Mine Fatalities

Date Mine Classification State Narrative
06/12/2006 01 MINE FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS VA Employee was removing hydraulic line on Volvo loader. He had raised the bucket, remove front cover, taken 3 bolts out of line. The line then blew off then the main boom cylinder came down on top of hi...
05/26/2006 Hookers Prairie Mine MACHINERY FL Sand bank gave way.
05/24/2006 No. 4 Mine POWERED HAULAGE WV While tramming outby in the #3 entry, a wood plank, 3"" thick x 9"" wide x 12' long entered the cab of a Fairchild scoop and fatally injured employee.
05/23/2006 Natural Bridge Stone POWERED HAULAGE KY WHILE PERFORMING MAINTENANCE ON CONVEYOR BELT EMPLOYEE WAS PINNED BETWEEN WA500 KOMATSU LOADER AND CONVEYOR BELT LINE RESULTING IN HIS DEATH.
05/23/2006 S-12 Calhoun POWERED HAULAGE KY EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A WATER TRUCK WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK AND OVERTURNED. THE ACCIDENT IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. THE VICTIM WAS TRAPPED UNDER THE TRUCK. THE VICTIM WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD...
05/22/2006 3M CORONA PLANT SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON CA Employee (EE) climbed over platform guardrail onto raised forklift carrying screens, EE and screens fell from forklift 15 to 17 ft; EE landed on his feet, knees buckled, he collapsed to the ground & a...
05/20/2006 Darby Mine No 1 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST KY On Sat., 5/20/06, at approx., 1AM, an explosion occurred underground at the mine. The explosion occurred during the 3rd shift that is designated as the maintenance shift. The source & causes of explos...
05/20/2006 Darby Mine No 1 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST KY On Sat., 5/20/06, at approx., 1AM, an explosion occurred underground at the mine. The explosion occurred during the 3rd shift that is designated as the maintenance shift. The source & causes of explos...
05/20/2006 Darby Mine No 1 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST KY On Sat., 5/20/06, at approx., 1AM, an explosion occurred underground at the mine. The explosion occurred during the 3rd shift that is designated as the maintenance shift. The source & causes of explos...
05/20/2006 Darby Mine No 1 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST KY On Sat., 5/20/06, at approx., 1AM, an explosion occurred underground at the mine. The explosion occurred during the 3rd shift that is designated as the maintenance shift. The source & causes of explos...
05/20/2006 Darby Mine No 1 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST KY On Sat., 5/20/06, at approx., 1AM, an explosion occurred underground at the mine. The explosion occurred during the 3rd shift that is designated as the maintenance shift. The source & causes of explos...
05/19/2006 Kinder Plant ELECTRICAL LA A master electrician was fatally injured while trouble-shooting 460 volt electric motor. (question #26: experience at this mine TWO hours.)
05/04/2006 Buchanan Mine #1 ELECTRICAL VA The employee came into contact with a guy wire, which broke loose and came in contact with an energized condutor on the pole. There was no insulator or proper anchor on the guy wire, this caused the e...
05/03/2006 HALES SAND AND GRAVEL ELSINORE POWERED HAULAGE UT COWORKER HAD EMPLOYEE ADJUST THE BRACKET ON THE RETURN ROLLER AS HE WAS HITTING THE BRACKET. EMPLOYEE'S ARM GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE ROLLER AND IT SUCKED HIM THROUGH.
04/22/2006 Anderson Mine and Mill POWERED HAULAGE TN Utility operator was preparing to wash out the rail scale. The loader operator was weighing the loader on the scale. The loader operator announced on the radio that he was moving the loader off the sc...
04/21/2006 Huff Creek Mine MACHINERY KY Employee was found pinned between the #4 mobile bridge unit and the section lo-lo conveyor belt structure. He was apparently troubleshooting a report of weak tramming on the left side of the mobile un...
04/21/2006 Maple Hill Quarry FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL IN Two men were drilling bottom line when a seam in the next cut back gave way. The piece of stone that broke loose was large enough to crush both men. One man was fatally crushed and the other is in c...
04/20/2006 No. 1 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK KY Employee was walking to his shuttle car when draw rock fell from top pinning lower half of his body underneath. Rock was 20' long, 86"" wide, 6.5"" thick.
04/11/2006 Salado Operations, Lometa POWERED HAULAGE TX Employee was placing wire around a pallet of stone. He disreguarded the backup alarm of a Case 95XT skid steer loader that was moving in reverse. The employee disreguarded his safety training to yie...
04/07/2006 Bronzite III POWERED HAULAGE WV BEAMS AT INTERSECTION FELL DROPPING BEAM ONTO MOTOR CAUSING IT TO ENTER MOTOR DECK WHERE EE WAS SITTING DRIVING MOTOR GOING INTO BODY CAUSING DEATH AFTER A SHORT TIME.
04/07/2006 Candice 2 POWERED HAULAGE WV Employee received fatal injuries when he became caught in the dolly of a mobile bridge system.
04/04/2006 Amrize Edwardsburg Plant POWERED HAULAGE MI Employee crawled 16 feet under primary and was entangled in tailpulley.
04/03/2006 Clarksville Quarry ELECTRICAL TN The employee suffered a fatal electrocution injury while engaged in positioning the electrical MCC building. The boom truck became energized when contacting overhead power lines.
03/29/2006 No 4 Mine FALL OF ROOF OR BACK AL While installing roof pins in front of LW shield, piece of rock fell, striking employee and knocking him down. Contusion to back of head, laceration to right hand and fracture to left ankle. The victi...
02/17/2006 Mettiki Mine POWERED HAULAGE MD The Jeffrey Locomotive EE was operating struck a longwall support that was loaded on a low boy parked at 66 brk switch on E-1 track. Locomotives were being staged at this location for transport to Sub...
