Mining Incidents

United Salt Hockley, LLCMining Incidents in 2019

All MSHA-reportable accidents at United Salt Hockley, LLC operations in 2019. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2019
0
Total incidents
2
Year
2019

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HOISTING1 incident
  2. 02HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident

All incidents in 2019

Accident type, without injuries

Installed a new skip and had clearance problems and hung up. Unable to bring workers up using the main hoist. Pulled workers out using the emergency escape shaft.

Struck by falling object

Miner's son called the plant on 9-14-19 to say the miner was having brain surgery to resolve a brain bleed from a bump on the hard hat on miner's head at work on 9-11-19. Miner worked all shifts from 9-11 until 9-13 without reporting incident or issues. Accident still under investigation.

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 United Salt Hockley, LLC's numeric MSHA operator ID.