MSHA's accident file records 114 fatalities at US mines in 1991. Each links to its incident record.
THE MINE FOREMAN WAS MUCKING WITH AN LHD INTO AN ONE TRANSFER RAISE. IT IS SUSPECTED THAT A BOULDER ROLLED BACK OUT OF THE BUCKET WHICH WAS IN THE DUMP POSITION AND STRUCK THE VICTIM WHO WAS I N THE OPERATOR'S COMPARTMENT OF THE LHD.
THE VICTIM WAS OWNER/OPERATOR OF A TEN-WHEEL PETERBUILT GRAVEL TRUCK. HE REGULARLY HAULED FINISHED PRODUCT FROM THE STOCKPILE AT THIS PROPERTY TO CUSTOMERS LOCATED ON THE WESTERN SLOPE OF THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS. THE MORNING OF THE ACCIDENT, THE VICTIM STOPPED HIS TRUCK ABOUT 20' FROM THE END OF THE SCALE WHERE THE LOAD WAS TO BE WEIGHED. A DOUBLE TRAILER WAS PARKED ON THE SCAL
EE WAS WORKING SWING SHIFT (3:PM TO 11:30PM) PERFORMING MAITENANCE WORK ON THE DRAG SCRAPER LOCATED ON THE 4TH FLOOR OF THE TRUCK DUMP. AT 9:58PM, HE NOTICED SOME SMOLDERING COAL. AT 10:01 P M WITH WATER HOSE IN HAND HE STARTED HOSING DOWN WITH WATER THE SMOLDERING COAL. CAUSING A FLASH BACK. RESULTING IN FIRST AND SECOND DEGREE BURNS TO HIS RIGHT HAND AND FOREARM.
WHEN BUGGY LEFT TAILPIECE WHEELS WHERE TURNED INTO RIB PINNING OPERATOR BETWEEN CANOPY & RIB
EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING IN HOOKING A CHAIN UP BETWEEN A PICKUP AN DA LIFTALL FORKLIFT. THE FORKLIFT ROLLED BACKWARDS AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE.
THE VICTIM WAS GRADING AN ELEVATED ROAD AND THE RIGHT BANK GAVE AWAY AND THE LOADER OVERTURNED TRAPPING THE VICTIM.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING FROM A BUCKET TRUCK MAKING CONNECTIONS ON SWITCH AND LIGHTENING ARRESTER TO HIGH VOLTAGE LINE WHEN HE ACCIDENTALLY CAME IN CONTACT WITH ANOTHER SWITCH THAT HAD BEEN PREVIO USLY ENERGIZED WITH 7200 VOLTS.
EMPL WAS FOUND BENEATH GOLF CART WITH EXTENSIVE HEAD INJURIES. VICTIM WAS UNCONSIOUS & APPARENTLY NOT BREATHING. INVESTIGATIVE IS BEING CONDUCTED BY MSHA.
AT APPROXIMATELY 2:00 PM THE EVENING SHIFT MAN FOUND THE OUTSIDE OFFICE WAS BURNT TO THE GROUND.EMP'S BODY WAS FOUND IN RUBBLE. BECAUSE OF THE BODY'S POSITION AND A HISTORY OF CARDIAC PROBLEMS AS WELL LACK OF MEDICATION FOR THE 3 DAYS PRIOR AS REPORTED BY DAUGHTER, THE QUESTION WAS RAISED AS TO THE POSSIBILITY THAT DEATH WAS CAUSED BY OTHER FACTORS THAN THE FIRE. AUTOPSY REPORT N/A
EMPLOYEE WAS FOUND HAVING DIFFICULTY BREATHING
SUPERVISOR & TWO EMPLS WERE PREPARING TO MOUNT PIN ON BUCKET TO BOOM ALREADY LOWERED OF DIGGER DERRICK TRUCK. AS SUPERVISOR ATTEMPTED TO POSITION 1 TON FLATBED TRUCK CARRYING PIN ON BUCKET INJ EMPL WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN TIP OF BOOM & FLATBED TRUCK WHEN HE SUSTAINED SEVERE INTERNAL ABDOMINAL INJ. INJ EMPL SUCCUMED IN OPERATING ROOM OF HOSPITAL.
VICTIM CAME FROM FACE AREA FLL AREA TO HELP IN CLEANING UP FALL & HELPED FOR ABOUT 20 MINUTES. THEN VICTIM & FOREMAN STARTED TO LEAVE AREA FOR HOME & ROOF ROCK FELL STRIKING & KILLING VICTIM. AREA WAS MINED 10 YEARS AGO & WAS 4 BREAKS INBY PORTALS BUILT BY PREVIOUS OPERATOR.
VICTIM WAS INSPECTING SCRAPER FOR OIL LEAK. WHILE CHECKING BOTTOM OF SCRAPER, A MOVING PIECE OF METAL HIT VICTIM IN HEAD.
DRIVER WAS DUMPING LIMESTONE FROM TRUCK WHICH WAS ON LEVEL GROUND IN YARD STOCKPILE. DRIVER WAS IN THE PROCESS OF DUMPING HIS LOAD OF STONE WHEN THE TRACTOR AND TRAILER TIPPED OVER ON THE PASS ENGER SIDE. DRIVER LANDED ON GROUND CLEAR OF TRUCK. DRIVER WAS KNOCKED UNCONSIOUS BY THE IMPACT OF THE FALL, BUT LATER REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS. NO BLEEDING WAS NOTICED. DRIVER WAS LIFEFLIGHTED
WHILE TROUBLE SHOOTING ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT ON CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE EMPL'S FOREARM CONTACTED ENERGIZED 950 VOLT A.C. CIRCUIT. SUBJECT ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT WITH WHICH PERSONAL CONTACT WAS MADE WOULD NOT NORMALLY BE ENERGIZED HOWEVER ELECTRICAL CONTACTOR WAS STUCK IN MACHINES'S CONTROL PANEL. EMPL COULD NOT HAVE KNOWN THIS CONDITION EXISTED.
AFTER BLASTING TO REMOVE LOOSE ROOF IN THE MINE, THE EMPLOYEE ENTERED AN AREA THAT HAD NOT BEEN CLEARED OR INSPECTED FOR WORK DUTIES. THE LOOSE ROCK FELL ON HIM, FATALLY INJURING HIM. THE EMPO LOYEE WAS WAITING FOR THE AREA TO BE CLEARED OF THE SHOT.
VICTIM BECAME ENTANGLED IN AN EXPOSED STUB SHAFT ON THE TAIL PULLEY OF THE CRUSHER DISCHARGE CONVEYOR. THIS RESULTED IN FATAL INJURIES.
EMPL WAS HELPING SHOTFIRE MAN & AFTER THEY WERE FNISHED LOADING HOLE HE STEPPED AROUND CORNER. HE ADVISED SHOTFIRE MAN TO SHOOT IT. SHOT BLOWED OUT BACK STRIKING EMPL.
PINNED AGAINST MANTRIP AND OVERCAST
EMP PREPARING TO ATTACH ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CABLE BETWEEN ADD CAR COAL CONVEYING UNITS WHEN EXPLOSION OCCURRED INBY THE HIGHWALL BEING MINED. EMPLOYEE WAS THROWN OFF LAUNCH PLATFORM SUSTAINING FATAL BLUNT TRAUMA INJURIES AND BURNS.
ASSUME OPERATOR JUMPED OR WAS THROWN FROM FRONT END LOADER AS IT WAS DESCENDING BACKWARDS DOWN SLOPE. IT APPEARED LOADER BACKED OVER OPERATOR, RESULTING IN A FATAL INJURY.
VICTIM CAME IN CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED CIRCUIT OF 480 VOLTS AC TRAILING CABLE ON STEEL BUGGY.
MINER WAS MOVING POWDER FROM POWDER MAGAZINE TO FACE- STOPPED LHD TO MOVE POWER CABLE WHEN THE EXPLOSION OCCURRED. UNKNOWN CAUSE.
EMPLOYEE PARKED ANFO/POWDER TRUCK IN X-CUT 22 WHEN POWDER UNEXPECTEDLY EXPLODED.
WALKED BEHIND TRUCK BACKING UP.
HE WAS INJURED AS THE RESULT OF BECOMING ENTRAPPED BY SLIDING MATERIAL WHILE WORKING INSIDE A METAL BIN (ENCLOSED). THEY WERE ATTEMPTING TO LOAD A TRUCK FROM BELOW THE MATERIAL ATTACHED TO THE WALLS AROUND THEM (3 OF 4 WALLS HAD MATERIAL ATTACHED). THE SLIDING MATERIAL BURIED HIM COMPLETELY AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE TO HIS CHIN.
ON TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5,1991 ABOUT 8:45 AM INJURED COAL TRUCK DRIVER EXPERIENCED FATAL INJURIES WHEN HE WAS CRUSHED BENEATH AN ENDLOADER IN THE STOCKPILE AREA OF THE PLANT.VICTIM HAD DUMPED HIS COAL LOAD,PARKED HIS TRUCK AND GOT OUT TO OBSERVE THE FROZEN COAL LOAD IN ANOTHER TRUCK ATTEMPTING TO DUMP WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY THE ENDLOADER.THE ENDLOADER WAS BACKING OUT OF THE STOCKPILE(EM
AS DRIVER WAS DUMPING HE BACKED OVER HIGH WALL CAUSING MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS AND FATAL HEAD INJURIES.
