MSHA's accident file records 52 fatalities at mines in Florida since 1983, listed by year. Each links to its incident record.
EE died after the dragline EE was operating slid into a water-filled pit.
EE died after the dragline EE was operating slid into a water-filled pit.
For unknown reason, haul truck veered over the berm and into quarry lake.
During a pipe breaking operation by the float crew on the #5 Matrix line near the #8 Lift Pump, the Leaderman was struck by a pipe and suffered fatal injuries. The investigation of the accident by MSHA and the company is ongoing. Autopsy results are also pending.
An employee was operating a CAT 390F excavator in the South Quarry Pit. The machine went into the water and sank to a depth of approximately 25 feet. Consistent with 103K order modifications approved by MSHA, the operator was recovered the following day.
EE entered feeder when gate would not close. While cutting out a piece of metal that was blocking the slide gate, material sloughed off and engulfed the EE.
Employee was underneath Conveyor Belt and became entangled.
During regular duties the operator of the dozer stopped, exited the cab, and the dozer rolled back crushing the operator.
The victim was operating an excavator near a canal when the excavator tipped on its side and went in the water. The victim was able to get out of the cab and transported to a hospital where he died at 5:45 p.m.
CEMEX loader opr was moving flyash from mat'l storage bldg to hopper. Raw mat'l del driver, ind. o/o contracted w/ Tri-State Carriers(TSC), entered mat'l storage area & exited his tractor, preparing to unload. Loader reversed to get another load & impacted the tractor, striking the driver. MSHA issued Contr ID B0350 to TSC under protest as it is not a contr on CEMEX mine site.
Employee was atop of cement silo when the roof collapsed engulfing him.
Employee was installing a replacement snubber pulley on the M-22 conveyor when he fell to the ground
EARLY MORNING AND THE SUN WASN'T COMPLETELY UP HOWEVER IT WAS LIGHT ENOUGH FOR GOOD VISIBILITY WITH OR WITHOUT LIGHTS BEING ON. BACK UP ALARM WAS FOUND TO BE IN GOOD WORKING CONDITION. The victim was struck by a road grader when it backed up. The accident occurred in the staging area where the victim and other coworkers were checking their equipment for the shift.
The senior blaster received fatal injuries when he was conducting a post-blast examination. The accident occurred when the ground on which he was walking caved in. The circumstances surrounding the accident and the cause of the accident are still under investigation.
Sand bank gave way.
(Under investigation) (Per Supervisor) Employee was assigned task of pushing overburden wall down with bulldozer. This was being done to install a water jack (floating pump) to pump out old mine cut. A short period of time later bulldozer and employee were discovered under water in mine cut by another employee.
While employee was driving the haul truck, it appears he lost control of the vehicle and went over a 7 - 9 foot high berm into the lake that was approximately 70 - 80 feet deep.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS USING BAND SAW TO CUT NOTCH IN WOOD AND PLACED HIS HAND UNDER BLADE CAUSING SEVERE CUT TO HAND. (LT).
EE WAS WELDING A PLATE ON TOPOF THE 3-DECK SCREEN. AT ABOUT 1855 HE SCREAMED. COWORKER WAS WORKING BELOW HIM AND HE RAN TO SEE WHAT WAS WRONG. HE IN TURN YELLED FOR THE SUPERVISOR. THEY FOUND EE LYING ON THE SCREEN WITH THE WELDING STINGER ON TOP OF HIM. COWORKER THREW THE STINGER OFF, RAN AND TURNED THE WELDER OFF. HE CAME BACK, CHECKED AND FOUND A PULSE. HE THEN RAN AND CALLED 91
DRIVER OF BULLDOZER WAS WORKING AT EDGE OF LAKE "PADDING" THE SLIP FACE FOR THE DRAGLINE USED BY RINKER, WHEN BULLDOZER FELL INTO LAKE RESULTING IN DEATH TO DRIVER.
WHILE ASSISTING IN THE INSTALLATION AND WIRING OF AN ELECTRONIC GENERATOR, INSIDE OF A 7820 MARION DRAGLINE, A MECHANIC WAS POSITIONING AN OVERHEAD 10 TON HOIST WEIGHING ABOUT 1160 POUNDS TO LIFT THE GENERATOR ARMATURE IN ORDER TO ALIGN THE BOLT HOLES, WHEN THE HOIST FELL ON THE EMPLOYEE CAUSING FATAL BLUNT TRAUMA.
