Mine Fatalities

Date Mine Classification State Narrative
08/05/2024 LEER MINE POWERED HAULAGE WV Employee received head injuries while attempting to re-rail a Longwall electrical power car using air lifting bags in the 10 Headgate-16 block spur.
08/04/2024 Gramercy Operation SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON LA An employee received burn injuries from exposure to hot water and caustic liquid, when they entered an area where the liquids accumulated on the ground. Employee fell into an open sump hole while wal...
07/25/2024 Hazleton Shaft POWERED HAULAGE PA While cleaning raw coal material from on top of the locked out Raw Coal Stacking Conveyor, the Miner was standing on the conveyor ahead of the conveyor feed chute. The belt and material moved backwa...
07/12/2024 Wyco Surface Mine POWERED HAULAGE WV Employee was out of their truck and on the pit floor while the 993 (LD270) Loader was being trouble shot trying to find a leaking hose. While walking to their 785 truck the employee traveled under the...
06/14/2024 Littlerock Quarry FIRE CA 988 Loader caught fire, was unable to be extinguished by site personnel, 911 was called. Two fire crews arrived on site, one fireman approached the loader by the rear tire. The plant manager was yel...
05/31/2024 Buchanan Mine #1 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK VA Employee was struck-by a rock in the 2 Right crosscut of the 16 East Section, while traveling under unsupported roof.
05/16/2024 Coal Mountain No 1 Surface MACHINERY WV Employee was operating an Excavator assisting Dozer operator in removing a big rock on the DC8A pit area. Excavator was between the rock and the top of highwall. Excavator went over the highwall eject...
05/09/2024 Arcosa Streetman Plant # 1605 POWERED HAULAGE TX May 9, 2024 at 0800 hours when a manlift operator ran EE's manlift, an 8008 JLG, serial number 0300310942, into the canopy covering the C35 conveyor belt coming out of C35 tunnel. The operator was pi...
05/08/2024 US Aggregates-Flat Rock Plant ELECTRICAL IN Crane lifting conveyor belt off of trailer using cable rigging employee was guiding rigging crane struck overhead power line employee was electrocuted
04/15/2024 Riverbend Sand and Gravel POWERED HAULAGE CO Employee was fatally injured while working on a conveyor system.
04/13/2024 Morgan County Quarry OTHER GA 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.
03/01/2024 Swift Creek Mine MACHINERY FL During a pipe breaking operation by the float crew on the #5 Matrix line near the #8 Lift Pump, the Leaderman was struck by a pipe and suffered fatal injuries. The investigation of the accident by MSH...
01/29/2024 Ellangowan Bank #45 POWERED HAULAGE PA Truck driver was found unresponsive in the cab of EE's overturned truck at the bottom of the feed ramp drop off. There were no witnesses to the accident. Investigation is still pending.
01/02/2024 MOBILE CRUSHER #3 FRONTERA MAT... POWERED HAULAGE TX An over the road truck driver was crushed while trying to unload gravel. Driver was parked in a jackknife position while trying to unload some of the gravel in EE's bed. While attempting to dump, EE's...
12/14/2023 Bison No 1 MACHINERY OK 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...
12/14/2023 Beck Street MACHINERY UT EE STARTED THE DAY AND HAD WORKED AT THE SHOP LOCATED IN LEHI, UTAH FOR THE MAJORITY OF EE'S WHOLE SHIFT. THERE WERE MATERIALS THAT NEEDED TO BE TAKEN TO OUR CREW TO CONTINUE WORKING. EE DROVE TO TH...
11/17/2023 Eden Facility HANDLING OF MATERIALS WI As a large piece of steel framing structure was being slid out of a cargo container, it tipped over and crushed employee.
11/13/2023 STILLWATER MINE MACHINERY MT Tangled in drill steel while installing ground support.
11/13/2023 Wrens Plant FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL GA Investigation is ongoing. *A miner died after being engulfed by a collapsing highwall.
10/02/2023 Maple Springs Mine POWERED HAULAGE PA While doing general work in the section employee was struck by a shuttle car and received crushing injuries to their upper torso.
09/12/2023 Cape Sandy #1 POWERED HAULAGE IN Unknown- Truck over traveled dump site through berm. Truck traveled down and resting submerged in pit. Accident under investigation.
09/08/2023 Sewickley Mine POWERED HAULAGE PA Employee disregarded lock out tag safety training and climbed into a hopper without de-energizing equipment and without notifying other workers in the area. Loader operator had no way of knowing that...
08/30/2023 No 4 Mine POWERED HAULAGE AL Employee was fatally injured when a belt component malfunctioned (the bridal bar had a mechanical failure and broke) on the C1 Longwall take-up and struck employee in the chest causing blunt force tra...
08/24/2023 MN Portable Wash 086 (A5567 Wa... MACHINERY MN While attempting to lower feed box on wash plant employee was trapped between feed box and hand railing causing fatal injuries to employee.
08/21/2023 Portable Crusher #2 MACHINERY CO While lifting a VSI lid a strap broke. The lid struck the victim causing severe head trauma.