THE BOLTS SECURING THE SWING DRIVE ASSEMBLY TO THE TURN TABLE BASE FAILED.
NO 3 ENTRY WAS BEING DEVELOPED INITIALLY FROM SURFACE & DURING 2ND CUT TAKEN BY CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE. HIGHWALL ROCK FELL DISPLACING STEEL DRIFT OPENING CANOPIES & CRUSHING MINING MACHINE OPERATOR.
TRUCK DRIVER WAS DESCENDING A GRADE OF ABOUT 7% ON THE COAL HAULAGE ROAD WHEN THE DRIVER LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK AND PASSENGER JUMPED FROM THE OUT OF CONTROL TRUCK WHICH RESULTED IN A FATAL.
WHILE EXAMINING FALL AREA FOR HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS AFTER SETTING OFF ROCKBUSTER EXPLOSIVE EMPL WAS FATALL INJURED DUE TO FALL OF ROOF.
HE WAS DRIVING THE #28 HYDRAULIC CRANE IN LOW GEAR DOWN A MINE ROAD WITH THE BOOM IN AN ELEVATED POSITION CREATING A HIGHER CENTER OF GRAVITY, WHEN THE CRANE STARTED TO TIP. HE EXITED THE CAB AND THE CRANE LAID OVER ON TOP OF HIM.
66929NG ON SUSPENDED WORK DECK TILTED, FELL APPROXIMATELY 40 FEET.
ON 10-2-91, HE WAS OPERATING A 1455B CASE LOADER PUSHING LOOSE OVERBURDEN DOWN A SLOPE TO BE LOADED ONTO HAUL TRUCKS WHEN, FOR REASONS UNKNOWN, FROM HIS WORK AREA HE BACKED UP FOR SIXTY FEET A ND OVER A FOUR FOOT SAFETY BERM, AND THEN ANOTHER FORTY FEET TO THE EDGE OF THE HIGHWALL AND OVER. HE FELL APPROX. FORTY FEET TO THE QUARRY FLOOR RESULTING IN HIS DEATH.
THE VICTIM WAS BACKING UP HIS TRUCK TO DUMP AT PRIMARY CRUSHER. THE TRUCK WENT THROUGH THE BUMPER BLOCK INTO THE HOPPER, TURNED ON IT'S SIDE AND FELL APPROX. 20 FT TO GROUND LEVEL. EMPLOYEES A RRIVING AT THE SCENE FOUND THE VICTIM LYING ON THE GROUND BESIDE THE LEFT FRONT TIRE.
THE VICTIM WAS IN AN UNSAFE POSITION WHILE THE #86 SHIELD CANOPY WAS APPARENTLY WEDGED AND SUSPENDED BETWEEN THE CANOPIES OF #85 AND #87 SHIELDS.SHIELD BECAME DISLODGED AND DROPPED CRUSHING TH E VICTIM.
BOTTOM DAMP,ROOF SMOOTH RIB LOOSE CAUSED INJURIES.
EE, CUSTOMER, HAD HIS TRUCK PARKED AND TRUKC WAS BEING LOADED. OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A TRUCK AND BAKCING ADJACENT TO EE. OTHER EMPLOYEE LOST SIGHT OF HIM AS APPROACH WAS MADE. OTHER EMPLO YEE BELIEVED HIM WALKED AROUND SIDE OF HIS OWN TRUCK. OTHER FELT BUMP AND STOPEED TRUCK. EE DISMOUNTED TRUCK AND FOUND HIM HAD BEEN DRIVEN OVER.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A 12-CM11 JOY MINER IN THE REMOTE MODE AND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MINER BOOM AND A COAL RIB.THE EMPLOYEE HAD POSITIONED HIMSELF WITH HIS BACK TOWARD THE MINER WALKIN G AWAY FROM THE MACHINE.
EMPLOYEE REACHED FOR A JUG OF OIL WHILE RIDING IN CAB OF END LOADER, LOST HIS BALANCED AND TUMBLED OUT, FALLING FACE DOWN. TIRE OF END LOADER RAN OVER HIS ABDOMEN.
THE VICTIM WAS OPERATING A FRONT-END LOADER. AFTER FINISHING LOADING THE TRUCK HE RETURNED TO THE PLANT AREA ON A LEVEL ROAD. HE RAN OFF THE ROAD ON THE LEFT SIDE. HE APPARENTLY TIED TO EXIT F ROM THE LOADER ON THE RIGHT SIDE. HE WAS RUN OVER WHEELS.
A "AA" TRUCK DRIVER, AFTER INITIALLY STRIKING A WELL ESTABLISHED BERM WHILE BACKING, THEN PULLED FORWARD APPROX. 25'. UPON HIS SECOND ATTEMPT IN BACKING, AT A SPEED GREATER THAN NORMAL, HE WEN T THROUGH SAID BERM, DOWN THE DUMP, RESUTLING IN FATAL INJURY.
