Mining Incidents

Twin Star Mining, Inc.Mining Incidents in 2003

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Twin Star Mining, Inc. operations in 2003. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2003
1
Total incidents
6
Year
2003

Top incident classifications

  1. 01EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE4 incidents
  2. 02POWERED HAULAGE1 incident
  3. 03NO VALUE FOUND1 incident

All incidents in 2003

Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE'S WERE CUTTING THE TOP OUT OF A 55 GAL.DRUM. AN EXPLOSION TOOK PLACE. THE DRUM WAS BEING CUT INSIDE OF A LOADER BUCKET.

Struck against a moving object

EE WAS GOING UP A GRADE TO DRILL IN A FORD SERVICE TRUCK. THE MOTOR QUIT LETTING TRUCK ROLL BACK AGAINST BERM AND LAID OVER.

No Value Found

EE'S WERE CUTTING TOP OUT OF A 55 GALLON DRUM & AN EXPLOSION TOOK PLACE. THE DRUM WAS BEING CUT INSIDE LOADER BUCKET.

No Value Found

JOB MECHANIC WAS CUTTING BARREL WITH CUTTING TORCH & IT EXPLODED.

No Value Found

EE'S WERE CUTTING TOP OUT OF A 55 GALLON DRUM. AN EXPLOSION TOOK PLACE. THE DRUM WAS BEING CUT INSIDE OF A LOADER BUCKET.

No Value Found

EE WAS WAITING ON GETTING LOADED BY A LOADER OPERATOR. THE LOADER OPERATOR WAS GOING TOWARDS THETRUCK WITH A BIG ROCK WHEN LOADER BUCKET DUMPED ON IT'S OWN AND THE ROCK HIT THE EDGE OF THE TRU CK CAUSING A JOLT.

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 Twin Star Mining, Inc.'s numeric MSHA operator ID.