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Employee was found entangled in conveyor 12 tail pulley. Responding authorities pronounced the employee deceased. Incident is still under investigation.
Employee was fatally injured while working on a conveyor system.
Based on investigation to date, employee suffered a personal medical event (cardiac arrest). "Per Prelim: After washing a concrete pad, a miner drowned in a two-foot-deep pool of water."
Customer driver was found unresponsive outside the customer's truck. Cause of death is unknown.
On March 22, 2016 at approximately 6:35pm an employee was struck by flyrock after a shot was detonated. The employee was sitting inside of a pickup approximately 1,200 feet away from the shot when detonated. This incident resulted in a fatality.
Emp a contract worker repairing a Scaler in Mod 12. The emp had fallen to the ground in fetal position, locked arms, clenched fist and bleeding from the ears. The witness did not know if the emp fell from a height or ground level. The injured emp was airlifted. He was lacking oxygen to brain for 10 minutes. He was pronounced dead at 9:45AM on Feb 28.
Forklift turned over - The miner was operating a forklift, traveling on a decline toward the mine entrance, when the forklift went out of control. The forklift struck a concrete support for the belt conveyor and overturned, killing him.
The investigation into the accident is on-going, but as of now, it appears as the three employees were installing ground vault indicator lights when an ach flash occurred, injuring them. The employees were transported to the hospital.
Cause of accident is unknown at this time. Employee was working on a winch on a dredge boat and was found drowned behind the boat some time afterwards.
An R-35 Euclid Haul truck and a rail car collided.
AT APPROX. 4:45 EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING END DUMP CO # 31-054. THE TRUCK WAS LOADED WITH SB-2 THAT WAS TO BE DUMPED ON THE RAMP OF THE SB-2 STOCKPILE. THE MATERIAL WAS TO BE USED TO BUILD UP THE RAMP. AT APPROX. 5:10 AN EMPLOYEE OBSERVED END DUMP #54 LAYING ON ITS SIDE AT THE BASE OF THE STOCKPILE.