLOW EMPLOYEE PULLED HIM LOOSE VICTIM GOT UP FROM GROUND & SAID HE WAS ALRIGHT BUT FELL BACK DOWN HE DIED LATER IN HOS
EMPLOYEE WAS BEHIND SCOOP TRACTR WHEN SCOOP OPERATOR STARTED UNLOADING MATERIAL PUSHING BLADE OUT AND BACKING UP AND RAN OVER INJURED.
MR. PIERCE WAS STANDING AT EDGE OF BENCH 30 FT. EAST OF W-5 WHEEL DIGGING HEAD. BANK OF HIGHWALL AT BENCH AREA GAVE WAY. HE FELL APPROXIMATELY 15 TO 20 FT. AND WAS COVERED UP BY DIRT APPROXI MATELY 3 FT. THICK.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN PROCESS OF CLEANING BIN OCURRENCE OF CAVE IN EMPLOYEE COVERED WITH MATERIAL DEATH BY APHYXIATION OCCURRED BEFORE RESCUE COULD TAKE PLACE
UNKNOWN WE DO NOT KNOW WAHT HE WAS DOING OR WHY HE WAS NOT WEARING HIS LIFEJACKET THREE COMAPNY LIFE JACKETS WERE FOUND IN HIS TRUNK
A WIRE ROPE HOLDING THE COAL CHUTE LOADOUT IN A HORIZONTAL POSITION BECAME DISENGAGED CAUSING HUTE TO FALL INTO A VERTICAL POSITION. WHEN THE CHUTE, WHICH WAS HINGED AT ONE END, FELL TO THIS VERTICAL POSITION THE EMPLOYEE FELL APPROXIMATELY 20 FEET AND APPEARED TO HAVE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON A RAIL ROAD RAIL.
NO DETAILS KNOWN EXCEPT EMPLOYEE WAS IN ROUTE FROM DREDGE TO SHORE
MAN WAS CONNECTING UP SHOVEL CABLE TO SWITCH HOUSE. MAN CAME IN CONTACT WITH ELECTRICAL POWER. HE WAS ELECTROCUTED.
22% SLOPE ON ROADWAY, BRAKES ON EQUIPMENT FAILED RESULTING IN FATALITY.
MR. PATTERSON APPARENTLY TRIED TO RUN BETWEEN THE SHOE & TUB OF THE 8750 DRAGLINE, THE SHOE SWUNG, CRUSHING THE MAN, RESULTING IN HIS DEATH.
LARGE ROCK FELL FROM DIGGING FACE & CRUSHED MAN AGAINST FRAME OF MACHINE.
MAN WAS DRIVING A LOWBOY TRACTOR TRAILER UP A RAMP OFF THE BENCH. AS HE WENT UP THE RAMP THE TRACTOR FLIPPED OVER BACKWARDS AND CRUSHED THE MAN INSIDE THE CAB.
MR. BRAFFORD ON HIS WAY TO GET R/R CAR TO DROP IN TO TIPPLE TO LOAD, HE WAS STRUCK BY A END LOADER.
TROUBLESHOOTING-REPAIR WORK WAS BEING PERFORMED ON SURFACE ELCTRICAL SUBSTATION (POWER WAS DE-ENERGIZED TO LOW VOLTAGE CONTROL CIRCUIT ON WHICH ACTUAL WORK WAS BEING PERFORMED). EMPLOYEE WAS U NDER NO DIRECT WORK ASSIGNMENT AT THE TIME, BUT FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON (SPECULATED HE WAS RETRIEVING A DROPPED POCKET KNIFE) HE STEPPED INSIDE THE SUBSTATION AND CAME IN CONTACT WITH AN ENERGI
AN ELKHORN AR-4 BATTERY SCOOP OPERATED BY VICTIM WAS BEING TRAMMED FROM THE SCOOP PILE LEVEL TO THE MINE PORTAL LEVEL ON THE SURFACE NEAR THE TOP OF THE INCLINE RAODWAY. THE SCOOP STARTED TO ROLL BACKWARDS DOWNGRADE & STRUCK THE UPPER HILLSIDE BANK. A LARGE BOULDER WAS DISLODGED & FELL ON TO THE OPERATOR COMPARTMENT STRIKING & IMPALING THE VICTIM ON THE END OF T HE DEENERGIZEIN
HIDDEN SLIP IN RIB RELEASED ROCK AND FELL ON VICTIM.
