Mining Incidents

Higher ground resourcesMining Incidents in 2021

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Higher ground resources operations in 2021. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2021
1
Total incidents
1
Year
2021

Top incident classifications

  1. 01FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS1 incident

All incidents in 2021

Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

A visitor to the mine site was in a unauthorized area running a sluice box in a unstable trench when it collapsed and buried them. The trench was tapered and made safe to remove their body.

Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) accident records, kept current weekly. Operator identity is MSHA's operator_id on the accident record; records are scoped to Higher ground resources's numeric MSHA operator ID.