Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
A miner was fatally injured when the miner was run over by the LHD loader the miner was operating underground.
Newmont USA LimitedOperator
Controlled by Newmont Corporation
MSHA Operator ID: L15317
- Fatalities
- 9
- Total incidents
- 1,962
- Mines on record
- 22
- Years on record
- 2000–2019
Safety benchmark
Recorded fatalities relative to other operators with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 739 operators with at least one recorded fatality.
More recorded fatalities than 99% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
This operator
9
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Stillwater Mining Company10fatal1,854 total
- Newmont USA Limitedthis operator9fatal1,962 total
- Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC3fatal2,081 total
- The American Coal Company1fatal2,054 total
- Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company LLC1fatal1,820 total
Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA operators with at least one recorded fatality. Industry mean is the average across that same population. Peers are sampled by closest total-incident count, regardless of fatality outcome.
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Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE3 fatalities · 51 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 185 non-fatal
- OTHER1 fatality · 24 non-fatal
- HOISTING1 fatality · 7 non-fatal
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS1 fatality · 6 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS357 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2019
31
2018
38 (1f)
2017
65
2016
67
2015
77 (1f)
2014
61
2013
104 (1f)
2012
109 (1f)
2011
106 (1f)
2010
90
2009
82 (1f)
2008
110 (1f)
2007
60
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
9 recordedStruck against stationary object
The employee was fatally injured when he was travelling on a shaft conveyance and came in contact with the shaft furnishings.
Struck against a moving object
Employee was in the procees of building a berm when his loader went into the stope.
Fall down raise, shaft or manway
A fatal accident occurred at the Exodus underground mine on Friday August 31st at approximately 13:30. The employee was preparing the top cut of the 4410-315 long hole stope, when he fell into the stope.
Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances
While performing a section repair in sidewall of a large earthmover tire the associate was discovered unconscious and unresponsive inside the tire by a mining company worker.
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Surface Mine Engineering Sampler was backing up his flatbed pickup on a a drill pattern. A Drill Operator had dismounted his drill and was walking on the pattern. The drill operator walked behind the pickup and the sampler was not aware the the driller was there. The driller stopped walking and was run over by the flatbed pickup, resulting in fatal injuries.
Struck by falling object
Two employees (welders) were dismantling a large tool rack. The welders were cutting 8'X4""X1/4"" plate steel from the frame. The rack became unstable and tipped over on top of the employees. One employee sustained fatal injuries and the other received injuries to his back and legs.