Mining Incidents

Sanrock/Target Construction contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: F2M
Safety record
2
Fatalities
0
Citations
19
Employee-hours (2000+)
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.
n/a
Fatalities / million hrs
The recorded deaths predate MSHA's contractor employee-hours data, which begins in 2000, so no rate can be computed.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality · 4 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 1 fatality
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

1988
3
1987
2 (1f)
1986
1
1984
1 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

2 recorded
September 4, 1987 CA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Vanderbilt Gold Corp · Struck against a moving object

OUR NORMAL ROUT3NE WAS TO HAUL GRAVEL IN MORINGS & ORE TO CRUSHER IN AFTERNOON. LANES IN ROAD PREVENTED HAULING OF GRAVEL. SO WENT TO ORE DUMP TO HAUL ORE, SEING NO BERM & VERTICAL BANK CAUS BY LOADER REMOV3NG DURING NITE. WENT AND TOLD DRIVERS OF CHANGE THAT THERE WAS NO BERM OUT IN FRONT WOULD GET CAT TO PUCH OVER . MR CARLSON DID NOT FOLLOW ORDERS AND BACK HIS TRK 200 FT STRAI

July 22, 1984 NV · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech Fatality · MACHINERY
Lacana Gold Inc · Struck against a moving object

5:00 SUNDAY AM,I.NAME & I.NAME WENT TO MINE IN ORDER TO GET 2 DOZERS RUNNING FOR THAT DAYS SHIFT.AFTER I.NAME LEFT I.NAME WENT TO ROAD GRADER FROR SOME UNKNOWN REASON.BLADE WAS PARKED AT UPPE END OF 8% HAUL ROAD AND PARKED SO IT WOULD RUN INTO BANK IF IT GOT AWAY.SOMEHOW I.NAME GOT BLADE HEADED STRAIGHT DOWN HAUL RD AROUND 90 DEGREE CURVE AND DOWN 4500\ OF RD WHERE HE TURNED BLADE