Every mining fatality in Oklahoma

It rained and the mining pit needed to be dewatered. EE was at the mine site alone. It was reported that EE's spouse, was in the truck on the mine site while EE went into the pit. EE moved the telehandler into the pit, parked it on the bottom of the pit parallel on the ramp. EE exited the tele. While standing outside of the tele facing east, the tele fell over onto EE, crushing EE.

Employee fell through opening/hole in platform that had been removed, fell about 20 feet and received head trauma. Update: The employee passed away on 9/6/24.

Miner was moving a rinse bucket to access a piece of metal that needed to be repaired and welded. As EE pulled the pin from the rinse bucket somehow the hydraulic cylinder gave way pinning the miner in between the bucket and a handrail. Resulting in the death of the miner.

Employee was fatally injured when they fell beneath the wheels of a tractor trailer. The tractor-trailer was being towed out by a bulldozer, since said truck-trailer was stuck in the sand. Victim was last seen standing 20-30 ft away, as bulldozer began to pull truck out of sand, walking toward the truck and trailer.

Employee was operating an excavator between two small ponds when the ground beneath the excavator tracks failed and the excavator toppled into one of the ponds.

The investigation into the accident is on-going, but as of now, it appears as the three employees were installing ground vault indicator lights when an ach flash occurred, injuring them. The employees were transported to the hospital.

EE was loading boat onto trailer, another EE in pickup started to pull up, wheels started spinning. Other EE went to get loader and chain, when he got back EE told him that boat had floated off trailer, EE was standing beside pickup. The other EE went to shop to get hook to try to retrieve boat, when he returned, EE's boots were by the water and EE was missing.

Employee was working on a Raymond Roller Mill when he entered into the roller area of the mill. The mill was energized and the rollers crushed him.

While dumping short for a dozer to extend higher berms, the injured backed his end dump truck into a different area away from the dump area. The victim landed upside down in water at the bottom of the pit. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene by the medical examiner.

The victim had traveled inby permanent roof support in the #3 entry right crosscut #4 and a section of draw rock fell in the unsupported area fatally injuring the victim. The continuous miner was cutting into #3 right crosscut from the #4 entry when the draw rock fell out on miner and victim.

While cleaning material buildup from underneath field conveyor using a Bobcat loader, the employee climbed out of the vehicle to inspect a pin which had worked loose on the boom arm. After climbing back into the Bobcat, the employee bypassed the safety devices and operated the equipment standing up and became pinned between the boom crossmember and the roof of the cab.

Apparently the victim attempted to install drill steel with the mast vertical and the drill head rotating. The victim became entangled in the rotating drill steel when the steel cross threaded in the drill collar.

EE WAS ASSISTING IN MOVING 5 CONNECTED RAILCARS TO AN ADJACENT TRACK BY MEANS OF A WHEELL TRACTOR. THE REAR RAILCAR BECAME UNCOUPLED FROM THE TRACTOR. THE EE SIGNALED THE OPERATOR OF TRACTOR T O BACK AWAY FROM THE REAR RAILCAR TO ALLOW RECOUPLING. AFTER THE WHEEL TRACTOR BACKED AWAY, THE EE POSITIONED HIMSELF BETWEEN THE TRACTOR & RAILCAR. THE SLACK RELEASED FATALLY INJURING EE.

TWO EES WERE ATTEMPTING TO FIX A BROKEN ANCHOR CABLE WHEN THE BOAT FLAT BOTTOM CAPSIZED AND THREW THEM INTO THE RIVER. NEITHER WERE WEAR LIFE JACKETS. OTHER WAS ABLE TO HOLD ON TO SOME TANKS T HAT WERE INT HE BOAT AND GET HIMSELF TO THE SHORE. EE WAS LAST SEEN TRYING TO SWIM TO SHORE. EE WAS FOUND AROUND 7 PM 6-27-00 ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES

LOADER OPERATOR OTHER INFORMED HIS FOREMAN, EE THAT HIS LOADER HAD AN OIL LEAK. EE TOLD OTHER THAT HE COULDN'T FIND THE LEAK, CLIMBED DOWN, WENT TO HIS PICKUP TRUCK FOR A FLASHLIGHT, RETURNED, & CLIMBED UNDER THE LOADER TO LOOK FOR LEAK. OTHER THINKING THEY WERE DONE, CLOSED THE COWLING, GET INTO THE CAB, AND PUT THE LOADER IN REVERSE. EE HEARING THE BACKUP ALARM, UNSUCESSFULLY TRI

WORKING OUT OF A 540 DRESSER LOADER BUCKET TILTED FORWARD CRUSED BETWEEN LOADER & MOTOR GUARD.

HE WALKED IN FRONT OF A 988-F FRONT END LOADER AND THE BUCKET OF THE LOADER KNOCKED HIM DOWN AND RAN OVER HIM.

TWO EMPLOYEES WERE TYING IN ELECTRIC BLASTING CAP WIRES FOR A SHOT WHEN A FAST MOVING ELECTRICAL STORM AND LIGHTENING CAUSED A PREMATURE DETONATION OF THE EXPLOSIVE CHARGES IN THE HOLES. THESE TWO EMPLOYEES (THE CERTIFIED BLASTER AND HELPER) WERE FATALLY INJURED AND A THIRD MAN SUFFERED MINOR ELECTRIC SHOCK INJURY INJURIES.

TWO EMPLOYEES WERE TYING IN ELECTRIC BLASTING CAP WIRES FOR A SHOT WHEN A FAST MOVING ELECTRICAL STORM AND LIGHTENING CAUSED A PREMATURE DETONATION OF THE EXPLOSIVE CHARGES IN THE HOLES. THESE TWO EMPLOYEES ( THE CERTIFIED BLASTER AND HELPER) WERE FATALLY INJURED AND A THIRD MAN SUFFERED MINOR ELECTRIC SHOCK INJURIES.

