Mining Incidents

Ione MineralsMetal/Nonmetal

Ione, Amador County, CA · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0405532
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2010–2015
Latest incident
Sep 2015
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2015 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee jumped off forklift. Forklift was in neutral but still running. Employee said he failed to set the emergency brake. He reached across the forklift to grab something and accidentally hit the armature, putting the forklift into reverse and running over his foot.

2010 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

EE was adjusting the height of the personal fan that blows on the employee as they work sacking the clay. The fan fell on his left hand, cutting the thumb.