Mining Incidents

Western Nevada MaterialsMining Incidents in 2022

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Western Nevada Materials operations in 2022. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2022
1
Total incidents
1
Year
2022

Top incident classifications

  1. 01OTHER1 incident

All incidents in 2022

Struck by rolling or sliding object

Miner used a front-end loader to carve a path into stacked material, then exited the loader and entered the newly-carved path on foot. The newly-created unstable wall of the material collapsed and covered the miner, causing a fatality.

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 Western Nevada Materials's numeric MSHA operator ID.