MSHA's accident file records 130 fatalities at US mines in 1987. Each links to its incident record.
BOOSTING 988 WI7H BATTERY CABLES--I,NAME WAS ON GROUND DIRECTING LOADER, BACK INTO POSITION, PINNING HIMSELF BETWEEN THE TIRES OF THE TWO LOADERS.
AN EMPLOYEE WIT2OUT AUTHORIZATION ENTERED THE MINE WITH A SCOOP AND WHILE UNDERGROUND AN EXPLOSION OCCURRED ENTIRE MINE AFFECTED
SHAFT SINKING B6CKET OVERTURNED OUT OF CRADLE PINNING MINER'S HEAD BETWEEN BUCKET LIP AND RIB.
I,NAME AND THRE9 EMPLOYEES WERE REVERSING ELECTRICAL ROTATION ON A 250 H.P. MOTOR, I,NAME AND OTHER EMPLOYEE WERE LIFTED OVER A FENCED TRANSFORMER GROUP WITH A FRONT-END LOADER. THE OVERHEAD F EED TO THE TRAN8FORMERS HAD NOT BEEN DISCONNECTED. I,NAME CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE OVERHEAD FEED TO THE TRANSFORMER WHILE REPLACING FUSED CUT-OUTS AND WAS ELECTROCUTED.
I NAME WAS STAN8ING DIRECTLY BELOW THE MOBILE CRANE BOOM GIVING THE CRANE OPERATOR SIGNAL DIRECTIONS WHEN THE HEADACH BALL FELL FREE FROM THE BOOM STRIKING I NAME ON THE HEAD
ROOF FALL APPRO3 600 FT INBY THE #1 PORTAL AT OR NEAR SPAD #6414 TRAPPING THE CONTINOUS MINER OPERATOR
I.NAME WAS FATA5LY INJURED 12-9-87 AT 8:20 PM WHEN A ROCK BRAWL FELL OFF A PILLAR OF COAL IN THE #2 ENTRY 0010 SECTION WHILE HE WAS LOADING COAL WITH THE SCOOP HE WAS UNDER ROOF SUPPORT AS THE ROCK FELL ON T2 THE SCOOP CRUSHING HIS HEAD AND BACK
I.NAME WAS INST5LLING A ROOF BOLT WHEN THE ROOF COLLAPSED CAUSING MULTIPLE CRUSHING INJURIES AND DEATH
EMPLOYEE WAS ON3TOP OF #3 STOPE-MUCK PILE, MOVING WATER HOSE, USED TO FREE UP STOPE, WHEN THE MUCK PILE GAVE WAY BENEATH HIM, DRAWING HIM INTO MUCK CHUTE.
HIGHWALL COLLAS1ED ON AUGER ON THE ABOVE DATE MSHA & COMPANY ARE INVESTIGATING
TRACTOR DRIVER 4AS MOVING TRACTOR FROM HIGH TOP INTO LOW TOP APPARENTLY DID NOT PUT HIS HEAD DOWN LOW ENOUGH WHEN TRACTOR MOVED INTO LOW TOP HEAD WAS PINNED BETWEEN LOW TOP AND FENDER ON TRAC TOR 3
EMPLOYEE WAS RE1OSITIONING A WINCH CABLE AROUND THE MAN HOIST CABLE WHEN THE HOIST CABLE BECAME TAUT STRIKING EMPLOYEE ACROSS THE FRONT PORTION OF HIS BODY
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING A GARDNER DENVER 16 HIGHWALL DRILL EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING NEAR A THIRTY FOOT HIGHWALL WHEN WITHOUT ANY WARNING DIRT AND MUD FELL FROM THE HIGHWALL COMPLETELY COVERING THE EMPLOYEE INSID9 DRILL CAB AND ALSO COVERING THE MAJOR PORTION OF THE DRILL THE FORCE OF THE DIRT AND MUD CRUSHED THE CAB OF THE DRILL RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF THE EMPLOYEE
VICTIM WAS ON #2 STOKER BELT LINE WHEN BELT WAS STARTED TO RECLAIM COAL FROM STORAGE VICTIM WAS TRANSPORTED THROUGH AN AREA OF APPROX 5 INCH CLEARANCE THROUGH A CHUTE AND INTO A RAIL CAR CAUSI NG MASSIVE HEAD3AND CHEST INJURIES RESULTING IN HIS DEATH
EMPLOYEES WERE 8ISASSEMBLING A RADIAL COAL STACKER THE VICTIM WAS REMOVING BOLTS FROM THE THIRD AND BASE SECTION WHEN THE FRAME UNDERNEATH COLLAPSED CRUSHING HIM
EMPLOYEE WAS AT7EMPTING TO FREE A CORE SAMPLE BARREL THAT HAD BECOME BOUND IN A HOLE EMPLOYEE PLACED A SPANNER WRENCH AND CHEATER BAR TO FREE EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING BETWEEN CAB AND WRENCH WHEN THE DRILL STEM3BROKE FREE AND S TRUCK VICTIM IN CHEST VICTIM HIT HEAD UPON DOOR SILL WHICH CAUSED SKULL FRACTURE FIRST AID AND CPR ADMINISTERED UNSUCCESSFULLY
NO WITNESS. VIC7IM HAD TRAMMED ROOF BOLTER TO #2 HEADING WAS FOUND BY MACHINE AFTER BEING HIT BY ROOF FALL
THE VITAMIN BAC5ED OVER A 12-FOOT HIGH BANK AT AN ANGLE. THE DOZER ROLLED OVER AND CRUSHED HIM. IT WAS A VERY OLD DOZER, NOT EQUIPPED WITH ROPS.
BACKED QUARRY H5UL TRICK TO CLOSE TO EDGE OF STOCKPILE DUMPING AREA ANDTRUCK OVERTURNED.
