MSHA's accident file records 100 fatalities at US mines in 1995. Each links to its incident record.
EE WAS WORKING IN A MANBASKET BEING LIFTED BY A BOOM CRANE, WHEN CABLE FROM CRANE SUPPORTING MANBASKET BROKE DROPPING BASKET AND CRANE SHEAVE BLOCK. CRANE SHEAVE BLOCK WEIGHS APPROX. 400 LBS A ND DROPPED ON THE EE CAUSING FATALITY.
DRY STRAIGHT 8% GRADE WITH SIDE TURN JUST AHEAD. OPERATOR APPEAR ENTRY FELL OUT OF CAB AND BECAME PINNED BETWEEN RIB AND TRUCK AND THEN RUN OVER BY REAR WHEEL.
THE VICTIM CRAWLED UNDER THE BOOM OF THE MINER, WITHOUT ANYONE'S KNOWLEDGE, PROBABLY TO TRY TO REPAIR A HYDRAULIC LEAK. APPARENTLY THE FITTING STRIPPED, CAUSING THE BOOM TO FALL CRUSHING THE V ICTIM.
CONTRACTOR CONTRACTED TO DISASSEMBLE AND MOVE PORTABLE CONVEYORS. WHILE CONVEYOR SECTIONS WERE BEING LOADED ON SUBCONTRACTORS TRUCK. A SECTION DROPPED CRUSHING THE SUBCONTRACTERS TRUCK DRIVER. THE MINE WAS CLOSED FOR THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS BUT THE CONTRACTOR WAS DOING A JOB HE WAS CONTRACTED TO DO.
HIGHWALL ROLLED OFF ON CANOPY CRUSHING VICTIM.
THE VICTIM WAS OPERATING THE MATERIAL HAULER WITH ANOTHER EE, AS A PASSENGER. AS THEY WERE TRAVELING DOWN AT A 5-8% GRADE, THE OPERATOR APPARENTLY TOOK THE MACHINE OUT OF GEAR TO TRAVEL MORE Q UICKLY. HE HAD TROUBLE GETTING THE MACHINE BACK IN GEAR. PASSENGER JUMPED SAFELY. TEH TRIP PROCEEDED 300 FT DOWN THE ROAD. THE OPERATOR EITHER JUMPED OR WAS THROWN AND RUN OVER BY THE EIMCO.
IT APPEARS THAT EE WAS CROSSING THE #4 BELT SLIPPED AND FELL, OR SOMEHOW CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE MOVING BELT, WHERE HE WAS MOVED TO THE #4 BELT HEAD, SUSTAINING FATAL INJURIES.
OPERATOR FOR UNKNOWN REASON CAME OUT OF CAB COMPARTMENT AND WAS TRANSFERED BY MOVEMENT OF TRACK TO FRONT OF DOZER WHER HE WENT OVER END OF TRACK AND WAS CRUSHED.
DREDGE OPERATOR WAS ATTEMPTING TO DISLODGE SAND ROCK FROM SUCTION WHEN HE FELL OVERBOARD FROM SKIFF NO WITNESSES ACTUALLY SAW HIM FALL OUT HE WAS NOT WEARING HIS LIFE JACKET THAT WAS PROVIDED.
EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT A DRIVE SHIAFT ON DUMP TRUCK WHILE BED WAS INT HE AIR. THE BED FELL ON EE PINNING HIM BETWEEN THE BED AND FRAME OF DUMP BED.
EE APPROACHED BERM IN REVERSE TO UNLOAD HAUL TRUCK ON 5450 BAZZA DUMP. THE TRUCK WENT UP AND THROUGH THE BERM. THE TRUCK THEN ROLLED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE DUMP AND UPON IMPACT, BURST INTO FLAME S. EE REAMINED IN THE CAB OF THE TRUCK. THE FIREWAS FOUGHT BY AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM FOR TWO HOURS.
THE VICTIM WAS FOUND SLUMPED OVER ON THE WALKWAY OUTSIDE OF THE CRUSHER CONTROL BOOTH. THE MEDICAL EXAMINER S REPORT INDICATED THAT THE VICTIM HAD BEEN ELECTROCUTED. AN EE WHO WENT TO ASSIST H IM ALSO RECEIVED AN ELECTRICAL SHOCK AND WAS SENT TO THE HOSPITAL FOR OBSERVATION. THE SPECIFIC SOURCE OF THE ACCIDENT HAS YET TO BE DETERMINED.
