On February 23, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) reported that on Jan. 14, a 44-year-old contract laborer with 13 years of total experience received fatal injuries when he fell 27 feet to a concrete surface. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the time of the accident, the contractor was on a belt conveyor in a coal preparation plant and was working to replace a belt conveyor roller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was the fourth fatality reported in 2022, and the first classified as \u201cSlip or Fall of Person.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
MSHA recommends the following best practices to avoid this type of accident:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also on Feb. 23, MSHA issued a report on the second and third mining-related deaths in U.S. mining, confirming that on Jan. 7, a 35-year-old continuous mining machine (CMM) operator was fatally injured when he was pinned between the remote controlled CMM and the coal rib; and on Jan. 11, a 32-year-old miner died while driving on a mine road when a tree fell from a highwall onto the cab of his pickup truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both accidents occurred at coal operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MSHA recommends the following best practices to avoid fatalities classified as Machinery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MSHA recommends the following best practices to avoid fatalities classified as Falling, Rolling, or Sliding Rock or Material of Any Kind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier in February, the agency discussed the first mining fatality of 2022, which occurred Jan. 7 in Pennsylvania. A 49-year-old front-end loader operator with 15 years of mining experience died at Arcosa\u2019s Fayette County operation when a large rock fell from the mine roof, crushing the cab of the front-end loader. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the accident occurred, the victim was loading material from a recently blasted shot. MSHA has classified the incident as Fall of Roof or Back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MSHA recommends the following best practices to avoid this type of accident:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At press time, there had been 12 total mining fatalities at U.S. mines. Reports are still pending on the fifth through tenth deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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