FATALLY INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS ELECTROCUTED WHILE WORKING ON ENERGIZED HIGH VOLTAGE CABLE.THE DISCONNECT SWITCHES "60 FT OUTBY" HAD NOT BEEN PULLED AND LOCKED OUT AS REQUIRED.
PLANT WAS SHUT DOWN FOR THE DAY, EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING UP. TURNED PUG MILL PADDLES ON TO EXIT CLEAN UP MATERIAL-EMPLOYEE FELL OR WAS PULLED INTO MIXER BLADES.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE #3 MOBILE BRIDHE CARRIER,LOCATED BEHIND THE MINER IN THE #3 ENTRY WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 70'X20'X5-7'H ONTO THE MOBILE BRIDGE CARRIER CAUSING FAAL INJURIES TO HIM.
THIS EMPLOYEE WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN STRUCK BY A JOY 21SC SHUTTLE CAR IN THE 002 SECTION #3 ENTRY ONE X CUT INBY SPAD #7884.
IN AN ATTEMPT TO EMPTY AN OLD(UPPER) SUMP INTO A NEW LOWER SUMP THE FACE GAVE WAY RELEASING APPROX 100,000 GALLONS OF WATER,AND IT IS BELIEVED HE WAS SWEPT AWAY IN THE ONRUSH THAT TOOK OUT TIM BERS AND CRIBBING.HE WAS FOUND ON 08-23-91 AT APPROX 10:30PM.
VICTIM OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF STRIKING THE VICTIM ON THE HEAD.
INJURED WAS PUSHING A S-S SCOOP WITH P-242 KERSEY TRACTOR OPERATION END.THE BUCKET OF THE SCOOP SLIPPED OVER THE KERSEY TRACTOR AND SMASHED INJURED BETWEEN THE SCOOP BUCKET AND KERSEY TRACTOR.
THERE WAS A FAULT IN THE SECONDARY SYSTEM. THE GROUND WIRE WAS BURNED IN TWO AND THE CONVEYOR FRAME WAS ENERGIZED. AN EMPLOYEE WAS ELECTROCUTAL WHEN HE TOUCHED THE FRAME. GROUND WAS WET AROUND THE AREA.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A D7G BULLDOZER ON AN EMBANKMENT AND WAS FOUND NEAR THE DOZER AT THE BOTTOM OF THE EMBANKMENT WITH FATAL INJURIES SUSTAINED.
IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED BY THE INVESTIGATING TEAM THAT THE JUMBO DRILL THAT WAS BEING USED WAS DRIVEN UP THE 10' X 10' INCLINE AND STOPPED AT 18 FT. FROM THE FACE WITH THE ENGINE RUNNING. APPAR ENTLY THE JUMBO STARTED BACK DOWN THE INCLINE TRAVELING ABOUT 33 FEET BEFORE STRIKING THE LEFT RIB OF THE INCLINE. THE IMPACT OF THE STRIKING OF THE LEFT RIB CAUSED THE JUMBO TO SWING AROUND
ACCORDING TO MSHA OFFICALS,EMPLOYEE (NAME),CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR DID NOT FOLLOW ROOF CONTROL PLANS,CUT TO LARGE A CUT AND WHEN OTHER EMPLOYEES WENT IN TO SET TIMBERS DRAW ROCK FELL OUT FRO M BETWEEN THE BOLTS AND CAUGHT (NAME) FROM THE BACK CAUSING DEATH.
AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS THE REVERES FORWARD SWITCH SHORTED TO THE CASE-ELECTROCUTING EMPLOYEE.
VICTIM ENTERED THE TAIL PULLEY AREA AND BECAME INTAGNLED IN TAIL PULLEY. RESULTS WERE FATAL INJURY.
EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED REMOVING A 24"X24" MAN HOLE COVER AT THE TOP OF A 27 FT. HIGH LIME SILO, THE SILO WAS UNDER PRESSURE, EMPLOYEE WAS USING A 16 OZ HAMMER TO LOOSEN THE COVER, DO TO THE EXTREN E PRESSURE IN THE SILO THE COVER CAME OFF STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE IN THE DEAD.
