Mining Incidents

Vanadium Queen: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Lammert Mining · Underground
Controlled by Lammert Tom
San Juan County, UT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4200648

MSHA record for Vanadium Queen (mine ID 4200648). 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
1989
Latest incident
Mar 1989
Ownership history
  1. Ray Small Mining Company 1950 to 1988
  2. Lammert Mining 1988 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Vanadium Queen sits in San Juan County, Utah, where the Census mining category is 4.9% 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.
San Juan County, Utah · Population 14,466
4.9%
Mining share of county employment
$54,890
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

1989 · 1 incident

March 29, 1989 UT · Metal/Non-Metal POWERED HAULAGE
Lammert Mining · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

OPERATOR WAS RUNNING LOADER AND WAS SHUTTING EUQIPMENT DOWN WHEN HE PUT HIS FOOT IN THE WRONG SPOT AND LOADER PINCHED FOOT IN ARTICULATION AREA OF LOADER.