Mining Incidents

Small Mine Development, LLCMining Incidents in 2018

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Small Mine Development, LLC operations in 2018. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2018
1
Total incidents
3
Year
2018

Top incident classifications

  1. 01FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 incident
  2. 02STRIKING OR BUMPING1 incident
  3. 03MACHINERY1 incident

All incidents in 2018

Struck by falling object

Fall of the roof or back resulting in a fatal injury.

Struck against stationary object

Employee tipped a underground haul truck while making a turn. Employee hit EE's head while exiting the vehicle resulting in a laceration that was stapled at the hospital.

Struck by flying object

While repairing a broken bracket on air door, employee was using a grinder and welder. At some point in the evening the employee thought EE had some dust in EE's right eye and reported it to EE's supervisor, who took EE into the doctor. The doctor at ER removed foreign object.

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 Small Mine Development, LLC's numeric MSHA operator ID.