EMPLOYEE WAS LEVELING PAD FOR DRAGLINE TO EXCAVATE LIMEROCK USING A CAT TRACK DOZER NEXT TO A WATER FILLED PIT THE MACHINE BACKED OVE THE EDGE AND FELL INTO 25 FT OF WATER. EMPLOYEE DIED.
DECEASED FAILED TO SECURE ELECTRICAL POWER SOURCE RESULTING IN ELECTROCUTION.
REPLACING WINDSHIELD IN FRONT END LOADER. HE FELL STRIKING THE LOADER AND THE GROUND.
EMPLLOYEE IN 60' HIGH REACH GETTING TOOLS DOWN FROM JOB ON C-330 BELT, WHEN A GUST OF WIND TURNED THE HIGH-REACH OVER WITH EMPLOYEE IN MAN BASKET.
UNDETERMINED CAUSE OF ACCIDENT. DRIVER DROVE VEHICLE INTO DITCH.
TECHNICIAN FROM AN OUTSIDE TIRE SERVICE COMPANY WAS IN THE PROCESS OF INSTALLING A NEW TIRE ON A FRONT END LOADER. FOR UNKNOWN REASONS, THE TIRE FELL ON THE TECHNICIAN, SUBJECTING HIM TO FATAL INJURIES.
DRAGLINE FELL INTO WATER FILLED PIT. EMP APPARENTLY DROWNED.
DRAGLINE APPARENTLY FELL INTO WATER FILLED PIT AND EMP APPARENTLY DROWNED. DRAGLINE RECOVERY CONTINUES.
THE VICTIM WAS WELDING ON A NEW FLOAT TANK. THE VENT PLUG WAS NOT REMOVED. THE END OF THE TANK THAT WAS BEIGN WELDED ON BLEW OFF STRIKING THE VICTIM .
WORKER FELL FROM AN UPPER LEVEL APPROX 30' ONTO A CONCRETE FLOOR. (NOTE: LABORER WAS SUPPLIED BY A TEMPORARY AENCY).
CAUSE OF ACCIDENT UNKNOWN. NO WITNESSES. EE DROVE HAUL TRUCK INTO PIT WITH APPROX. 30' OF WATER.
EMPLOYEE WAS CONNECTING THE LEADS OF A MATRIX PUMP CONTROLLER WHEN HE CONTACTED AN ENERGIZED HIGH-VOLT POWERLINE.
OBERSRVING BELT BEING INSTALLED IN NEW TRIPPER ON CONVEYOR AND FELL 40 FEE TO HIS DEATH.
BOOM ON BOOM TRUCK CAAME IN CONTACT WITH POWER LINE 13,200V. VICIM WAS HOLDING ONTO BOOM CABLE PREPARING TO HOOK UP FOR A LIFT, WHEN BOOM WAS SWUNG INTO THE LINE RESULTING IN ELECTRICUTION.
DRAGLINE WENT INTO LAKE.
EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING WINCH ON D135, BOON WAS DETACHED FROM WINCH AND RESTING ON SUPPORTS; CRIBBING GAVE WAY PINNING EMPLOYEE BETWEEN BOOM AND WINCH.
WHILE MOVING 2 LOCOMOTIVES IN TANDEM #1586 & 2010,THE EMPL WAS ON THE LEAD LOCOMOTIVE WITH THE OTHER FLAG PERSON AND ENGINEER. FOR UNKNOWN REASON EMPL LEFT LOCOMOTIVE AND WAS STRUCK BY A LOCOM OTIVE CAUSING DEATH.
WORKING ON A ELEVATED PLATFORM APPROX. 100' IN THE AIR. WAS COMING DOWN WHEN VICTIM FORGOT TO DISCONNECT WELDING GROUND LEAD FROM WORK AREA. PLATFORM TILTED AND GROUND CABLE STRUCK VICTIM IN H EAD CAUSING UNCONSCIOUSNESS. VICTIM THEN ROLLED OUT OF PLATFORM AND FELL TO GROUND. VICTIM WAS KILLED.