2 EMPLOYEE TRANSPORTING A 500 GALLON DIESAL TANK, ALMOST FULL TO DREDGE. THE FUEL TANK WAS MOUNTED ON A STYROFOAM FLOT. ABOUT 8 1/2 X 8 1/2 X 2 FT. AS THEY CAME ALONG SIDE OF THE DREDGE THE Y WENT TO OTHER END OF FLOAT. THE FLOAT CONTINUED TO CAPSIZED DUE TO TANK NOT BEING FULL AND WIND CONDITIONS. VICTIM WAS BELIEVED TO BE CRUSHED BETWEEN THE FLOAT AND DREDGE.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING A RAIL CAR WITH CEMENT DESPITE BEING GIVEN A SAFETY BELT BY HIS LEADMAN & INSTRUCTIONS TO USE & DESPITE WARNINGS BY WITNESSES TO PUT IT ON IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO THE ACCIDEN T HE DID NOT DO SO HE TRIPPED ONTO THE RAIL CAR & FELL INTO THE HATCH HE LATER DIED OF SUFFOCATION

EMPLOYEE WORKING IN MINER PANEL. CAME IN CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED WIRE CAUSING DEATH BY ELECTROCTION.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING 980A CAT LOADER MOVING ROCK FROM STOCKPILE TO CRUSHER APPARENTLY HE EMPRIED HIS BUCKET INTO THE HOPPER AND SHIFTED INTO RREVERSE TO GO DOWN THE RAMP MINE INSPECTOR FOUND A PIN LIKE THE ONE USED IN THE SHIFTING LINKAGE 28 FT 10 IN DOWN THE RAMP FROM THE HOPPER THIS PIN WAS NOT IN PLACE WHEN THE LOADER WAS INSPECTED FOLLOWING THE ACCIDENT THE LOADER TRAVELED O

VICTIM WAS SERVICING LEFT FRONT HYDRAULIC GAS STRUT ON TRUCK. UPON INSPECTION OF STRUT VICTIM SDISCOVERED FILM OF OIL ON STRUT. HE CLIMBED UPON LEFT FRONT TIRE DIRECTLY UNDER FENDER. AS VIC TIM LOOSENED THREE BOLTS TO COVER PLATE OF STRUT, PRESSURE WAS RELEASED ON STRUT CYLINDER CAUSING FENDER TO FALL ONTO VICTIMS BACK AND MID-SECTION CRUSHING HIM.

(FROM PRELIM.) USING LOADER TO LOAD DUMP TRUCK ON TOP OF CREEK BANK.WITH BUCKET RAISED 4' LOADER BACKED DOWN RAMP,WENT TO RIGHT ,RUNNING UP ON ELEVATED EDGE OF RAMP CAUSING LOADER TO OVER TURN AND MAKE 3/4 TURN BEFORE COMING TO REST ON TOP OF VICTIM.PINNED JUST TO REAR OF FRONT WHEELS WITH UPPER HALF OF BODY EXPOSED.

I.NAME WAS IN T2E SCREENING ROOM AND ONE OF HIS CO-WORKERS NOTICED THAT I.NAME WAS MISSING. UPON GOING TO CHECK ON HIM, THEY FOUND HIM WITH HIS ARM CAUGHT IN THE CONVEYOR BELT TAIL PULLEY. THE FREED HIM FROM 7HE TAIL PULLEY AND TOOK HIM TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON ARRIVAL

EE WAS ATTEMPTI3G TO CLOSE A HATCH ON THE TOP OF A RAIL CAR WHEN A GUST OF WIND BLEW THE HATCH BACKWARD CAUSING THE EE TO FALL BACKWARD OFF THE CAR. THE EE FELL ON A CONCRETE SURFACE COVERED WITH APPROX 1"12" OF SNOW & ICE STRIKING HIS HEAD NECK & SHOULDERS. UPON CONTACT EE BEGAN BLEEDING RPOFUSLEY FROM THE MOUTH & HE EXPIRED APPROX 1-2 MINUTES LATER.

I.NAME WAS WORK3NG IN A GRAVEL PIT. HE WAS STANDING BETWEEN THE STEEL TRA CK & THE BODY OF A T RACK LOADER. HE WAS REPLACING A SHIELD ON THE ENGINE OF THE LOADER, WHICH WAS RUNNING. THE BUCK ET WAS IN THE U1 POSITION. DRIVER OF THE LOADER LOWERED THE BUCKET, NOT KNOWING THAT I.NAME WAS WORKING ON THE VEHICLE. THE POSITION I.NAME WAS IN MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO EXTRACT HIMSELF AND HE

VICTIM SLIPPED 6ESIDE AUGER AND BECAME CAUGHT IN AUGER

EMPLOYEE WAS SUPERVISING A DRILLING OPERATION BEING DONE BY VENTURE DRILLING CO. A DRILL STEEL CAME LOOSE FROM MAST OF DRILL RIG AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE.

EMPLOYEE LOWERED HIMSELF BY ROPE INTO A LEACH TANK IN AN APPARENT ATTEMPT TO RETRIEVE AN UNKNOWN OBJECT, POSSIBLY A HAND HAT OR MEASURING STICK AND IS BELIEVED TO HAVE DIED FROM ASPHYXIATION.

SINGLETON & PELTO WERE HOOKING A CHAIN UP BETWEEN THEFRONT END LOADER & THE WINCH TRUCK & THE LOADER ROLLED FORWARD & PINNING ROBERT IN BETWEEN THE 2 VEHICLE & CRUSHED HIS HEAD & KILLED HIM.