THE INJURED WAS OPERATING A 988A FRONT END LOADER IN THE 003 PIT OF THIS OPERATION AND WAS INFORMED AT SUPPER TIME OF HIS SHIFT THAT PART OF THE ROADWAY THAT HAD BEEN IN USE WOULD BE MINED OUT AND NOT TO TRAVEL THAT WAY. AT THE END OF THE SHIFT WHEN THE REST OF THE EMPLOYEES LEFT THE PIT HE TRAVELED OVER THE MINED OUT ROADWAY, OVERTURNING THE LOADER AND FATALLY INJURING HIMSELF.
STEWART WAS STANDING ON A WALKWAY USING A CONCRETE VIBRATOR AUGER CAUGHT VIBRATOR AND PULLED STEWART INTO AUGER VIBRATOR CABLE WAS AROUND STEWARTS BODY WHEN HE WAS PULLED INTO AUGER
DRIVER LEFT THE ENGINE ON DRIVER DISMOUNTED TRUCK THE TRUCK SUDDENLY ACELAERATED AND DRIVER WAS RUN OVER BY REAR LEFT TIRES APPORXIMATELY 40 FEET FROM POINT UNDER THE LOADING BIN TRUCK TRAVE APPROXIMATELY 150 FEET MORE WHERE IT WAS STOPPED BY A DITCH NEXT TO HAULING ROAD TRUCK WAS RUNNING IN FIRST GEAR AND ALL BRAKES WERE ENGAGED NO OTHER INJURIES INVOLVED
MR BOOTH OF NORX WAS ELECTROCUTED WHILE REPAIRING RAMSEY TOTALIZER BELT SCALES DETAILS ARE NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME BUT MSHA OFFICE IN MACON GEORGIA WAS NOTIFIED PROMPTLY
WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IS UNKNOWN
THE TRUCK DRIVER BACKED UP TO THE BERMED SPOIL DUMP AREA; THE GROUND BENEATH THE WEIGHT OF THE LOADED TRUCK GAVE WAY CAUSING THE TRUCK TO GO BACKWARDS OVER THE 150 FOOT HIGH SPOIL BANK AREA. THE TRUCK LANDED ON ITS LEFT SIDE. THE DRIVER RECEIVED SERIOUS HEAD INJURIES ALONG WITH OTHER INTERNAL COMPLICATIONS. THE VICTIMS DEATH OCCURRED AT 10:55 AM.
MINER OPERATOR WAS BACKING OUT OF NO. 3 FACE. MR. WILBER SAWYERS AND HIS IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR MR. AARON SAWYERS WERE TIMBERING THE IMMEDIATE FACE AREA. A LARGE SLIP IN THE ROOF FELL AND FATALL Y INJURED MR. WILBER SAWYERS.
WHILE PULLING OUT ONE OF FOUR GUY WIRES TO STABILIZE DRILL DERRICK GUY WIRE BEING PULLED BY HAND ACCIDENTLY CAME IN CONTACT WITH ELECTRIC POWER LINE
THE VICTIM WAS CRAWLING INBY IN #2 ROOM TOWARD THE CROSSCUT #2-#1. A SHUTTLE CAR CAME FROM THE CROSSCUT #2-#3 INTO THE INTERSECTION. THE VICTIM WAS CRUSHED AGAINST THE OUTBY LEFT RIB ACORNER OF THE INTERSECTION BY THE SHUTTLE CAR. THE VICTIM WAS NOT SEEN BY THE SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR PRIOR TO THE ACCIDENT.
TROUBLE SHOOTING 480 VAC CABLE WHILE ENERGIZED. METER LEAD PULLED OUT OF METER STRIKING GARY ON HAND WHICH RESULTED IN DEATH.
WHILE CHANGING THE POSITION OF THE TIRES ON A STACKING CONVEYOR THE JACK SLIPPED AND THE CONVEYOR TURNED OVER SERIOUSLY INJURING ONE AND RESULTING IN A FATALITY FOR ANOTHER THE CONVEYOR WAS NOT PROPERLY BLOCKED OR CRIBBED
MR. HULL APPARENTLY F ELL FROM AN UNKNOWN LOCATION UNDERNEATH THE COAL SILO. MULTIPLE INJURIES WERE SUSTAINED, HOWEVER, THE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT OR LOCATION MR. HULL FELL FROM ARE UNKNOWN.
