MSHA's accident file records 52 fatalities at mines in Georgia since 1983, listed by year. Each links to its incident record.
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."
Investigation is ongoing. *A miner died after being engulfed by a collapsing highwall.
The crew had drilled a chain hole and connected a chain to lift the block a short distance to break away from the ledge. When this occurred, grout rock remaining on the ledge above to miners broke loose and fell striking both of them, fatally injuring one and seriously injuring the second miner. The grout rock was left from the previous day, and was examined and determined safe.
Investigation is still ongoing, and an autopsy is being performed to determine the cause. *Per the prelim: Two contractors were electrocuted when a 14,400-volt overhead power line came in contact with their off-road dump trucks, and the contractors exited their trucks and contacted the ground.
Investigation is still under way and an autopsy is being performed to determine cause. *Per the prelim: Two contractors were electrocuted when a 14,400-volt overhead power line came in contact with their off-road dump trucks, and the contractors exited their trucks and contacted the ground.
A contract miner died when the compactor EE was operating overturned, pinning EE beneath the cab. As the compactor was traveling in reverse, the compactor's left tire went off a four-foot embankment causing the compactor to overturn.
Complicated seizure disorder (not work related)
Utility operator was found non-responsive with EE's clothing entangled in the drill steel of the roof bolter.
EE is believed to have been either chipping away several inches of top layer of brownish colored granite or drilling a chain hole through the granite near end of the block on the open face so block could be lifted using a chain. Granite block being worked on was approx. 5'x12'x30'. Additional submitted details on file.
While loading a face on level 3, NW2, the man basket of the powder truck raised up into the roof of the mine causing a fatal incident. The accident is still under investigation by the operator and the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Employee was working in a de-energized 4160 volt GFCI controller in an attempt to reverse the polarity of the wires when it somehow became energized.
Crane fell over into quarry with operator inside cab. The victim was operating crane lifting an approximately 15 ton block of granite from the pit. The boom of the crane lowered causing the crane to tip over and fall 85 feet into the pit.
Cracked stone fell and crushed employee. Employee didn't follow procedure. Employee's lanyard wasn't tied off and the employee was using a foot wedge and jackhammer with 1 1/4" bit. Employee should have been using 3/4" plug drill and 5" tether and wedge. The employee was drilling from the base and should have been drilling at the top.
Wash plant operator was operating a front-end loader during the overnight shift as normal. EE exited the loader and entered the hopper filled with sand the EE had just dumped. EE was fatally injured when they were engulfed in the sand, as it vibrated to the bottom of the hopper. EE may have entered the hopper to try to retrieve two pieces of metal inadvertently dumped into hopper.
Contract employee entered rail car GATX 22394 at approximately 11:30 am, to wash out the rail car. At approximately 12:00, a Thiele employee went to check on him and observed him lying on the floor of the car. Emergency response was activated immediately. Employee was recovered from the rail car by EMS personnel and pronounced deceased.
Employee was standing on a ditch bank when it collapsed. He fell into the ditch and was covered/crushed by falling material
Employee was operating a haul truck transporting material from the wash bins to a stockpile located Northwest of two settling ponds. On the return trip to the wash bins, the haul truck traveled through a berm on the left side of the haul road, went over an embankment and overturned on its left side in the settling pond.
An over-the-road truck driver (not a miner, nor an employee) was pinned against a loading dock by a shuttle trailor that was backing up to the dock.
Employee followed none of the safety & company policies. Allowed his girlfriend on the property and up in the cab of the loader. Also, evidence is pointing to drugs or alcohol. Awaiting the toxicology report.
Victim was scaling in level 9 north 8 when a large rock fell from the roof crushing the cab of the scale machine causing fatal injuries. The accident is still under investigation by MSHA and the mine operator. The root cause analysis is not complete at this time.
EMPLOYEE WORKING NEAR EDGE OF HIGHWALL FELL 90 FEET AFTER SLIPPING OR STEPPING IN WRONG DIRECTION.
