Mining Incidents

Belzer PitMetal/Nonmetal

Fossum Ready Mix · Surface
Glasgow, Valley County, MT · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2400420
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2014
Latest incident
Aug 2014

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
Struck by falling object

Miner was apparently adding oil to hoist of truck. Box was loaded with rock and not properly blocked. The weight of the loaded box split block and the box came down unexpectedly crushing miner between the truck frame and dump box. Although no damage was done to equipment, miner was killed.