THE MAN WAS INS7ALLING FISH PLATES ALONG THE 2 WEST TRACK WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A GALIS TRACK JEEP THAT WAS PROPELLED INTO HIM BY A RUNAWAY MOTOR TRIP (5 LOADED CARS AND 1 15 TON MOTOR THE GA LIS JEEP STRUCK3THE MAN AND CARRIED HIM APPROX 27 FT PINNING HIM AGAINST AN OVERCAST
THE VICTIM WAS 2PERATING A CAT D-8 DOZER RIPPING MATERIAL ON A BENCH. HE GOT TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGE AND THE DOZER STARTED TO TIP OVER. THE VICTIM JUMPED OUT AND THE DOZER ROLLED OVER ON HIM.
EMPLOYEE WAS RE4OVING BRICK FROM THE KILN USING A CASE UNI-LOADER WITH A JACK HAMMER ATTACHMENT. HE LEANED OUT OF THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE CAB (RESON UNKNOWN) WITH THE HYDRALIC ARMS IN THE RAISED POSTION. THE A9M DROPPED AND PINNED THE EMPLOYEE AGAINST THE FRAME. HE LIFTED THE ARM OFF OF HIS BODY, SHUT OFF THE MACHINE AND WALKED APPROX. 20' BEFORE COLLAPPING.
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 SUPERVISING THE REMOVAL SHEAVES FROM THE DRAGLINE BOOM THE P & H CRANE OPERATOR HAD THE JIB IN THE AIR PREPARING TO LIFT THE HOIST CABLES OF THE DRAGLINE BOOM AND WHEN HE HAD LIFTED THE CAB5E APPROX 8 IN THE JIB FELL STRIKING EMPLOYEE AT THE BASE OF HIS HEAD THE FORCE OF THE IMPACT KNOCKED HIM INTO THE DRAGLINE SHEAVE THUS CAUSING THE CRUSHING FATAL INJURY TO EMPL
INSTALLED A NEW3HYDRAULIC LINE JOB WAS COMPLETED MECHANIC WAS 15-20 FT CLEAR OF MACHINE TOLD OPERATOR TO START IT UP AND TRY IT OUT OPERATOR CT STARTED MACHINE AND TURNED IT AWAY FROM THE ME CHANIC THE MECH5NIC WENT UNDERNEATH THE OPERATING MACHINE ON HIS OWN W/O SIGNALING OPERATOR TO TELL HIM WHAT HE WAS DOING
EMPLOYEE WAS IN8TALLING ROOF BOLTS WITH A 300 GALIS ROOF BOLTING MACHINE AFTER BOLT WAS INSTALLED A LARGE ROCK THAT THE ROOF BOLT HAD BEEN INSTALLED IN FELL AND CAUGHT THE EMPLOYEES HEAD BETWE EN THE ROCK AND3THE DRILL HEAD OF THE ROOF BOLTING MACHINE
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING LEAD MOTOR WHICH WAS ATTACHED TO A WAGON AND TAIL MOTOR IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE WAGON WENT OFF TRACK AND IN TURN CAUSED THE LEAD MOTOR TO DERAIL THE LEAD MOTOR IMPACTED WITH A CONCRET9 BLOCK WALL WHICH FELL DOWN AND CRUSHED THE EMPLOYEE
I,NAME WAS FATA5LY INJURED WHEN AN UNPLANNED SLOPE FAILURE OCCURRED. SEVERAL THOUSAND TONS OF LARGE BOULDERS AND LOOSE MATERIAL FROM APPROX. 70 FT HIGH PIT HIGHWALL FAILED, BURYING AND CRUSHIN G THE TRACK DRI5L OPERATOR.
TWO EMPLOYEES W9RE FATALLY INJURED WHEN A ROCK SLIDE OCCURRED. I,NAME WAS OPERATING A 235 CATERPILLAR BACKHOE USED TO LOAD EUCLID DUMP TRUCKS AND OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A GARDNER DENVER TRACK DRILL. T2E ROCK SLIDE OCCURRED CRUSHING THECAB OF THE BACKHOE, KNOCKING HIM OUT OF THE CAB AND COVERING HIM ALONG THE INSIDE OF THE TRACKS. OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING HOLES ALONG THE T
INDIVIDUAL WAS 1ULLING ROCK FROM THE ROOF WITH A ROOF BAR IN THE HAUL ROAD. THE ROCK FELL ON THE INDIVIDUAL CAUSING A FATAL INJURY.
INJURED WAS SCO2PING A INTERSECTION WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK DISLODGED FROM R.B. ROCK WAS 3-9-8 INCH THICK 14 INCHES WIDE AND 8 FT LONG AND STRUCK HIM CAUSING COMPOUND FRACTURE TO LEFT WRIST AND P OSSIBLE HEAD IN4URY.