02/16/2006 HZ4-1 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK KY Employee was walking up to a stopping that had just been knocked down by a scoop when a piece of rock fell from between bolts and struck him on the back.
02/13/2006 Pyramid Quarry MACHINERY PA 3 employees working on elev. platform to remove pitman from Crusher B. Crane owned & operated by contractor had lifted pitman & it was hanging stationary. The men headed for the stairs to descend....
02/01/2006 Campbells Creek 11B Mine FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL WV Right rib roll in No. 5 entry, No. 4 left mains pinned employee against roof bolting machine.
02/01/2006 Black Castle Mining Company, L... IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST WV EE was cropping the clarion level when for unknown reasons he traveled to the top of the ridge and inadvertently contacted a low pressure high volume 16 inch gas line.
01/29/2006 Aberdeen FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL UT The Shearer operators had cut a taper from #40 shield towards the headgate. The headgate drum was just a foot or two from cutting through the headgate when a bounce occurred. The bouce blew coal thro...
01/27/2006 Northfork Excavating Incorpora... MACHINERY OR WORKER WAS OPERATING A D6M CAT CRAWLER DOZER AND BACKED OVER HIGHWALL IN MINE INTO WATER-FILLED PIT AND DIED DUE TO DROWNING.
01/23/2006 No 4 POWERED HAULAGE KY A truck driver loaded the 1984 Ford LT9000 truck, then proceeded down the access road and then for some unknown reason, he got out or left the cab of the truck which therefore led to bodily injury and...
01/19/2006 Aracoma Alma Mine #1 FIRE WV Employee, member of 002 section crew, was evacuating the mine. He became separated from his crew and did not survive mine fire.
01/19/2006 Aracoma Alma Mine #1 FIRE WV Employee, member of 002 section crew, was evacuating the mine. He became separated from his crew and did not survive mine fire.
01/10/2006 Mine #1 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK KY A 2 to 3 foot drawrock fell from face down and back vertically against miner and bolter trapping the miner under the canopy and against the bolting machine causing a fatality.
01/05/2006 CEMEX - 19TH AVE FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS AZ Employee was crushed between tire and fuel tank.
01/02/2006 Sago Mine IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST WV AT 6:31 AM AN EXPLOSION OCCURRED BEHIND THE OLD 2 LEFT MAINS SEALS RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF THIS EMPLOYEE. MSHA, STATE AND COMPANY HAVE INITIATED INVESTIGATION BUT RESULTS ARE NOT YET AVAILABLE.
01/02/2006 Sago Mine IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST WV At 6:31 am an explosion occurred behind the old 2 left mains seals resulting in the death of this employee. MSHA, State and Company have initiated investigation but results not yet available.
01/02/2006 Sago Mine IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST WV At 6:31 am an explosion occurred behind the old 2 left mains seals resulting in the death of this employee. MSHA, State and Company have initiated investigation but results not yet available.
01/02/2006 Sago Mine IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST WV At 6:31 am an explosion occurred behind the old 2 left mains seals resulting in the death of this employee. MSHA, State and Company have initiated investigation but results not yet available.
01/02/2006 Sago Mine IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST WV AT 6:31 AM AN EXPLOSION OCCURED BEHIND THE OLD 2 LEFT MAINS SEALS RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF THIS EMPLOYEE. MSHA, STATE AND COMPANY INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN INITIATED BUT RESULTS NOT YET AVAILABLE.
01/02/2006 Sago Mine IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST WV At 6:31 am an explosion occurred behind the old 2 left mains seals resulting in the death of this employee. MSHA, State and Company have initiated investigation but results not yet available.
01/02/2006 Sago Mine IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST WV AT 6:31 AM AN EXPLOSION OCCURRED BEHIND THE OLD 2 LEFT MAINS SEALS RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF THIS EMPLOYEE. MSHA, STATE AND COMPANY HAVE INITIATED INVESTIGATION, BUT RESULTS NOT YET AVAILABLE.
01/02/2006 Sago Mine IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST WV At 6:31 am an explosion occurred behind the old 2 left mains seals resulting in the death of this employee. MSHA, State and Company have initiated investigation but results not yet available.
01/02/2006 Sago Mine IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST WV AT 6:31 AM AN EXPLOSION OCCURED BEHIND THE OLD 2 LEFT MAINS SEALS RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF THIS EMPLOYEE. MSHA, STATE AND COMPANY INVESTIGATION INITIATED BUT RESULTS NOT YET AVAILABLE.
01/02/2006 Sago Mine IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST WV AT 6:31 AM AN EXPLOSION OCCURRED BEHIND THE OLD 2 LEFT MAINS SEALS RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF THIS EMPLOYEE. MSHA, STATE AND COMPANY HAVE INITIATED INVESTIGATION, BUT RESULTS NOT YET AVAILABLE.
01/02/2006 Sago Mine IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST WV At 6:31 am an explosion occurred behind the old 2 left mains seals resulting in the death of this employee. MSHA, State and Company have initiated investigation but results not yet available.
01/02/2006 Sago Mine IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST WV At 6:31 am an explosion occurred behind the old 2 left mains seals resulting in the death of this employee. MSHA, State and Company have initiated investigation but results not yet available.
12/30/2005 Mine #3 POWERED HAULAGE KY The victim was caught between 10SC shuttle car and an 818 Long Airdox ram car resulting in severe lower leg injuries and death.
12/15/2005 Adkins Branch Mine No 1A FALL OF ROOF OR BACK WV While in the process of installing permanent roof support in the No. 1 Entry, the roof started to fall and the employee ran inby the ATRS System. The roof fell in this area causing crushing injuries t...