VICTIM WAS SETTING TEMPORARY SUPPORTS IN A COMPLETED CUT. A PIECE OF ROCK APPROXIMATELY 6FT. 2 IN. X 4 FT. 4 IN. RANGING FROM 4" TO 6" THICK FELL SUDDENLY, WITHOUT WARNING, STRIKING THE VICTIM AND COVERING THE LOWER HALF OF HIS BODY. VICTIM DIED IN THE HOSPITAL AT APPROXIMATELY 10:00 AM 8-4-83.
BRUCE LINDSAY WAS TROUBLE SHOOTING IN PANEL OF LONGWALL #1 STAGE LOADER WHEN HE CAME IN CONTACT WITH 990 VOLTS CAUSING DEATH. THIS WAS IN THE 40TH NORTH OFF OF 16TH EAST.
VICTIM WAS AREPAIRING A VENTILATION CHECK CURTAIN IN THE 2ND LINE OF OPEN BREAKS BETWEEN THE (3NOS. 5 & 6 HEADINGS ON THE NO. 6 HDG. SIDE. THE SHUTTLE CAR CAME THROUGH THE CURTAIN FROM THE NO . 5 HDG. SIDE, STRUCK AND RAN UPON THE VICTIM FATALLY INJURING HIM. THE VICTIM APPARENTLY THOUGHT THE SHUTTLE CAR WOULD TRAVEL UP THE NO. 5 SENTRY WHERE THE CONTINUOUS MINER WAS.
END LOADER BACKED OVER BERMED ROADWAY OVETURNING AND PINNING OPERATOR UNDER OVERTURNED FRONT END LOADER
ROOF AT FACE FATALLY INJURED EMPLOYEE.
THE VICTIM WAS STANDING ALONG THE LEFT RIB SIDE OF THE CROSSCUT 4 TO 5 ENTRY APPROX 20 FT OUTBY STATION #34751 OF THE 5 RT 002 SECTION THE VICTIM WAS STRUCK IN BOTH LEGS WHILE THE JOY 10 SC -2 2 SHUTTLECAR WAS ENROUTE FROM WORKING PLACE TO THE SECTION DUMPING POINT THE VICTIM SUSTAINED AMPUTATION OF BOTH LEGS IMMEDIATE FIRST AID WAS ADMINISTERED AND VICTIM WAS EVACUATED TO HOSPITAL
VICTIMS ARM WAS CAUGHT IN THE TAIL PULLEY OF A STONE CONVEYOR CAUSING CONVEYOR TO STOP AND THE FEED BIN TO BACK UP WITH MATERIAL AND OVER FLOW COVERING THE VICTIMS BODY UPPER PART NOT KNOWN HOW VICTIMS ARM GOT CAUGHT THERE WERE NO WITNESSES
THE MAN WAS WORKING ON ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT IN AN ELECTRICAL SUB STATION ON THE 4900 LEVEL WHEN A WIRE INADVERTENTLY WENT INTO THE SIDE OF AN ELECTRICAL CUTOUT CAUSING MAN TO BE ELECTROCUTED
A 38 YEAR OLD BELT EXAMINER WITH 12 YEARS 11 MONTHS MINNG EXPERIENCE WAS KILLED AS A RESULT OF A METHANE GAS EXPLOSION. THE VICTIM WAS CONDUCTING AN EXAMINATION OF THE WORKING SECTION WHEN THE METHANE WHICH HAD ACCUMULATED BECAUSE OF AN INTERRUPTION IN THE VENTILATION, WAS IGNITED B Y A CAUSE YET TO BE DETERMINED.
SUPPOSED TO BE PATROLLING MINE PROPERTY,DISCOVERED DEAD 7 X-CUTS FROM SURFACE NEAR A DEWATERING PUMP.FOUND SUBMERGED IN 24\\ WATER WITH 440 VOLT POWER CONDUCTOR IN HAND.ENTIRE CABLE WAS REPORT EDLY BURNED TO PALM OF HAND.
