EE WAS BARRING DOWN IN WORK AREA WHEN ROCK HIT HIS FOREARM CAUSING SMALL LACERATION. WAS DRIVEN TO DR AND RECEIVED 5 SUTURES, REST OF DAY OFF. RETURN TOMORROW.
Dos Cabezas-Gold Prince Mine: 29 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal
MSHA record for Dos Cabezas-Gold Prince Mine (mine ID 0202157). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 29
- Years on record
- 1985–1996
- Latest incident
- Feb 1996
- Phelps Dodge Corp 1983 to 1988
- Queenstake Resources (Usa) Inc 1988 to 1993
- Western States Minerals Corp 1993 to present
Dos Cabezas-Gold Prince Mine sits in Cochise County, Arizona, where the Census mining category is 0.7% of county employment.
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County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.Reportable incidents
29 on file1996 · 3 incidents
EE WAS BARRING DOWN IN WORK AREA INCORRECTLY. HE WAS NOT TIED OFF WITH LANYARD. SLIPPED AND FELL APPRX 18 FT WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL IN WILLCOX, THEN TRANSPORTED TO TUCSON FOR X RAYS. HAS CUTS A ND BRUISES. WAS KEPT OVERNIGHT FOR OBSERVATION AND WAS RELEASED 2-6-96 AM NO BROKEN BONES HE WAS UP WALKING AROUND THEN TAKEN TO HOSPTIAL.
EE WAS DRILLING UNDERGROUND WHEN A SMALL CHIP ROCK CUT HIM ABOVE LEFT EYE BELOW EYEBROW WENT TO DR TO BE CLEANED OUT AND 2 STITCHES.
1995 · 2 incidents
EE WAS MUCKING OUT IN PORTAL AREA, DUST BLEW INTO LEFT EYE. IRRIGATED EYE OUT, BUT SOMETHING STILL INIT. WENT TO DR. NAKAGAWA IN WILLCOX ON 12-14-95. SCRATCHED L EYE BALL.
ON 07-27-95 EE WAS BLASTING DOWN HANGUP & WAS IN THE PROCESS OF STRIPING FLOOR BACK TO BLAST WHEN I TWISTED MY KNEE & FELL I WAS TIDE OFF WITH A LANYARD TO KEEP FROM FURTHER INJURY
1993 · 2 incidents
EE WAS CLIMBING LADDER UP FINGER RAISE ROCK FELL FROM ABOVE HITTING HIM ON THE LEFT FOREARM. ARM WAS SCRATCHED HOWEVER SWELLING ACCURED.
EMPLOYEE WAS ROCKBOLTING WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM THE BACK. HE JUMPED OUT OF THE WAY, AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.
1992 · 2 incidents
WHILE STARTING AIR COMPRESSOR, AIR COMING OFF OF FAN BLEW SOMETHING IN EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING DOWN MANWAY DUST OR DIRT GOT IN RIGHT EYE.
1991 · 2 incidents
FELXIBLE VENT TUBING HAD COEM APART AT JOINT. EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO RECEONNECT JOINT-LOSE DUST/DEBRI ENTERED EYE AND FOREIGN OBJECT IN RIGHT EYE.
OPERATING TUGGER HOIST, HOISTING MATERIALS UP TO MINERS ON MUCK SLIDE. SMALL ROCK DISLODGED ON SLIDE AND ROLLED DOWN, STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT THUMB.
1990 · 2 incidents
EMPLOYEE PULLING CHUTE TO LOAD ORE CARS-TWISTED KNEE
TIGHTENING WATER FITTING IN VICE WHEN SOMETHING IN CHEST POPPED. NO INSTANT PAIN, GOT WORSE OVRNIGHT.
