Mining Incidents

Twin Buttes MineMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Freeport-McMoRan Inc
Green Valley, Pima County, AZ · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0203262
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2010–2012
Latest incident
Apr 2012
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2012 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was supervising the installation of forms for the hearth being worked on when a worker lifted the form, lost his grip and the form fell against the left hand of employee.

2011 · 2 incidents

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE was correcting a mis-positioned box of core on a pallet, when he twisted while being over extended. EE did not report to Employer until 9/9/11.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee states while hitting the core barrel to remove core that was stuck, he brought hammer down on his left thumb casing a laceration.

2010 · 1 incident

Contact with heat

Employee states that he had just parked the water truck and got out to set the cones down, then hooked the water hose, and as he walked away he passed out and fell to the ground landing face forward.