THE EMPLOYEE, AN ELECTRICIAN, WAS CALLED TO THE MINE TO REPOWER 793 DRILL FROM THE "IRON HORSE" 4160 VOLT POWER DISTRIBUTION CENTER BY THE MINE FOREMAN. #4 CUBICLE WOULD NOT "RACK IN" THUS POW ER WAS TO BE CONNECTED FROM #1 CUBICLE. #1 HAD A BLOWN FUSE THUS THE VICTIM ELECTED TO PULL A FUSE FROM #4 TO IN #1. RETURNING TO #4, THE VICTIM OPENED THE DOOR AND GRABBED FOR A FUSE. THE FU
DURING PILLAR RECOVERY IN THE #4 ROOM A SLICKEN SIDED SLIP APPROXIMATELY 17'X17'X90' FELL CAUSING FATAL INJURIES TO THE VICTIM.(SECTION FOREMAN)
THE EMPLOYEE WAS PREPARING TO REPAIR HOLES IN THE WALL OF THE ROTARY BREAKER.HE ENTERED THE ROTARY BREAKER BELIEVING THE ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT TO BE DE-ENERGIZED.WHEN IT WAS STARTED BY ANOTHER EM PLOYEE WHO BELIEVED THAT HE HAD BEEN ASKED TO START IT,A FATAL INJURY RESULTED.
AS A RESULT OF AN INVESTIGATION IT APPEARED THAT THE EE ACCIDENTALLY CAME IN CONTACT WITH 300 D.C. VOLTS TROLLEY WIRE WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PUT POLE ON WIRE RESULTING IN ELECTROCUTION.
DRIVER WAS DUMPING LOAD OF SHOT ROCK ON STOCKPILE. EMPLOYEE FAILED TO OBSERVE UNDERCUT STOCKPILE. STOCKPILE MOVED AS EMPLOYEE WAS DUMPING. TRUCK FLIPPED OVER BACKWARDS LANDING ON ITS BED AT THE BASE OF THE STOCKPILE. DRIVER ALSO FAILED TO USE SEAT BELT AS INSTRUCTED. MAN DIED 7-8-91.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON THE ROOF OF T-4B TANK WHEN COMPRESSION RING FAILED WHICH CAUSED THE EMPLOYEE TO FALL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE TANK, SUFFERING APPARENTLY FATAL INJURIES.
ON JUNE 17-1991 THE VICTIM TOOK A DIFFERENT ROUTE THAN THE REST OF EXPLORATORY DRILL CREW AND HIS 1978 FORD 4X4 VAN GOT STUCK IN A MUD HOLE ON AN UNIMPROVED ROAD. IT IS SPECULATED HE GOT COLD AND STARTED AN ONAN GEN SET IN THE BACK OF THE VAN TO RUN A SMALL ELECTRIC HEATER. THE BACK CARGO DOORS OF THE VAN WERE OPEN BUT THE FRONT DOORS WERE CLOSED THERE WAS A HOLD 1/2 WIDE BY 1 1/2
AN ON GOING CO INVESTIGATION IS BEING CONDUCTED TO IDENTIFY THE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO THE ACCIDENT PRELIMINARY FINDINGS INDICATE THAT THE ACCIDENT RESULT FROM A SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED RELEASE OF SLURRED MATERIAL FROM THE TUBE 60 INCH 300 FT BORHOLE INTO THE CHUTE AND BIN BELOW.
THE LEFT FRONT TANDEM CAME OFF OF THE NO.1 CLINE COAL TRUCK. THE SAID TANDEM ROLLED APPROX. 450 FT DOWN GRADE AND STRUCK EE WHILE HE WAS WAITING ON THE WATERTRUCK TO FILL. THIS RESULTED IN FAT AL INJURIES.
A ROOF ROCK MEASURING 12 FT LONG X 35 INCH WIDE X 10 INCH HIGH FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS APPROX 40 FT INBY SPAD 8720 ON 5 SECTION IN THE I PANEL OFF OF 3 WEST MAIN THIS RESULTED IN A FATALI TY.
I NAME WAS FOUND DEAD ON OUR PROPERTY. WATCHMAN WAS FOUND SHOT BY L.C. FERRELL TRUCKDRIVER AT APPROX. 530 AM. EE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD BY DR.
CONVEYORMAN (VICTIM) ALLEDGELY ENTERED SHAKER/CHUTE WHILE EQUIPMENT WAS OPERATIONAL. COARSE MATERIAL TWIN SCREW WASHER. THE VICTIM ENTERED THE SHAKE AND APPARENTLY SLIPPED AND FELL THROUGH T HE FEEL CHUTE AND IMMEDIATELY WAS OVERPOWERED BY THE DRIVING SCREWS AND WAS PINNED ADN CRUSHED (UPPER TORSO) BY DISCS AND BLADES.
WHILE REPAIRING CONVEYOR BELT, EMPLOYEE REACHED OUT TO THE HAND RAIL IN ORDER TO STEP DOWN TO THE CATWALK, WHEN DOING SO, THE HAND RAIL GAVE AWAY WITH HIS WEIGHT CAUSING HIM TO GO OVER THE SID E APPROXIMATELY 22' (TWENTY-TWO FEELT) TO THE GROUND LANDING IN NEARLY A SEATED POSITION.
