Hard Rock Accident Tracker

Western Australia's underground mines must treat the shift to 0.01 mg/m³ REC on 1 December 2026 as a comprehensive control-system challenge, not a...

• Fatalities rising fast: 49 deaths recorded by September 14 2026 already exceed the full-year total of 41 in 2025
• Profit pressure suspected: Strong...

Long-pressure and short-exhaust ventilation can effectively reduce dust concentration in mine roadways and alleviate hazards to workers.

Non-uniform overburden deformation during mining stages generates interlayer shear and tensile loads that drive casing failures. Stage-specific...

Nigerian officials blame a suspected disease for at least 33 deaths of illegal mining suspects in NSCDC custody, but survivor Dauda Shehu alleges...

• At least 60 killed at al-Zara mine in West Kordofan after adjoining shafts collapsed, with over 70 reported dead or missing.
• Weak oversight and...

A record 12 teams will put their rescue skills to the test at the South Australian Mines Emergency Response Competition, directly strengthening practical emergency-response capability and teamwork under pressure.

At least 67 people were killed in a Sudanese gold mine collapse, with many more reported missing. This tragedy highlights the severe human cost of such incidents in gold mining operations.

A mine can stay energized and productive while its temporary power setup violates NEC requirements that protect workers. Production pressure often...

• Fatal incident occurred at Harmony Gold’s Mponeng mine after underground seismic event on 14 September.
• Work in affected area immediately...

The OLA is citing the 4 September fatalities at KEFI's Tulu Kapi project—including security personnel, community members and one employee—to demand...

Queensland's RSHQ has issued a safety alert after investigating a serious incident at Gregory Crinum coal mine, where a worker was critically injured...

A fatal incident at Kinross Gold’s Bald Mountain mine, classified by MSHA as “Handling Material,” has placed the operation under fresh safety review....

Operations at Uis Tin Mine restarted right after Filimon Mwashindange collapsed and died on duty, the Mineworkers Union of Namibia reports. The union...

• Full responsibility demanded: Harmony Gold challenged to own the boys' deaths in the mine accident
• Limited operations: Site functions mainly as...

Delayed identification of 183 Korean miners buried in the 1942 Chosei coal-mine disaster persisted until a 1991 letter from Ube, Japan, reached...

A worker at an underground metal mine in New South Wales fell ill after sulphur dioxide exposure while bogging a drawpoint with a load haul dump truck. Details remain scarce.

2010年智利圣何塞矿难中，33名矿工被困69天，经17天后钻探确认生还，随后52天由智利工程师主导的多国救援团队完成营救，全球十亿人见证救援舱升起，凸显应急响应、工程技术和跨机构协作对地下矿山安全准备的关键作用。

Automation and digital monitoring cut incident rates but leave critical gaps that only people can close.

• Job assignments must start with hazards and...

• South Africa cut total mining fatalities to 41 in 2025, yet fall-of-ground deaths rose 25% to 15.
• Harmony reported a seismic fatality at Moab...