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French Corral Operation: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Pantle Mining Corp · Surface
Controlled by Shue James W
Nevada County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0404301

MSHA record for French Corral Operation (mine ID 0404301). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1983
Latest incident
Jul 1983
Ownership history
  1. Gold Reserve Mining Inc 1979 to 1980
  2. Pantle Mining Corp 1980 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

French Corral Operation sits in Nevada County, California, where the Census mining category is 0.1% of county employment.

Local economic context
ⓘ 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.
Nevada County, California · Population 102,452
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$84,905
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1983 · 1 incident

July 26, 1983 CA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Pantle Mining Corp · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS UNDER MICHIGAN LOADER DOING AN ADJUSTMENT. HE LOOKED UP & A SMALL PARTICAL OF DIRT FELL INTO HIS EYE. HE MENTIONED THIS TO FOREMAN BUT FELT NO NEED FOR MED. TREATMENT. ON 8/1/83. HIS ADVISED UNDERSIGNED THAT EYE WAS STILL IRRITATED & REQUESTED TO SEE MD.-PARTICLE HAD SCRATCHED EYE.