VICTIM WAS HELP3NG TO PLACE A STEEL PLATE BURNER SHIELD (5X18X7/16--1600 LBS). AS THE PLATE TOUCHED THE GROUND THE CHAIN DISCONNECTED CAUSING THE PLATE TO TIP, THE VICTIM MOVED CLEAR AND THEN MOVED BACK IN F9ONT OF THE PLATE TO GUIDE IT AWAY FROM HIS DRILL. THE PLATE TIPPED ONTO HIM
EMPLOYEE CRAWLE8 UNDER BEND PULLEY GUARD TO RETRIEVE A HAMMER AND ON H IS WAY OUT HE BECAME ENTANGLED BETWEEN THE CONVEYOR BELT AND PULLEY. HE WAS PULLED THRU AND HE DROPPED 34 FT TO THE LEVEL BELOW. AL5 CRUSHING INJURIES WERE SUSTAINED DURING THE TRIP THRU THE PULLEY
THE VICTIM WAS 7RAMMING A CAT. MODEL 966C FRONTEND LOADER FROM THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED E-3 MINE SIGHT TO POTTER MINING CO SHOP FACILITY LOCATED 295 MILES AWAY. AFTER HAVING TRAVELED 8 MILES ALON G THE ELEVATED 9OADWAY, THE FRONTEND LEFT THE ROADWAY AND TRAVELED OVER THE OUTER EDGE OF THE ROADWAY, OVERTURNING ONTO ITS RIGHT SIDE. FRONTEND SLID DOWN THE EMBANKEMENT AND CAME TO REST AFT
EMPLOYEE ENTERE8 DUST BIN TO HELP CLEAR BLOCKAGE OF DISCHARGE CHUTE. DUST COLAPSED OR SLID COVERING UP EMPLOYEE CAUSING HIS DEATH
I NAME AND I NA4E EMPLOYEES OF THE OL&B RAILROAD, WERE CUTING UP A RAILROAD CAR, WORKING ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE CAR. I NAME HEARD THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CAR FALL. HE THEN SAW I NAME LYING UNDER THE CAR S3DE. I NAME WAS TAKEN BY HELICOPTER TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE DIED 9 12 87
MAST OF DRILLIN1 RIG MADE CONTACT WITH POWER LINES WHEN MAST WAS BEING LOWERED AFTER INSTALLING MONITORING WELL. DRILL OPERATOR WAS ELECTOCUTED, RESULTING IN DEATH
OUR NORMAL ROUT3NE WAS TO HAUL GRAVEL IN MORINGS & ORE TO CRUSHER IN AFTERNOON. LANES IN ROAD PREVENTED HAULING OF GRAVEL. SO WENT TO ORE DUMP TO HAUL ORE, SEING NO BERM & VERTICAL BANK CAUS BY LOADER REMOV3NG DURING NITE. WENT AND TOLD DRIVERS OF CHANGE THAT THERE WAS NO BERM OUT IN FRONT WOULD GET CAT TO PUCH OVER . MR CARLSON DID NOT FOLLOW ORDERS AND BACK HIS TRK 200 FT STRAI
ACCIDENT RESULT9D IN THE ONE SCRAPER BEING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD
AS HE WAS WALKI3G NEAR THE UPRIGHT DOOR PANEL, A STRONG GUST OF WIND CAUGHT THE DOOR PANEL PUCHING IT OVER ON TOP OF HIM, INNING HIM, AND CAUSING THE INJURIES. THE WIND WAS VERY STRONG AND SW SWIRLING IN MAN2 DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. THE FORKLIFT OPERATOR STATED HE FELT A STRONG BLAST OF WIND JUST PRIOR TO THE DOOR PANEL FALLING OVER
MAN WAS IN THE 3MMEDIATE VACINITY OF A 50 MOTOR PARKED INBY THE BOTTOM ENDSWITCH OF THE 6 SOUTH SIDE TRACK WHEN ANOTHER MOTOR, PULLING A TRIP OF LOADS, ERRONEOUSLY ENTERED THE SIDE TRACK. THE ENTERING MOTOR 8TRUCK THE STATIONARY MOTOR FORCING IT INTO A MINE JEEP THAT IN TURN RAN OVER THE VICTIM AS HE ATTEMPTED TO FLEE THE AREA.
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING AN 8 TON BATTERY MOTOR AND HAD A COLLISION WITH A HAULAGE TRAIN AND RECEIVED MASSIVE CRUSH INJURY TO CHEST. HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE
THE VICTIM DROW3ED AFTER RECEIVING AN ELECTRICAL SHOCK WHICH CAUSED HIM TO FALL INTO THE WATER STRIKING HIS HEAD ON A BLUNT OBJECT AS HE FELL. HE WAS ATEMPTING TO ALIGN THE ENDS OF A METAL D DISCHARGE PIPR 3EAR DREDGE. A BARE SECTION IN THE POWER CONDUCTOR CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE METAL STRUCTURE OF THE PONTOON THEREBY CAUSING ONE END OF THE PIPE TO BE ENERGIZED AT APPROX 290 VO
THE VICTIM WAS 2PERATING A RUBBER TIRED TRACTOR ATTACHED TO A SHOP MADE BUCKET ON THE HAULROAD WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL ON THE TRACTOR 27X14X3 IN THICKNESS AS THE TRACTOR MOVED THE ROCK FELL IN THE DECK TR5CTOR PINCHING HIM IN THE STOMACH FATABLITY INJURY HIM.
THE FATAL INJUR3ES WHERE ENCURRED WHILE THE MAN WAS TRAMMING THE MOBILE BRIDGE CONVEYOR BEHIND THE MINER. THE MAN WAS TRAPPED BETWEEN THE MACHINE AND THE RIB.
VICTIM WAS OPER5TING A MACK MODEL 600 TRUCK EQUIPPED WITH A 4000-GALLON WATER TANK. WHILE APPLYING WATER TO THE MINE HAULAGE ROADWAY WHICH WAS UNDER RECONSTRUCTION, FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON, TH E VICTIM WAS BA7KING THE TRUCK DOWN AN INCLINED SECTION OF THE ROADWAY WHEN THE REAR TANDEM WHEELS TRAVELED OVER THE OUTER EDGE OF THE ROADWAY, ALLOWING THE TRUCK TO CAPSIZE. THE VICTIM WAS F
EMPLOYEE WAS PU8HING MATERIAL FROM AN OLD WASHER FINES POND. THE POND HAD BEEN DRAINED AND ALLOWED TO DRY FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. HE WAS PUSHING THE MATERIAL OVER THE HIGHWALL WHEN A SECTION BEHIN D HIM BROKE LOO8E ENGULFING THE DOZER TO WINDOW LEVEL AND PUSHED THE DOZER OVER THE HIGHWALL.
AS A RESULT OF 7HE ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION IT WAS DETERMINED THE 542 D-8 CAT DOZER, BEING OPERATED BY THE VICTIM, ENTERED THE 14 COAL HOPPER. THE VICTIM CLIMBED, FELL, OR WAS THROWN FROM THE CA B OF THE DOZER,3HE THEN FELL THROUGH THE HOPPER, ONTO THE FEEDER BELT AND CARRIED TO THE 2 WASHBOX WHERE HE WAS DISCOVERED.