2 COMMERCIAL CONTRACT-DIVERS DROWNED WHILE ATTEMPTING REPAIRS ON DAM LOCATED 7 MILES FROM MINE SITE HOWEVER STILL ON COMPANY PROPERTY GOT CAUGHT IN WATER FLOW AROUND LEAK AND COULD NOT FREE TH EMSELVES
2 COMMERCIAL CONTRACT-DIVERS DROWNED WHILE ATTEMPTING REPAIRS ON DAM LOCATED 7 MILES FROM MINE SITE HOWEVER STILL ON COMPANY POPERTY GOT CAUGHT IN WATER FLOW AROUND LEAK AND COULD NOT FREE THE MSELVES
AT THIS TIME ONLY OPERATOR FAILURE CAN BE SEEN AS THE CAUSE.
NO 1 & 2 STONE DRYERS WERE OPERATING ON #6 FUEL OIL AND #3 DRYER WAS OPERATING ON NATURAL GAS DURING THE 12 MIDNIGHT TO 8:00 AM SHIFT ON 6/24L83. RAW MATERIAL DEPT INCLUDING THE DRYERS WAS SCH INSURE THAT THE OIL IN THE FUEL LINES FROM THE STORAGE TANK TO THE DRYER BURNERS ARE PURGED OF OIL WHICH OTHERWISE WOULD PLUT THE FUEL LINES. THE FOREMAN PERSONALLY NOTIFIED THE INJURED TO BE
EMPLOYEE WAS ASSIGNED TO THE 9159 PRODUCTION TRUCK WHICH WAS LOADED WITH ROCK HE WAS TO DUMP THIS LOAD ON THE ROCK STOCKPILE BEFORE THE DOZER OPERTOR AND LIGHT PLANT ARRIVED INJURED PROCEEDED TO DUMP THE LOAD THE RIGHT REAR WHEEL WENT OVER THE EDGE OF THE STOCKPILE AND THE TRUCK ROLLED OVER REAR WHEEL WENT OVER THE EDGE OF THE STOCKPILE AND THE TRUCK ROLLED OVER 360DEG INJURED WAS
EMPL ON WAY TO SUPPLY HOUSE WHEN CH4-METHANE EXPLOSION OCCURRED CAUSING MULTIPLE BURNS CAUSING DEATH.
HELPING HAND VENTILATION TUBING WHEN CH4 -METHANE EXPLOSION OCCURRED.AS A RESULT,DIED OF CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING.
HELPING HANG VENT TUBING WHEN CH4 EXPLOSION OCCURRED. AS RESULT,DIED OF CARBON MONOXIDE POISON.,.
ON WAY TO SUPPLY HOUSE WHEN CH4-METHANE EXPLOSION OCCURRED.DIED OF MULTIPLE INJURIES.
SUPERVISING HANGING OF VENT TUBING WHEN CH4-METHANE EXPLOSION OCCURRED.AS RESULT,DIED OF CARBON MONOXIDE POISON.
HELPING HANG VENT TUBING WHEN CH4-METHANE EXPLOSION OCCURRED. AS RESULT DIED OF CARBON MONOXIDE POISON.
EMPL HELPING HANG VENTILATION TUBING WHEN CH4-METHANE EXPLOSION OCCURRED AS RESULT OF EXPLOSEION,DIED OF CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING.
RIB ROCK FELL-SCOOP BACKING UP DISLODGED LARGE ROCK WHICH CAUGHT EMPL NECK.ROCK-57\\ X 31\\ X 10\\ FROM LOWER SECTION OF COAL AND ROCK RIB STRIKING UPPER PORTION OF BODY. SCOOP NOT EQUIPPED WI CANOPY AS OTHER AREAS OF MINE HAD HEIGHT OF LESS THAN 42\\.
UNAWARE OF CREW MEMBER WALKING ON BLIND SIDE OF SHUTTLE CAR AND RAN OVER HIM.UNSURE OF EVENTS INVOLVED.EMPL STRUCK AND RUN OVER BY SHUTTLE CAR IN #3 ENTRY BETWEEN 1 & 2 X-CUTS OUTBY FACE.EMPL PULLING ROOF BOLTER CABLE DOWN PREPARING TO HANG CABLE ON CROSSOVER WHEN STRUCK.
MINER RECEIVED BLOW TO RIGHT SIDE OF FOREHEAD WHEN HYDRAULICALLY POWERED DRILL PROPELLED BOLT WRENCH OUT OF THE DRILL HEAD SOCKET. HE DIED FIVE DAYS LATER.
