"Near Miss" Accident Summaries (2007)
Details |
Date |
State |
Nature of Incident |
Sex |
Age |
Mine Type |
|
01/21/2007 |
NM |
Man falls 50 feet into old mine shaft |
Male |
26 |
Abandoned |
|
03/04/2007 |
WI |
Sled slides 200 feet into quarry
|
Male Female |
Both Unknown |
Inactive |
|
03/13/2007 |
PA |
Boat Deflates in Mine Tunnel
|
Male Male |
17 25 |
Abandoned |
|
03/17/2007 |
PA |
Man Falls Down Mine Shaft During Police Chase
|
Male |
Unknown |
Unknown |
|
04/02/2007 |
CO |
Dog Falls Down Mine Shaft While Walking with Owner |
|
|
Abandoned |
|
04/03/2007 |
IN |
Nine Year-Old Boy Buried By Gravel |
Male |
9 |
Active |
|
04/28/2007 |
CO |
Four Year-Old Wanders Off to Gravel Pit—Again |
Male |
4 |
Active |
|
04/28/2007 |
WV |
Workers Blast Seal to Rescue West Virginia Men |
Male Male |
24 26 |
Inactive |
|
05/24/2007 |
CT |
Teen Rescued from Quarry |
Male |
19 |
Active |
|
05/28/2007 |
NH |
11 Hurt When Truck Falls Into Gravel Pit |
Male |
24 |
Active |
|
05/30/2007 |
OH |
Woman Falls Into Gravel Pit
|
Female |
50 |
Abandoned |
|
06/09/2007 |
WI |
Car Falls into Abandoned Quarry |
Male Female |
21 20 |
Abandoned |
|
06/11/2007 |
MI |
Teen Crashes Truck into Quarry |
Male |
19 |
Abandoned |
|
07/05/2007 |
WI |
Car Falls into Quarry |
Female Male Male Male Male |
22 22 20 22 22 |
Active |
|
08/02/2007 |
WV |
Explosion |
Male Male |
|
Abandoned |
|
11/12/2007 |
CA |
Teen Rescued from Quarry Ledge |
Female |
17 |
Abandoned |
|
12/31/2007 |
CA |
Boy Falls Down Mine Shaft |
Male |
11 |
Abandoned |
"Near Miss" Accident Summaries (2006)
Details |
Date |
State |
Nature of Incident |
Sex |
Age |
Mine Status |
|
03/05/2006 |
AZ |
Severe injuries in mine explosion |
2 Males |
Undetermined |
Abandoned |
|
03/12/2006 |
CA |
Fall Down Vertical Mine Shaft |
2 Males |
62 and 67 |
Active |
|
03/12/2006 |
AZ |
Car topples 25 feet into mine shaft |
2 Males |
Unknown |
Abandoned |
|
04/29/2006 |
CA |
40-foot fall down mine shaft |
Male |
27 |
Abandoned
|
|
05/08/2006 |
PA |
Boy falls 65 feet into quarry |
Male |
13 |
Active
|
|
06/19/2006 |
OR |
Fawn rescued from mine shaft |
Undetermined |
Undetermined |
Abandoned |
|
07/17/2006 |
FL |
Boy tumbles 55 feet down side of quarry |
Male |
13 |
Abandoned |
|
07/31/2006 |
WV |
Two men hunting for scrap metal get lost in mine |
Male Male |
35 44 |
Abandoned |
|
08/06/2006 |
VA |
Trespassers in search of mine supplies |
2 Males |
16 and 21 |
Abandoned |
"Near Miss" Accident Summaries (2004)
Details |
Date |
State |
Nature of Incident |
Sex |
Age |
Mine Status |
|
04/03/2004 |
MA |
Overturned dirt bike |
Male |
22 |
Active |
|
04/12/2004 |
NV |
Fall down mine shaft |
Male |
29 |
Abandoned |
|
04/19/2004 |
CA |
Fall in Rock Quarry |
Female |
16 |
Inactive |
|
04/24/2004 |
PA |
Fall down mine shaft |
Male |
18 |
Abandoned |
|
04/24/2004 |
WA |
ATV crash |
Male |
Unknown |
Undetermined |
|
05/14/2004 |
CO |
Spelunkers become lost, disoriented for 10 hours
|
4 Males |
18, 34, 39, 48 |
Abandoned |
|
05/23/2004 |
VA |
Swimmers stranded by strong currents |
2 Males |
16,18 |
Unknown |
|
06/20/2004 |
UT |
Fall from ATV |
Male |
21 |
Unknown |
|
06/21/2004 |
WI |
80-foot fall into old quarry |
Male |
Undetermined |
Unknown |
|
07/10/2004 |
NH |
ATV rollover |
Male |
8 |
Undetermined |
|
07/22/2004 |
CT |
Exhausted swimmer becomes trapped in quarry |
Male |
17 |
Abandoned |
|
07/27/2004 |
ME |
Swimmer injured jumping from quarry rock face into water |
Male |
19 |
Inactive |
|
07/31/2004 |
TN |
60-foot fall from quarry bluff |
Male |
13 |
Abandoned |
|
08/29/2004 |
ME |
Overturned ATV |
Male |
18 |
Undetermined |
|
09/01/2004 |
NY |
50-foot fall from quarry embankment |
Female |
Teenager |
Undetermined |
|
12/17/2004 |
ME |
Airborne snowmobiles drop to bottom of gravel pit |
3 Males |
15 or 16 |
Undetermined |