Mining Incidents

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273,095
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1,202
Years on record
2000–2026
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November 10, 2020 MI · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
High Grade Materials Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Miner was using a grinder on a wash plant screen deck when the grinder kicked back and hit the miner's hand. Miner suffered a laceration on L ring finger.

November 7, 2008 MI · Metal/Non-Metal coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler MACHINERY
High Grade Materials Co. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

per witness / other participant "taking rock out of hopper with excavator, turn engine speed down just started take hydraulic out heard him scream."

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