Mining Incidents

Portable Crushing Plant #5Metal/Nonmetal

Cripple Creek, Adams County, CO · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0504110
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2001
Latest incident
Apr 2001

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
Struck by falling object

THE VICTIM, A LOADER OPERATOR, WAS CLEANING MATERIAL FROM A STACKER CONVEYOR WHEN HE ACCIDENTALLY STRUCK ONE OF THE LEG SUPPORTS, KNOCKING THE CONVEYOR OVER. A SECOND LOADER OPERATOR WAS SUMMONED TO LIFT & RESET THE CONVEYOR. THE RIGGING FAILED AND THE CONVEYOR FELL, STRIKING THE VICTIM AS HE WALKED UNDER THE RAISED CONVEYOR