08/18/2023 Mine No. 39 OTHER WV Employee was assisting in installing a discharge line from a pump when Employee did not respond to verbal calls, Supervisor went to check and found Employee face down and unresponsive.
08/05/2023 Big Oak Plant SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON TX Improper procedure performed, improper PPE, and not following SOP. *A customer truck driver fell from a large container mounted on the trailer of the truck while descending the container. The custome...
08/05/2023 Echols Mill Quarry 1 and 2 FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS GA 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 loo...
07/26/2023 Lexington Quarry Company POWERED HAULAGE KY Employee evacuated truck on mine ramp and hit head on ramp floor causing serious head injury. *EE died on 3/19/2024.
07/17/2023 Amrize Swampscott Quarry MACHINERY MA EE's working to clean the mainframe arm on primary crusher. During the lift, the rigging assembly appears to have failed, striking the EE who was located in the line of fire.
06/22/2023 Chula Vista Quarry MACHINERY CA Machine operator was operating a CAT D9T dozer clearing overburden material from a bench. Operator reversed the machine backwards an estimated 200-300 ft. at a high speed without looking back and with...
06/09/2023 Advanced Restoration Technolog... MACHINERY KY While assisting in the offloading of a tank from the RGN trailer, the equipment being used to crane the tank struck JD's Custom Transport employee, causing EE's death.
06/08/2023 N Attleboro Plant SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON MA EE DID NOT UTILIZE LOTO OR FALL PROTECTION. PER VIDEO & EYEWITNESS, EE WAS WORKING ON ELECTROMAGNET ABOVE CONVEYOR BELT #2. EE STEPPED ON THE BELT FOR THE ELECTROMAGNET THAT TURNS ON EVERY 15 MIN FOR...
06/01/2023 Hockley Plant MACHINERY TX An outside truck driver came onto this site to get loaded where the driver then parked their truck and was out of view from out scale house. Driver began to work on the back of the truck where the air...
05/22/2023 HUNTINGTON PLANT CS01 POWERED HAULAGE MO Employee received fatal injuries while operating haul truck which over-turned backwards off a stockpile.
05/16/2023 San Miguel Lignite Mine FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS TX While SC0539 Bulldozer was traveling on 1B Ramp, a large volume of material entered the road and contacted the bulldozer.
05/02/2023 Plant 280 POWERED HAULAGE SD Miner was found to be ran over by a stacker while crushing at our East Pit. Miner was deceased when found by other miners.
04/20/2023 Bear Run Mine MACHINERY IN EE was working outside prep plant on disassembly of vibrating screen. Removed screen from prep plant was on ground, while foreman was checking area, sideboard of screen began to fall. EE tried to avoi...
04/11/2023 Galena FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ID Miner was working in the 3200-033 raise. EE was bolting the hanging wall. A large wedge slipped off the wall and pinned the Miner to the foot wall causing fatal crushing injuries.
04/09/2023 South Pittsburg Stone #2 MACHINERY TN The victim was mounting a haul truck tire on a rim when a rim locking ring dislodged and struck employee, causing fatal injuries.
03/22/2023 LONGVIEW MINE POWERED HAULAGE WV A miner sustained fatal injuries when the personnel carrier on which the miner was a passenger overturned. Another miner riding on the personnel carrier accidentally actuated the emergency stop causi...
03/18/2023 Mine No. 1 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK IL The fatally injured miner and co-workers were in the process of building cribs during recovery of a longwall shield when unconsolidated rocks fell through the roof mesh and struck the miner.
03/15/2023 Fort Pierce Mine MACHINERY FL An employee was operating a CAT 390F excavator in the South Quarry Pit. The machine went into the water and sank to a depth of approximately 25 feet. Consistent with 103K order modifications approved...
03/09/2023 Plant & Quarry POWERED HAULAGE TX At time of filing it is believed a front-end loader struck the back of the tractor trailer. The position of the victim at the time of the accident is still under investigation. The victim was found un...
03/01/2023 Elkhorn Stone MACHINERY KY OUR EMPLOYEE WORKING AT MOUNTAIN AGGREGATES QUARRY MINE SITE WAS FATALLY INJURED WHILE OPERATING A DOZER ON AN ACCESS RD IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT LEFT THE ACCESS RD AND ROLLED DOWN AN EMBANKMENT.
02/26/2023 GRAPEVINE SOUTH SURFACE MINE MACHINERY WV Employee was mobilizing dozer to work site for following day via haul road. Cause of accident unknown. Employee went over embankment and was found approx. halfway down mountain. Details unknown at thi...
02/25/2023 La Havana Pit OTHER TX 326 FL Excavator operator tracked over berm into Settling pond
02/06/2023 Greenbrier Quarry ELECTRICAL AR An employee operating a Caterpillar 770 haul truck hauling material to repair the road to the stripping area. As the employee dumped the load the bed contacted overhead powerlines. The employee exited...
01/30/2023 Randolph Deep Mine SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON MO An employee was fatally injured when they fell from an opening in an elevated catwalk.
01/27/2023 Wrens Plant ELECTRICAL GA 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...