Sunshine Mining Company · Struck by falling object
SEE ATTACHED ACCIDENT REPORT.
Sunshine Mining Company: 1 recorded fatality operator
Controlled by
British Petroleum Company PLC
MSHA operator ID: L00649
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Top causes
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 1 fatality · 5 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 26 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 25 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 14 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 11 non-fatal
- HOISTING 6 non-fatal
Incident timeline
1992
9
1991
11
1990
9
1989
18
1988
8
1987
1
1986
11
1985
16 (1f)
1984
14
1983
17
Mines on record
- Trixie UT
- Snow Cap Mine & Mill CA
- 16:1 Mill NV
- 16:1 NV
- Apex #2 UT
- Plumas Gold Mine CA
Fatalities under this operator
1 recordedFor insurers, brokers, and safety consultants
Where Sunshine Mining Company stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate
MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample, score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.
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