Mining Incidents

CRYSTAL TIPS # 1Metal/Nonmetal

Hallelujah Mines · Surface
Controlled by Jon L Johnson
Reno, Washoe County, NV · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2602417
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2000
Latest incident
May 2000

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
Struck against stationary object

A FATAL ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON OR NEAR THIS CLAIM WHEN A BULLDOZER OVERTURNED ON A STEEP GRADE. ACCORDING TO WHITNESSES THE INDPENDENT CONTRACTOR BECAME OVERLY AGGRESSIVE. ATTEMPTING TO PUSH A B OULDER DOWN A HILL LOSING CONTROL OF THE DOZER. INVETIGATES INDICATE THE DRIVER WAS NOT WEARING A SEAT BELT AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.