Mine Fatalities

Date Mine Classification State Narrative
01/27/2023 Wrens Plant ELECTRICAL GA Investigation is still under way and an autopsy is being performed to determine cause. *Per the prelim: Two contractors were electrocuted when a 14,400-volt overhead power line came in contact with th...
01/23/2023 Meikle Mine MACHINERY NV A utility crew was assigned to complete rehab work at the 1600 haulage corridor, which entailed removing utility lines. A team of three employees were utilizing a scissor deck with a pipe handler to r...
01/17/2023 Mojave Plant & Quarry POWERED HAULAGE CA EE was involved in a traffic accident on the road that leads to the plant. EE was extricated from the vehicle and transported to the hospital where EE later died.
01/04/2023 Sevierville Quarry MACHINERY TN Employee was assisting repair/replace toggle plate and toggle plate bearings on the jaw crusher when they suffered a pinning type injury.
12/22/2022 Wellmore #8 Prep Plant OTHER VA The sub-contractor was found unconscious in EE's vehicle by EE's co-worker. The car was locked, co-worker attempted to wake EE. Co-worker called 911, then got mine superintendent, who came to the scen...
12/16/2022 Signal Peak Silica of Atascosa MACHINERY TX Employee was working with a 3 man crew dismantling a Caterpillar 390F Excavator. During dismantling, EE was impacted by the counterweight. The other 2 crew members did not witness the accident.
12/06/2022 Viburnum #35 (Casteel Mine) POWERED HAULAGE MO APPROXIMATELY 1:35 PM ON 12/06/2022, EE WAS FOUND ON THE GROUND AFTER BEING STRUCK BY REAR OPPOSITE OPERATOR SIDE TIRE. INVESTIGATION IN ONGOING AT THIS TIME.
11/05/2022 Knoxville Cement Plant OTHER TN Employee was operating front end loader in the coal shed. For unknown reasons employee left the loader and was engulfed in the coal pile near the grizzly bars for the feeding system.
10/22/2022 Acosta Deep Mine ELECTRICAL PA An examiner was found unresponsive in an underground sump. As of this time the exact cause of the employee's death is still undetermined.
10/07/2022 Portable 11 OTHER RI A miner entered the air separator to clear a blockage. The miner became engulfed in the material.
10/01/2022 R J VALENTE GRAFTON QUARRY MACHINERY NY A Grove RT765E-2 crane was in use to install a motor into a Caterpillar 773B haul truck on level 3 in the quarry, when the auxiliary line broke, dropping the ball/hook onto a miner below, resulting in...
09/28/2022 Spanish Springs Quarry OTHER NV Miner used a front-end loader to carve a path into stacked material, then exited the loader and entered the newly-carved path on foot. The newly-created unstable wall of the material collapsed and cov...
09/09/2022 Barry Industrial Sand, Inc. OTHER TX Dredge operator was missing and eventually found at bottom of lake.
09/01/2022 Coalburg Tunnel Mine ELECTRICAL WV On 09/01/2022 at approximately 4:40 p.m. at 32 brk on 2 Belt track, employee came into contact with a 480 volt roof bolter cable and was fatally injured.
08/23/2022 El Segundo MACHINERY NM Contractor suffered fatal injuries while performing maintenance on ""Dutchman"" of electric shovel bucket. Fatal injuries resulted from being pinned between shovel bucket door and bucket.
08/17/2022 Tunnel Ridge Mine POWERED HAULAGE WV A miner was fatally injured when the supply car on which they were sitting was struck by a locomotive, causing them to fall where they were crushed between the coupler and deck of the supply car.
08/04/2022 Wooten Sand & Gravel, Inc. MACHINERY AR Employee was servicing a dozer alone with the machine running & it was somehow put in gear & started moving. Before the employee could get out of the way the machine trapped employee's foot & started...
07/21/2022 Giant Cement Company MACHINERY SC The employee was near a screw conveyor on the 3rd floor of the finish mill 2 building. At some point their hand and arm became entangled in the screw conveyor. Emergency response was called immediatel...
06/20/2022 3 M Little Rock Industrial Min... SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON AR Time of accident: 10:00-11:30 Employee was drilling approximately 5' from the highwall. Drill steel was out of the carousel (cause under investigation). They exited the drill to correct the situation...
06/20/2022 KIMBALLTON PLANT #1 MACHINERY VA Fatal injury to a temporary employee with Gillman Services, Inc was experienced when they were engulfed by a flow of lime kiln dust while operating a CAT 336 Excavator.
06/17/2022 Jackson Quarry MACHINERY GA A contract miner died when the compactor EE was operating overturned, pinning EE beneath the cab. As the compactor was traveling in reverse, the compactor's left tire went off a four-foot embankment c...
04/25/2022 Columbus Quarry LLC OTHER GA Complicated seizure disorder (not work related)
03/22/2022 Badger Mining Hixton OTHER WI A miner was servicing a floating pump. While working, the pump capsized, trapping the miner underwater.
03/20/2022 Darby Mine FALL OF ROOF OR BACK KY The employee and co-workers were in the No.8 entry at x-cut No.47 on the 3 South Mains preparing to remove a permanent stopping. The injured employee was in the process of walking outby to turn off a...