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
FATAL RESULTING FROM FALL OF ROOF WHEN VICTIM WENT INBY SUPPORTED ROOF. XPOSED. PILE OF ROCKDUST LOCATED 4 FT AND 9" UNDER REAR CENTER OF BOLTER 4 BOLTS MADE UP.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN HE CAME IN CONTACT WITH A 4160 V FUSE IN THE #19 SWITCH HOUSE WITHIN THE MORENCI MINE.
VICTIM WAS RIDING THE 1 BELT INSIDE THE MINE GOING TO THE ACTIVE WORKING SECTION AND HIT A ROCK WHICH HAD FALLEN SOMETIME BETWEEN 800 P.M. ON 5-16-91 AND 605 AM ON 5-17-91.
THE VICTIM AND CO WORKER EE HAD BEEN SENT TO THE POWDER MAGAZINE TO DESTROY DETERIRATING BLASTING POWDER THAT HAD BEEN DISCOVERED EARLIER THAT DAY. FOR SOME REASON, UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME, A PRE MATURE DETONATION OF EXPLISVES OCCURRED RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES TO EE AND CRITICAL INJURIES TO OTHER. BLASTING POWDER TO BE DESTROYED WAS IRECO CHEMICAL CO IRECOAL D-378 PERMISSIBLE ROCK
TRUCK WAS PARKED VICTIM WAS ON CAT WALK. THE TRUCK ROLLED BACK VICTIM GOT BACK IN TRUCK AND TRUCK ROLLED OVER EMBANKMENT VICTIM WAS THROWN OUT AND TRUCK ROLLED OVER HIM.
2 EMPLOYEE TRANSPORTING A 500 GALLON DIESAL TANK, ALMOST FULL TO DREDGE. THE FUEL TANK WAS MOUNTED ON A STYROFOAM FLOT. ABOUT 8 1/2 X 8 1/2 X 2 FT. AS THEY CAME ALONG SIDE OF THE DREDGE THE Y WENT TO OTHER END OF FLOAT. THE FLOAT CONTINUED TO CAPSIZED DUE TO TANK NOT BEING FULL AND WIND CONDITIONS. VICTIM WAS BELIEVED TO BE CRUSHED BETWEEN THE FLOAT AND DREDGE.
AT APPROX 10:00 AM ON 4-24-91, THE MINE EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A DRILL WHEN A PORTION OF THE OPEN PIT FLOOR COLLAPSED. THE OPERATOR FELL INTO THIS OPENING. SEARCH FOR THE DRILL OPERATOR INDIC ATED THAT HE WAS NOT ON THE SURFACE. THE HOLE HAD DUST COMING OUT OF THE OPENING, THUS VISIBILITY INTO THE HOLE WAS RESTRICTED. RESCUE OPERATIONS COMMENCED IMMEDIATELY.
EMPLOYEE'S WERE TRYING TO PULL TAIL SECTION BACK INTO PLACE. A PIPE HAD BEEN PUT ON HANDLE OF CHAIN FALL FOR EXTRA LEVERAGE. THE FALL CHAIN BROKE AND PIPE STRUCK INJURED IN CHEST. AS A RESU LT OF THE INJURY HE DIED AT HOSPITAL.
FROM INITIAL INFORMATION EE JUMPED FROM GRADER AND WAS RUN OVER BY FRONT WHEEL RESULTING IN FATAL INJURY.
WHILE DOING PILLAR RECOVERY WORK THE VICTIM WAS HELPING ON A REMOTE CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN A PIECE OF THE ROOF APPROX. 30 INCH THICK X 18 FT LONG SLABBED OUT CATCHING THE ICTIM UNDER IT AND CAU SING IMMEDICATE DEATH. THE CONTINUOUS MINER WAS ALSO COVERED UP.
WHILE DOING PILLAR RECOVERY WORK THE VICTIM WAS WAS RUNNING A REMOTE CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN A PIECE OF THE ROOF APPROX. 30 INCHX 18 FT WIDE X 80 FT LONG SLABBED OUT CATCHING THE VICTIM UNDER IT AND CAUSING IMMEDICATED DEATH THE MINER WAS ALSO COVERED UP.
A DEVELOPMENT PILLAR WAS BEING CUT IN A MODIFIED LONGWALL BY A CONTINUOUS MINER. THE ACCIDENT VICTIM WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR BEHIND THE MINER. BOTH THE OPERATOR'S HEARD A LARGE NOISE. T HE ACCIDENT VICTIM LEFT HIS SHUTTLE CAR AND WAS CRUSHED UNDER APPROXIMATE SIX INCHES OF SLAB. HAD HE STAYED WITH HIS EQUIPMENT, HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN HURT. THE ACCIDENT VICTIM WAS FOUND APP
VICTIM & 3 OTHERS WERE PULLING ON NEW BELTING USING CABLE SNATCH BLOCK AND END LOADERS. VICTIM WAS IN THE V AREA OF THE PULL, WHEN THE CABLE HOLDING THE SNATCH BROKE HE WAS IN DIRECT LINE OF THE PULLING CABLE WHICH HIT HIM IN THE HEAD KILLING HIM INSTANTLY.