EMBANKMENT CAVE IN RESULTED IN PINNING VICTIM IN FROM CHEST DOWN THUS CONSTRICTING BREATHING WHICH ACCORDING TO CORONER RESULTED IN ASPHYXIATION.
LEDGE FOREMAN AND HIS LEDGE CREW WERE REMOVING STONE & DEBRIS FROM A BENCH LEVEL AT THE QUARRY SITE. THEY HAD REMOVED THE RAILING AND APPROXIMATELY HALF THE BENCH LEVEL AT THE TIME HE FELL 28 ' TO THE FLOOR BELOW THEM. HE PASSED AWAY 2/1/02.
EE WAS IN BIN AS MATERIAL WAS BEING DISCHARGED.
WAS INSTRUCTED TO HOW OUT OF ANOTHER PIT. THE EE MADE THE TRONSITION WITH NO PROBLEM. ON THE EE'S LAST LOAD BEFORE THE END OF THE SHIFT, FOOT DEEP POOL OF WATER. AFTER EVENING THE WATER THE EE RAISED HIS TRUCK BED & TURNED HIS WINDSHIELD WIPERS ON. THE EE THEN EMPTED TO EXIT FROM VEHCILE ONTO A DIRT ENBANKMENT THAT WAS ABOUT 2 FT AWAY. THE EE DID NOT MAKE IT TO THE ENBANKMENT AND D
EMPLOYEES WERE VACUUMING OUT HOPPER CAR. HE WAS STANDING ON LADDER INSIDE CAR SHOVELING CLAY OFF SIDES OF CAR. HE ASKED EE TO TELL ANOTHER EE TO SHUT OFF VACUUM. I.NAME COULD NOT HEAR HIM SO H E WENT DOWN AND SHUT OFF VACUUM HIMSELF. HE IMMEDIATELY WENT BACK UP ON TOP OF CAR TO CHECK ON FRANK. HE COULD NOT SEE HIM. THE CLAY HAD CAVED IN ON TOP OF HIM: HE COULD ONLY SEE HIS LANYARD.
TWO LEDGEMEN WERE DRIVING STEEL WEDGES IN AN ATTEMPTY TO BREAK A 40"X8'X8' GRANITE BLOCK FREE. PART OF THE BLOCK DISLODGED AND FELL ON ONE OF THE EES. FIFTEEN 3/4"X6" HOLES HAD BEEN DRILLED IN TO THE SIDE OF THE GRANITE TO START THE WEDGES. ONE EE WAS DRIVING WEDGES NEAR THE TOP OF THE BLOCK, WHILE THE VICTIM WAS DRIVING WEDGES BELOW. A PIECE MEASURE 7 1/2'X8' RANGING FROM 4" TO 40
THE EE WAS USING COMPRESSED AIR SUPPLIED BY THE LOCOMOTIVE TO CLEAN MUD FROM THE RAIL SCALE. TEN LOADED CARS WERE COUPLED TO THE LOCOMTIVE. FOUR ADDITIONAL LOADED CARS WERE PUSHED FROM THE LOA DOUT AND UNEXPECTEDLY STRUCK THE FIRST TEN. THISCAUSED THE LOCOMOTIVE TO MOVE FORWARD, STRIKING THE EE.
A DELIVERY TRUCK DRIVER WAS FATALLY INJURED WHILE UNLOADING A LOAD OF 18" BY 50' PVC PIPE FROM A FLATBED TRAILER. WHEN HE CUT A ROPE SECURING THE PIPE ON THE TRAILER, THE PIPE ROLLED OFF AND C RUSHED HIM.
VICTIM WAS CLEARING OUT THE SCRUBBER.ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER ABOUT 20 FT ABOVE THE VICTIM.THE SLEDGE HAMMER SLIPPED OUT OF THE EMPLOYEES HAND HITTING THE VICTIM ON TH E RIGHT SIDE OF THE HEAD AND CAUSED HIM TO FALL ABOUT 14 FEET TO GROUND LEVEL INTO LOOSE EARTH.
