Employee was operating a DM45 Highwall Drill on a drill bench. Employee was traveling parallel to the edge and the outside edge gave way. The drill slid off the bench and landed 25 feet below.
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- Fatalities
- 4
- Total incidents
- 262
- Mines on record
- 30
- Years on record
- 2000–2026
Top causes
- MACHINERY 2 fatalities · 24 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 2 fatalities · 18 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 81 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 60 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 24 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 16 non-fatal
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Mines on record
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- CCU Belmont Strip OH
- CCU Patterson Strip OH
- Buckingham Mine OH
- Buckingham Mine OH
- CCU Harrison Strip OH
- CCU Perry Strip OH
- CCU Conesville Wash Plant OH
- CCU Barb Coal Tipple OH
- CCU Tuscarawas Strip OH
- Dairy Jean Mine OH
- CCU Bellaire Dock OH
- CCU Stark Strip OH
- Schoate Preparation Plant KY
- Rice #2 (Strip) OH
- Crosscreek Mine WV
- Rose France Mine KY
- CCU Halls Creek Mine KY
- Coshocton Strip OH
- Island Dock KY
- Oxford Mining #2 OH
- K O Mine KY
- Jessup Mine KY
- Standing Stone Mine OH
- Oxford Beagle Club OH
- Lisbon Mine OH
- Oxford Contract Auger # 3- No.12 OH
- Tusky OH
- Oxford Auger No 1 OH
Fatalities under this controller
4 recordedEmployee 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.
EE was shoving top soil away from the highwall. He backed up over and through an 8 foot berm that had been constructed at the edge of the highwall. The dozer went over the wall rolling over and throwing him out of the cab.
Shuttle car operator stopped to talk to the shuttle car operator in the crosscut behind him. Scoop operator in crosscut in front proceeded to cross in front of shuttle car. Shuttle car operator proceeded with the buggy towards the feeder running over the scoop operator in front of him.