Mine Safety and Health Materials
MSHA offers a variety of materials to assist trainers and mine operators in promoting a safe and healthy environment at U.S. mines. Use the search column or scroll through the most recent listings below to find materials for safety talks and trainings at your mine.
Safety / Health Alerts
Posted 4/19/2017
Surface Sand and Gravel – The scrubber tower located at the mine structurally failed moments after a miner traveled through the area.
Safety / Health Alerts
Posted 4/14/2017
Metal and Nonmetal Underground Mines
Safety / Health Alerts
Posted 4/8/2017
Surface – Sand – A dozer operator was backing up a hill when his ripper tooth went into the hood of a quarry foreman’s truck.
Safety / Health Alerts
Posted 4/4/2017
Preventing Fall of Person Accidents
Safety / Health Alerts
Posted 3/24/2017
Surface – Sand – A tractor trailer contacted an overhead ground wire after dumping a load of gravel. The contacted wire in turn pulled and snapped a ground wire on an adjacent power pole.
Safety / Health Alerts
Posted 3/16/2017
Surface – Sand – A loaded haul truck collided with a pickup, when the pickup truck operator attempted to turn around on the haul road after missing the turn off.
Safety / Health Alerts
Posted 2/22/2017
Plant – Cement – More than 600 feet of a metal canopy structure collapsed unexpectedly at a cement plant operation, injuring three miners.
Safety / Health Alerts
Posted 2/8/2017
Plant – Cement – The operator was driving a water truck back to the plant from the quarry when he reached for the CB radio to change to a different channel used by haul trucks when on mine property
Safety / Health Alerts
Posted 2/1/2017
Plant – Iron Ore – On September 6, 2016, the supports for a conveyor gallery failed while a cleaning crew was washing/removing spillage from the walkways inside the gallery.
Safety / Health Alerts
Posted 1/19/2017
Plant – Cement – A miner was assigned the task of tightening pre-heater spandrel panel bolts when he lost his footing and fell.