Mining Incidents

Portland Open Pit Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Teller County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0504263

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1988
Latest incident
Aug 1988
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1988 · 2 incidents

August 28, 1988 CO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHEN STEPPING DOWN FROM LOADER.HE SAVED HIMSELF FROM FALLING BY GRASPING THE HANDRAIL ,BUT THE FORCE OF THE GRASP TORE THE CARTILAGE L LOOSE IN HIS SHOULDER.

May 6, 1988 CO · Metal/Non-Metal POWERED HAULAGE
Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

HE WAS PUTTING REGISTRATION DATA IN GLOVE COMPARTMENT OFONE PICK UP WHEN A SECOND TRUCK SLIPPED OUT OF GEAR AND ROLLED FORWARD PINNING HM BETWEEN THE TWO TRUCKS. THE ENGINE ON NEITHER TRUCK W AS RNNING. THIS RESULTED IN AN ABRASION TO LEFT ARM ABOVE ELBOW AND CONTUSION OF RIGHT THIGH.