BOTH SURVEYORS WERE WARNED ABOUT ROOF CONDITIONS BUT PROCEEDED UNDER UNSUPPORTED ROOF TO INSTALL DRIVE SPAD FOR SIGHT LINE.TRANSITMAN CLIMBED INTO CONVEYOR ON MINER AND CHAINMAN STOOD ON MINE FLOOR.-2\ OF DRAWSLATE AND WILDC OAL FELL WITHOUT WARNING,STRIKING BOTH MEN-#6 ROOM,20 SPLIT,7 SLATRIGHT,8 ROOM SECT.
BOTH SURVEYORS WERE WARNED OF ROOF CONDITIONS,PROCEEDED UNDER UNSUPPORTED ROOF TO INSTALL AND DRIVE SPAD FOR SIGHT LINE.TRANSITMAN CLIMBED INTO CONVEYOR OF MINER AND CHAINMAN STOOD ON FLOOR OF MINE.-2\ OF DRAWSLATE AND WILDCOAL FELL WITHOUT WARNING STRIKING BOTH MEN-#6 ROOM,20 SPLIT,7 FLATRIGHT,8 ROOM SECT.
CRANE BLOCK WAS RUN THROUGH LIMIT SWITCH INTO DRUM CAUSING CABLE TO PULL IN TWO DROPPING SHEAVE BLOCK ONTO EMPLOYEE.
ROOF BOLTER WAS PARKED ADJACENTY TO LAST ROW OF PERM SUPPORTS.EMPL AND HELPER WERE IN PROCESS OF SETTING TEMP SUPPORTS WHEN ROCK FELL -14\ X 3\ X 20\\THICK INFLICTING FATAL INJURIES.
HELPING ON C.M. IN #2 ENTRY WHEN ROOF FALL FELL.,UNDER SUPPORTED ROOF -BOLTS 36\\LONG WITH STRAPS.FALL WAS 32\LONG X 8\WIDE X 7.5\THICK.CANOPY ON C.M. BADLY DAMAGED. BODIES WERE LOCATED RIGHT SIDE OF ENTRY 15\ FROM DECK OF CM AND 3\ IN BY EDGE OF FALL.
MINER WAS OPERATING #2 ENTRY WHEN ROOF FELL ON MINER.SEE 231330013 FOR MORE.
SETTING JACKS ON WILCOX MINER-PULLING OUT OF WORKING PLACE. ROOF FALL-ONE ROCK FELL,HORSEBACK DETECTED 17\LONG X 4\-0\ X 10\WIDE,IMMEDIATELY OUTBY FACE #1 ENTRY IN 004 SECT.
EMPLOYEE LOWERED HIMSELF BY ROPE INTO A LEACH TANK IN AN APPARENT ATTEMPT TO RETRIEVE AN UNKNOWN OBJECT, POSSIBLY A HAND HAT OR MEASURING STICK AND IS BELIEVED TO HAVE DIED FROM ASPHYXIATION.
STANDING BESIDE C.M. OBSERVING PILLAR RECOVERY OPERATION -STRUCK BY PIECE OF ROCK FROM MASSIVE ROOF FALL.
LOADER BACKED OFF SIDE OF RAMP
RIDING IN A TRUCK AS A PASSENGER, WASTE CAR STRUCK REAR OF TRUCK AND PUSHED IT AGAINST A PARKED TRAIN.
WALKNG UNDER PLANT WHEN A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON FELL FROM ABOVE AND STRUCK VICTIM ON HEAD.
TRUCK FELL OVER EDGE OF WASTE DUMP AND ROLLED. DRIVER FATALLY INJURED.
VICTIM WAS RUN OVER BY 980B FRONT END LOADER WHICH WAS MOVING IN A REVERSE DIRECTION WITH BACKUP ALARM SYSTEM WORKING. LACK OF ATTENTION BY VICTIM AND LOADER OPERATOR FOR A POTENTIAL ACCIDENT. AUTOPSY REPORT SHOWED AN ALCOHOL CONTENT IN THE VICTIMS BLOOD LEVEL.
...WHILE OPERATING DOZER ON COAL STOCKPILE FOR PREP PLANT,DOZER FELL INTO VOID IN COAL STOCKPILE APPX 35\.
