Mining Incidents

Atlanta Sand and Supply Co.Mining Incidents in 2016

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Atlanta Sand and Supply Co. operations in 2016. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2016
1
Total incidents
1
Year
2016

Top incident classifications

  1. 01FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS1 incident

All incidents in 2016

Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

Wash plant operator was operating a front-end loader during the overnight shift as normal. EE exited the loader and entered the hopper filled with sand the EE had just dumped. EE was fatally injured when they were engulfed in the sand, as it vibrated to the bottom of the hopper. EE may have entered the hopper to try to retrieve two pieces of metal inadvertently dumped into hopper.

Other years on record

Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) accident records, kept current weekly. Operator identity is MSHA's operator_id on the accident record; records are scoped to Atlanta Sand and Supply Co.'s numeric MSHA operator ID.