A DRILLER 8'10"3FT OVERBURDEN VERTINAL DRILL UNIT NO. W 7033, HAD JUST BEEN POSITIONED ABOUT 30FT AWAY AND PARALLEL TO THE HIGHWALL EDGE IN AREA D, BY THE VICTIM, WHEN THE REAR LEFT LEVELING JACK SANK INTO3THE GROUND, CAUSING THE DRILTECH TO OVERTURN. THE VICTIM, BEING ON THE DRILL BENCH, WAS BETWEEN THE DRILTECH AND HIGHWALL EDGE WHEN HE WAS STRUCK AND CARRIED WITHT THE MACHINE
WHILE MAKING RE1ULAR ADVANCES IN MINING, A PIECE OF THE MINE ROOF FELL UNEXPECTEDLY ON THE MINER WITH PIECE FALLING AROUND IT. I NAME WAS SETTING TIMBERS WHEN THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED AND BECOM.. XXX BECAME CRUS2ER BENEATH THE ROCK AND WAS FATALLY INJURED.
THE EMPLOYEE CO4PLETED THE INSTALLATION OF A MECHANICAL ROOFBOLT AND WAS STANDING UNDER SUPPORTED TOP WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A PIECE OF COAL AND GRAY SHALE MEASURING APPROX. 3-1/2FT X 2-1/2 FTX 6 INCH THICK. 7HE MATERIAL FELL FROM A SLICKEN-SIDED SLIP LOCATED BETWEEN THE BOLTS OF A PROPERLY SUPPORTED AREA. THE EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A CRUSHING INJURY TO HIS HEAD.
WE WERE SETTING3SAND PUMP ON BARGE. BARGE WAS FACING WEST WITH 3 MEN ON WEST SIDE, TWO MEN ON EAST AND ONE MAN ON NORTH SIDE OF SAND PUMP. THEN INDEPENDENT LINE BROKE DROPPING THE HEADACHE BAL ABOUT 25 -30 FE9T STRIKING THE NORTH MAN ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HEAD AND FACE
I NAME WAS FATA5ITY INJURED BY A ROOF FALL ACCIDENT MEASURING 12X3X0-12 IN THICKNESS HE WAS SETTING AN UNSUPPORTED FACE AREA. HE WAS IN THE FACE AREA OF #2 ENTRY THE MINER WAS OPERATING IN 2 C ROSS CUT. 3
THE VICTIM WAS ATTEMPTING TO REPAIR THE HOIST MECHANISM ON THE BED OF A DUAL-AXLED DUMP TRUCK. THEY HAD WHICH CONTAINED APPROX. 7 TONS OF WASTE ROCK, WAS BEING HELD IN A RAISED POSITION BY A W OODEN POST AND A FORK LIFT, BOTH LOCATED ON THE DRIVERS SIDE OF THE TRUCK BETWEEN THE BED AND THE FRAME. THE HOIST CYLINDER MECHANISM FAILED WHERE ATTACHED TO THE TRUCK FRAME, ALLOWING THE BE
THE EMP HAVING 0INISHED HIS REGULAR CLEAN-UP DUTIES, WENT TO THE CONTROL ROOM TO COOL OFF. ON HIS OWN HE DECIDED TO WASH THW WINDOWS OF THE CONTROL ROOM. HE WENT OUTSIDE OF THE CONTROL ROOM AND WENT THROUG2 OR OVER THE HANDRAIL ONTO A 8 1/2 LEDGE TO CLEAN THE WINDOWS. HE FELL FROM THIS LEDGE ONTO THE VERTICAL 1/2 IN PIPE THE TOP OF WHICH WAS ABOUT 4 FT BELOW THE LEDGE AND ABOUT
ACCIDENT VICTIM3WAS AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR HAULER AND WAS ALONE AT THE QUARRY LOADING HIS TRUCK WITH A RUBBER TIRED FRONT END LOADER OWNED BY THE QUARRY OPERATOR. WHEN A QUARY EMP RETURNED TO THE QUARRY H9 FOUND THE FRONT END LOADER HAD OVERTURNED AT A DITCH WITH THE VICTIM BENEATH THE MACHINE. VICTIM WAS DEAD WHEN FOUND
UTHE FIELD ERECTION CREW WAS CLEANING ENDS OF WIRE ROPE IN PREPARATION FOR APPLYING WIRE ROPE SOCKETS THE CLEANING AGENT WAS GASOLINE. THE GASLINE IGNITED AND COVERED THE UPPER PART OF I NAME S BODY APPROX. 60% OF I NAME UPPER BODY RECEIVED THIRD DEGREE BURNS.
EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING DUST OFF OF A BEND PULLEY WITH A METAL SCRAPER. THE SCRAPER WAS CAUGHT BY THE PULLEY AND THE EMPLOYEE WAS PULLED INTO THE CONVEYOR BETWEEN THE BELT AND THE PULLEY
OPERATOR OF A C5RRIER MOUNTED DRILL BACKED THE UNIT OVER A 26 FOOT QUARRY FACE ONTO THE FLOOR WHILE POSITIONING THE DRILL FROM THE REAR MOUNTED REMOTE CONTROL CAB
THE POWER FOR T2E TAKEOFF PUMP WAS DEFECTIVE AND THE VICTIM CRAWLED UNDER THE TRACTOR TO MANUALLY ENGAGE THE PUMP. WHEN THE DUMP BED CAME DOWN IT CAUSED THE TRACTOR TO ROLL FORWARD AND THE FRONT DUAL ROLL9D OVER HIS HEAD AND UPPER CHEST
THE MAN WAS PUT7ING BELT ON THE OVERLAND CONVEYOR HE WALK UP THE CONVEYOR PULLING A 3/8INCH STEEL CABLE TO HOOK ON TO THE BELT TO PULL THE TWO ENDS TOGETHER HE MADE CONTACT WITH 12470 VOLTS WI TH STEEL CABLE 2E WAS PULLING.
EMPLOYEE WAS CH5NGING TIRE ON TRUCK. JACK KICKED-OUT FROM UNDER TRUCK STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN CHEST.
