Mining Incidents

MIMBRES PITMetal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Charles Hamilton
Silver City, Luna County, NM · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2900473
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
8
Years on record
2010–2022
Latest incident
Dec 2022
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

8 on file

2022 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cutting a belt with a utility knife, and it slipped cutting EE's arm just above the wrist.

2018 · 1 incident

Struck against stationary object

Employee was shoveling out the tail pulley on the under jaw conveyor. When EE was trying to push material out from under the conveyor it caught the shovel therefore twisting the shovel out from EE's hand causing it to rip off half of the left hand index finger nail.

2017 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Installing a tail pulley on fines stacker conveyor. Lifted pulley in an awkward position, felt the strain.

2015 · 3 incidents

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was changing the tail pulley bearings on the sand conveyor tail pulley when the cable come along broke lifting the belt roll forward pinching his right hand.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Welder was welding on the crusher in a squatted position. Other potential contributing factors may be heat and lack of hydration. Welder strained his lower back.

Struck by falling object

EE was cleaning up material by jaw crusher with skid steer loader. He raised bucket to dump material when a rock rolled off the backside of bucket falling into the cab and hitting ee left foot.

2014 · 1 incident

Fall from machine

As per employee: At 9:30 AM, I employee decided to climb the Ortner to clean it. Then the alarm went off and I jumped off, landed on my left foot and the ground was frozen, and I know I should have not been there, but I wanted to clean it out.

2010 · 1 incident

Fall onto or against objects

EE was stepping up into a belt to work on it when he lost his footing. He used his right hand to catch his fall when he smashed his right middle finger onto a rock. The rock caused a small laceration to the finger.