EE WAS FATALLY INJURED FROM A ROOF FALL.
ACCIDENT STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION- EE WAS CLIMBING AND CUTTING STRUCTURE (METAL), WHEN THE STRUCTURE HE WAS TIED TO RIPPED AWAY AND HIS SAFETY ROPE DID NOT HOLD.
EE WAS PREFORMING BUILD UP WELDING INSIDE THE MISSOUR ROGER 4654 PRIMARY CRUSHER. HE DID NOT FOLLOW SAFETY PRODCEDERES REQUIRING HIM TO LOCK OUT THE ELECTRIC SERVICE TO THE CRUSHER. APPEARS PO SSIBLE THAT THE ARC FROM WELDER MAY HAVE CAUSED SOME WIRING INT HE STARTING CUIRIT TO FUSE, CAUSING THE CRUSHER TO START.
FELT PAIN IN BACK UNABLE TO GET UP ON THE FOLLOWING DAY. WAS SHOVELING DIRT UNDER THE CONVEYOR.
EE WAS REMOVING COAL FROM THE #17 CLEAN COAL CONVEYOR BELT, WHEN THE SUPPORTING STRUCTURE COLLAPSED.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS HAULING ROCK AT THE SURFACE ROCK BIN BUT IT WAS NOT YET READY TO LOAD HE PULLED PAST THE BIN UNTIL IT WAS READY TO BE DUMPED HE THEN BACKED BACK UNDER THE BIN THE BIN FELL CRU SHING THE CAB OF THE ROCK TRUCK CAUSING DEATH TOTHE EMPLOYEE NOTE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL BEFORWARDED
MASSIVE SAND STONE ROOF FALL ON THE PILLAR LINE
THE EE WAS ASSIGNED TO OPERATE A FORKLIFT TO LOAD TOTE BINS WITH PRODUCE LIME. THE FORKLIFT WAS FOUND PARKED WITH THE IGNITION TURNED OFF. THE EE WAS LAST SEEN APPROX. 445-500 PM AND IT WAS AS SUMED HE WENT ON BREAK. A SEARCH FOR THE EE STARTED APPROX. 530-545 PM AND WHEN HE COULD NOT BE LOCATED ON SITE, AT HOME, OR AT SURROUNDING BUSINESS THE POLICE AND COAF GUARD WERE CALLED.
WHILE IN THE MINE. THE INJURED EE WAS FOLLOWING BEHIND A CAT FRONT END LOADER.WHEN IT WENT THRU A VENTILATION CURTAIN. THE CAT BACKED UP AND RAN OVER THE GO CART OPERATOR.
EE WAS WORKING IN THE SOUTH SIDE SX/EW SUBSTATION TRACING LOW VOLTAGE WIRING WHEN AN ELECTRICAL FLASH OCCURRED FROM ANOTHER AREA.
EE WAS CUTTING A 22" DIA. OAK TREE, APPROX.45 FT IN HEIGHT. PRIOR TO CUTTING THIS TREE A 5" DIA. TREE LOCATED UP THE HILL FROM THE 22" OAK HAD BEEN CUT AND WAS LODGED IN THE TOP OF THE 22" OAK . WHEN THE 22" OAK WAS CUT AND BEGAN FALLING THE5" TREE DID NOT FALL FREE, BUT WAS LIFTED WITH THE 22" OAK. THIS ACTION CAUSED THE 5" TREE TO SWING AROUND HITTING EE IN THE HEAD AND KNOCKING
ACCORDING TO WITNESS THE EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CLEAR A PLUGGED SUCTION HOSE ON THE RIGHT BOOM OF THE ROOF BOLTER WHEN A ROCK FELL FROMTHE MINE ROOF ON THE INBY SIDE OF THE ATRS PIVTOTED B ACKWARDS STRUCK EMPLOYEE & PINNED HIM AGAINST THE BOOM
THIS EE SUFFERED A FATAL HEAD INJURY. HE HAD WALKED TO THE END OF THE BOOM ON THE MECHANICAL SCALER HE WAS OPERATING. ROCK FELL FROM THE BACK.
