All MSHA-reportable accidents at Cedar Lake Mining, Inc. operations in 2018. Fatalities appear first.
Employee was driving a rock truck returning back to the North Pratt washer via Flat Top mine entrance road. While traveling back, on the right-hand side of the road, employee veered off to the left-hand side of the road, running the truck off into a hollow along the mine entrance.
Employee was operating 988 loader, when one of the rock trucks was backing in to get loaded, got too close to the loader boom and caught it with the bed and turned the loader over. The loader operator radioed the rock truck driver, but no communication was received by the rock truck driver. Upon investigation, the external speaker in the rock truck had quit working.
Hitachi EX3600 excavator was loading trucks when the engine/hydraulic compartments on the rear of machine caught fire. Operator exited the machine safely and fire departments were called to help extinguish the fire.
Victim was operating front-end loader in coal pit area, when a highwall failure occurred, covering the front-end loader completely.
Employee was unclogging drain pipe at sediment pond 41E, while removing the pond floating boom from inlet of pipe, employee must have became engulfed in the draining water pulling ee into the drain pipe.