Fatality · MSHA Record #220113320004
Ledgeman/Hand, Quarry Man
November 17, 2011 at 10:55 PM
Operator: Hecla Limited (Hecla Mining Company)
Shoshone County, ID
ClassificationSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
TypeCaught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
Investigator narrative
Two miners working in an underground bin excavation were attempting to level the muckpile by blowing muck down a hole at the brow. They were both tied to retractable fall restraints when the muckpile slid down the repose angle unexpectedly. One employee manually pulled his line and engaged his restraint but the second man was engulfed and suffocated by the finely broken muck.
Record details
- Activity at time of incident
- Enter/Work In Bins, Silos
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
- Source of injury
- PULVERIZED MINERAL (DUST)
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Total mining experience
- 3.54 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0.69 years
- Experience in this job
- 3.54 years
- Degree of injury
- FATALITY
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