EE CHIEF ELECT RICAN CAME IN CONTACT WITH 12470 VOLTS IN A HIGH VOLTAGE SPLICE BOX IN WHICH HE APPARENTLY WAS GOING TO CLEAN THE BOX WAS ENERGIZED
A MECHANICAL FAILURE OF THE 3500 HITACHI SHOVEL CAUSED THE VALVE SPOOL TO BE THROWN THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE CAB RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF THE EMPLOYEE
EE WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN A METAL FRAGMENT FROM A PLANTARY DRIVE UNIT WAS STRUCK WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER THE METAL FRAGMENT ENTERED IN HIS LOWER RIGHT NECK CUTTING THE AORTA
DRIVER HAD EMPTIED TRANSFER AND WAS APPARENTLY ON PROCESS OF DISCONNECTING TRACTOR FROM DUMPSTER. THAT WAS ON A SLIGHT GRADE AND UPON DISCONNECTION DUMPSTER STARTED TO ROLL. DRIVER RAN AFTER D UMPSTER AND GOT IN FRONT STABITEZER WHEEL WHICH RAN OVER HIM THERE WERE NO WITNESS.
IT HAPPENED IN THE QUARRY AREA, WHERE SAW BLOCKS ARE FINISHED. WORKER DRILLED A HOLE IN AREA WHERE THERE WAS SOME UNBUANT BLACKPOWDER AND THAT CREATED AN EXPLOSION THAT CAUSED INJURY DEATH.
TEFLON INSERT BROKE OUT OF CONCRETE COUNTERWEIGHT WHILE EE WAS INSTALLING IT. COUNTERWEIGHT BROKE FREE FROM CRANE, THROWING EE TO THE GROUND. EE WAS KILLED INSTANTLY.
THE EE WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN THE HAUL TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING TRAVELED OVER THE HIGHWALL. THE ACCIDENT IS CURRENTLY UNDER INVESTIGATION BY MSHA AND CO REPRESENTATIVE.
THE VICTUM WAS LYING ON 2 BAGS OF ROCKDUST WHILE RIDING IN MANTRIP. THIS CAUSED HIS BODY TO BE ABOVE THE TOP OF THE OPEN MANTRIP. THE MANTRIP HIT A ROCK PUSHING IT TO THE ROOF WHICH CRUSHED TH E VICTUM'S HEAD.
VICTIM WAS CLEARING OUT THE SCRUBBER.ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER ABOUT 20 FT ABOVE THE VICTIM.THE SLEDGE HAMMER SLIPPED OUT OF THE EMPLOYEES HAND HITTING THE VICTIM ON TH E RIGHT SIDE OF THE HEAD AND CAUSED HIM TO FALL ABOUT 14 FEET TO GROUND LEVEL INTO LOOSE EARTH.
DURING THE EARLY PART OF NIGHT SHIFT WHILE TRAINING WITH AN EXPERIENCED DRIVER IN THE CAT WITH HIM, NEW DRIVER GOT TIRES OF WATER TRUCK OVER THE EDGE OF A SHALLOW EMBANKMENT. THIS CAUSED THE T RUCK TO ROLL OVER THE EDGE CRUSHING THE CAB WHICH KILLED HIM.
THE VICTIM WAS USING A RUBBER-TIRED DOZER TO PUSH TRUCKS OUT OF THE PIT. HE HAD PUSHED ONE TRUCK OUT OF THE PIT AND WAS BACKING DOWN THE RAMP WHEN HE APPARENTLY LOST CONTROL OF THE DOZER. THE DOZER TRAVELED DOWN THE RAMP AND WENT OVER THE BERM. THE DOZER FELL INTO THE PIT WHICH CONTAINED 30 FEET OF WATER.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF TURNING NUMBER 3 CROSS CUT RIGHT WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK APPROXIMATELY 8' LONG BY 5' WIDE AND 10" THICK FELL AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE. EMPLOYEE WAS FOUND UNDERNEATH THE ROCK WHICH WAS APPROXIMATELY 4 FOOT INBY THE LAST PERMANENT ROOF SUPPORT.
EMPLOYEE WAS CONNECTING THE LEADS OF A MATRIX PUMP CONTROLLER WHEN HE CONTACTED AN ENERGIZED HIGH-VOLT POWERLINE.
