# FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
> **FATAL** · MSHA accident `220212640037` · 09/14/2021 · Higher ground resources
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** FATALITY
- **Classification:** FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
- **Occupation:** Miner, Prospector, NEC
- **Activity:** Unknown
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- **Body part:** UNCLASSIFIED
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** — years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Randy L.  Rice
- **Operator:** Higher ground resources
- **Mine:** [1002336](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1002336)
## Narrative

A visitor to the mine site was in a unauthorized area running a sluice box in a unstable trench when it collapsed and buried them. The trench was tapered and made safe to remove their body.

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*Source: [MSHA Open Government Data](https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*