Every reportable accident on file with MSHA at a Mississippi mine. Operators below are ranked by recorded fatality count in this state alone.
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Employee was on the ground spotting a dump truck to prepare for dumping a load of fill dirt in excavation area. Employee's back was to the dozer that came up an incline and fatally struck employee from behind.
A haul unit was being loaded by a track hoe and a slush pond dam broke and the slush came down on top of them burying them.
A track hoe was loading a haul unit with gravel to take to wash plant and the dam on a slush pond broke and covered up both the tack hoe and the haul unit with the workers in them.
The employee was stripping at gravel pit. The employee had dumped his load of dirt and was returning to the load site. At this time he chose to travel over a pile of dirt. as he was traveling over the pile of dirt he got too close to the edge of the pile and the equipment overturned and landed on him.
Employee became entangled between a return idler and the bottom conveyor tail pulley located in the primary crusher basement.