Education Field Service Notes
Click the MSHA–Directorate
of Educational and Policy Development link to access information
on:
MSHA, OSHA, and Other Related Mining Links
A new browser window will open for these links.
MSHA Fatalities
These links provide you with the latest fatality information
in mining. The fatalgram gives a brief description of the accident
while the investigation report provides all the details.
"Fatality Overviews"... If a report has an overview, the button to that report will indicate so. These reports are offered in Microsoft's PowerPoint ® or PDF. You will need Adobe's PDF Reader. If you need more information on this, see this page. "Fatality Overviews", slide shows regarding fatal accidents, are another part of the Mine Safety and Health Administration's program to share information with the mining community. We encourage you to share these presentations with your supervisors and miners to assist your efforts to prevent similar accidents. Accident Classifications - definitions of accident classifications found on this web site.
For 2009:
Coal:
Fatality #1 February 6, 2009
Powered Haulage-Surface-West Virginia Elk Run Coal
Company-Republic Energy
Fatality #2 February 17, 2009 Handling
Material-Surface-Illinois Knight Hawk Coal, LLC- Prairie
Eagle
Metal Non Metal:
Fatality #1 - January 6, 2009
Falling/Sliding
Material - California - Construction Sand and Gravel Matich Corporation-
Redlands Rock Plant
Fatality #2 - January 17, 2009
Falling/Sliding
Material - Kentucky - Limestone (C&B) Specialty Rock Products Inc. -
Specialty Rock Products Incorporated
Fatality #3 - January 31, 2009
Machinery - Texas -
Alumina Sherwin Alumina Co. - Sherwin Alumina Co.
This link gives you information of all the fatalities for different years.
These links are a good source of information for your own training and for accident prevention at your location. You can learn from this information to keep yourself and others at your plant safe.
Accident Prevention Program
Here are some information links going directly to sections of
the MSHA web site. These two links provide information on MSHA's
Accident Prevention Program.
They provide good safety practices to be followed. This information will be helpful in your training sessions with the new as well as current employees.
Policy Update Information
Do you want to know what the latest version of the regulations
in 30 CFR are? Do you want to know what the latest Federal registers
are all about? Do you need to update your Program Policy Manual?
Click the MSHA
- Statutory and Regulatory Information link for the latest
information on:
• 30 CFR
• The Program Policy Manual
• The Program Policy Letters
• Federal Register documents
MSHA's State Grants Programs
Below you will find links to the State Grants Program web sites that are available. This could help you in the event that you have a company or person that needs MSHA training in that state. Most links also have a variety of training material available for download. States are marked for training material or information on their site at the time of this posting.