AT APPROX 10:00 AM ON 4-24-91, THE MINE EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A DRILL WHEN A PORTION OF THE OPEN PIT FLOOR COLLAPSED. THE OPERATOR FELL INTO THIS OPENING. SEARCH FOR THE DRILL OPERATOR INDIC ATED THAT HE WAS NOT ON THE SURFACE. THE HOLE HAD DUST COMING OUT OF THE OPENING, THUS VISIBILITY INTO THE HOLE WAS RESTRICTED. RESCUE OPERATIONS COMMENCED IMMEDIATELY.
N A Degerstrom Inc contractor
Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: AT0
Safety record
- 4
- Fatalities
- 356
- Citations
- 6,530,817
- Employee-hours (2000+)
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Rates use contractor-reported employee-hours as the denominator. About 2% of reported hours are dropped as duplicate filings, so the hours total runs slightly low and any per-hour rate reads slightly high. Quarters filed with zero hours are excluded, and hours are reported only from 2000 on. - 0.00
- Fatalities / million hrs
54.5 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.
Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE 2 fatalities · 49 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 1 fatality · 36 non-fatal
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS 1 fatality
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 66 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 61 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 29 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
2
2025
2
2022
2
2021
4
2020
6
2019
8
2018
2
2015
3
2014
9
2013
5
2012
9
2011
13
2010
3
2009
4
2008
1
2007
8
2006
6
2005
2
2004
3
2003
1
1999
5
1998
4
1997
9
1996
5
1993
2
1992
30
1991
18 (1f)
1990
23
1989
19 (1f)
1988
17
1987
15
1986
10 (1f)
1985
3
1984
5 (1f)
1983
5
Mines worked
- Gold Bar NV
- Emigrant NV
- Cortez District NV
- Moss Mine AZ
- Long Canyon NV
- Rossi Jig Plant NV
- Argenta Mine And Mill NV
- Slaven Mine NV
- Lee Smith NV
- Hycroft Mine NV
- EV, Ballard & Blackfoot Bridge Mines ID
- Phoenix Mine NV
- Big Ledge Mine NV
- Chino Mines Co Mine NM
- Robinson Operation NV
- Jerritt Canyon Mill NV
- Turquoise Ridge NV
- Buckhorn Mine WA
- Freeport-McMoRan Morenci Inc. AZ
- Twin Creeks Mine NV
- Getchell Mine & Mill NV
- Mineral Park AZ
- Delamar Mine ID
- Comstock Mining LLC NV
- South Area NV
- DAISY GOLD MINE NV
- Regal Mine MT
- Golden Sunlight Mines Inc MT
- ROBINSON NV
- Treasure Mine MT
- Florida Canyon Mine NV
- Basin Creek Mine MT
- BEAL MOUNTIAN MINE MT
- Crusher MT
- ZORTMAN MINING INC MT
- Montana Tunnels Mining Inc MT
- Toiyabe Project-Saddle Gold Deposit NV
- RELIEF CANYON NV
- Pegasus Gold Corp/Zortman Mng Inc-Landus MT
- Carson Hill Rock Products CA
- Portable Crusher #1 WA
Recorded fatalities
4 recorded
Zortman Mining Inc · Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
November 1, 1989
MT · Metal/Non-Metal
warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator
Fatality · MACHINERY
Beal Mountain Mining Inc · Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects
THE INJURED WAS CLEANING OUT THE BUNKER ON THE CRUSHER WHEN THE GENERATOR WAS SHUT OFF AND THE GATES CLOSED ON HIM,CRUSHING HIM.
November 11, 1986
MT · Metal/Non-Metal
greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler
Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Montana Tunnels Mining Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
I.NAME GREASING3THE 992C FRONT END LOADER THE BUCKET WAS ROLLED AND I.NAME WAS PINNED BETWEEN THE BUCKET ARM AND THE DIFFERENCIAL DEATH -TRAUMATIC INTERNAL INJURIES
August 7, 1984
MT · Metal/Non-Metal
haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver
Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Pegasus Gold Corp · Struck against a moving object
DRIVER LOST CONTROL OF WATER TRUCK CRASHING INTO ROADWAY BANK.