Mining Incidents in Kansas

Victim was removing sand from the sand wall with a Volvo L120E loader and the wall sloughed off covering the loader and victim with sand.

An individual was standing in the vicinity of a stockpile when material sloughed off from the stockpile and engulfed them.

Victim was caught between track hoe bucket and haul truck. An excavator was loading material in a haul truck parked in the pit. When the victim exited the truck, he was struck by the bucket of the excavator and pinned against the truck.

Individual was hit by fly rock while setting off a shot.

Adjusting and cleaning of a tail pulley on a 110' Masaba Conveyor LOTO was not performed by the EE before entering the tail pulley section of the conveyor. Belt was energized by the operator; EE was in tangled in the pulley from his feet to his mid section of his body. EE was fatally injured.

Haul truck was dumping a load of dirt when the dozer operator approched from blind side to get driver's attention when he was struck by the truck and was fatally injured.

Employee somehow fell into the water. There were no witnesses so no details available.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS PINNNED BETWEEN THE FRONT BUMPER OF A PICKUP AND A FILING CABINET. THE PICKUP WAS DRIVEN BY THE PLANT MANAGER WHILE HAVING A SEIZURE. THE EE DIED AS A RESULT OF HER INJURI ES.

IT APPEARS EMPLOYEE WAS SCALING A PILLAR WITH A 7' SCALING BAR. THE ROCK HE WAS TRYING TO PULL WAS APPROX. 8' ABOVE THE GROUND AND CONTINUED DOWN TO JUST ABOVE THE FLOOR. WHILE DOING THIS WORK HE WAS STRUCK IN THE HEAD BY A PORTION OF THE ROCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS HAULING 1 1/4" X 0 CRUSHED STONE FROM THE CRUSHING PLANT TO THE STOCKPILE. WHILE ASCENDING THE RAMP TO THE TOP OF THE STOCKPILE, THE TRUCK OVERTURNED ON ITS SIDE, PINNING THE EMPL OYEE UNDER THE TRUCK, CAUSING FATAL INJURIES.

WERE REMOVING WHEEL FROM 475-B LOADER FOR TRANSPORT WHEN WHEEL UNEXPECTADLY CAME OFF.

PLANT SUPERVISOR & EE ADJUSTED TRACKS ON DOZER. OTHER EE LEFT, & PLANT SUPERVISOR APPARENTLY STARTED TO OPERATE DOZER, IN REVERSE. HE EITHER JUMPED OR FELL OFF DOZER. DOZER STRUCK SUPERVISOR'S PICKUP, PUSHED IT OUT OF THE WAY, AND APPARENTLY RAN OVER THE SUPERVISOR, CAUSING ABDOMINAL INJURIES, FRACTURED FEMUR & PELVIS.

UNKNOWN LOSS OF CONTROL OF A 92 FORD CTF8000 DUMP TRUCK, TRUCK WEN TINTO POND.

END DUMPS WERE PARKED END TO END ON THE ACCESS ROAD JUST EAST OF THE TUNNEL. EE WAS THE DRIVER OF THE FRONT VEHICLE AND VICTIM WAS THE DRIVER OF THE BACK VEHICLE EE WAS HELPING EE FIX HIS TA RP HANDLE. EE WEN TBACK TO HIS VEHICLE TO TURN ON HIS HEADLIGHTS TO PROVIDE MORE LIGHT. EE QUICKLY FIXED THE TARP HANDLE AND WAS WALKING BACK TO EE'S VEHICLE TO THANK HIM FOR HIS HELP. EE F

INJURED ENTERED THE BIN AFTER BEING WARNED 30 MINUTES PRIOR NOT TO WORK IN THE AREA.APPARENTLY HE BECAME ENTRAPPED BETWEEN THE CONVEYOR AND THE BIN DISCHARGE GATE AND SUFFOCATED.

CRUSHER WAS ROTATED WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS STILL IN CHAMBER. INJURIES TO EMPLOYEE WERE FATAL. EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING IN FREEING A LARGE BOULDER FROM THE CRUSHER.

AFTER BLASTING TO REMOVE LOOSE ROOF IN THE MINE, THE EMPLOYEE ENTERED AN AREA THAT HAD NOT BEEN CLEARED OR INSPECTED FOR WORK DUTIES. THE LOOSE ROCK FELL ON HIM, FATALLY INJURING HIM. THE EMPO LOYEE WAS WAITING FOR THE AREA TO BE CLEARED OF THE SHOT.

THERE WAS A FAULT IN THE SECONDARY SYSTEM. THE GROUND WIRE WAS BURNED IN TWO AND THE CONVEYOR FRAME WAS ENERGIZED. AN EMPLOYEE WAS ELECTROCUTAL WHEN HE TOUCHED THE FRAME. GROUND WAS WET AROUND THE AREA.

WE WERE SETTING3SAND PUMP ON BARGE. BARGE WAS FACING WEST WITH 3 MEN ON WEST SIDE, TWO MEN ON EAST AND ONE MAN ON NORTH SIDE OF SAND PUMP. THEN INDEPENDENT LINE BROKE DROPPING THE HEADACHE BAL ABOUT 25 -30 FE9T STRIKING THE NORTH MAN ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HEAD AND FACE

ACCIDENT VICTIM3WAS AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR HAULER AND WAS ALONE AT THE QUARRY LOADING HIS TRUCK WITH A RUBBER TIRED FRONT END LOADER OWNED BY THE QUARRY OPERATOR. WHEN A QUARY EMP RETURNED TO THE QUARRY H9 FOUND THE FRONT END LOADER HAD OVERTURNED AT A DITCH WITH THE VICTIM BENEATH THE MACHINE. VICTIM WAS DEAD WHEN FOUND