I,NAME WAS BACK3NG OFF-BOARD OPERATED CONTINUOUS MINER AWAY FROM FACE AFTER MAKING CUTWHEN MACHINE RAN OVER REMOTE CABLE CAUSING IT TO BE INOPERATIVE. OTHER EMPLOYEE, ROOF BOLTER OPERATOR, CAM E TO ASSIST I,N5ME IN FREEING CABLE FROM UNDER MACHINE AND TO REPAIR CABLE WHEN A ROOF ROCK APPROX. 5 FT X 4 FT X 5" THICK FILL ON I,NAME AND MACHINE CAUSING DEATH TO HIM AND BACK BRUISES TO
CLEANING OUT DI7CH USING CRANE DRAGLINE WITH CLAM SHELL.CRANE APPEARED TO MOVE FORWARD GOING OVER EDGE OF BANK AND OVERTURNED.I.NAME JUMPED OUT OF CRANE AND WAS BURIED UNDER DIRT,ROCK & SAND F ROM HEAD TO WAI8T.MASSIVE HEAD INJURIES,FATALITY.
CHECKING ROAD G9ADE WHEN GRADER BACKED OVER HIM.
EMPL NOT WHERE 2E WAS SUPPOSED TO BE-NEGLIGENCE ON PART OF EMPL.FELL INTO TRUCK LOAD OUT BUNKER.GRAVEL CAVED IN ON HIM AND EMPL SUFFOCATED.WET MATERIAL PLUGGING UP HOPPER.WENT ON TOP OF PILE U SING A PICK TO 6NPLUG MATERIAL.
THE TRAILING CA6LE ON #2 BOLTER WAS DEFECTIVE IN THAT THE GROUND WIRE WAS INTO, A SPLICE IN THE CABLE. FOR SOME UNDETERMINED REASON THE CIRCUIT BREAKER DID NOT TRIP. WHEN THE VICTIM ATTEMPTED TO START THE M5CHINE, HE WAS ELECTROCUTED. THIS OCCURRED IN #2 ENTRY, ONE CROSS CUT OUTBY THE FACE.
I.NAME IN FEED 2OPPER UNKNOWN TO OTHER EMPLOYEES.LOADER OPERATOR WAS LOADING A TRUCK AND RETURNED TO LOAD FEED HOPPER UNAWARE THAT I.NAME HAD ENTERED THE HOPPER.LOADER OPERATOR FILLED HOPPER W ITH ABOUT 48 CU6IC YARDS OF BLASTED ROCK COVERING THE VICTIM.
APPARETLY WHILE3ATTEMPTING TO SWITCH MANBUS FROM THE 8 RIGHT SECTION TRACK OVER TO THE 3 WEST TRACK, I,NAME CONTACTED ENERGIZED TROLLEY WIRE. I,NAME WAS FOUND BY OTHER MINE EMPLOYEES IN CONTAC T WITH THE TROL5EY WIRE.
COAL WAS BEING 5OADED FROM THE NO.2 PILLAR OF THE 001 WORKING SECTION. I,NAME WAS STANDING AT THE CROSSCUT BETWEEN THE NO.2 AND 3 ENTRIES OBSERVING THE LOADING CYCLE WHEN THE ROOF COLLAPSED. T HE VICTIM WAS C2VERED BY THE ROOF FALL AND THE LOADING MACHINE OPERATOR WAS TEMPORARILY TRAPPED BENEATH THE CANOPY OF THE JOY 14 BU-10 LOADING MACHINE.
CONTRACTOR EXPR9SSLY INSTRUCTED AND SUBCONTR AGREED ON PM OF 6-11-87 THAT EXCAVATION REQUIRED WOULD BE BENCHED AS REQ BY 30 CFR SECTION 56.3001 ET SEQ.NEVERTHELESS SUBCTR OWNER AND EMPLS COMME NCED PROJECT AT30730 AM 6-12-87 AND EXCAVATED A TRENCH 3'-3.5'WIDE BY 10'DEEP X 55'LONG FOR INSTALLATION OF 1'DIA CMP SEDIMENT POND OUTFALL.THE TRENCH WAS VERTICAL,NOT SUPPORTED AND CONTRARY
TRAVELING UNDER3OVERCAST VICTIM CAUGHT HEAD ON STEEL BEAM WILL OPERATING A S & S 488 SCOOP.
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 USING A PERSONNEL CARRIER TO PULL THE CONVEYOR CHAIN ON THE CONTINUOUS MINER (JOY 14-CM5) BY USING A CHAIN HOIST BETWEEN THE TWO PIECES OF EQUIPMENT. THE EMPLOYEE WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN T2E PERSONNEL CARRIER RAN UP UNDER THEBOOM OF THE MINER.
EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING ROOF FALL ON MINER. A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF, WITHOUT WARNING, CRUSHING THE EMPLOYEE. THE ROCK WAS APPROX. 8-12 INCHES THICK AND APPROX. 8 FEET ROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS AT3THE LEFT SIDE OF ROOF BOLTING MACHINE WHEN HE APPARENTLY WENT IN BY THE ATRS SYSTEM WHERE A ROCK FALL OCCURRED CAUSING HIS DEATH.
EMPL CRUSHED IN3CONVEYOR BELT ASSEMBLY.WAS ALONE AT THE TIME WITH NO EVIDENCE OF WORK BEING PERFORMED.APPARENTLY CLIMBED OVER THE SIDE OF CONVEYOR SYSTEM TO THE STRUCTURAL SUPPORT BELOW AND TH US BACAME EXPOS9D TO AND CAUGHT IN THE TAKE-UP ASSEMBLY.WE DONT KNOW WHY HE DID SO.
I,NAME WAS TROU6LE SHOOTING. HE WAS UNDER THE ROCK TRUCK BED SHIFTING THE TRANSMISSION BY HAND WITH THE ENGINE RUNNING & HE WAS ROCKING THE TRUCK BED BACK & FORTH-THE TRUCK WAS SAFETY PINNEDON THE LEFT SIDE &3THE SAFETY PIN BRACKET BROKE & THE TRUCK BED FELL DOWN ON TOP OF HIM.
FREE END OF EXP2SED 480 3 PHASE CABLE (6/3C) WERE LYING ON THE GROUND ENERGIZED. NEAR THE HIGH VOLTAGE SUBSTATION AND THE VICTI, CAME IN CONTACT WITH IT.