COLLISION BETWEEN MACK TRUCK AND TOYOTA PICKUP RESULTING IN FATAL INJURY.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS GOING TO PARK SHUTTLE CAR. THE CAR CAME INTO CONTACT WITH CABLE WIRING. AS THE EMPLOYEE EXITED SHUTTLE CAR HE CAME INTO CONTACT WITH THE METAL FRAME WHICH CAUSED ELECTRIC SHOC K.
AT APPROX. 10:45 AM THE LOADOUT "TRAIN" WAS STARTED. EMPLOYEES WERE EACH TO PUSH COAL TO THE LOADOUT CHUTES. AT APPROX. 10:50 AM AN EMPLOYEE NOTICED SMOKE COMING FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE TUBE. WHEN HE INVESTIGATED HE FOUND DOZER IN THEHOLE. HE REQUESTED LOADOUT TO STOP. COAL COVERED DOZER. AT APPROX. 12:30PM DOZER PULLED OUT. VICTIM IN SEAT W/ BELT ON. RESUSCITATION FAILED.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN AREA 289 OF THE UG MINE. HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET ELECTRICAL POWER TO THE WELDING MACHINE. THE CABLE FROM THE WELDER HAD BEEN LAID OUT. HE WENT TO THE FAN AND PICKED UP THE 480 VOLT ENERGIZED CABLE. HE RECEIVED AN ELECTRIC SHOCK FROM ONE DAMAGED PHASE LEAD.
A 1989 AUTOCAR COAL HAULAGE TRUCK RAN OFF AND OVERTURNED ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ELEVATED ROADWAY RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES TO THE DRIVER, A CONTRACTOR EMPLOYEE.
WASHING OUT BARGE LOADOUT SYSTEM. FELL FROM CONVEYOR BELT 30 FT ONTO WOODEN DECK. HEAD INJURIES.
EMPLOYEE HAD JUST FINISHED LUNCH. HE TOOK A COUPLE STEPS TOWARD HIS MOBILE BRIDGE CARRIER WHEN A FALL OF ROOF CAUSED FATAL INJURIES TO THE EMPLOYEE.
HE TOOK A RATCHET WRENCH WITH AN ALLEN SOCKET AND ATTEMPTED TO LOOSEN THE LUGS ON THE INCOMING POWER LEADS ON TOP OF BREAKER. A FLASH OCCURRED WHEN THE ENERGIZED POWER CIRCUIT BECAME GROUNDED THROUGH HIS METAL RATCHET WRENCH AND THE FRAME OF THE CONTROL PANEL.
EMPLOYEE WAS EVIDENTLY INSPECTING HIS SHUTTLE CAR CABLE WHICH HAD LOST POWER. HE WAS STANDING AT THE SHUTTLE CAR REEL BETWEEN THE CAR AND CURTAIN APPROXIMATELY 5' AWAY. A SCOOP BACKED THROUGH THE CURTAIN AND HIT THE CAR AND EMPLOYEE, PINNING HIM BETWEEN THE SCOOP AND CAR.
EMPLOYEE WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN A CHUTE FEILLED WITH ORE BLEW OUT COVERING HIM WITH APPROX. 5 FEET OF ORE.
SHIFT IN LOAD CAUSED TORQUE WHICH OVERSTRESSED AND CAUSED TOWER CONNECTIONS TO SHEER. THE CONVEYOR BRIDGE DROPPED APPROX. 20', CAUSING HIM TO FALL FROM THE END THAT DROPPED.
I INSTRUCTED HIM TO GO TO COLARUSSO'S QUARRY TO LOG OFF TREES THAT HAD BEEN CUT DOWN ON A SMALL AREA OF LAND THAT WILL BE MINED. HE WAS INSTRUCTED TO US A JOHN DEERE 350 DOZER WITH CHAIN TO AC COMPLISH THIS TASK. AT APPROX 8:15 AM THAT SAME MORNING I CAME INTO COLARUSSOS QUARRY WITH A SERVICE TRUCK TO FUEL UP THE DOZER THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE USING. I THEN LEFT AND GOT A PHONE CALL
DRIVER WAS DELIVERING TO CONTRACTORS SITE STEEL PLATES. WHILE CONTRACTOR WAS UNLOADING 3 1/4 " THICK X 96 X 240 STEEL PLATES, DRIVER EXITED THE TRUCK, WALKED UNDER SUSPENDED LOAD. THE STRAP BR OKE ALLOWING PLATES TO STRIKE DRIVER ON TOP OF HEAD.
