Safety Share is the new Health & Safety Division newsletter

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Let me begin this column with a sad safety share. On Aug. 3, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) reported the deaths of three miners in the metal and nonmetal industries who suffered fatal injuries in three separate accidents pages. According to an MSHA statement published Aug. 5,2015, a loader operator at a North Dakota sand and gravel operation was covered up in a stockpile failure; a Nevada miner was struck by mobile equipment in a gold mine and a Virginia gravel plant operator was buried when a silo collapsed. MSHA will, of course, investigate each of these accidents, and we must await the results to draw further conclusions.