Mining Incidents

Hygiene Mine: 5 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Stewart V Golden
Boulder County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0502650

MSHA record for Hygiene Mine (mine ID 0502650). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
1984–1986
Latest incident
Sep 1986
Ownership history
  1. Golden Gravel Company 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Hygiene Mine sits in Boulder County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Boulder County, Colorado · Population 328,317
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$102,772
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

1986 · 2 incidents

September 2, 1986 CO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Golden Gravel Company · Struck by flying object

DIANA WAS FEEDI3G THE SCREEN OPERATING A LOADER, DUST PARTICLE GOT INTO EYE

January 8, 1986 CO · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Golden Gravel Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

I NAME THAT WHI5E ASSISTING A LOADER OPERATOR AT A PIECE STEEL WEIGHING APPROX. 120 LBS INTO THE LOADER BUCKET HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK STEEL WAS SUBSEQUENTLY LOADED WITHOUT DIFFICULT BUT H E WET TO MEDICA5 CLINIC TO HAVE HIS BACK CHECKED.

1985 · 2 incidents

July 9, 1985 CO · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) MACHINERY
Golden Gravel Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

ALEDGES HE BECAME OVERHEATED WHILE WELDING ON CRUSHER EQ. AT MINE SITE WENT TO HOSPITAL 2 DAYS AFTER ACCIDENT

April 4, 1985 CO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator OTHER
Golden Gravel Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE ALEDGES STANDING IN DOORWAY OF TOOL TRAILER WHEN WIND BLEW DOOR CLOSED STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN THE FACE CAUSING A CHIPPED TOOTH AND LACERATED CHIN.

1984 · 1 incident

June 22, 1984 CO · Metal/Non-Metal coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Golden Gravel Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

I NAME ALLEDGE HE WAS CLEANING LARGE ROCKS OUT OF FEEDER HOPPER WITH A LARGE BAR AND H E PINCHED A NERVE IN HIS NECK.