BASED ON TESTIMONY, WELDING WAS TO BE PERFORMED ON THE STAGELOADER AND PROBLEMS WERE EXPERIENCED SETTING THE WELDER UP. ACCORDING TO WITNESSES, WITH THE INCOMING POWER STILL ON, THE TOP PANEL WAS REMOVED AND THE EMPLOYEE REACHED INTO THE MACHINE, APPARENTLY ELECTROCUTING HIMSELF.
EE WAS STANDING ON LADDER WHEN PIECE OF ROCK FELL, STRIKING LADDER CAUSING HIM TO FALL APPROXIMATELY 35-40 FEET INTO THE BOTTOM OF THE QUARRY WHERE HE SUSTAINED A BROKEN LEG, LACERATION TO FAC E & SEVERE ABDOMENIAL INJURIES.
WORKER OPERATING FRONT END LOADER TO PLACE MATERIAL FOR A BERM NEXT TO AN OPEN PIT 12' DEEP, GOT TOO CLOSE AND THE PIT WALL COLLAPSED OVERTURNING THE LOADER AND KILLING THE OPERATOR.
CONTRACTOR TRUCK DRIVER DELIVERED A LOAD OF BLACK "POLY" PIPE TO THE MINE SITE. UPON ARRIVING AT THE UNLOADING YARD HE DISCUSSED THE UNLOADING PROCEDURE WITH THE CONTRACTOR FORKLIFT OPERATOR. THE FORKLIFT OPERATOR STARTED POSITIONING THE FORKLIFT TO UNLOAD AND THE TRUCK DRIVER WALKED AROUND TO THE BACKSIDE OF THE TRUCK. AS THE FORKLIFT STARTED IN, 2 BUNDLES FELL, 1 ON TRUCK DRIVER.
VICTIM APPARENTLY TRIED TO LIFT A GROUND MONITOR LEAD TO OPEN THE HIGH VOLTAGE BREAKER TO THE UNDERGROUND POWER SYSTEM AND CAME INTO CONTACT WITH AT LEAST ONE PHASE OF 4160 VAC THAT SUPPLIED P OWER TO THE BELT TRANSFORMER IN WHICH HE WAS WORKING.
THE MINE EXPERIENCED A RIB RUN OF COAL DUE TO THE COLLAPSE OF 3 RIB SUPPORTS (TIMBER) OF THE UPPER RIB OF THE EAST SUMP GANGWAY APPROXIMATELY 55 FEET INBY THE MAIN SLOPE. THE VICTIM WAS WORKIN G IN THIS AREA AT THE TIME OF THE COLLAPSE.
THE MINE EXPERIENCED A RIB RUN OF COAL DUE TO THE COLLAPSE OF 3 RIB SUPPORTS (TIMBER) OF THE UPPER RIB OF THE EAST SUMP GANGWAY APPROXIMATELY 55 FEET INBY THE MAIN SLOPE. THE VICTIM WAS WORKIN G IN THIS AREA AT THE TIME OF THE COLLAPSE.
MINER WAS INVOLVED IN CLEARING OPERATIONS. LOGS WERE CONNECTED BY A CHOKER CHAIN TO A CAT D9-G DOZER WHICH THEN DRAGGED THE LOGS TO A COLLECTION AREA. A LOG WAS BEING DRAGGED WHEN THE END CLOS EST TO THE CHOKER CHAIN WEDGED UP AGAINST A TREE STUMP. THE FREE END OF THE LOG WHIPPED AROUND AND STRUCK THE MINER IN THE BACK AS HE WAS WALKING IN THE WORK AREA.
A DELIVERY TRUCK DRIVER WAS FATALLY INJURED WHILE UNLOADING A TRAILER LOAD OF STEEL. THE LOAD SHIFTED AND HE WAS STRUCK BY A FALLING I-BEAM.
THE EE ENTERED THE INBY END OF THE ROTARY DUMP -MOST LIKELY TO REALIGN COUPLER, WHEN THE LOADS DRIFTED PINCHING THE VICTIM BETWEEN THE STRUCTURETHE ROTARY DUMP AND COAL CAR.
