2 miners lit their fuse for a face round and then re-entered blast area prior to the mandated 1 hour wait period. When they were within 25 feet of the face, a misfire detonated. This was against company policy and recent training. 1 miner was killed by the blast and the other injured.
Gold Run Enterprises LLCOperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 2
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2010
Safety benchmark
Recorded fatalities relative to other operators with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 739 operators with at least one recorded fatality.
More recorded fatalities than 0% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
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- MJL Crushing LLC1fatal2 total
- Gold Run Enterprises LLCthis operator1fatal2 total
Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA operators with at least one recorded fatality. Industry mean is the average across that same population. Peers are sampled by closest total-incident count, regardless of fatality outcome.
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Top causes
- EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS1 fatality · 1 non-fatal