Mining Incidents

Upper Ophir Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Hugh Roy Marshall
Storey County, NV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2602076

MSHA record for Upper Ophir (mine ID 2602076). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
1989–1991
Latest incident
May 1991
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

1991 · 2 incidents

May 29, 1991 NV · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor OTHER
Marshall Earth Resources Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

A PROPPED OPEN DOOR SLAMMED SHUT IN A GUST OF WIND WHILE SOLDERING A RADIATOR. DOOR SLAMMED SHUT, PINNING THE HEAD INSIDE.

February 18, 1991 NV · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Marshall Earth Resources Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

LOOSE GROUND WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CONTROL IT W TIMBER SET AND CRIBBING ONE PIECE CRIBBING DISLODGED SOME GROUND CAUSING GROUND TO GIVE AWAY. STRUCK A PIECE OF TIMBER IN EE S HAND PINNING HAND B ETWEEN TIMBER & BUCKET. SMASHED FINGER.

1990 · 1 incident

1989 · 1 incident

January 27, 1989 NV · Metal/Non-Metal pumper MACHINERY
Marshall Earth Resources Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING TOOTH ON BUCKET OF FRONT END LOADER.AN AIR RATCHET HELD IN THE EMPLOYEES RIGHT AHND WAS USED TO INSTALL BOLT WHICH WAS IN EMPLOYEES LEFT AHND.BOLT SLOPPED WHILE SPINNIN G AND INJURED LEFT HAND.

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