TWO EMLOYEES WERE CHANGING THE HINGE PIN ONA 170 TON WABCO ON THE RIGHT REAR SIDE. THE INJURED EMLOYEE CLIMBED A LADDER ONTO THE TIRE ON THA SIDE AS HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO WELD A KEEPER IN PLAC E. APPARENTLY THE INJURED EMPLOYEE SLIPPED FROM THE TIRE OR LADDER AND FELL BACK ABOUT 8' ONTO HIS HEAD. HIS CO-WORKER HEARD HIM FALL AND SUMMONED HELP.
EE WAS FATLLY INJURED WHILE CUTTING A TREE DOWN.THE TREE HE WAS CUTTING APPARENTLY WAS ENTANGLEDWITH A LARGE DEAD TREE. WHEN THE TREE THAT HE WAS CUTTING FELL, IT UPROOTED THE DEAD TREE CAUSIN G IT TO FALL AND STRIKE HIM - THUS FATALLY INJURING HIM.
OBERSRVING BELT BEING INSTALLED IN NEW TRIPPER ON CONVEYOR AND FELL 40 FEE TO HIS DEATH.
EE WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS IN THE NO. 3 TO NO.2 CROSSCUT WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK APPROXIMATELY 8'X 20' X 18" FELL STRIKING EE IN THE LOWER BACK.
WAS DISMANTLING A TRUSS CONVEYOR & CUT FASTERS THAT CAUSED STRUCTURE TO COLLAPSE. SUBJECT WAS WORKING ABOUT 15' ABOVE GROUND & WAS THROWN FROM CATWALK STRUCTURE.
EMPLOYEE WAS UNDER THE TRUCK SHOP SERVICE TRUCK WORKING ON THE EXHAUST SYSTEM WHEN THHE HEAT SHIELD WHICH WAS HOOK TO THE EXHAUST PIPE CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE STARTER. THIS STARTED THE TRUCK WHICH RAN OVER THE VICTIMS UPPER CHEST AND HEAD CAUSING WHICH RAN OVER THE VICTIMS UPPER CHEST AND HEAD CAUSING DEATH. THERE WAS NO DAMAGE TO ANY EQUIPMENT. NO CHOCKS AND EMERG BRAKE NOR AP
LANDSLIDE COVERING & DETROYING MOST OF CRUSHER.
LANDSLIDE-COVERING & DESTRYING MOST OF CRUSHER.
THE VICTIM WAS DESCENDIG A PIT RAMP WITHA 4000-GALLON LOAD OF WATER, WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK ADN ROLLE DSEVERAL TIMES. EE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.
EE, SHUTTLE CAR OPR, WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN HE WAS STRUCK FROM THE INBY SIDE OF THE NO. 2 SHUTTLE CAR IN AN INTERSECTION USED FOR HAULAGE EQUIPMENT. HE WAS SEATED IN THE DECK OF THE SHUTTLE CAR & WAS NOT SEEN BY THE NO. 2 S. CAR OPERATOR, AS THE INVESTIGATION REVEALED.
THE VICTIM WAS HAULING A LOAD OF OVERBURDEN MATERIAL ALONG THE STONE ACCESS ROAD WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF THE ROCK TRUCK HE WAS OPERATING. THE TRUCK ROLLED APPROXIMATELY 600 FEET OVER AN EMBANK MENT RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES.
EE WAS REPAIRING ON A MARION 201 ELECTRIC SHOVELHE WAS WORKING ON A NUT TO A PIN & THE MEDIUM VOLTAGE COLLECTOR RINGS. THE SHOVEL WAS ENERGIZED TO PUT THE NUT ON THE PIN. POWER WAS DE-ENERGIZE D ON THE MEDIUM VOLTAGE COLLECTOR RINGS. AFTER PUTTING THE COLLECTOR RINGS BACK, HE ENTERED INTOTHE COMPARTMENT THAT HELD THE ENERGIZED 7200 VOLT C RINGS & CAME IN CONTACT WITH ELECTRICITY.
EMPLOYEE WHILE REPAIRING A CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE WAS POSITIONED IN THE BOOM OF SAID MACHINE,THE CONVEYOR CHAIN CAME ON DRAGGING HIM INTO THE TOP OR CONVEYOR FLIGHT RESULTING IN A SKULL FRA CTURE.