TRUCK DRIVER WAS HAULING MATERIAL FROM THE PIT STOCKPILE TO THE PLANT WHEN APPARENTLY HE BECAME UNCONCIOUS DUE TO AN ADVANCED CARDIOVASCULAR CONDITION, LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK AND DROVE INT O THE WATER FILLED PIT (LAKE) AND DROWNED.
CRUSHER OPER. STEPPED INTO CRUSHER TO RMOVE FLINT ROCK AND DID NOT SHUT OFF CRUSHER ENGINE.
DIVER WAS CAUGHT IN STRONG WATER CURRENT WHILE WORKING IN A TRANSFER PIPE AND DROWNED.
THE EMPLOYEE HAD RAISED TRUCK BOX AND MADE CONTACT WITH HIGH VOLTAGE POWER LINE EMPLOYEE HAD BACKED OVER WATER HOSE AND WENT TO MOVE TRUCK AND AS HE ATTEMPTED TO GET IN TRUCK HE WAS ELECTRICAT WHEN HE MADE CONTACT WITH THE TRUCK BODY.
EMP CLIMBED ONT2 A MOVING RAIL CAR TO MANUALLY ACTUATE THE SELINOID VALVE WHICH OPENS THE HOPPER DOORS. HE SLIPPED AND WAS HOLDING ONTO A RAIL CAR LADDER RUNG WITH HIS LEFT HAND. AT THIS TIME HE BECAME PINCH9D IN BETWEEN THE MOVING RAIL CAR AND A STATIONARY CONTACT BUMPER POST AT CHEST LEVEL. AFTER THE EMPLOYEE WAS FREED, SURROUNDING PERSONS STARTED EMERGENCY FIRST AID PROCEDURES U
THE EE RECEIVE8 A BLOW TO THE HEAD FROM A UNKNOWN CAUSE OR FALL. THE EE WAS AN INSULIN DEPENDANT DIABETIC SUFFERED FROM HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE & HAD HARDENING OF THE ARTERIES WHICH MAY HAVE CAUS ED THE ACCIDEN7.
FATALITY OCCURR9D WHILE EMPL TRYING TO STRING OUT WELDING LEAD ALONG WALKWAY OVER PAIR OF TROMMELS.A LIFTING EYE CAUGHT LEAD AND PULLED EMPL AROUND TROMMEL AND INTO CATCH BASIN BELOW.WATER THE N WASHED EMPL I3TO DRAINAGE DITCH.
OPERATOR WAS LOADING 85 TON HAUL TRUCK HAD PUT IN 6 LOADS WITH SHOVEL. WALL STARTED COMING IN OPERATOR IMMEDIATELY WENT INTO TRAVEL POSITION REVERSE WALL MATERIAL ENGULFED CAB KILLING OPERATOR
EMPL WORKING AROUND DE-ENERGIZED EQUIP AT SUB-STATION AND COME IN CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED TERMINATORS ELECTROCUTING EMPL.THEN FELL ONTO TOP-ROOF-OF TRANSFORMER CAUSING HEAD INJURY.EMPL EXPIRED DUE TO ABOVE INJURIES.
LOADER WENT INTO LAKE OVER BERM, OPERATOR DROWNED.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING BULLDOZER ON SLIGHT INCLINE HE STOPPED MACHINE FAILED TO SET BRAKE & LOWER BLADE TO GROUND HE PUT MACHINE IN NEUTRAL & STEPPED ONTO TRACK (APPARENTLY TO RESET SENTRY SWI TCH OR TO CHECK OIL) BULLDOZER ROLLED BACK PULLING EMPLOYEE BENEATH TRACK & CRUSHING HIM
EMPLOYEE WAS LOOKING UNDER THE MAN-LIFT PLATFORM (WHICH WAS NOT RUNNING) SOMEONE AT ANOTHER FLOOR LEVEL TURNED THE MAN-LIFT ON. THUS, EMPLOYEE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE PLATFORM AND THE MAN-LIFT STEP. BROKEN RIBS RIGHT & LEFT SIDE; COLLAPSED RIGHT LUNG, PARTIALLY COLLAPSED LEFT LUNG; CHIPPED 1 VERTEBRE IN BACK: 2 BONES BROKEN IN RIGHT SHOULDER.