IN THE PROCESS OF LOOSENING AMMONIUM NITRATE FROM INSIDE A 10\ X 9\4\\ X 22\HIGH STEEL STORAGE BIN .EMPL EITHER SLIPPED OFF LADDER OR IF STANDING ON TOP OF NITRATE COLUMN,FELL THROUGH THE CRUS T TO BOTTOM OF BIN AND WAS BURIED BY AMMONIUM NITRATE.EMPL COULD NOT PASS THROUGH 11\\ X 11\\ OPENING AND SUFFOCATED.
VICTIM WAS ASSIGNED THE JOB OF PERIODICALLY CH%EKING THE FENCE AROUND THE PERIMETER OF THE SAND PIT. THE FENCE HAD BEEN CUT ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. HE WALKED INSIDE THE FENCE LINE ON THE PIT SID E TO THE TOP OF A 70\ VERTICAL BANK WHICH WAS BEING MINED. AS HE APPROACHED THE EDGE OF THE BANK WHICH WAS APPROX. 15\ FROM THE 70\ HIGH BENCH, THE BANK COLLAPSED ENGULFING THE VICTIM.
RUNAWAY LOCOMOTIVE ON GRADE, EMPLOYEE JUMPED FROM MOVING LOCOMOTIVE.
DOZER OPERATOR ENTERED AN AREA WHICH HAD BEEN STRIPPED OF TOP SOIL AND DRILLED FOR BLASTING. HE CAP ROCK LAY AT A 15 DEGREE SLOPE AND WAS WET. THE DOZER SLID SIDEWAYS FOR 50 FT, HITTING A HUM P IN THE CAP ROCK AND ROLLED. THE OPERATOR WAS CRUSHED. THE DOZER WAS MANUFACTURED IN DEC. OF 1968, RECEIVED BY CATERPILLAR DEALER 1/10/69, AND PURCHASED BY SUMMIT, INC. ON 3/13/69. VICTIM WAS
HIGH VOLTAGE ,SELF CONTAINED SUBSTATION WAS NOT DEENERGIZED WHILE ELECTRICTIAN WAS TESTING OR TROUBLE-SHOOTING THE 120 VOLT A.C.CONTROL CIRCUIT,IN A LOCATION WHERE ENERGIZED HIGH VOLTAGE COMP ONENTS WERE EXPOSED.
EMPL PUSHED EMERGENCY STOP BUTTON AS CAGE WAS ASCENDING ON INSPECTION SPEED.HE OPENED CAGE DOOR MANUALLY, GOT OUT OF CAGE AND DROPPED DOWN TO TOP FRAME OF BOTTOM LANDING DOORS.WHEN CAGE DOORS WERE SHUT THE CAGE CAME DOWN ON VICTIM WHO APPARENTLY WAS ATTEMPTING TO ADJUST BOTTOM LANDING DOOR SAFETY INTERLOCK SWITCH.KILLED INSTANTLY.
SINGLETON & PELTO WERE HOOKING A CHAIN UP BETWEEN THEFRONT END LOADER & THE WINCH TRUCK & THE LOADER ROLLED FORWARD & PINNING ROBERT IN BETWEEN THE 2 VEHICLE & CRUSHED HIS HEAD & KILLED HIM.
OPERATING DRILL BY RAISING MAST TO ACCOMMODATEFOR REPAIRS TO LEAKING HYDRAULIC CYLINDER LOCATED IN MAST.MAST WAS IN 80 DEG. RAISE POSITION WHEN BODY FOUND.ONE LINE WAS BROKEN AND LIE ON GROUND ONE TELEPHONE LINE STILL IN CONTACT WITH MAST.VICTIM WAS (HAD BEEN) STANDING ON GROUND AND OPERATING CONTROLS.
EMPLOYEE WAS PASSENGER IN TRUCK BEING DRIVEN BY EXPERIENCED DRIVER, HAULING STONE FROM PLANT TO STOCKPILE, ALTHOUGH, EMPLOYEE WAS FAMILIAR WITH EQUIPMENT (FROM PREVIOUS EMPLOYER) HE WAS BEING SHOWN STOCKPILE LOCATION AND PROCEDURES USED. IN THE PROCESS OF BACKING-UP TO STOCKPILE, THE TRUCK WENT OVER THE BANK OF THE STOCKPILE, OVERTRURNING AND LANDING 35\ FEET TO GROUND BELOW.