FATAL ACCIDENT - VICTIM APPARENTLY FELL 31 FEET FROM AN ELEVATED CATWALK [UN-WITNESSED], STRIKING A STINGER BAR CAUSING MASSIVE DAMAGE TO HIS BODY RESULTING IN HIS DEATH.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK BY LOADING OR HAULAGE MINING EQUIPMENT AS HE WAS CROSSING THE MINE ROAD. A CO-WORKER DISCOVERED THE BODY IN THE ROADWAY NEAR HIS PERSONAL VEHICLE. THERE WERE NO WITNESS ES & IT HAS NOT BEEN DETERMINED:[A] THE EXACT MACHINE INVOLVED, [B] WHETHER OR NOT THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING OR IF HE HAD COLLASPED DUE TO A PHYSICAL PROBLEM JUST PRIOR TO BEING STRUCK.
BOOM ON BOOM TRUCK CAAME IN CONTACT WITH POWER LINE 13,200V. VICIM WAS HOLDING ONTO BOOM CABLE PREPARING TO HOOK UP FOR A LIFT, WHEN BOOM WAS SWUNG INTO THE LINE RESULTING IN ELECTRICUTION.
EE WAS OVERCOME BY CARBON MONOXIDE WHILE SITING IN HIS VEHICLE. HE WAS RUNNING THE ENGINE TO KEEP WARM. THE AUTOMOBILE HAD A DEFECTIVE EXHAUST SYSTEM.
EE HAD BACKED UP TO THE BERM TO DUMP WHEN HE WAS NOTIFIED HE HAD A WHEEL MOTOR FIRE. THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT THEN CAUGHT ON FIRE AND HE WAS BURNED AS HE DECENDED THE LADDER.
TWO GROUND FAULTS OCCURRED ON TWO DIFFERENT PHASES OF THE UNDERGOUND POWER SYSTEM.THE FAN HAD A GROUND FAULT AND THE FLYGHT PUMP HAD A GROUND FAULT.THE PUMP GROUND FAULT WASTIEDTO THE UNDERGRO UND SYSTEM AND THE FAN WAS TIED TO THE SURFACE GROUND SYSTEM WITH THE HOIST.THE VICTIM BECAME THE BRIDGE BETWEEN THE TWO SYSTEMS.
EMPLOYEE NOT RESPECTING HIGHWALL RESULTING IN HIS DEATH.
EE WAS IN A PICKUP TRUCK AND PULLED IN BEHIND M-170 TRUCK 9651. DRIVER OF 9651 BACKED UP AND RAN OVER PICKUP, TRAPPING EE INSIDE. EE SUSTAINED FATAL INJURIES.
EMPLOYEE WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE CONTINUOUS MINER AND THE MINE RIB WHEN THE MACHINE WAS BEING MOVED IN THE 3RD RIGHT SECTION.
THE VICTIM HAD POSITIONED HIMSELF ON THE GROUND IN AN AREA OF OBSTRUCTED VIEW TO THE DRIVER OF A SECOND TRUCK WHILE WAITING TO BE LOADED. AS THE SECOND DRIVER PULLED AWAY AFTER BEING LOADED, H E NOTICED HIS TAILGATE HAD NOT CLOSED. REALIZINGHIS TRUCK WOULD HAVE TO BE UNLOADED IN ORDER TO CLOSE THE TAILGATE THE SECOND DRIVER BACKED UP TO UNLOAD. WHEN THE TRUCK WAS UNLOADED AND THE T
THE TRUCK WAS OBSERVED STARTING DOWN THE RAMP INTO THE QUARRY. IT APPEARED TO BE GOING FASTER THAN TRUCKS USUALLY TRAVEL DOWN THE RAMP. THE TRUCK TRAVELED ABOUT 300 FEET TO THE FIRST CURVE WHE RE IT OVERTURNED. THE DRIVER WAS NOT WEARING THESEATBELT.
NO CONDITIONS DETERMINED AT PRESENT.
OPERATOR WAS BACKING INTO DUMP MATERIAL OFF THE CAT 773 TRUCK. WHEN BACKING UP TO BERMED AREA,APPARENTLY OPERATOR MISJUDGED DISTANCE BACKING OVER BERM CAUSING TRUCK TO ROLL AND FLIP,CAUSING OP ERATOR TO BE THROWN FROM CAB. REASON WHY TRUCK AND OPERATOR WENT OVER OR THROUGH BERM IS UNKNOWN.NO ONE OBSERVED TRUCK FROM DUMP AREA.
