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Sunrise Pit: 1 recorded fatality Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Rodney S Bennett
Clark County, NV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2602135

MSHA record for Sunrise Pit (mine ID 2602135). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1991
Latest incident
Nov 1991
Ownership history
  1. Skyline Construction Company Inc 1990 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Sunrise Pit sits in Clark County, Nevada, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Clark County, Nevada · Population 2,293,764
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$73,845
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
November 11, 1991 NV · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Skyline Construction Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

ASSUME OPERATOR JUMPED OR WAS THROWN FROM FRONT END LOADER AS IT WAS DESCENDING BACKWARDS DOWN SLOPE. IT APPEARED LOADER BACKED OVER OPERATOR, RESULTING IN A FATAL INJURY.