EE WAS HANGING CURTAIN AND ROCK FELL STRIKING EE.
TWO EMPLOYEE'S WERE LOADING 50' FIELD CONVEYOR ON A 45' FLAT BED TRAILER WHEN ROCKS WOULDN'T COME OUT FROM UNDER CONVEYOR FOREMAN CAME UP TO HELP BECAUSE OF A COPLE OF TRUCKS WERE WAITING TO B E LOADED. FOREMAN CLIMB INTO BUCKET TO LOOSEN BOLTS ON FORK. FOREMAN LOOSEN BOLTHOUSE AND HAD TURNED TO LOOSEN & VICTIM HAD CLIMB UP TO O IT. FOREMAN TURN BACK TO CHECK HIS & SOMETHING SH
ROOF BOLT OPERATOR WAS A BOUT SIX FOOT INBY PERMINATE SUPORT NO EYE WITNESS.
HE WAS FIRING A BLAST AND UPWARD PRESSURES FROM THE BLAST CAUSED CONNECTING WIRE OR AND CAP LEG WIRE TO CONTACT THE OVERHEAD POWELINE IN SOME CONFIGURATION CAUSING ELECTRICITY TO FOLLOW BACK T O THE BLASTING MACHINE RESULTING IN ELECTROCUTION.
EMPL WAS WORKING A DIAMOND DRILL OPERATORAT 4100 LEVEL 69 STOPE 17L & WAS LAST HEARD FROM WHEN HE ALLED TELE OPER AROUND 11:00AM EMPL WAS FOUND IN 46 BOREHOLE 4100-4400 APPROX 4:40 PM.
FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON VICTIM VENTRUREDOUT OVR MATERIAL HE KNEW TO BE BRIDGED. MATERIAL GAVE WAY & HE WAS DRAWN INTO CHUTE.
EMPLS WERE PUSHING CABLE BOLTS INTO HOLE BY HAND. FIRST CABLE FELL OUT OF HOLE & STRUCK EMPL ON RIGHT SIDE OF NECK SEVERING ARTERY.
THE EE AND HIS CREW WERE ATTEMPTING TO FREE THE CONTINUOUS MINER FROM THE MUD AT THE FACE. A RAMCAR WHICH BROUGHT IN TIMBERS TO BE CUT AND PLACED UNDER THE CONTINUOUS MINER WAS MOVED APPROX. 8 5 FT UPHILL FROM THE CONTINUOUS MINER. THE RAMCAR 6 MIN LATER STARTED ROLLING BACK DOWN THE HILL TOWARD THE CONTINUOUS MINER. THE EE ATTEMPTED TO RUN TOWARD THE CONTINUOUS MINER TAIL BUT WAS
EMPL WAS DRIVING HAUL TRUCK JTA0627 WITH LOAD OF ORE TO ORE DUMP. HE BACKED UP TO BERM & STARTED TO DUMP WHEN APPARENTLY DUMP FAILED CAUSING HAUL TRUCK TO ROLL OVER BACKWARDS OFF OF ORE DUMP 7 0 TO 70' ROLLING SEVERAL TIMES COMING TO REST ONRIGHT SIDE OF TRUCK AT BOTTOM OF SLOPE.
A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT OF THE ROOF APPROX. 5 FT THICK 15FT WIDE 40FT LONG THE END HITTING THE VICTIM CAUSING HEAD INJURIES RESULTING IN DEATH.
VICTIM WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE FALLEN APPROX 85'. CONDITIONS CONTRIBUTING TO ACCIDENT ARE UNKNOWN BECAUSE THERE WERE NO EYE WITNESSES.
CRUSHED PELVIS AND RIBS AND BROKEN RIGHT LEG DUE TO ROCK FALLING FROM HIGHWALL AFTER EE GOT OFF DOZEN TO CHECK COAL SEAM.
IT WAS NECESSARY FOR EMPL TO RAISE BOOM ON MOBILE TRUCK CRANE SO ANOTHER EMPL COULD CHECK FUEL FILTER.MOTOR ON TRUCK HAD DIED & END OF BOOM WAS DIRECTLY BENEATH 13,800 VOLVT LINE. OPERATOR HAD ARC FROM ELECTRIC LINE CAME INTO CONTACT WITH BOOM. OPERATOR SAW FIRE BUT CONTINUED TO HOLD BOOM RAISING LEVER & BOOM CONTINUED TO RISE. OPERATOR TURNED LOOSE OF LEVER & JUMPED FREE OF CRANE.
