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2012 Metal/Nonmetal Non-chargeable Mining Deaths
(Determinations were made in 2012)

Incidents Occurring in 2009 but Determined in 2012

Date of Incident Mine Name Operating Company Determination Report
August 31, 2009 Cresson Project Anglogold Ashanti (Colorado) Corp. Natural See Report


Incidents Occurring in 2010 but Determined in 2012

Date of Incident Mine Name Operating Company Determination Report
August 31, 2009 West Coast Aggregate West Coast Aggregate Supply, Inc. Natural See Report


Incidents Occurring in 2011 but Determined in 2012

Date of Incident Mine Name Operating Company Determination Report
January 3, 2011 Black Mountain Quarry CEMEX Construction Materials Pacific, LLC Natural Causes See Report
January 14, 2011 Thornton Quarry Hanson Material Service Tresspassing See Report
January 18, 2011 Kensington Coeur Alaska, Inc. Natural Causes See Report
February 13, 2011 King William Nestle Purina Pet Care Other See Report
February 17, 2011 South Flint Gravel, Inc. South Flint Gravel, Inc. Natural Causes See Report
March 19, 2011 Landmark Plant Cheney Lime & Cement Company Suicide See Report
March 22, 2011 Main Processing Plant Thiele Kaolin Company Natural Causes See Report
April 6, 2011 Barrick Cortez Underground Cortez Joint Venture Natural Causes See Report
April 13, 2011 Bradshaw Pit Granite Construction Company Trespassing See Report
May 6, 2011 PCP #3 Hallett Materials, Inc. Natural Causes See Report
May 25, 2011 Portable Plant No. 1 Meverden Material, Inc. Natural Causes See Report
June 9, 2011 Riverside Stone Mine Yager Materials, LLC. Natural Causes See Report
June 11, 2011 Hicone Quarry Martin Marietta Materials Suicide See Report
June 28, 2011 Voca Mine Proppant Specialists Natural Causes See Report
July 11, 2011 Cheokee Quarry Vulcan Construction Materials Natural Causes See Report
July 11, 2011 CEMEX-19th Avenue Pit CEMEX Construction Material South, LLC Trespassing See Report
July 21, 2011 Fort Pierce Mines Florida Rock Industries, Inc. Accidental See Report
August 3, 2011 S C L Quarry Cemex Construction Materials of Florida, LLC Trespassing See Report
August 11, 2011 Hookers Prairie Mine Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC Natural Causes See Report
August 20, 2011 Little Rock Plant GEO Specialty Chemicals Natural Causes See Report
September 13, 2011 DeQuincy Plant Southwest Graphite Company Natural Causes See Report
September 28, 2011 Busque Quarry Busque Construction Co. Suicide See Report
October 5, 2011 Clinchfield Plant CEMEX, Inc. CEMEX Southeast, LLC. Natural Causes See Report
October 5, 2011 Lehigh Permanente Quarry Lehigh Southwest Cement Homicide See Report
October 5, 2011 Lehigh Permanente Quarry Lehigh Southwest Cement Homicide See Report
October 5, 2011 Lehigh Permanente Quarry Lehigh Southwest Cement Homicide See Report
October 19, 2011 Onlelaunee Quarry Berks Product Corp. Trespassing See Report
November 11, 2011 Boone Quarries-East Con-Agg of MO, LLC Trespassing See Report
November 15, 2011 Two Rivers Sand & Gravel Pit Two Rivers Sand & Gravel, Inc. Natural Causes See Report
November 15, 2011 Tata Chemicals Mill Tata Chemicals (Soda Ash) Partners Natural Causes See Report
November 28, 2011 Beck Street South Staker & Parson Companies Natural Causes See Report
November 29, 2011 Lithonia/Pine Mountain Quarry Hanson Aggregates Southeast, LLC Natural Causes See Report


Incidents Occurring and Determined in 2012

Date of Incident Mine Name Operating Company Determination Report
February 2, 2012 Linwood Mine Linwood Mining and Minerals Corporation Natural Causes See Report
February 15, 2012 Sherwin Alumina, L.P. Sherwin Alumina Company, LLC Natural Causes See Report
April 24, 2012 Sunflower Quarry Hunt Martin Materials, LLC Homicide See Report
May 16, 2012 Butler Pit Concrete Nor'West Trespassing See Report
June 11, 2012 Red Bluff Pit Red Bluff Sand & Gravel, LLC Natural Causes See Report