Mining Incidents

Thacker Pass Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Lithium Americas Corp
Orovada, Humboldt County, NV  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2602762

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2024–2025
Latest incident
Jan 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
8
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,145
proposed penalties
$1,145
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 14,942 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 12,280 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 10,920 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 10,920 4 0 366.3
2024 Q4 12,887 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 4,533 3 0 661.8
2024 Q2 39,844 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 29,453 0 0 0.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2025 · 1 incident

January 29, 2025 NV · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Lithium Nevada Corp. · Fall onto or against objects

Person slipped while exiting the fuel truck, hitting their left elbow on the step. Reported the incident, but continued to work. about two weeks later started having issues and pain in the left arm. EE's condition continued to get worse and started to affect EE's right arm as well. On March 18th a doctor directed EE, EE could not return to work.

2024 · 1 incident

September 27, 2024 NV · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer OTHER
Lithium Nevada Corp. · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Miner called the supervisor saying EE did not feel good. 911 was called, and miner was put on an ambulance. The EMT's were fairly sure EE was having a heart attack.