MINE FATALITY – On January 30, 2025, a miner died when a front-end loader operator unknowingly lowered a pallet of stone onto him.
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Best Practices
- Develop traffic rules for mobile equipment and miners on foot. Ensure the Safety Program for Surface Mobile Equipment includes actions taken to identify hazards and risks to reduce fatalities.
- Install collision warning technologies and added safety features such as cameras, sensors and radar.
- Ensure adequate clearance and visibility when operating mobile equipment and be aware of where all persons on foot are located.
- Wear high visibility clothing and communicate your location and intended movements to mobile equipment operators. Ensure they acknowledge your presence before you travel near mobile equipment.
- Train all persons to recognize the limited visibility and blind areas inherent to the operation of self-propelled mobile equipment.
Additional Information
This is the fifth fatality reported in 2025, and the second classified as “Powered Haulage.”
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Original article published by MSHA