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What's New for Semptember 2012

POSTED: 9/4/2012
Safety Alert

Seat Belts Save Lives!

POSTED: 9/5/2012
Fatal Accident Report

Fatality #6 - March 23, 2012
Electrical - Underground - Alabama
Drummond Mining Company - Shoal Creek Mine

POSTED: 9/7/2012
Digitized Mine Maps

Links to websites showing publically available mine maps.

POSTED: 9/11/2012
Fatalgram

Fatality #11 - August 31, 2012
Slip/Fall of Person - Nevada - Gold Ore
Newmont USA Limited - Exodus

POSTED: 9/11/2012
Fatalgram

Fatality #12 - August 17, 2012
(Victim was Recovered September 4, 2012)
Falling Material - Florida - Hydraulic Cement
Tarmac America LLC - Pennsuco Cement Plant

POSTED: 9/11/2012
Discontinuation of Hard Copy Compliance Guidance

Effective October 01, 2012, MSHA is modifying its distribution practice.

POSTED: 9/14/2012
Fatal Accident Report

Fatality #1 - January 11, 2012
(Victim Died January 18, 2012)
Exploding Vessels Under Pressure - Underground Mine - Virginia
Consolidation Coal Company, Buchannan Mine #1

POSTED: 9/14/2012
Safety Hazard Alert Posted

Structural Failures Cost Lives and Time!

POSTED: 9/17/2012
Fedreg. Doc. 2012-22805

Notice of petition for modification of existing mandatory safety standard. -

POSTED: 9/18/2012
Safety Hazard Alert Posted

Training Can Save Mine Owners and Mine Supervisors

POSTED: 9/19/2012
Fedreg. Doc. 2012-23010

Information Collection Request
Proposed Renewal of Existing Information Collection; Fire Protection (Underground Coal Mines)

POSTED: 9/19/2012
Fedreg. Doc. 2012-23011

Information Collection Request
Proposed Extension of Existing Information Collection; Explosive Materials and Blasting Units (Pertains to Metal and Nonmetal Underground Mines Deemed To Be Gassy

POSTED: 9/19/2012
Fedreg. Doc. 2012-23012

Information Collection Request
Proposed Renewal of Existing Information Collection; Records of Preshift and Onshift Inspections of Slope and Shaft Areas of Slope and Shaft Sinking Operations at Coal Mines

POSTED: 9/20/2012
Fatalgram

Fatality #14 - September 11, 2012
Powered Haulage - Underground - Alabama
Drummond Company Inc. - Shoal Creek Mine

POSTED: 9/20/2012
Fatal Accident Report

Fatality #2 - February 26, 2012
Other (Drowning) - Facility - Kentucky
SCH Terminal Co., Inc. - Calvert City Terminal LLC

POSTED: 9/25/2012
News Release

MSHA announces results of August impact inspections

POSTED: 9/26/2012
Fatal Accident Report

Fatality #5 -March 17, 2012
Machinery - Surface - Ohio
Ohio American Energy, Inc. - Salt Run #1 Mine

POSTED: 9/26/2012
Fatality #16
- September 26, 2012
Fall of Roof Fatal - Clairfield - Claiborne County - Tennessee
Kopper Glo Mining, LLC - Double Mountain Mine

POSTED: 9/26/2012
Preliminary Report

Fatality #13 - September 22, 2012
Fall of Person – Arizona - Copper
BHP Copper Inc. - Pinto Valley Operations

POSTED: 9/26/2012
Fatality #14
- September 26, 2012
Machinery – California – Sand & Gravel
Eagle Peak Rock and Paving – North Pit

POSTED: 9/26/2012
News Release

US Labor Department’s MSHA awards $1.25 million in Brookwood-Sago mine safety grants

POSTED: 9/27/2012
Preliminary Report

Fatality #16 - September 26, 2012
Fall of Roof Fatal - Clairfield - Claiborne County - Tennessee
Kopper Glo Mining, LLC - Double Mountain Mine

POSTED: 9/27/2012
Fatal Accident Report

Fatality #3 - March 3, 2012
Handling Materials - Underground - Kentucky
Partin Brothers Contracting, Inc. - Timber Tree #9 Mine

POSTED: 9/27/2012
Crandall Canyon Settlement – Information added to Single Source Page

POSTED: 9/27/2012
News Release

US Labor Department announces settlement in Crandall Canyon Mine collapse

POSTED: 9/28/2012
Preliminary Report
Fatality #14 - September 26, 2012
Machinery – California – Sand & Gravel
Eagle Peak Rock and Paving – North Pit