Mining Incidents

Fossum Ready MixOperator

Controlled by Steve Fossum; Scott Fossum; Carol Fossum
MSHA Operator ID: L33326
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
1
Mines on record
1
Period
For counsel + compliance teams

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Top causes

  • FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS1 fatality

Incident timeline

2014
1 (1f)

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
Struck by falling object

Miner was apparently adding oil to hoist of truck. Box was loaded with rock and not properly blocked. The weight of the loaded box split block and the box came down unexpectedly crushing miner between the truck frame and dump box. Although no damage was done to equipment, miner was killed.