EE WAS STANDING ON LADDER WHEN PIECE OF ROCK FELL, STRIKING LADDER CAUSING HIM TO FALL APPROXIMATELY 35-40 FEET INTO THE BOTTOM OF THE QUARRY WHERE HE SUSTAINED A BROKEN LEG, LACERATION TO FAC E & SEVERE ABDOMENIAL INJURIES.
WALKED IN MINE AREA WHERE TRUCKS WERE DUMPING. DRIVER COULD NOT SEE HIM AND BACKED OVER HIM.
EMPLOYEE HAD FINISHED DOTTING THE LINE O THE FACE OF THE NEXT LIFT HE WAS WORKING ON A NARROW WORK AREA & NOT WEARING HIS SAFETY BELT PROVIDED FOR HIM BY THE COMPANY THE WIND WAS GUSTING BUT I T WA S CLEAN & DRY EMPLOYEE FELL OFF THE LEDGE &DROPPED TO HIS DEATH APPROX 75FT ON A SOLID FLAT GRANITE 40FTX40FT CHANNEL BLOCK
THE 2300 VOLT POWER CABLE TO THE 200 HORSE PUMP MOTOR WAS FOUND TO BE DAMAGED A & A SPLICE.THE POUTER UNDERPROOF COVERING AT THE SPLICE APPEARED TO BE CUT AND ONE PHASE OF THE 3 PHASE CONDUCTO R FUSED TO THE EQUIPMENT GROUNDING CONDUCTOR.THIS COULD HAVE PLACED VOLTAGE ON THE PUMP HOUSING. THE VICTIM COULD HAVE CONTACTED THE PUMPING EQUIPMENT WHILE HOLDING DIFFERENT GROUNDING POTENT
EMPLOYEE BACKED OVER THE BERM ON THE DUMP. THE TRUCK TURNED OVER, LANDING IN A MUD POND UPSIDE DOWN. THE MUD FORCED THE WINDSHIEDL INTO THE CAB. THE MUD SUFFOCATED THE INDIVIDUAL.
A FATAL ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHEN THE LANYARD TO THE SAFETY BELT WORN BY THE VICTIM BECAME ENTANGLED WITH A SLOW MOVING SHAFT.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING FROM A BUCKET TRUCK MAKING CONNECTIONS ON SWITCH AND LIGHTENING ARRESTER TO HIGH VOLTAGE LINE WHEN HE ACCIDENTALLY CAME IN CONTACT WITH ANOTHER SWITCH THAT HAD BEEN PREVIO USLY ENERGIZED WITH 7200 VOLTS.
HE ENTERED CHEMICAL TANK TO INSTALL THREADED FLANGE FOR PROBE
THE EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING DISASSEMBLE BOOM,BOOM FELL ON HIM CRUSHED HIS NECK AND CHEST.
WORKER WAS JUST ABOUT TO DESCEND INTO THE QUARRY ON A LADDER WHEN HE FELL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE QUARRY.WORKER FELL APPROXIMATELY 20-24 FEET.
I.NAME HAD WALKED BEHIND HIS TRUCK TO LOOK AT A BLOCK OF GRANITE. THE TRUCK WAS PARKED ON AN INCLINE WHERE IT JUMPED OUT OF GEAR AND ROLLED BACK TRAPPING I.NAME BETWEEN THE GRANITE AND THE TRU CK AND RESULTING IN HIS DEATH.
A HOOK BROKE UNDER LOAD WHICH CAUSED THE WORK PLATFORM TO FALL 84 FT TO THE GROUND FLOOR INSIDE THE NORTH SILO. EMP ON PLASTFORM WAS FATALLY INJURED.
EMPLOYEE WAS ADJUSTING 5 1/2 FT STANDARD NORBERG CRUSHER WITH A 1" DIAMETER 100FT LONG WIRE ROPE ATTACHED TO A 988-B LOADER. THE CABLE WAS ATTACHED TO THE CRUSHER BY MEANS OF A 5" CLEVIS WITH A 5" LONG 1 1/4" DIAMETER BOLT. WHEN PRESSURE WAS APPLIED TO THE CABLE, THE 5"BOLT CAME OUT OF THE CLEVIS CAUSING WHIPPING EFFECT STRIKING HIM COMPLETELY SEVERING BOTH LEGS.