1989 · 7 incidents
EMPLOYEE WAS STARTING TO DESCEND LADDER WITH A 15 POUND SACK OF PRELL WHEN FOOT SLIPPED OFF TOP RUNG CAUSING HIM TO FALL APPROXIMATELY 5 FEET, STRIKING HIS LEFT ARM BELOW THE ELBOW. ADDITIONAL LY, THE SACK CONTAINING THE PRELL HIT THE EMPLOYEE ON THE STRIKING RIGHT SIDE OF THE FACE.
WHILE PULLING UP ON ORE CHUTE DOOR, EMPLOYEE SAID HE HAD PULLED HIS BACK.
WHILE INSTALLING A 2' WATER LINE PIPE, DROPPED PIPE ON RIGHT SHOULDER.
WHILE PUSHING LEG UP ON JACK LEG HE TOOK A STEP WHILE TURNING AT WHICH POINT LEFT KNEE BUCKLED, CAUSING HIM TO FALL. LEFT KNEE SLIGHTLY SWOLLEN AND DISCOLORED.
EMPLOYEE HAD FINISHED CHANNELING A SECTION OF 2" VIC PIPE AND WAS RELEASING PIPE FROM THE VICE WHEN PIPE ROTATED DOWNWARD, PINCHING FINGER BETWEEN TABLE AND PIPE.
EMPLOYEE SPENT MOST OF HIS SHIFT WELDING AND CUTTING. EMPLOYEE WORE PROPER SAFTEY HOODS AND GLASSES AT ALL TIMES. AFTER HIS SHIFT, HOWEVER HIS EYES BURNED AND SCRATCHED.
NAILING DOWN LAGGING ON CHUTE SIDE WHEN AX HANDLE HIT OVERHEAD 8X8 MISDIRECTING THE AXE CAUSING PERSON TO HIT THUMB
1988 · 3 incidents
EMPLOYEE COMPLETED SHIFT AND WAS IN PERSOANL VEHICLE HEADING HOME DOWN MINE ROAD AND LOST CONTROL OF VEHICLE BECAUSE HE HAD NO BRAKES.
USING BAR TO RE-RAIL MINE CAR STRAINED L SHOULDER WHILE DOING SO
FOREIGN OBJECT IN LEFT EYE SOURCE UNKNOWN.
1986 · 1 incident
I.NAME WAS MUCK3NG OUT #1 DRIFT EAST WHEN MUCKER DIPPER STRUCK WALL AND VENTILATION PIPE BLEW DUST INTO EYE
1985 · 5 incidents
I.NAME WAS BARRING DOWN IN 5 STOPE WHEN A ROCK FELL OUT OF THE BACK AND HIT HIM ON HIS HARD HAT DRIVING THE HAT DOWN ON HIS FACE
I.NAME WS GUIDING H CARS ONTO A SIDE SWITCH AND STRAINED HIS BACK (MAN FINISHED SHIFT FRIDAY AND WORKED MONDAY AUGUST 26, 1985 - REPORTED OFF TUESDAY AUGUST 27).
I NAME WAS PLACING A DRILL STEEL 2 FT LONG INTO A JACKLEG HIS PARTNER I NAME WAS HOLDING THE DRILL STEEL HIT THE EDGE OF THE JACKLEG CHUCK AND A SMALL STEEL CHIP HIT HIS EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS TKING CHIP SAMPLES FROM THE BACK (CEILING) IN 1 DRIFT EAST ON THE 4 LEVEL OF THE GOLD PRINCE MINE. A 3 LB. CRACK HAMMER AND CHISEL WERE BEING USED TO COLLECT THE SAMPLES. THE EMPL OYEE WAS WEARING BOTH SAFETY GLASSES AND A HINGED EYE SHIELD ATTACHED TO THE UNDERGROUND HARD HIT. A SMALL ROCK CHIP, FALLING FROM THE BACK, ENTERED INTO THE EYE. THE CHIP WENT EITHER AROUND
I.NAME WAS BLOWING OUT HOLES WITH BLOWPIPE. HE BUMPED EYESHIELD WITH ARM CAUSING EYE SHIELD TO FLY UP ALLOWING ROCK TO HIT LEFT EYE