STARTING WATER 1UMP EMPL CAME INTO CONTACT WITH 480 VOLT ELECTRIC CURRENT-(STARTER BOX,CUTLER HAMMER,614-2).
ATTEMPTING TO A3CHOR DREDGE EMPL LOST BALANCE AND FELL ONTO BACK OF THE WORKBOAT.BOAT TOOK WATER AND SANK.NOT WEARING A LIFE JACKET..STANDING IN BOAT WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE.VICTIM COULDNT SW IM. 3
HOIST PUMP & PO3TON PLATFORM OUT OF WATER WITH DRAGLINE I.NAME WAS STANDING ON PLAT FORM AS H OISTING IT UP 3 EYES WELDED ON PLATFORM BROKE LOOSE & IT TILTED THE PLATFORM & I.NAME FELL OFF BA CKWARDS HE STRU7K CONCRETE HEDAD FIRST.
NO DAMAGE TO EQ6IP.NOT WEARING SAFETY BELT OR HAR HAT-FELL OFF CONVEYOR BELT WHICH WAS LOCKED OUT EMPL INSTRUCTED IN THIS JOB-MINE EQUIP NOT A FACTOR.HELPING CHANGE CONVEYOR BELT AND FELL OFF 12' TO THE GRO6ND AND STRUCK HIS HEAD.
THE VICTIM WAS 8ERVICING THE SCOOP AND APPARENTLY WHEN ATTEMPTING TO POSITION THE GREASE FITTINGS HE POSITIONED HIMSELF OVER THE BACK OF THE OPERATORS COMPARTMENT AND TRAMMED THE SCOOP FORWARD FROM A HIGH AR9A AND WAS TRAPPED BETWEEN THE SCOOP AND THE ROOF.
OFF/LOADING 6''3JOINT OF PIPE FROM TRUCK FLOAT,PIPE CALIPERS FAILED ALLOWING 1 JOINT 40'' LONG TO FALL.PIPE THEN ROLLED INTO PIPELINE TRENCH STRIKING EMPL ON HIS HEAD.(DIED OF HEAD INJURIES 5- 23-87) 3
THE INTERSECTIO3 IN THE #5 HEADING, LAST OPEN CROSSCUT FELL WITHOUT WARNING RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES TO THE VICTIM. THE INTERESECTION FELL ABOVE THE BOLT ANCHORAGE.
ROCK FELL FROM 2IGHWALL, HIT CANOPY, BOUNCED AND HIT EMPLOYEE. THIS RESULTED IN HIS DEATH.
I,NAME WAS WORK3NG AT #2 BELT HEAD WHERE HE CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE POWER CIRCUIT IN THE CONTROL BOX FOR #2 BELT. HE WAS KILLED INSTANTLY.
FATALLY INJURED3EMPLOYEE WAS EITHER IN A ROTARY BREAKER AND THE BREAKER STARTED UP THROUGH A SHORT IN THE POWER OR HEWAS CLEARING THE ENTRANCE CHUTE TO THE ROTARY BREAKER FROM THE FEED BELTS A ND FELL INTO TH9 BREAKER WHILE IT WAS IN MOTION.
CONE CRUSHER TR5ILER WAS KNOCKED OFF STANDING BLOCKS AND A CRANE WAS MOVING IN TO PICK UP TRAILER.AS CRANE MOVED IN THE DIRECTOR AND OPER WERE LOOKING AT OVERHEAD WIRES.OPER SAW SOMETHING OUT OF CORNER OF E2E AND WENT FOR BRAKE AND HIT GAS.PINNED VICTIM BETWEEN OUTRIGGER AND CATWALK.
EAST CONVEYOR A7 PLANT NOT ADEQUATELY GROUNDED.INSULATION ON PHASE CONDUCTOR FAILED CAUSING CONVEYR FRAME TO BECOME ENERGIZED.SHOCKED AND FELL AGAINST CONVEYOR EXPOSING HIM TO 480 VOLT ELEC SH
BRAKE ADJUSTMEN7 BOLT BROKE CAUSING BOOM TO FALL.VICTIM WAS EITHER PUSHED OR FELL INTO QUARRY PIT.
..EMPL NEGOTIAT3NG RIGHT HAND TURN OFF BONHAM RD BETWEEN UNITS R-31 & R-32 WHEN RIGHT FRONT TIRE OF FORKLIFT HE WAS DRIVING STRUCK AND RODE UP CONCRETE BASE/POLE OF PIPE RACK SUPPORT.FORKLIFT ROLLED OVER TO3LEFT-EAST-& PINNED EMPL BETWEEN CONCRETE ROADWAY & CANOPY OF FORKLIFT.EST WEIGHT OF FORKLIFT-12,000 LBS.EST RATED LOAD CAPACITY 6,000-7,000 LBS.NO EYEWITNESSES BUT CO-WORKER HE
THE ACCIDENT OC7URRED WHEN THE VICTIM WAS PARTICIPATING IN DETONATING A CHARGED ROUND FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGHWALL FOR A FUTURE UNDERGROUND MINE OPENING AND WAS STRUCK BY FLYING ROCK FROM THE BLAST. 3
I,NAME WAS WORK3NG AT THE TRUCK DUMP AREA OF THE JENKINJONES PREP. PLANT, WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A 50 TON AUTO CAR HAULAGE TRUCK, RECEIVING FATAL INJURIES.
THE VICTIM WAS 8TRUCK BY A PIECE OF LOOSE COAL RIB ON THE LONGWALL SECTION NEXT TO THE STAGE LOADER, CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HISHEAD AGAINST A METAL FLANGE ON THE BARREL OF THE SPEED REDUCER-CAU SING A SEVERE H9AD INJURY.
ELECTRICIAN CHA3GING STONE WASHER MOTOR STARTER CABLES 440 VOLTS WHEN UNSCREWING ONE LINE WITH ALLEN WRENCH,CABLE WAS ENERGIZED AND RECD ELEC SHOCK BEING ELECTROCUTED.PRELIM-4040 VOLTS.
