Mining Incidents

Mt Solo PitMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Robert W Blewett
Grangeville, Idaho County, ID · Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1001911
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2002–2007
Latest incident
Jul 2007

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
Struck against stationary object

LOST CONTROL OF DUMP TRUCK REASON IS UNKNOWN. LEFT LOADING AREA, WENT DOWN A HILL, COLLIDED WITH A TREE AND TIPPED CAB OF TRUCK OVER ON ITS SIDE.

Reportable incidents

1 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2007 · 1 incident

Contact with hot objects or substances

EE was cutting the head off of a bolt with the cutting torch. It dropped onto the belt. Co-worker informed him that the bolt head was beside him on the belt. He rolled over onto the hot bolt & it caught his pant leg on fire. His right calf was burned. He was taken for medical attention & received a skin graft. He didn't finish treatment or come back to work with us.