THE EMP HAVING 0INISHED HIS REGULAR CLEAN-UP DUTIES, WENT TO THE CONTROL ROOM TO COOL OFF. ON HIS OWN HE DECIDED TO WASH THW WINDOWS OF THE CONTROL ROOM. HE WENT OUTSIDE OF THE CONTROL ROOM AND WENT THROUG2 OR OVER THE HANDRAIL ONTO A 8 1/2 LEDGE TO CLEAN THE WINDOWS. HE FELL FROM THIS LEDGE ONTO THE VERTICAL 1/2 IN PIPE THE TOP OF WHICH WAS ABOUT 4 FT BELOW THE LEDGE AND ABOUT
BRAKE ADJUSTMEN7 BOLT BROKE CAUSING BOOM TO FALL.VICTIM WAS EITHER PUSHED OR FELL INTO QUARRY PIT.
EE TRIED TO RE8TART MOTOR ON BOAT WHILE IT WAS IN GEAR. HE WAS THROWN FROM BOAT & DROWN.
DRILL HAVING FI3ISHED SERVICE FOR MINE,MOVED TO DESIGNATED PARKING AREA FRO MAINTENANCE SUBJECT RAISED 35'LONG DRILL TOWER INTO HIGHEST POSITION.AT THIS TIME WITH HAND STILL ON STILL ON TOWER CONTROL,UPPERM2ST POINT OF TOWER TOUCHED POWER CO 46,000 VOLT MAIN LINE INTO SUB-STATION.
EMPL I.NAME PLU1GED AITKEN ELECTRIC HEATER IN WRONG.THE GROUND PLUG WAS INADVERTENTLY PLUGGED INTO HOT WIRE,ENERGIZING HEATER FRAME.I.NAME MADE CONTACT WITH HEATER FRAME.VICTIM GOT WET PERFORM ING DUTIES IN T2E QUARRY.HE WENT INTO MAIN SHOP TO WARM & DRY.TOOK BOOTS OFF AND PLUGGED IN 440 VOLT HEATER.TOUCHED HEATER AND WAS ELECTROCUTED.
EMPTY RAIL CAR BEING GRAVITY DROPPED DOWN SLIGHT GRADE COLLIDED WITH A PARKED RAIL CAR ON THE SAME TRACK. VICTIM WAS THROWN OFF THE EMPTY RAIL CAR CAR HE WAS RIDING INTO THE END OF THE PARKED RAIL CAR. HE THEN FELL ONTO THE TRACK AND THE RAIL CAR HE HAD BEEN RIDING ROLLED ONTO HIM.
EMPLOYEE HAD CEASED NORMAL SHOP ACTIVITY TO AWAIT QUARRY BLAST. ROCK WAS THROWN FROM BLAST INTO SHOP AREA STRIKING EMPLOYEE CAUSING LACERATIONS & FRACTURES TO HEAD & BODY. POOR QUAUTY OF ROCK & POSSIBLE SEAM SUSPECTED TO CONTRIBUTE TO EXCESSIVE FLY ROCK.
DRIVER LEFT THE ENGINE ON DRIVER DISMOUNTED TRUCK THE TRUCK SUDDENLY ACELAERATED AND DRIVER WAS RUN OVER BY REAR LEFT TIRES APPORXIMATELY 40 FEET FROM POINT UNDER THE LOADING BIN TRUCK TRAVE APPROXIMATELY 150 FEET MORE WHERE IT WAS STOPPED BY A DITCH NEXT TO HAULING ROAD TRUCK WAS RUNNING IN FIRST GEAR AND ALL BRAKES WERE ENGAGED NO OTHER INJURIES INVOLVED
MR BOOTH OF NORX WAS ELECTROCUTED WHILE REPAIRING RAMSEY TOTALIZER BELT SCALES DETAILS ARE NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME BUT MSHA OFFICE IN MACON GEORGIA WAS NOTIFIED PROMPTLY