OPERATOR TURN T2WARDS EDGE OF 45 DEGREE SLOPE,GOT THE 2 LEFT SIDE TIRES ON EDGE,.LOADER THEN ROLLED OVER SIDEWAYS CATCHING AND PINNING OPERATOR UNDER THE LOADER & THUS KILLING HIM...MODEL 988- ROPS WAS FOR 950 MODEL LOADER...11'BANK,NO BERM.
EMPL CONTACTED 2IGH POWER TRANSMISSION LINE WHILE REPAIRING DISCONNECT SWITCH..WORKING ON 4160 HIGH VOLTAGE POLE.FAILED TO CHECK HIS DISCONNECTS.
THE VICTIM WAS 2PERATING A SCOOP ON ROUTE TO THE SURFACE TO PICK UP MAINTENANCE SUPPLIES, WHEN HE APPARENTLY GOT HIS HEAD CAUGHT BETWEEN THE SCOOP AND THE MINE ROOF, RESULTING IN HIS DEATH.
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING PARTS TRUCK TRAVELING ON MINE ACCESS ROAD. WHILE TRAVELING ON ROAD, EMPLOYEE CROSSED INTO THE PATH OF A TIRE TRUCK RESULTING IN A HEAD ON COLLISION.
SEE ATTACHMENT-8ECEASED REPORTED TO WORK..FOR THE 5:30PM TO 1:30AM SHIFT.. FROM PRELIM: DRIVING HAUL TRUCK WHEN IT WENT OUT OF CONTROL.EITHER THROWN OR JUMPED FROM VEHICLE AND WAS RUN OVER BY REAR WHEEL. 3
I.NAME WAS IN T2E SCREENING ROOM AND ONE OF HIS CO-WORKERS NOTICED THAT I.NAME WAS MISSING. UPON GOING TO CHECK ON HIM, THEY FOUND HIM WITH HIS ARM CAUGHT IN THE CONVEYOR BELT TAIL PULLEY. THE FREED HIM FROM 7HE TAIL PULLEY AND TOOK HIM TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON ARRIVAL
WAS DROPPING R/9 CARS RIDING FRONT END BRAKE & RAM INTO ANOTHER CAR & HE WAS CRUSHED BETWEEN THE CARS.
THE VICTIM WAS 4AITING ALONG SIDE OF ROOF BOLTING MACHING WITH HIS BACK TOWARD AN UNSUPPORTED AREA WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK 15' LONG 8' WIDE 2"-22" THICK FELL & STRUCK HIM.
VICTIM WAS PROC9SSING A LOAD OF COAL IN THE 2ND CUT OF A CUTBACK OFF #1 ENTRY WITH A JOY 14BU8 LOADING MACHINE WHEN A PORTION OF THE MINE ROOF FELL CRUSHING THE VICTIM. THE ACCIDENT OCCURED IN AN INTERSE7TION APP 200' INBY THE MINE SAND%@**%%* PORTAL. THE ROOF HAD BEEN SUPPORTED WHERE THE ROOF CONDITIONS WERE CHANGING FROM SANDSTONE TO SLATE. THE ROOF HAD BEEN SUPPORTED WITH 4
EE, I.NAME WAS 7AKING DOWN ROCK WHEN A KETTLE BOTTOM UNDETECTED ABOVE DRAW ROCK FELL.
EE WAS INSPECTI3G WATER SPRAYS ON FEEDER. WHILE LEANING OVER EE INADVERTANTLY HIT BOOM LEVER ON PICK/BREAKER WITH LEG CAUSING THE PICK/BREAKER TO RAISE. EES HEAD WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN PICK/BREAK ER ASSEMBLY & R2OF OF MINE. EE WAS GIVEN 1ST AID BY AN E.M.T. & TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL. EE DIED 3-25-87 FROM INJURIES RECEIVED 3-16-87.
ROCK FALL OF 100 - 150# STRIKING HIM ON TOP OF HEAD, CAUSING MASSIVE INTERNAL INJURIES
WHILE THE MINER3AND HIS PARTNER WERE IN THE STOPE, A ROCKBURST OCCURRED, THE ROCKBURST TRIGGERED A GROUND FALL WHICH KNOCKED DOWN, COVERED, AND KILLED THE MINER. APPROX THREE FEET OF MUCK WERE ON TOP OF THE M3NER
HE WAS LAST SEE3 THROWING A PIECE OF CABLE UP IN A TREE TO BRAKE SOME LIMBS OFF TO MAKE A FIRE. HE WAS FOUND FACE DOWN A LONG FENCE LINE NEAR HIS STATION. THE FOREARM AND EMPLOYEE IMMEDIATELY STARTED CPR UNT3L THE EMS ARRIVED
AT #6 SHOVEL - 4AS HIT BY A CABLE 2 1/4" DIAMETER WHICH FELL APPROX 25' AND HIT EMPLOYEE WHO WAS WORKING BELOW ON SHOVEL
SERVICE TRUCK W5S PARKED WITHOUT SETTING THE EMERGENCY BRAKE THE TRUCK WAS NOT LEFT IN GEAR, AND WHEEL CHOCKS WERE NOT USED. NONE OF THESE PRECAUTIONS WERE TAKEN ALLOWING THE TRUCK TO ROLL BA CKWARD PUSHING 9MPLOYEE INTO THE SCREEN PLANT
TWO MEN WERE RE4OVING A TAILSECTION FROM A 24 X 60 FT LONG PORTABLE CONV. WHEN THE LAST BOLT WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE TAILSECTION THE HEADSECTION TOOK A NOSE DIVE THROWING I.NAME IN THE AIR I.NAM E HIT HIS HEAD 2N THE CONV. ON HIS WAY DOWN TO THE GROUND
ATTEMPTING TO 2ANG LIGHTS ON POLE POWER WAS STILL ON MADE CONTACT WITH POWER LINE.