03/04/2022 Brunswick Canyon MACHINERY NV Dozer was supposed to be pushing into slot to push out to loader on top Bench, EE slid off top bench onto a shelf that was bermed off, EE then pushed a large rock over the edge and stopped. EE moved f...
03/02/2022 Maple Springs Mine FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL PA In the Main A section, number 5 entry in the intersection of crosscut 139 at station spad #2994. While walking past a rib, a rock measuring approximately 5'x2'x18"" fell out striking the victim.
02/28/2022 Berwind Deep Mine MACHINERY WV Employee was attempting to move the face drill and got pinched between the machine and the rib causing injury.
02/14/2022 Cortez District-Underground POWERED HAULAGE NV EE involved in a powered haulage incident at stope between 4010 and 4070 levels resulting in fatal injuries. Investigation ongoing. There are seven additional NGM investigators.
01/28/2022 Freeport-McMoRan Morenci Inc. POWERED HAULAGE AZ Our mixer driver was hauling for Freeport McMoRan at their Morenci mine location, the load was rejected and sent back, driver followed the escort down a hill with a full load, lost brakes and turned t...
01/26/2022 Ouachita Rock Portable POWERED HAULAGE AR EE was operating a loader at our pit. A co-worker was in a dump truck & was there to get loaded with but was having trouble with the air in the truck. The co-worker radioed to EE to go ahead and load...
01/14/2022 OHIO COUNTY MINE SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON WV Employee fell from 28 feet. On top of 400 conveyor belt on 5th floor of preparation plant. Fell to 4th floor.
01/11/2022 Colmar FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS KY Employee was driving on work site when a tree fell off the High Wall into the cab of employee's pickup.
01/07/2022 Lake Lynn Quarry 1366 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK PA A miner was fatally injured when material fell from the roof of the mine, striking the cab of the front end loader the miner was operating.
01/07/2022 Oaktown Fuels Mine No. 1 MACHINERY IN Injured was found in entry 11, caught between the left rib and the horn of the miner.
12/13/2021 Whitestone Mine #4 MACHINERY GA Utility operator was found non-responsive with EE's clothing entangled in the drill steel of the roof bolter.
12/13/2021 Liberty Ranch POWERED HAULAGE TX Customer truck driver pulled into tarping area behind another truck and failed to set parking brake before exiting the truck. The driver did not use wheel chocks as required. The customer truck driver...
12/06/2021 Palm Beach Aggregates LLC OTHER FL EE entered feeder when gate would not close. While cutting out a piece of metal that was blocking the slide gate, material sloughed off and engulfed the EE.
12/04/2021 RIVER VIEW MINE MACHINERY KY Employee placed self on the bumper of the miner below the unsupported conveyor tail boom with the machine still energized. EE apparently was trying to trouble shoot issues with the stab jack by utiliz...
12/03/2021 Brooksville Quarry POWERED HAULAGE FL Employee was underneath Conveyor Belt and became entangled.
11/17/2021 East Coast Mines & Materials POWERED HAULAGE NY A customer's truck became caught in overhead wires when the driver deployed the automatic tarp in driveway while exiting the mine. The driver exited vehicle safely and was electrocuted when the driver...
11/01/2021 Mountaineer II Mine POWERED HAULAGE WV A fatal incident occurred while traveling the external slope on a rubber tired four wheeler.
10/20/2021 Wegenhoft Plant MACHINERY TX An employee was fatally injured during maintenance work on the hopper. EE was operating a CAT forklift in close proximity to a Volvo excavator. EE exited the vehicle without notifying the other employ...
10/19/2021 Buckingham Mine POWERED HAULAGE OH 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.
10/01/2021 Ovyn #1 Pit HANDLING OF MATERIALS WI A miner entered a surge bin to free stuck material. The material collapsed and engulfed the miner.
09/21/2021 Bonito Pit POWERED HAULAGE NM For unknown reason an independent driver lost control of belly truck which caused it to jack knife, throwning driver from the cab. Driver was then run over by same truck.
09/15/2021 Freeport-McMoRan Morenci Inc. OTHER AZ Weld crew initiated an argon purge on a 30"" pipe that had been fit up afternoon prior. When argon purge was established, two welders began to make their root pass welds. Upon inspection ""sugaring...
09/14/2021 Butte Gulch FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS ID A visitor to the mine site was in a unauthorized area running a sluice box in a unstable trench when it collapsed and buried them. The trench was tapered and made safe to remove their body.
08/11/2021 Star Bridge Preparation Plant-... POWERED HAULAGE WV Driver was at parked truck (#5 lot) to start pre-shift inspection. Truck started to move. Driver fell under the truck and truck ran over driver's legs from about the knee area down.
08/04/2021 Marfork Processing SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON WV Employee fell while steam cleaning loader.
08/03/2021 Bridgeport Stone Plant POWERED HAULAGE TX An employee was fatally injured when EE was struck by a third-party truck driver who failed to stop at a posted, lighted, STOP sign and made a sudden turn off the primary travel way. Local law enforce...