FMC employees were attempting to seal the hoist shaft at the Bremen Portal at Ken American Paradise Mine No. 9. Steel beams were welded in place metal decking was secured covering the shaft. Methane accumulated in the shaft and caused a series of two explosions 4-5 seconds apart. The second explosion killed FMC employee. No other fatalities or injuries occurred.
KenAmerican Resources IncOperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 807
- Mines on record
- 2
- Years on record
- 2000–2019
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.
- U.S. Silver-Idaho, Inc.4fatal767 total
- Nevada Gold Mines LLC3fatal774 total
- Sunrise Coal, LLC.2fatal839 total
- Tilden Mining Company L C1fatal775 total
- KenAmerican Resources, Inc.this operator1fatal807 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
- IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST1 fatality
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK472 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS104 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON51 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE50 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)49 non-fatal