VICTIM & ANOTHER EMPL WERE TROUBLE SHOOTING PROBLEMS WITH ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATOR. VICTIM ENTERED HIGH VOLTAGE CONNECTION BOX WITHOUT PROPERLY DE-ENERGIZING & LOCKING OUT POWER SOURCE. VIC TIM CAME IN CONTACT WITH 30,000 TO 50,000 VOLTS OF D.C. CURRENT.
I NAME OPERATING SCOOP IN REMOTE MODE SCOOPED FACE 3 ENTRY WHILE BACKING HE WAS STRUCK BY SCOOP CRUSHED BETWEEN SCOOP AND ROOF BOLTER SETTING IN X CUT CRUSHING BLOW CAUSED FATAL INJURIES TO RI GHT SIDE OF TORCO.
EMPL & FOREMAN HAD BEEN WELDING ADDITIONAL FITTINGS ON PRTABLE FUEL TANKS. TANKS HAD BEEN FILLED WITH WATER DURING WELDING OPERATION. AFTER FINISHING WLEDING TANKS WERE BEING DRAINED & FOREMAN WALKED INTO SHOP TO WORK ON HOSES. FOR SOME REASON UNKNOWN TO US EMPL CLIMBED IN BETWEEN FUEL TANKS & EXPLOSION OCCURED CAUSING INSTAND DEATH. CAUSE OF IGNITION IS UNKNOWN.
LOST CONTROL OF VEHICLE AND SKID INTO BERM AND ROLLED OVER EMBANKMENT(BERM) DOWN SLOP
MASSIVE ROOF FALL ON 2-13-91 ABOUT 4:00 PM. EXTENDED FROM FACE TO ABOUT 3 CROSSCUTS OUTBY, EST UP TO 12 FT THICK. RECOVERY CREWS USED COMPRESSED AIR PICKS TO BREAK UP MASSIVE ROCK TO REACH V ICTIMS
MASSIVE ROOF FALL ON 2-13-91 ABOUT 4:00 PM. EXTENDED FROM FACE TO ABOUT 3 CROSSCUTS OUTBY, EST UP TO 12 FT THICK. RECOVERY CREWS USED COMPRESSED AIR PICKS TO BREAK UP MASSIVE ROCK TO REACH V ICTIMS
MASSIVE ROOF FALL ON 2-13-91 ABOUT 4:00 PM. EXTENDED FROM FACE TO ABOUT 3 CROSSCUTS OUTBY, EST UP TO 12 FT THICK. RECOVERY CREWS USED COMPRESSED AIR PICKS TO BREAK UP MASSIVE ROCK TO REACH V ICTIMS
MASSIVE ROOF FALL ON 2-13-91 ABOUT 4:00 PM. EXTENDED FROM FACE TO ABOUT 3 CROSSCUTS OUTBY, EST UP TO 12 FT THICK. RECOVERY CREWS USED COMPRESSED AIR PICKS TO BREAK UP MASSIVE ROCK TO REACH V ICTIMS
INCLEMENT WEATHER CONDITIONS AND FAILURE OF CONTRACTOR TO INSPECT HIGHWALL FOR DETERIORATION, RESULTED IN LOOSE ROCK DISLODGING FROM HIGHWALL STRIKING THE VICTIM FATALLY
FELL DOWN COAL CHUTE RESULTING IN DEATH
WORKING ON ENERGIZED AIR LINE.
WELDOR WAS IN TRENCH WELDING 30" DIA PIPE WHEN SECTION OF TRENCH WALL BROKE LOOSE & FELL AGAINST EMPL CRUSHING HEAD AGAINST PIPE
WORKING ON 1ST RIGHT MAINS SECTION WHEN A METHANE EXPLOSION OCCURED FATALLY INJURING EMPLOYEE INVESTIGATION IS INCOMPLETE
WORKING ON 1ST RIGHT MAINS SECTION WHEN A METHANE EXPLOSION OCCURED FATALLY INJURING EMPLOYEE INVESTIGATION IS INCOMPLETE
WHILE LOWERING PORTABLE WHEEL MOUNTED WATER PUMP IN NO 2 DRAGLINE PIT INJ WORKING NEAR EDGE OF HIGHWALL SLIPPED AND FELL TO BOTTOM ABOUT 160 FT. WATER PUMP USING 3 WIRE ROPES ATTACHED TO FR ONT END LOADER AND 2 SCRAPERS PUMP BEEN LOWEREDNEARLY TO BOTTOM OF PIT WHEN ACCIDENT OCC
VICTIM USING SLATE BAR TO PULL CAP COAL WHEN DRAW ROCK FELL ON HIM
EMPL WAS CLEANING ELECTRIC BRAKER MADE CONTACT WITH POINT BRUSH EXPLOSION OCCURRED & EMPL WAS SEVERELY BURNED.