WHILE DRILLING WITH 83 LD. STOPPER-ROCK FALL FROM BACK OF STOPE FELL ON MAN-THERE HAD BEEN 41 HOLES ALREADY DRILLED IN AREA WHEN FELL OCCURRED.
RENTON BOTTOM,SERVICE MAN SHAFT,EMPL CHANGING PORTABLE SUP PUMP ALONG SIDE OF SHAFT.OCCURRENCE OF EVENTS ARE UNKNOWN.EMPL FOUND UNCONSCIOUS -SUFFERED FROM CRANIO-CEREBRAL TRAUMA.
HE WAS RELIEVING LOOSE MATERIAL FROM THE ROOF OF ALREADY BOLTED GROUND, OUT OF THE BUCKET OF AN ST-5B L.H.D. WHEN A ROCK FALL OCCURRED FROM THE BACK STRIKING THEMEN IN THE BUCKET.
EMPLOYEE DISREGUARDED SUPERVISOR\S SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS AND FELLOW WORKER\S WARNING, CLIMBED OVER OR UNDER A CHAIN LINK FENCE AND GUARD RAIL ENCLOSING V-BELT DRIVE FOR SLURRY PUMP TO PERFORM WORK IN AN UNAUTHORIZED/RESTRICTED AREA. HE WAS CAUGHT IN BELT DRIVE AND WAS FATALLY INJURED.
FATAL ROOF FALL ACCIDENT OCCURRED NEAR WORKING FACE OF #3 PLACE IN #5 SECT.FATALLY STRUCK DURING EXAMINATION OF THE FACE AREAS AT BEGINNING OF SHIFT.SECTION OF ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN CHANNELS O F ROOF BOLTS,30\ OUTBY THE FACE OF #3 ENTRY ALONG OFF CURTAIN SIDE RIB LINE.
WHILE UNLOADING A PALLET OF CEMENT BAGS FROM THE WEST SKIP WITH A HI-LOW, WOODEN PALLET BROKE CAUSING CEMENT BAGS TO FALL TOWARDS THE EAST SHAFT. VICTIM WHO WAS BELLING SKIP, MOVED BACKWARDS T O AVOID BEING STRUCK WITH FALLING BAGS OF CEMENT, LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL APPROX. 35 FT INTO THE EAST SHAFTWAY.
AT OR NEAR 10:20PM, ALEX GUZMAN WAS PROCEDDEING DOWN THE DECLINE IN A WAGNER MODEL NO.MT 414-30, REAR DUMP TRUCK, COMPANY #511, WITH A LOAD OF SHOTCRETE. NEAR THE 4,000 FOOT LEVEL, ALEX, FOR S OME UNKNOWN REASON, APPEARED TO STRIKE THE SOUTH RIB, VEER TOWARDS THE CONVEYOR BELT, STRIKE BELT AND STRUCTURE APPROX. 45\ AND ROLLED OVER ON ITS LEFT SIDE. ALEX WAS FOUND UNDER THE TRUCK AP
THIS LOADER OPERATOR RAN OVER SPILLED MUCK ALONG THE RIGHT RIB IN A TRACK HAULAGE DRIFT, AND THE MAN WAS STRUCK BY THE CHUTE OPPOSITE THE SPILLAGE. THE LOADER THEN RAN INTO THE COMPRESSED AIR LINE ALONG THE RIGHT RIB CAUSING THE AIR LINE TO BLOW APART BEFORE THE LOADER CAME TO A STOP WITH THE BUCKET AGAINST THE RIGHT RIB. THE LOADER WAS FOUND IN SECOND GEAR APPROX. SEVENTY FEET FR
EMPL INSTALLING 2ND BOLT IN 2ND ROW OF BOLTS.OPERATOR HAD MOVED TO SIDE OF ROOF BOLTER WHEN RIB CAME OUT AND STRUCK HIM IN BACK CAUSING FATAL INJURIES.
MR HALVERSON WAS PINNED BETWEEN A 16" I BEAM SUPPORT COLUMAN AND AN EXPANDED METAL SIDE CAB GUARD ON A MAINTENANCE PUMP REPAIR VEHICLE, RESULTING IN INJURIES TO HIS HEAD AND CHEST.
STARTING UP THE 6\\ PUMP,PLASTIC HOSE BLEW INTO //// OUT.THE PRESSURE FROM THE PUMP PUSHED EMPL INTO THE WATER.EMPL WAS IN 10-12\ WATER AND COULD NOT SWIM.WENT DOWN AND DROWNED.
