Mining Incidents

Wilson/Silverbell Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Umetco Minerals Corp · Underground
Controlled by Union Carbide Corp
San Juan County, UT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4200473

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1989
Latest incident
Sep 1989
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1989 · 1 incident

September 6, 1989 UT · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man MACHINERY
Umetco Minerals Corp · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS INSTALLING ROCK BOLTS AND MATS IN 0210 STOPE. HE HAD DRILLED AND INSTALLED ONE BOLT AND DRILLED THE HOLE FOR THE SECOND BOLT. HE WAS USING THE DRILL WITH BOLT DRIVER TO HOLD UP THE MAT WHILE HE PLACED THE SECOND BOLT IN THE HOLE WHEN THE DRILL SLIPPED. HE WAS HOLDING ONTO THE AIR HOSE AND UNABLE TO CONTROL THE SWING OF DRILL. HE LET IT FALL AND IN THE PROCESS THE JACK LEG TU