Mining Incidents

Small Mine Development, LLCMining Incidents in 2017

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Small Mine Development, LLC operations in 2017. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2017
0
Total incidents
1
Year
2017

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 incident

All incidents in 2017

Struck by flying object

Mechanics were removing a hoist cylinder from a bolter. As they were removing a collet one mechanic was tapping on the boss with a hammer and the collet relieved itself and flew approximately 10 feet and hit the mechanic standing on the opposite side in the face. As a result the individual received (5) five stitches above EE's left eye at the eyebrow area.

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 Small Mine Development, LLC's numeric MSHA operator ID.