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 5/17/2017
Surface – Cement – A miner had just finished welding on the plant’s crusher and decided to jump from the next to the last step of a fixed ladder to reach the ground.
Safety / Health Alerts
Posted 5/11/2017
Surface Construction Sand & Gravel – A miner entered a feed hopper to remove bolts on the skirt board.
Safety / Health Alerts
Posted 4/26/2017
Surface Construction Sand & Gravel - A miner was operating a portable crusher when a large rock fell striking him on the left side of his head. The miner was wearing a hard hat at the time.
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.