Round Mountain Gold Corporation · Struck against a moving object
THE VICTIM WAS DESCENDIG A PIT RAMP WITHA 4000-GALLON LOAD OF WATER, WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK ADN ROLLE DSEVERAL TIMES. EE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.
Echo Bay Mines Ltd: 9 recorded fatalities controller
MSHA controller ID: M06668
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
60
citations
4
significant & substantial
$3,468
proposed penalties
$3,468
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
52
inspections on record
2,766
inspection hours
2.2
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.60 citations across 2,766 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
58 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-08-18.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.6.8%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
10.2%
reasonably likely or greater
52.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 44.1% low, 55.9% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2005
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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.0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.21 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.
| Year | total case rate | days-away | fatal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2004 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2003 | 2.06 | 0.41 | 0.000 |
| 2002 | 2.70 | 0.12 | 0.000 |
| 2001 | 4.33 | 0.36 | 0.000 |
| 2000 | 2.64 | 0.81 | 0.000 |
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
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.
Health sampling
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A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
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Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2003-08-15, 23 years ago
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Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.46%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
25
samples
24
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Total Carbon,TC107 over
- Total Carbon,calculated from elemental carbon.105 over
- Silver fumes44 over
- Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz10
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE 3 fatalities · 106 non-fatal
- EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS 2 fatalities · 5 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 1 fatality · 196 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 1 fatality · 191 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 1 fatality · 29 non-fatal
- FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL 1 fatality · 10 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2003
9
2002
27
2001
40
2000
31
1999
68
1998
58
1997
66
1996
54
1995
57 (1f)
1994
47 (2f)
1993
68
1992
71
1991
69 (2f)
1990
82 (1f)
1989
148 (1f)
1988
120 (1f)
1987
77
1986
50 (1f)
1985
14
1984
14
1983
14
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
- K-2 Mine Site WA
- Smoky Valley Common Operations NV
- Kettle River Mill Site WA
- McCoy/Cove Mine NV
- LAMEFOOT MINE SITE WA
- Overlook Mine Site WA
- Aj Mine AK
- Key West Underground WA
- Cove Underground Project NV
- Sunnyside Mine/Mayflower Mill CO
- Key East Pit WA
- Kettle River Site WA
- Kensington AK
- Borealis Mine NV
- Illipah Mine NV
- Congress Mine AZ
- Echo Bay Tonopah Assay Lab NV
Fatalities under this controller
9 recorded
Echo Bay Alaska Inc · Struck by falling object
EMPLOYEE WAS ADD 7' SWELLEN BOLTS TOT HE RIB AND BACK. EMPLOYEE LEFT THE CAB OF THE JUMBO E WARN HIS HANDS. EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING AT THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT WITH HIS BACK TOT HE RIGHT RIB. THE GROUND SUPPORT FAILED AND THE RIB STUFFED COVERING THE EMPLOYEE.
June 3, 1994
NV · Metal/Non-Metal
haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver
Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Echo Bay Minerals Company · Struck against a moving object
EMPLOYEE DRIVING EMPTY HAUL TRUCK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PIT & THE TRUCK DRIVER LOST CONTROL & DROVE INTO THE PIT WALL.
Echo Bay Minerals Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EMPLOYEE PARKED ANFO/POWDER TRUCK IN X-CUT 22 WHEN POWDER UNEXPECTEDLY EXPLODED.
November 10, 1991
WA · Metal/Non-Metal
bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss
Fatality · EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
Echo Bay Minerals Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
MINER WAS MOVING POWDER FROM POWDER MAGAZINE TO FACE- STOPPED LHD TO MOVE POWER CABLE WHEN THE EXPLOSION OCCURRED. UNKNOWN CAUSE.
Echo Bay Alaska Inc · Fall down raise, shaft or manway
WHILE ASSTISTING JACKLEG OPEATOR, VICTIM APPARENTLY MOVED TO CLOSE TO OPEN RAISE AND FELL.
Echo Bay Alaska Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EMPLOYEE DRILLING WITH 2 BOOM JARVIS CLARK JUMBO W TAMROCK 550 DRILLOS & 11/4IN DRILL STEEL EMPLOYEES CLOTHING GOT CAUGHT ON DRILL STEEL PULLING EMPLOYEE BETWEEN DRILL ROD & DRILL SLIDE RESULT ING IN DEATH
Echo Bay Exploration Inc · Struck by falling object
WHILE WORKING IN A STOPE AREA, HE WAS STRUCK BY A FALLING ROCK OR KNOCKED TO THE GROUND BY SLIDING ROCK.
Sunnyside Gold Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
THE VICTIM CLOS9D SWITCH CONTROLLING AIR DOOR AS MUCK TRAIN APPROACHED THE DOOR CLOSED HE ATTEMPTED TO RUN TO AN EMERGENCY SWITCH AND WAS STRUCK BY THE TRAIN IF HE HAD REMAINED WHERE HE WAS AN D OPENED THE MA3N SWITCH HE WOULD HAVE NOT BEEN INJURED
For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants
Where Echo Bay Mines Ltd 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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