Mining Incidents

Poison Canyon Metal/Non-Metal

Reserve Oil & Minerals Corp · Underground
Controlled by Reserve Industries Corp
Mckinley County, NM  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2901550

MSHA record for Poison Canyon (mine ID 2901550). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Ownership history
  1. Reserve Oil & Minerals Corp 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Poison Canyon sits in McKinley County, New Mexico, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
McKinley County, New Mexico · Population 71,172
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$44,496
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.