CLEANING DEBRIS FROM UNDER CAB SIDE YOKE ARM, FEED WHEEL MECHANISM CLOSED PINNING EE S HEAD BETWEEN YOKE ARM AND UPRIGHT INFEED PLATE ON THE CAB SIDE.
AN EE OF PIPELINE EXCAVATING CO OF SANTA ROSA, CA WAS OFF LOADING THE OVER LOADED PORTION OF AGGREGATE BASE MATERIAL AT THE SONOMA ROCK QUARRY. THE TRUCK HAD BEEN LOADED JUST A FEW MIN EARLIER BY A QUARRY EE, EE WIGH MASTER. THE DRIVER DROVHIS TRUCK NEXT TO THE STOCKPILE HAD HAD JUST LOADED FROM GOT OUT OF THE TRUCK, RAISED THE FRONT BOX OF THE TRUCK AND WAS APPARENTLY TRYING TO RE
PIT DRILLER CLOWTHING BECAME RAPPED AROUND DRILL STEEL CAUSING SUFFICATION.
A CONCRETE FORM FELL AND FATALLY CRUSHED EE.
EARTHQUAKE AT MINE SITE EE FOUND PER MINE RESUCE ATTEMPS APPROX 630 AM 2-5-94 DIED PRIOR TO ARRIVAL AT HOSPITAL. CORDIAC ARREST PRIOR TO BEING BROUGHT TO SURFACE.
THE VICTIM WAS BUILDING A BERM AROUND THE OUTER EDGE OF THE PIT. HE WAS OPERATING A 1977 HOUGH MODEL H-80 FRONT-END LOADER WITH A FOUR YARD BUCKET. HE DROVE THE LOADER OVER THE EDGE AND ROLLED DOWN A 30 FT BANK. HE WAS NOT WEARING HIS SEAT BELT.
EE WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN THE HAUL TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING BACKED OVER THE BERM AND DOWN THE BANK APPROXIMATELY 50 FEET. THE TRUCK LANDED UPSIDE DOWN.
THE EE WAS LOADING ANFO INTO AN ON SITE DELIVERY TRUCK FROM A VERTICAL STORAGE TANK. THE MATERIAL HAD HUNG UP THEN SUDDENLY CAME LOOSE. THE SUDDEN IMPACT SHEARED 20 STRUCTURAL SUPPORT BOLTS CA USING A LOWER PORTION OF THE TANK AND MATERIAL TO CRASH THRU A DECK CRUSHING AND PINNING THE EE BETWEEN THE DECK SUPPORT BEAMS AND THE HANDRAIL.
HE WAS DROPPING AND GOT IN UNDER THE WHEELS. IT HAD BEEN RAINING AND WAS MUDDY AND SLICK.THE CORONER PRONOUNCED HIM DEAD AT THE SCENE.
WALKED IN MINE AREA WHERE TRUCKS WERE DUMPING. DRIVER COULD NOT SEE HIM AND BACKED OVER HIM.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A HOIST TO GET A PIPE DISTRIBUTION BOX UNDER A WASHER IN A COAL PREPARATION PLANT.HE WAS STANDING ON A VIBRATING SCREEN WHEN THE BOX SWUNG AROUND AND KNOCKED HIS LEG OUT FRO M UNDER HIM.HE FELL INTO THE SCREEN AND DOWN A CHUTE TO THE NEXT FLOOR.
SUDDEN MASSIVE UNPREDICTABLE FAILURE OF EAST HIGHWALL RESULTED IN THE ACCIDENT. THE FALLING SLIDING ROCK CRUSHED THE 5130 SHOVEL KILLING THE OPERATOR. IT ALSO SERIOUSLY IMPACTED THE 85 TON TRU CK BEING LOADED WITH RESULTING HEAD AND LEG WOUNDS TO THE DRIVER.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UP THE BELTLINE TO TAKE UP AREA WHILE 3 OTHER EMPLOYEES WERE PULLING TO TRACK A ROLLED UP ROLL OF BELT.UNKNOWN TO THE (3) EMPLOYEES THE ROPE HAD BECOME CAUGHT ON AN ANCHOR .THE ROPE PULLED LOOSE STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE IN THE HEAD AND NECK.