Mining Incidents

United Salt Hockley, LLCMining Incidents in 2024

All MSHA-reportable accidents at United Salt Hockley, LLC operations in 2024. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2024
0
Total incidents
3
Year
2024

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HOISTING2 incidents
  2. 02SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident

All incidents in 2024

Accident type, without injuries

We began pulling miners out of the mine due to inclement weather and the power to the whole area went down trapping the miners in the cage

Accident type, without injuries

Hoistman was switching from medium grade salt to stock grade salt. As the skip was starting to dump they noticed that the dump pocket was still full of medium. With the door open they tried to lower the skip to close the door and it became bound up.

Fall from ladders

Only two points contact. Wrong ladder for task. Four fractured ribs.

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.