Mining Incidents

Klondex Mines LtdController

MSHA Controller ID: 0107041
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
59
Mines on record
4
Period

Top causes

  • MACHINERY1 fatality · 8 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS17 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON10 non-fatal
  • FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL6 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE4 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)4 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2018
11
2017
11
2016
14
2015
13
2014
8 (1f)
2013
1
2012
1

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Employee had partially drilled a hole using a jackleg drill. A coworker discovered him unconscious/unresponsive, slumped over the drill. It was later determined the employee's clothes were wound up in the 6' drill steel though the cause & nature of the accident & cause of death remain undetermined and under investigation.