Mining Incidents

Round Mountain Gold CorporationMining Incidents in 2018

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Round Mountain Gold Corporation operations in 2018. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2018
0
Total incidents
7
Year
2018

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS3 incidents
  2. 02SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident
  3. 03STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT1 incident
  4. 04POWERED HAULAGE1 incident
  5. 05MACHINERY1 incident

All incidents in 2018

Over-exertion in lifting objects

As an employee was moving a bottle jack, they felt pain in their arm. It was determined that a tendon was torn. On 11/26/18, the employee had surgery to repair the tendon.

Fall to the walkway or working surface

An employee was walking down the slide slope of a leach pad when they tripped and fell, twisting their leg during the fall.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

An employee stepped up to access a screen deck and felt a pop and then pain in their left knee.

Struck against a moving object

Employee felt pain in their hip when their haul truck bed was contacted by a loader bucket while being on loaded on 2/1/2018. Due to a reoccurring pain the employee was seen on 7/23/2020 and it was determined that they needed to work on restricted duty.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

While winching down the lifter got between rings on the mast ladder. Winched back up and hand was between winch line and rig mast.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

While removing 9 5/8' bottom hole tooling support wrench the driller started raising wrench while helpers were in position to assist the wrench off of tooling to deck. The wrench tipped and helper two removed EE's hands as wrench started tipping in casing. As wrench tipped helper one's left ring finger was caught between wrench handle and casing.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

An employee's right thumb was pinched in between a valve and pipe. The employee was transported to hospital and an orthopedic clinic and was released back to work.

Other years on record

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 Round Mountain Gold Corporation's numeric MSHA operator ID.