Every mining fatality in Arkansas

Employee was servicing a dozer alone with the machine running & it was somehow put in gear & started moving. Before the employee could get out of the way the machine trapped employee's foot & started pulling employee in between the track & the cab, which led to employee being run over by the machine. This is our best guess as there were no actual witnesses to the event.

Time of accident: 10:00-11:30 Employee was drilling approximately 5' from the highwall. Drill steel was out of the carousel (cause under investigation). They exited the drill to correct the situation and failed to put on fall protection as per company policy and training requirements. It appears that they tripped/slipped/stumbled and fell over the edge. This resulted in a fatality.

EE was operating a loader at our pit. A co-worker was in a dump truck & was there to get loaded with but was having trouble with the air in the truck. The co-worker radioed to EE to go ahead and load another truck. EE returned from loading another truck and crawled underneath the co-worker's truck without telling the co-worker. The truck then rolled back on top of EE.

A Cat D250E haul truck was positioning to dump a load of material. The employee stopped three times before going backwards over the highwall.

The victim was attempting to deliver an overnite package. She got out of her truck, began walking toward the loader as the operator was backing in her direction to take delivery at the truck as usual. She had never left the truck before. She walked in the blind side(left rear)of the loader and was not seen. She was struck & run over by both left side tires causing fatal injuries.

The locomotive was coming back into the plant when EE had crossed over to the old scales side road. He got out of his truck & started to cross the tracks when the locomotive operator saw him. They heard him on the radio say he had broke the 7 car. A coworker asked another coworker if he could see him & when he looked back he saw him on the tracks. He had been hit by the locomotive.

Other ee was contructing a work scaffold, 5th floor, Bldg 450. Another ee was at the 10 foot level passing material to the top floor. While EE was re-locating he fell app. 60'.

THEY WERE ATTEMPTING TO LOAD CONVEYOR SHUTTLE, LOAD WAS SUSPENDED IN AIR SO TRUCK COULD BACK UNDER IT. CRANE STARTED SWINGING AND TILTING ALLOWING LOAD TO FALL. LOAD STRUCK EMPLOYEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRANSFERRING FUEL WHEN THERE WAS A FAILURE OF A PUMP CAUSING A FIRE.

ONE FATALITY AND ONE BRUSING/SEVERE SHOCK DUE TO ROCK FALL. BOTH INDIVIDUALS STANDING ADJACENT TO A LOSE SHUTTLE CAR, ONE WATCHING MINER TRAILING CABLE, WHEN LARGE ROCK FELL FROM ROOF STRIKING ONE PERSON AND GRAZING THE OTHER.

THE VICTIM, EE, AGE 7 WAS COLLECTING QUARTZ CRYSTALS AT THE BASE OF THE HIGH WALL WHEN THE OVER BURDEN COLLAPSED STRIKING THE VICTIM KNOCKING HIM TO THE GROUND.

DEMOLITION OF STEEL STRUCTURE USING CUT PULL AND DROP METHOD. A PIECE BECAME LOOSE AND ROLLED UNTIL IT HIT THE DECEASED.

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.

SWITCH ENGINE THAT WAS BEING CONTROLLED BY REMOTE DEVICE; WAS SWITCHING CARS ONTO TRACK WHERE EE WAS WORKING, CAUSING CAR TO RUN OVER HIM, CRUSHING HIM TO DEATH.

IT'S ASSUMED THAT EITHER WATCHING ANOTHER EE OR PERHAPS LOOKING FOR HIS CAP WHICH THE WIND MIGHTHAVE BLOWN OFF HE APPARENTLY HAD HOLD OF THE BUILDING & A RAIL ON A MACHINE WHICH WAS GROUNDED. AN ELECTRICAL CABLE HAD A CUT IN IT FROM RUBBINGON [OR CUTTING] FROM SHEET IRON SIDING ON BUILDING. CUT WAS NOT KNOWN ABOUT UNTIL ACCIDENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS SENT TO SHARPS QUARRY TO SERVICE A CAT 621 SCRAPER FOR MCCLINTON-ANCHOR COMPANY.HE WAS OPERATING A 1989 FORD F700 WITH A HIAB 173 SPEED LOADER BOOM HOIST WHEN THE ACCIDENT HAPPENE D.HE WAS USING THE HOIST LIFTING A 29.5X35 (APPROXIMATELY 900 POUND) TIRE OFF THE REAR OF THE SCRAPER. WITNESSES AT THE SCENE REPORTED HE HAD JUST CHANGED THE RIGHT REAR TIRE AND HAD MOVED TH

WHILE REPAIRING A 10HPH ELECTRIC MOTOR AND WIRING IT UP AFTER REPAIR A HOT WIRE WAS PLACED ON GROUND AND EMPLOYEE TOUCHED MOTOR WHILE POWER WAS ON RESULTING IN DEATH BY ELECTROCUTION.

AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS THE REVERES FORWARD SWITCH SHORTED TO THE CASE-ELECTROCUTING EMPLOYEE.

THE FLOOR OF THE PIT HAD BEEN BLASTED UNDER CUTTING AN OVERHANGING HIGHWALL AFTER THE BLASTED MATERIAL HAD BEEN REMOVED THE VICTIM STEPPED INTO THE EXCAVATION THE OVERHANGING HIGHWALL FELL CR USHING THE VICTIM

I,NAME WAS FATA5LY INJURED WHEN AN UNPLANNED SLOPE FAILURE OCCURRED. SEVERAL THOUSAND TONS OF LARGE BOULDERS AND LOOSE MATERIAL FROM APPROX. 70 FT HIGH PIT HIGHWALL FAILED, BURYING AND CRUSHIN G THE TRACK DRI5L OPERATOR.

TWO EMPLOYEES W9RE FATALLY INJURED WHEN A ROCK SLIDE OCCURRED. I,NAME WAS OPERATING A 235 CATERPILLAR BACKHOE USED TO LOAD EUCLID DUMP TRUCKS AND OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A GARDNER DENVER TRACK DRILL. T2E ROCK SLIDE OCCURRED CRUSHING THECAB OF THE BACKHOE, KNOCKING HIM OUT OF THE CAB AND COVERING HIM ALONG THE INSIDE OF THE TRACKS. OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING HOLES ALONG THE T

MAST OF DRILLIN1 RIG MADE CONTACT WITH POWER LINES WHEN MAST WAS BEING LOWERED AFTER INSTALLING MONITORING WELL. DRILL OPERATOR WAS ELECTOCUTED, RESULTING IN DEATH

THE POWER FOR T2E TAKEOFF PUMP WAS DEFECTIVE AND THE VICTIM CRAWLED UNDER THE TRACTOR TO MANUALLY ENGAGE THE PUMP. WHEN THE DUMP BED CAME DOWN IT CAUSED THE TRACTOR TO ROLL FORWARD AND THE FRONT DUAL ROLL9D OVER HIS HEAD AND UPPER CHEST

TEARING DOWN CO3CRETE SILO, CUT TOO MANY STEEL BANDS FROM SILO. CONCRETE BLOCKS AND SAND BURIED HIM.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO A MEASURE A DISCHARGE PIPE ON THE DREDGE HE WAS STANDING ON THE OPERATOR CONTROL TOWER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL.