MSHA's accident file records 68 fatalities at mines in Ohio since 1983, listed by year. Each links to its incident record.
Employee was operating a DM45 Highwall Drill on a drill bench. Employee was traveling parallel to the edge and the outside edge gave way. The drill slid off the bench and landed 25 feet below.
A loader bucket on a CAT R3000H came down and crushed an employee while in use, resulting in a fatality. The injured employee was operating a UTV (gator) in Unit 43 near the feeder breaker (Stamler) when the incident occurred. This incident is still under investigation.
Employee died when they became entangled in the log washer.
Employee was working on removing a pin from a leveling cylinder on the back of the rock truck. While the employee was performing this work, the haul truck bed fell on top of the employee.
Employee was engulfed when they entered the primary feed hopper/bin to clear clogged material.
The employee was performing work activities on a sand dredge to free a clam shell bucket from material in a lake when the dredge capsized.
The conditions contributing to this accident are unknown at this time. The weather, road condition, and equipment failure is not of suspect as of this date. The miner lost his life
A fatal accident occurred on the longwall face around #144 shield. A ladder line hose got pinched under the toe of the #144 shield. EE did not see hose under shield and initiated the electronic push of the pan-line. The hose that was pinched under the toe of the shield, stretched by movement of pan-line, broke apart and high pressure emulsion fluid struck victim as he traveled by.
Employee was directing an end loader towards himself to hook a strap to it for removal of a dolly that was used to move the hi-wall miner launch. Contributing factors were attempting to hook a 6' strap while standing in front of this moving machine and stationary dolly. Cause was human error/bad judgement by the victim and end loader opr.
EE was shoving top soil away from the highwall. He backed up over and through an 8 foot berm that had been constructed at the edge of the highwall. The dozer went over the wall rolling over and throwing him out of the cab.
The victim was leaning over a base lift jack housing. The molded casing catastrophically failed striking the victim in the chest from unknown/undetectable reasons. Cause was catastrophic failure of the housing. Compliance with rules/regs, protective items not a factor, miner proficiency may be a factor, mining equip/systems may be a factor.
An employee was struck by a slab of rock that measured approximately 8 inches to 12 inches thick by 50 to 70 inches wide by 74 inches long. The roof fall occurred at the 34 Main between crosscut 1 North 4 and 1 North 5.
Employee fell but no one observed his work being performed or his fall. Employee died.
4-employees were performing preventative maintenance on the aerial tram system used to transport stone from the quarry to the plant. While tensioning the steel cable used to carry the tram buckets, the hydraulic cylinder assembly pulled loose from its anchor point. One employee was fatally injured and another suffered a broken leg, after being struck by components of the system.
The worker fell from the bag plant roof where he had been cleaning to the truck dock approximately 17 feet below. The specific explanations for being near the edge or for falling are unknown. Weather conditions and working surface believed to be non-contributory. There were no direct eyewitnesses to the fall. The fall resulted in the death of the worker. Investigation ongoing.
Shuttle car operator stopped to talk to the shuttle car operator in the crosscut behind him. Scoop operator in crosscut in front proceeded to cross in front of shuttle car. Shuttle car operator proceeded with the buggy towards the feeder running over the scoop operator in front of him.
Employee was making dredge repairs using hand tools: 3/4" ratchet & 4'-long cheater pipe. He took dredge pump apart and left the ratchet and pipe on the end of the shaft. He started the engine and then engaged the clutch. The pipe came around and hit him on the left side of his skull. Employee was hospitalized and died of his injuries on 7/3/05.
OPERATOR DID NOT SEE THE VICTIM ON FOOT BEHIND HIM WHILE BACKING DOWN RAMP LEADING TO FEED THE HOPPER. THERE WAS ONE VICTIM INVOLVED IN THE ACCIDENT.
EMPLOYEE (FOREMAN) DID NOT TURN POWER OFF AND LOCK OUT 486 VOLT ELECTRIC BOX. CUT CABLE AND MADEA SPLICE. WAS ELECTRICUTED. TAKEN TO MOUNT CARMEL HOSPITAL. WE WERE NOTIFIED OF HIS DEATH APPROX 2:00 PM.
WHILE PREPARING TO ATTACH ROCKDUST HOSE TO POD DUSTER, THE DUSTER WAS STRUCK BY 3 SUPPLY CARS WHICH HAD BROKEN LOOSE FROM THE SLOPE CAR AT THE TOP OF THE SLOPE. CARS STRUCK THE DUSTER & THE VI CTIM WAS FATALY INJURED. THE CARS TRAVELED APPROXIMATELY 1700 FT. BEFORE STRIKING THE ROCKDUSTER. CAUSE OF THE CARS BREAKING LOOSE IS STILL UNDETERMINED.
EMPLOYEE WAS APPARENTLY INSPECTING CONVEYOR BELT TAKE-UP AT 2ND M.NORTH DRIVE WHEN HIS LEFT ARM BECAME ENTANGLED BETWEEN THE BOTTOM BELT AND THE STATIONARY ROLLER, CAUSING AVULSION LEFT ARM AN D FACIAL INJURIES. ACCIDENT IS CURRENTLY UNDER INVESTIGATION BY COMPANY, STATE AND MSHA OFFICIALS. AUTOPSY PENDING.
R-50 HAUL TRUCK ROLLED BACKWARDS DOWN RAMP FROM QUARRY HOLE WENT OVER BERM AND FELL APPROX 25' OVER LOWER HIGHWALL LANDING ON ITS SIDE. ACCIDENT WAS FATAL.
DRIVER HAD JUST SCALED OUT HIS LOAD & PULLED AHEAD OF THE SCALE APPROX 117' ALONG THE ROADWAY EAST OF THE PACKHOUSE BLDG. ANOTHER TRUCK FOLLOWED BEHIND HIM ONTO THE SCALE. HE STATED HE SAW DEC EASED PULL HIS RIG OFF TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROADWAY ON A SLIGHT INCLINE. DECEASED WAS OUT OF HIS TRUCK AT THE REAR LOOKING INTO THE RAISED BED OF UNTARPED MATERIAL. TRAILER WENT OVER.
THE WORKERS WERE WORKING FROM A BOAT REPAIRING A DISCHARGE LINE APPROX. 15 FT FROM DREDGE #1. THEY INADVERTENTLY PLACED A CHAIN CLAMP AROUND ONE PHASE OF A 480 VOLT ALTERNATING CURRENT CIRCUIT . WHILE TIGHTENING THE CLAMP, THE CHAIN CUT OR BROKE THE INSULATION CONTACTING THE ENERGIZED CONDUCTOR.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF RECOVERING A SLURRY LINE THROUGH A CANOPIED AREA. FOR REASONS UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME, THE CANOPY COLLAPSED CAUSING FATAL INJUIES TO THE EMPLOYEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF RECOVERING A SLURRY LINE THROUGH A CANOPIED AREA. FOR REASONS UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME, THE CANOPY COLLAPSED CAUSING FATAL INJURIES TO EMPLOYEE.
2" IRON PIPE CAME LOOSE FROMA UNION JOINT AND THE OTHER END WAS THREADED INTO AN ELBOW AND WHEN IT CAME LOOSE THE PIPE APPROX 4' TO 6' LONG ACTED LIKE A JET PROPULSTON AND THE PIPE ROTATED LIK E A FAN AND IT HIT THE EE IN THE HEAD CAUSING DEATH FROM HEAD TRAUMA. PIPE WAS CONNECTED TO AIR COMPRESSOR.
EQUIPMENT SALES PERSON WAS PICKING UP HIS EQUIPMENT WITH 3 MECHANICS. BOOM ON LOADER SWUNG AROUND, PINNED OWNER OF EQUIPMENT AGAINST ANOTHER PIECE OF EQUIPMENT.
EE WAS SUPERVISING A MAINTENANCE REPAIR CREW IN THE COLLECTER BELT AREA OF THE BIN LOCATED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MEIGS MINE NO.2 SLOPE. IT IS THE UNCONFIRMED THEORY THAT EE WHILE WALKING AROUND THE BELT TAIL PIECE, CAME INTO CONTACT WITH THE FRAME OF THE TAIL PIECE STRUCTURE WHICH HAD BECOME ENERGIZED. THE INVESTIGATION INTO THISINCIDENT IS CONTINUING AND AN AUTOPSY REPORT IS
AS EE WAS POSITIONING HIMSEL FHE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL BACKWARDS TO THE GROUND. HE WAS NOT WEARING A SAFETY HARNESS AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT. SAFET HARNESSES WERE AVAILABLLE AT THE OB SITE AND IN THE WORK AREA. THE EMPLOYEES WERE AWARE OF THE AVAILABILITY OF THE HARNESSES AND HAD OBSERVED PRIOR USE OF THEHARNESSES AT THE JOB SITE.
OPERATOR FOR UNKNOWN REASON CAME OUT OF CAB COMPARTMENT AND WAS TRANSFERED BY MOVEMENT OF TRACK TO FRONT OF DOZER WHER HE WENT OVER END OF TRACK AND WAS CRUSHED.
MATERIAL WAS BEING PUSHED FROM A SHOT WITH A DOZER, OVER THE HIGHWALL. THE HIGWALL BROKE AND THE DOZER FELL APPROX 150 FT TO THE LOWER PIT. THIS RESULT IN FATAL INJURIES TO THE DOZER OPERATOR.
THE INJURED WAS OPERATING A CHAINSAW CLEARING A DOWNED TREE THAT WAS LAYING AGAINST A SLOPE. WHEN THE EMPLOYEE CUT THE TREE AT ITS BASE, THE TOP OF THE TREE EXTENDING BEYOND THE CREST OF SLOPE FELL TO THE GROUND ALLOWING THE BASE OF THE TREE TO SWING UPWARD, STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FACE. THERE WERE NO IMMEDIATE WITNESSES. CAUSE OF ACCIDENT IS SPECULATIVE.
THE VICTIM A TRUCK DRIVER HAD BACKED HIS TRUCK UP TO THE GRIZZLY AT THE PLANT SITE AND DUMPED HIS LOAD.HE RAISED THE HYDRAULICALLY OPERATED GRIZZLY UP TO DUMP OFF THE OVERSIZE AND THEN WALKED OUT ONTO THE MATERIAL.THE MATERIAL COLLAPSED AND SUFFOCATED HIM.
DRIVER WAS DUMPING LIMESTONE FROM TRUCK WHICH WAS ON LEVEL GROUND IN YARD STOCKPILE. DRIVER WAS IN THE PROCESS OF DUMPING HIS LOAD OF STONE WHEN THE TRACTOR AND TRAILER TIPPED OVER ON THE PASS ENGER SIDE. DRIVER LANDED ON GROUND CLEAR OF TRUCK. DRIVER WAS KNOCKED UNCONSIOUS BY THE IMPACT OF THE FALL, BUT LATER REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS. NO BLEEDING WAS NOTICED. DRIVER WAS LIFEFLIGHTED
WHILE EXAMINING FALL AREA FOR HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS AFTER SETTING OFF ROCKBUSTER EXPLOSIVE EMPL WAS FATALL INJURED DUE TO FALL OF ROOF.
EE, CUSTOMER, HAD HIS TRUCK PARKED AND TRUKC WAS BEING LOADED. OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A TRUCK AND BAKCING ADJACENT TO EE. OTHER EMPLOYEE LOST SIGHT OF HIM AS APPROACH WAS MADE. OTHER EMPLO YEE BELIEVED HIM WALKED AROUND SIDE OF HIS OWN TRUCK. OTHER FELT BUMP AND STOPEED TRUCK. EE DISMOUNTED TRUCK AND FOUND HIM HAD BEEN DRIVEN OVER.
EMPLOYEE'S WERE TRYING TO PULL TAIL SECTION BACK INTO PLACE. A PIPE HAD BEEN PUT ON HANDLE OF CHAIN FALL FOR EXTRA LEVERAGE. THE FALL CHAIN BROKE AND PIPE STRUCK INJURED IN CHEST. AS A RESU LT OF THE INJURY HE DIED AT HOSPITAL.
TWO EMPLOYEE'S WERE LOADING 50' FIELD CONVEYOR ON A 45' FLAT BED TRAILER WHEN ROCKS WOULDN'T COME OUT FROM UNDER CONVEYOR FOREMAN CAME UP TO HELP BECAUSE OF A COPLE OF TRUCKS WERE WAITING TO B E LOADED. FOREMAN CLIMB INTO BUCKET TO LOOSEN BOLTS ON FORK. FOREMAN LOOSEN BOLTHOUSE AND HAD TURNED TO LOOSEN & VICTIM HAD CLIMB UP TO O IT. FOREMAN TURN BACK TO CHECK HIS & SOMETHING SH
WHILE I.NAME WAS MOVING DOWN THE CENTER OF THE TRACK TO PREPARE TO WORK ON ANOTHER SECTION OF THE BOTTOM SUPPLY TRACK, THE BACK OF HIS NECK CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE UNGUARDED (300+ VOLT) DC TR OLLEY WIRE WHICH CAUSED HIS FATALITY.
THE REMOTE CONTROL CONTINUOUS MINER WAS BEING OPERATED IN THE FACE OF #9 ROOM OF THE 0 SOUTH OFF 1ST EAST UNIT#002-0. AT APPROX. 6:25 PM A MASSIVE ROOF FALL OCCURRED FATALLY CRUSHING THE MINER OPERATOR DANZIL GOINS. THE ROOF FALL WAS APPROX. 50 FT LONG, 14 FT WIDE, 0" TO 4FT THICK.
CONTRACTOR HAULING SHALE/FILL FROM MINE TO COMMERCIAL BUILDING SITE. OPERATOR PARKED TRUCK AND ENGAGED PARKING BRAKE AND AIR AXLE. OPERATOR EXITED TRUCK, GOT ONTO 988B LOADER FILLED HIS BUCK ET, BACKED UP AND APPARENTLY SAW TRUCK STARTING TO MOVE. HE STOPPED THE LOADER, WAS IN THE PROCESS OF CLIMBING DOWN LADDER OF LOADER WHEN TRUCK CRUSHED HIM BETWEEN LOADER AND TRUCK.
EMPL TRAMMING DRILL MACHINE TO FACE AREA.AS HE MOVED INTO INTERSECTION OF 37E-9,TOP IN CENTER OF INTERSECTION GAVE WAY FALLING DOWN AND STRUCK INJURED MALE.
THE VICTIM WAS DRIVING A GROVE RT 59S MOBILE CRANE, WITHOUT A LOAD, ON THE SURFACE MINE'S MAIN HAULAGE ROADWAY. THE CRANE ROLLED ONTO ITS LEFT SIDE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROADWAY, CRUSHING THE O PERATOR IN THE CONFINES OF THE OPERATOR'S COMPARTMENT. THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON A LEVEL ROADWAY THAT WAS STRAIGHT AND APPROXIMATELY 70 FEET IN WIDTH. THERE WERE NO EYEWITNESSES TO THE ACCIDEN
THE INJURED WAS CRUSHED TO DEATH BY AN OPEN TOP HOPPER CAR WHILE HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF PATCHING IT.THE VICTIM HAD SET THE BREAK ON ONE CAR,CUT THE CARS AND WAIVED THE RAIL CREW AWAY.HE STAY ED BEHIND TO PATCH ANY LEAKING CARS.AS HE LAY UNDER A CAR IT BEGAN TO ROLL,CRUSHING HIM.
I NAME TOOK HIS LUNCH BREAK AT 12:00PM HIS MACHINE WAS PARKED WITH HIS CAB SIDE CLOSEST TO THE HIGH WALL THE HIGH WALL COLLAPSED CRUSHING HIM INSTANTLY
FROZEN COAL ON RIGHT SIDE OF TRALER CAUSED TRAILER TO TIP OVER CRUSHING CAB OF ADJACENT UNIT, KILLING DRIVER.
RADITOR GAURD WAS TILTED FORWARD AND THERE WAS HYDRAULIC PRUMERE ON TILT CYLINDER. EMPLOYEE WAS POSTIONING BETWEEN THE BACK OF DOZER BLADE AND THE BLADE HOIST CYLINDER, HE HAD DISCONNECTED TH E TILT CYLINDER HYDRAULIC LINER. THIS CAUSED THE TILT CYLINDER TO RETRACT WHICH TILTED THE BLADE BACK WARD, PINNING HIM BETWEEN THE BACK OF THE BLADE AND THE HOIST CYLINDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS DOING CLEAN-UP WORK ON A PLATFORM UNDER THE STACKER BELT WHILE IT WAS RUNNING.THERE WAS NO WITNESS TO THE ACCIDENT.A LONG HANDLE SHOVEL WAS BROKEN AND ON THE PLATFORM WITH THE INS URED EMPLOYEE.HE TALKED TO FELLOW EMPLOYEES AND EMT SQUAD WAND WAS CONSCIOUS WHEN MOVED TO THE AMBULANCE.HE DIED AT 1:00 PM AT THE HOSPTIAL.
EMPLOYEE WAS RE1OSITIONING A WINCH CABLE AROUND THE MAN HOIST CABLE WHEN THE HOIST CABLE BECAME TAUT STRIKING EMPLOYEE ACROSS THE FRONT PORTION OF HIS BODY
NO DAMAGE TO EQ6IP.NOT WEARING SAFETY BELT OR HAR HAT-FELL OFF CONVEYOR BELT WHICH WAS LOCKED OUT EMPL INSTRUCTED IN THIS JOB-MINE EQUIP NOT A FACTOR.HELPING CHANGE CONVEYOR BELT AND FELL OFF 12' TO THE GRO6ND AND STRUCK HIS HEAD.
I NAME WAS WORK3NG THE MACHINE ON A BENCH GRUBBING TREES WHEN IT APPARENTLY SLID OFF THE BENCH DOWN A 35 FT EMBANKMENT AND TURNED OVER ON SIDE ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHEN TRAMMING THE MACHINE BACK TO PARKING AREA3
EITHER CONST WA8 REPLACING FLOOR UNDER GOB CONVEYER THAT DAY AND OUR MEN WERE REPLACING PLANKS IN GOB BIN. PLANKS WER BEING RAISED THROUGH TRAP DOOR ON 2ND FLOOR, I.NAME APPARENTLY WENT UP TO SEE HOW WORK WA8 PROGRESSING AND APPARENTLY STEPPED INTO TRAP DOOR OPENING
DRIVER WAS HAUL3NG MATERIAL ON A ROAD WITH APPROX. 17 GRADE, LOST CONTROL OF VEHICLE AND JUMPED FROM CAB.
EE FATALLY INJU9ED AFTER BEING CRUSHED BETWEEN CRAWLER & COUNTERWEIGHT OF SHOVEL.
A RAM JACK BEIN1 TRANSPORTED ON THE FACE CONVEYOR CAUGHT THE SHEAR THEN THE MOVING FACE CONVEYOR PUSHING SHEAR OFF THE PANLINE AND INTO I.NAME CRUSHING HIM BETWEEN THE SHEAR DRUM AND THE TOP
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN BOAT PRIMING WATER PUMP WHEN THE PUMP WAS ENERGIZED AND A FAULT OCCURRED.
2 EES ENTERED MINUS 1" STORAGE BIN FROM THE TOP TO DISLODGE A HANGUP OF BRIDGED MATERIALS. THERE WERE NO WITNESSES TO THE ACCIDENT. THE MATERIALS COLLAPSED ENGULFING BOTH EES. THE BIN WAS NOT
2 EES ENTERED MINUS 1" STORAGE BIN FROM THE TOP TO DISLODGE A HANGUP OF BRIDGED MATERIALS. THERE WERE NO WITNESSES TO T HE ACCIDENT. THE MATERIALS COLLAPSED ENGULFING BOTH EES. THE BIN WAS NOT COVERED & WAS EXPOSED TO EXTREME COLD & SNOW CONDITIONS.
VICTIM & ANOTHER EE WERE LOADING A PIECE OF METAL TUBING 8\ LONG 4\ IN DIAMETER FROM A WORK PLATFORM TO A FLOOR BELOW. THE VICTIM SLIPPED THRU AN OPENING IN THE OWRK PLATFORM & FELL 30\.
EMPLOYEE STOOD UP ON MACHINE WHILE MACHINE WAS ON MOTION TO CHECK IF ANY TRFFIC WAS COMING FROM HISRIGHT WHEN HE STOOD UP HE LOST HIS BALANCEFALLING FROM THE MACHINE THE LEFT REAR WHEEL PASSE D OVER HIS BODY
VICTIM ENTERED A VERTICAL SHAFT THAT WAS BEING USED AS A WATER SUMP. SHAFT WAS 90\ DEEP 7\ 3" IN DIAMETER, CONTAINING 28\ OF WATER VICTIM WAS APPROX 15\ - 20\ DOWN THE LADDER,. WHEN HE APPAREN TLY LOST CONCIOUSNESS DUE TO A LACK OF OXYGEN AND FELL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SHAFT
VICTIM WAS BACKING DOWN SHORT RAMP, DID NOT TURN LOADER. WHEEL CLIMBED BANK. LOADER ROLLED OVER CRUSHING VICTIM, CRUSHED CHEST.
A BLOCK OF STONE HAD BEEN SEPARATED FROM THEMAIN LEDGE. IT WAS THEN TURNED OVER ON ITS ISDE FOR SPLITTING INTO TWO PIECES. ONEEND OF THE BLOCK WAS PICKED UP BY MEANS OF A WIRE SLING. DEGARMO W AS ATTEMPTING TO SLIDE A TIRE UNDER THE BLOCK AND THE SLING BROKE LETTING THE BLOCK FALL TO THE FLOOR. IT STRUCK A HIGH PLACE CAUSING PART OF THE BLOCK TO SEPARATE AND FALL ON TOP OF HIM.
LARGE ROCK FELL FROM DIGGING FACE & CRUSHED MAN AGAINST FRAME OF MACHINE.
THE TRUCK DRIVER BACKED UP TO THE BERMED SPOIL DUMP AREA; THE GROUND BENEATH THE WEIGHT OF THE LOADED TRUCK GAVE WAY CAUSING THE TRUCK TO GO BACKWARDS OVER THE 150 FOOT HIGH SPOIL BANK AREA. THE TRUCK LANDED ON ITS LEFT SIDE. THE DRIVER RECEIVED SERIOUS HEAD INJURIES ALONG WITH OTHER INTERNAL COMPLICATIONS. THE VICTIMS DEATH OCCURRED AT 10:55 AM.
END LOADER BACKED OVER BERMED ROADWAY OVETURNING AND PINNING OPERATOR UNDER OVERTURNED FRONT END LOADER