Sundance Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Summit Materials Inc · Surface

Controlled by Summit Inc

Crook County, WY · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4800011

MSHA record for Sundance Quarry (mine ID 4800011). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 4
Years on record: 1983–1988
Latest incident: Feb 1988

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded

April 15, 1983 WY · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · MACHINERY

Summit Materials Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

DOZER OPERATOR ENTERED AN AREA WHICH HAD BEEN STRIPPED OF TOP SOIL AND DRILLED FOR BLASTING. HE CAP ROCK LAY AT A 15 DEGREE SLOPE AND WAS WET. THE DOZER SLID SIDEWAYS FOR 50 FT, HITTING A HUM P IN THE CAP ROCK AND ROLLED. THE OPERATOR WAS CRUSHED. THE DOZER WAS MANUFACTURED IN DEC. OF 1968, RECEIVED BY CATERPILLAR DEALER 1/10/69, AND PURCHASED BY SUMMIT, INC. ON 3/13/69. VICTIM WAS

Reportable incidents

3 on file (excluding fatalities above)

1988 · 1 incident

February 15, 1988 WY · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator OTHER

Summit Materials Inc · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE HAD BEEN OPERATING LOADER BEFORE HE HAD THE HEART ATTACK BUT AT THE TIME HE HAD IT HE WAS STANDING ON THE GROUND & HAD NOT COMPLAINED OF ILLNESS.

1984 · 1 incident

March 19, 1984 WY · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE

Summit Materials Inc · Struck against a moving object

ROADING LOADER BACKWARDS DOWN HILL & LOST CONTROL

1983 · 1 incident

July 8, 1983 WY · Metal/Non-Metal MACHINERY

Summit Materials Inc · Accident type, without injuries

#24331 JOY AIR TRACK DRILL TIPPED OVER DAMAGING THE DRIFTER, MAST, HOSE. NO INJURY. PINS WHICH HOLD SPRING-LOADED PLUNGER ON LEFT TRACK DRILL LEVER SHEARED. OPERATOR RAN DRILL WITH DEFECTIVE D RIVE LEVER. WHEN OPERATOR STARTED THE COMPRESSOR THE AIR SURGE JARRED THE LEFT TRACK LEVER FROM THE NEUTRAL POSITION INTO REVERSE. THE DRILL, WHICH WAS ON SLOPE, TIPPED OVER.

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