Missouri mining incidents

Employee was performing cleaning and maintenance. They began work around 7 pm and was discovered by coworkers on the ground below the area of work. It is believed they fell.

Miner was on first floor of ""New Office"" working on a ladder changing a light. Miners co-worker went to basement to retrieve another new light. Co-worker heard a thump and a bang on the ceiling. Co-worker found miner sitting slumped on the floor unresponsive. Started CPR, called 911, deployed AED but the miner could never be revived.

Haul truck driver was going to pit to get loaded, traveled over berm, truck landed on cab in water

Employee received fatal injuries while operating haul truck which over-turned backwards off a stockpile.

An employee was fatally injured when they fell from an opening in an elevated catwalk.

APPROXIMATELY 1:35 PM ON 12/06/2022, EE WAS FOUND ON THE GROUND AFTER BEING STRUCK BY REAR OPPOSITE OPERATOR SIDE TIRE. INVESTIGATION IN ONGOING AT THIS TIME.

Employee was trying to insert a spud pin into a spud before the spud stopped moving. Pin struck victim in the head.

Miner removed an area guard and got entangled in a tail pulley.

A front-end loader operator was attempting to clear a buildup of sand from a stacker conveyor belt's tailpiece when the operator's arm became entangled. The victim was air lifted to a trauma center where the victim died a week later.

A delivery truck driver for Stericycle Environmental Solutions arrived at Alternate Fuels to deliver drums. After opening trailer doors, the driver walked back to the cab of his truck and proceeded to climb the steps to get back in the cab when he suddenly fell backwards onto the ground striking the back of his head.

EE was fatally injured while performing the standard practice of scaling loose material using a mechanical scaler. Loose material fell from the back contacting the scaler and employee.

The employees were scaling from a man basket on a boom truck when large slabs struck the boom causing it to separate from the truck.

Employee was scaling from a man basket on a boom truck when large slabs of rock struck the boom causing it to separate from the boom.

On Monday 9/16/13 at 09:25a.m. a pit/haul truck driver, in truck number 22-2012, with 25 years, 42 weeks experience turned left and crashed through the protection berm and fell 80 feet to the pit floor

Employee was operating a loader near the highwall when a shot was initiated.

Employee was looking for hydraulic leak and was struck in head by eject all plate. Employee received a massive head trauma and later became a fatality.

Employee fell approximately 100 feet while dismantling a suspended Safway Systems scaffold. The accident is still under investigation.

The Employee was on the surface of a clean dry barge in daylight hours with no movement and light wind. The Ee passed through the #2 port hatch opening and made contact with the empty hopper floor. Cause is unknown. Ee was installing a dust prevention tarp across the port hatch opening before the incident. The operator contests MSHA jurisdiction.

Two men were working atop an 80 ft silo attempting to reset the chain on a bucket elevator. One man was below and in phone contact with one of the two mechanics atop. As the call was ending, the assisting mechanic atop knocked a 'miner's bar' off the platform. The bar fell and hit the man below on the back of the head. The man died approx. three hours later in the hospital.

EE and other co-workers were trying to connect a 42-in. inlet duct to a top reversal box through an opening in the building. The EE was inside the building between the inlet duct and reversal box. When the inlet duct unexpectedly came through the opening, it struck the injured employee in the head causing severe head injury resulting in death on 6/19/2007.