Metal and Nonmetal Underground Mines
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.
Surface – Sand – A dozer operator was backing up a hill when his ripper tooth went into the hood of a quarry foreman’s truck.
Preventing Fall of Person Accidents
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.
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.
Plant – Cement – More than 600 feet of a metal canopy structure collapsed unexpectedly at a cement plant operation, injuring three miners.
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
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.
Plant – Cement – A miner was assigned the task of tightening pre-heater spandrel panel bolts when he lost his footing and fell.
A front end loader operator was loading sand into the feed hopper.