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Alta Gold Company: 1 recorded fatality controller

MSHA controller ID: M06399

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
213
Mines on record
12
Years on record
1986–2000
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
3
inspections on record
11
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘ This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 11 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2000
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
7.29
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.77 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.

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Incident timeline

2000
1
1999
9
1998
13
1997
10
1996
13
1995
8
1994
9
1993
2
1992
5
1991
2
1990
36 (1f)
1989
67
1988
34
1987
2
1986
2

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
June 8, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman Fatality · FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Alta Gold Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMP WAS REPARING THE HYDRAULIC FEED LINE OF LIFT CYLINDER . THE BUCKET MUST BE RAISED TO REPAIR THIS LINE. EMP SUPPORTED THE BUCKET WITH 6 X 8" TIMBER TO PERFORM THE REPAIR TASK. THE TIMBER SP LIT LENGTH WAYS ALLOWING THE BUCKET TO FALL CRUSHING THE MEP BETWEEN THE BOOM AND MUCKER FRAM E

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Where Alta Gold Company stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample, score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.

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