Randolph Deep Mine — Accidents

Total: 34 accidents | Fatalities: 1

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
10/03/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Employee was injured when EE fell through an elevated platform in a restricted area of the underground mine after EE climbed over a berm to access the restricted, inactive area in violation of the min...
12/31/2024 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Employee was injured while descending from a haul truck.
10/07/2024 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Technician was pulling on a bolt with a wrench and felt strain in elbow.
02/27/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee fractured rib while doing a belt splice.
02/05/2024 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 3d lost, 40d restricted Employee was drilling hole in a piece of metal (angle iron) to mount Unistrut. Drill bit broke and went under safety glasses injuring eye.
08/31/2023 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Employee was repairing a water line when employee lost footing and fell to the ground, fracturing clavicle.
08/24/2023 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 7d restricted An employee was cutting flashing, the tool slipped causing a laceration that required stitches to EE's right hand.
06/05/2023 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 4d lost, 42d restricted Employee was removing a shipping brace from a screen deck and was struck in the hand, fracturing their fingertip.
01/30/2023 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON FATALITY Fatal An employee was fatally injured when they fell from an opening in an elevated catwalk.
06/20/2022 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None A fire started on the slope belt when one of the drive pulleys tripped out and the second pulley continued to pull on the belt.
03/04/2022 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 457d lost, 45d restricted On 3/5/22 employee experienced shoulder pain but only reported it two days later. The doctor found it was not from work. At employee's request, a second doctor opined that work was the prevailing fact...
03/13/2018 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost While spraying Shotcrete, employee lost control of the concrete hose and fell down striking left shoulder, resulting in an AC Separation.
01/30/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 80d restricted Employee was assisting with the replacement of an outrigger on the mechanical scaler, when the hydraulic cylinder that was being supported by a block of wood fell from the block striking the employees...
09/19/2017 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was modifying the flashing for a new belt. During the process, the employee needed to remove a piece of flashing. The employee began cutting the piece with a box cutter, the cutter slipped an...
08/23/2017 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Injured worker was using 1' impact to remove cutting edge hardware (bolts). Worker reached around to push bolt back into place and accidentally engaged the impact causing laceration to palm of right h...
04/10/2017 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 10d lost, 5d restricted Employee was adjusting deflector gate on 1 South screen on Monday 4/10/2017. On 4/12/2017, EE noticed that EE's abrasion was more painful and started to swell. At 2:00 pm I went our clinic with employ...
03/22/2017 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was adding a drill steel to the drill so they could get the desired depth for a bore scope hole. A piece of shrapnel hit employee in the arm so employee was taken to the ER. Employee was tre...
09/15/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Detached a plugged 3' long 3"" to 2"" reducer from our concrete pump. Stood vertical to unplug, when tapping reducer on the ground to remove concrete, the concrete shot up the pipe striking the employ...
04/22/2016 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 17d restricted While stepping out of transmixer truck, stepped down with right leg on loose rock in roadway causing employee to slip down ramp and when boot caught traction and stopped abruptly this caused a jamming...
11/04/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 47d restricted Employee had removed grate to cement hopper and placed on top of B 50 pump. While attempting to replace grate employee reached out and began pulling the grate back into place. Employee's footing began...
08/18/2015 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was working on the belt scraper in slope four, the belt scraper is located on the head roller. The shaft had walked out of the belt scraper, so the employee hit the shaft with a hammer to mov...
06/17/2015 STRIKING OR BUMPING DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 180d lost While jumping over beam, employees hit his head on another beam overhead.
04/14/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 20d lost, 22d restricted Employee diagnosed at later date with abdomen hernia due to lifting, pulling over an extended period of time - chronic. No specific activity on injury date can be blamed for injury. Scheduling problem...
02/17/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 94d lost Miner was exiting his equipment and as he grabbed an hold of the hand rail and as he exited and stepped down, he pulled his left arm straight and pulled muscle in left arm.
02/04/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Employee was positioned in a man basket to install lagging onto the newly erected steel set. An employee on the ground removed the spreader pipe and tie rods from the left leg causing the set to shift...
08/14/2013 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While splicing a belt miner sustained a laceration requiring stitches.
03/05/2013 FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL ACCIDENT ONLY None Rib roll fall was discovered at 11:30pm by employees and reported to MSHA at 11:44pm.
06/24/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE injured his back while disengaging the implement release levers on the skid steer.
04/17/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 33d restricted EE slipped and fell into the steps on his equipment
08/23/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A brow fell and it was identified by employees during the shift. The fall damaged one side of a conveyor and discharge line for the pumps. No-one was injured and no-one was around when fall occurred.
04/23/2010 OTHER NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While wearing the proper PPE required for the job, the employee developed a rash on his leg due to the friction of his boots on his skin (leg).
04/16/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 303d lost Original incident was reported to company on 4/16/2010 but not MSHA reportable/lost-time until 9/14/2010, thus the submission of the report. Incident occurred when climbing down from ladder when his f...
04/15/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 86d restricted While entering office trailer, employee slipped, tripped and fell on steps leading into office trailer.
09/29/2009 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 13d lost On the 29th of Sept employee was in a manlift with co-worker loading faces. Co-worker was running the controls as they were going up the face. As they neared the top the operator didn't take into cons...