ON 2-20-87 AT 9410 AM IN THE 3 LEFT OFF 2 SOUTHWEST SECTION IN #2 ENTRY OUTBY SURVEY STATION 1777 A LARGE SECTION OF MINE ROOF 50' LONG 20' WIDE & 15' HIGH FELL ON A JOY 12 CM C/M RESULTING IN FATAL HEAD INJU9IES TO THE C/M OPERATOR.
INJURED WAS ASS3GNED TO ASSIST WITH BLASTING. HE WAS APPROX 100' AWAY FROM HIS PARTNER. PARTNER LIT FUSE AND SIGNALED AND THEN LEFT AREA. INJURED, FOR SOME REASON, WENT TO BLASTING AREA AND FE LL INTO ADJACEN7 STOPE, APPROX 60', THE EXACT REASON THE EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE AREA OR WHY HE FELL IS NOT KNOWN AT THIS TIME
VICTIM WAS INST5LLING THE SECOND WATER PUMP TO DEWATER THE DITCH WHEN HE CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE ENGERIZED POWER CABLE AND RECEIVED AN ELECTRICAL SHOCK. POWER WAS SUPPLIED FROM A PORTABLE GEN ERATOR MODEL NO1 20 PL-L1 VOLT 120-240 SINGLE PACE
EMP CLIMBED ONT2 A MOVING RAIL CAR TO MANUALLY ACTUATE THE SELINOID VALVE WHICH OPENS THE HOPPER DOORS. HE SLIPPED AND WAS HOLDING ONTO A RAIL CAR LADDER RUNG WITH HIS LEFT HAND. AT THIS TIME HE BECAME PINCH9D IN BETWEEN THE MOVING RAIL CAR AND A STATIONARY CONTACT BUMPER POST AT CHEST LEVEL. AFTER THE EMPLOYEE WAS FREED, SURROUNDING PERSONS STARTED EMERGENCY FIRST AID PROCEDURES U
CRUSHER WAS TUR3ED OFF DURING EMPLOYEES LUNCH BREAK. HE WENT INTO THE CRUSHER WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE. WHEN THE EMPLOYEES RETURNED TO WORK FROM LUNCH AND ONE OF THEM TURNED ON THE CRUSHER NOT K NOWING I.NAME W5S IN THERE. HE WAS CAUGHT IN THE MACHINE AND DIED INSTANTLY
FOREMAN DISCOVE9ED A BELT LINE NOT RUNNING, AFTER CHECKING CALLED THE ELECTRICIANS BELIEVING THERE WAS AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM. HE THEN DISCOVERED A ROCK JAMMED ON THE RETURN BELT AND TAIL PULLE L. HE TRIED PRY3NG THE ROCK OUT WITH A PRY BAR WITH NO SUCCESS AND CALLED FOR ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT. THE POWER WAS TURNED OFF. HE LAID ON THE BELT WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER AND B EGAN HITTING THE R
I BELIEVE THAT 7HE CAB ON THE D9G DID NOT FULLY LET HIM SEE WHERE HE WAS AT. HE GOT TOO CLOSE TO THE BANK GAVE AWAY.
I.NAME WAS OPER5TING A MOTOR WITH A STRING OF NINE CARS AND WAS TRAVELING THROUGH THE DUMP WHEN THE TRAIN CAME TO A SUDDEN STOP WITH THE SECOND CAR ON THE CAMEL-BACK. HE APPARENTLY GOT OFF TH E MOTOR TO DETE9MINE THE CAUSE OF THE STOP. HE APPARANTLY APPOACHED THE OPEN DUMP AND REACHED UP FOR THE WAND SWITCH TO TURN OFF THE WATER SPRAYS AND FELL INTO THE OPEN
TEARING DOWN CO3CRETE SILO, CUT TOO MANY STEEL BANDS FROM SILO. CONCRETE BLOCKS AND SAND BURIED HIM.
WHILE EMPLOYEE 4AS BACKING INTO A DUMP SITE HIS TRUCK OVERTURNED ON A 50' BENCH WITH HIM INSIDE
EMP WAS REPLACI3G A HYDRAULIC HOSE UNDER THE REAR CONVEYOR OF MARIETTA DRUM MINER HIS HELPER WAS WORKING WITH HIM FROM THE OPERATOR COCKPIT. THEEMPLOYEE WAS IN UNDER THE CONVEYOR TRYING TO INS TALL A NEW HYDR5ULIC HOSE. THE CONVEYOR WASNTO BLOCKED IN PLACE. EITHER HIS HELPER OR THE HOSE STRUCK THE CONTROL LEVER FOR THE CONVEYOR LIFT JACKS. THE CONVEYOR FELL PINNING THE EMPLOYEE AGA
WHILE CARRYING 4ATERIALS BACK TO HIS SECTION EE EXPERIENCED CHEST PAIN & SHORTNESS OF BREATH. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO T HE HOSPITAL & ADMITTED FOR I/C. HE WAS DIAGNOSED LATER AS HAVING SUFFER ED A MYOCARDIAL3INFARTION.
EMPLOYEE WAS TR2ING TO DISCHARGE HOSE BEFORE HIS HELPERS GOT THERE BY SITTING ON ONE PART OF THE HOSE AND APPARNETLY SLIPPED OFF AND DROWNED
TRUCK DRIVER (V3CTIM) RUN OVER BY UNKNOWN VEHICLE
SEVERAL EMPLOYE9S ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE ENGINE FROM DREDGE AT SAND PLANT #1 WITH BOOM ATTACHED TO BUCKET OF KAWASAKI K-80 LOADER. CABLE SUPPORTING BOOM GAVE WAY RESULTING IN BOOM FALLING ON I. NAME RESULTS OF3ACCIDENT WERE FATAL INJURIES TO I.NAME. HE WAS STANDING UNDER THE BOOM AGAINST ADVISE OF SUPERVISOR AND LOADER OPERATOR I.NAME
I.NAME WAS IN T2E PROCESS OF UNLOADING HIS BOTTOM DUMP RAIL CARS AT THE METCALF HOPPER WHEN FOR UNKNOWN REASONS, ONE OF THE CARS TURNED OVER ON ITS SIDE AND I.NAME WAS FOUND LAYING UNDERNEATH IT 3