TWO STAIR TREADS HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM A STAIRWAY TO ALLOW MATERIAL TO BE HOISTED FROM A LOWER FLOOR. THE TOP OF THE STAIRWAY WAS ROPED OFF AND TWO YELLOW WARNING RIBBONS WERE TIED BETWEEN THE HANDRAILS, ONE AT THE TOP OF THE HANDRAIL AND ONEAT THE INTERMEDIATE RAIL LEVEL. AN ADDITIONAL WARNING RIBBON WAS INSTALLED ACROSS THE HANDRAILS HALFWAY BETWEEN THE TOP OF THE STAIRWAY AND TH
ROCK FALL OCCURRED DURING THE INSTALLATION OF PERMANENT SUPPORT.
WHILE FLOYD USOFF WAS CUTTING FIREWOOD FROM SLASH TIMBER LYING ON THE GROUND, A LIMB FELL, STRIKING AND KILLING MR. USOFF. THE LIMB WAS 16\ LONG AND 8" IN DIAMETER. MR. USOFF WAS USING HIS OWN CHAIN SAW AND CUTTING THE WOOD FORHIS PERSONASL USE DURING WORKING HOURS, IN VIOLATION OF COMPANY POLICY.
AS EMPL ATTEMPTED TO OBSERVE MECHANICAL PROBLEM WITH C.M. PIECE OF ROCK FELL STRIKING EMPL AND PUSHING HIM INTO C.M.
ROBERT TRAMMELL, OWNER OPERATOR FOR SUNSHINE TRANSPORATATION, INC. TRUCK #844. PULLED TRUCK UP TO DUMP OFF SAND, RAISED TRAILER TO DUMP, TRAILER CAME IN CONTACT WITH HIGH VOLTAGE LINE. TRAMMEL STEPPED OUT OF TRUCK, DEATH BYELECTROCUTION.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOOKING UNDER THE MAN-LIFT PLATFORM (WHICH WAS NOT RUNNING) SOMEONE AT ANOTHER FLOOR LEVEL TURNED THE MAN-LIFT ON. THUS, EMPLOYEE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE PLATFORM AND THE MAN-LIFT STEP. BROKEN RIBS RIGHT & LEFT SIDE; COLLAPSED RIGHT LUNG, PARTIALLY COLLAPSED LEFT LUNG; CHIPPED 1 VERTEBRE IN BACK: 2 BONES BROKEN IN RIGHT SHOULDER.
C.M. HAD COMPLETED THE ENTRY CUT AND TURNED THE ENTRANCE TO ADJACENT X-CUT TO RIGHT,UNKNOWINGLY MINING UNDER GEOLIGIC ABNORMALITY IN THICKNESS OF COAL SEAM WHICH PINCHED DOWN FROM 20\\ OF TOP COAL TO 8\\ OVER DISTANCE OF 30\ CAUSING COLLAPSE OF STRATA WHEN IT SEPARATED WITHOUT APPARENT WARNING.
WHILE REPAIRING A 50T OFFHIGHWAY TRUCK, WORKING UNDER THE RAISED AND BLOCKED BED, THE BLOCKS KICKED OUT, AND THE BED FELL SUDDENLY AFTER THREE HOURS OF STABILITY, CRUSHING EMPLOYEE INSTANTLY, FRACTURING SKULL AND CAUSING OTHER MULTIPLE FRACTURES.
MAKING FINAL CUT ON PILLAR RECOVERY OF 40\ STUMPS WHEN TOP FAILED GIVING NO WARNING.
EMPL LEFT DOZER AND WALKED OUT ONTO COAL STOCKPILE SURFACE.SURFACE COLLAPSED INTO DRAW-OFF DOORS,PULLING VICTIM INTO VOID COVERING HIM WITH COAL.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING LOADER OPERATOR WAS UNAWARE HE WAS THERE WHEN HE PUT IT IN MOTION & BACKED OVER HIM.
40 LB PLUMB BOB ACCIDENTALLT FELL DOWN A SHAFT UNDER CONSTRUCTION APPX 1300\ STRIKING DECEASED IN HEAD.
ROCKFALL RESULTING IN DEATH-ROCKFALL WITHIN SUPPORTED AREA.